The history of freedom and other essays

by: Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902

Publication date: 1907

Topics: Liberty, History, Liberty

Publisher: London, Macmillan

Collection: americana

Digitizing sponsor: Google

Book from the collections of: Harvard University

Language: English

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xxxix, 638 pages 24 cm

Chronicle--Introduction.--I. The history of freedom in antiquity [Address, Bridgnorth institution, 16th Feb. 1877]--II. The history of freedom in Christianity [Address, Bridgnorth institution, 28th May, 1877]--III. Sir Erskine May's Democracy in Europe [Quar., Jan. 1878]--IV. The massacre of St. Bartholomew [No. Brit., Oct. 1869]--V. The Protestant theory of persecution [Rambler, Mar. 1862]--VI. Political thoughts on the church [Rambler, 1858]--VII. Introduction to L.A. Burd's edition of Il principe by Machiavelli.--VIII. Mr. Goldwin Smith's Irish history [Rambler, Mar. 1862]--IX. Nationality [Ho. & for. r., July, 1862]--X. Döllinger on the temporal power [Rambler, Nov. 1861]--XI. Döllinger's historical work [Eng. hist. r., 1890]

Includes bibliographical references and index

Committed to retain 2020