D. APPLETON & COMPANY PUBLISH, BY THE SAME AUTHOR, HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH REVOL OF 1640, COMMONLY CALLED THE GREAT REBELLION, FROM THE ACCESSION OF CHARLES I. TO HIS DE TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM HAZLITT. One Volume 12mo. Price $1,25. "The event which forms the theme of the work is one of the high importance,-second to none in modern times, except perhaps the I lution. And M. Guizot is certainly qualified, most abundantly, and p than any living author, to do it justice. The main features of the w his writings, is the clear and profoundly philosophical spirit by which The style is exceedingly elegant and fascinating,-graphic in the facts and incidents, and always lucid, even in the most abstract, discussion. "The translator, Mr. W. HAZLITT, has appended a new and co which adds essentially to the value of the work."-Courier and Enquir est historical French Revoerhaps better ork, as in all it is marked. narrative of philosophical pious index, BY F. GUIZOT, THE PRIME MINISTER OF FRANCE; AUTHOR OF HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION OF 1640." TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM HAZLITT. VOLUME II. ADVERTISEMENT. THE following Lectures were delivered by M. Guizot, in the years 1828, 1829, and 1830, at the Old Sorbonne, now the seat of the Faculté des Lettres, of Paris, on alternate days with MM. Cousin and Villemain, a triad of lecturers whose brilliant exhibitions, the crowds which thronged their lecture-rooms, and the stir they excited in the active and aspiring minds so numerous among the French youth, the future historian will commemorate as among the remarkable appearances of that important era. The first portion of these Lectures, those comprising the General History of Civilization in Europe, have already appeared. The Lectures on the History of Civilization in France, are now for the first time translated. Of these Lectures, it is most justly observed by the Edinburgh Review: "There is a consistency, a coherence, a comprehensiveness, and what the Germans would term many-sidedness, in the manner of M. Guizot's fulfilment of his task, that manifests him one to whom the whole subject is familiar; that exhibits a full possession of the facts which have any importa upon his conclusions; and a deliberateness, a n an entire absence of haste or crudity, in his ex of historical phenomena, which give evidence of scheme so well wrought out and digested b that the labors of research and of thought ne the whole work, seem to have been performed part was committed to paper." |