Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . forty-six years he main-tained unceasing and relentless warfare against slavery, and his priceless giftto the present century was the final and complete extinction of slavery andof the slave-trade in the British possessions. Historians. — William H. Prescott (b. May 14, 1796; d. January 27,1859)
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . forty-six years he main-tained unceasing and relentless warfare against slavery, and his priceless giftto the present century was the final and complete extinction of slavery andof the slave-trade in the British possessions. Historians. — William H. Prescott (b. May 14, 1796; d. January 27,1859) proved himself to be an epoch-maker in the sense that he combined45 706 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIX1 CENTURY the worth of history with the brilliance and fascination of the novel, anddeveloped the entirely new field of Spains career at home and in her colo-nies. His Ferdinand and Isabella, Conquest of Mexico, Conquest ofPeru, and History of Philip II, all obtained a world-wide circulation andboth placed and kept their author in the highest rank of modern Americanhistorians. FranQois P. G-. Guizot, of France (b. October 4, 1784; d. September 13,1S74), was both statesman and historian. In the former capacity he heldseveral important public positions, and from 1840 to 1847 was, as Minister. WILLIAM WILBERFORCE. of Foreign Affairs, really at the head of the government. His many pro-posed reforms brought on the revolution of 1848 and the dethronement ofLouis Philippe. Though ranking as one of the greatest of French states-men, his highest and most enduring reputation rests on his historicalwritings, which are very numerous, and the chief of which is his GeneralHistory of Civilization in Europe. His works are classics of historicalresearch, and inspiring forerunners of the modern method of treating Anthony Fronde (b. October 23, 1818; d. October 20, 1894) ranksas one of the brightest of Englands writers and historians, though not oneof the most reliable. His writi
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