. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:. eave behind, even in his warlike expeditions — all these form a com-plex portraiture most probably very unlike the rough, tough, and shaggyold monarch, as Sir F. Palgrave calls him, who had the courage, the energy,and the skill to govern that wild ninth-century world. Yet it may bedoubted whether some modern writers have not wandered still further fromthe original, while they ignore the lapse of a thousand years, and depict
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:. eave behind, even in his warlike expeditions — all these form a com-plex portraiture most probably very unlike the rough, tough, and shaggyold monarch, as Sir F. Palgrave calls him, who had the courage, the energy,and the skill to govern that wild ninth-century world. Yet it may bedoubted whether some modern writers have not wandered still further fromthe original, while they ignore the lapse of a thousand years, and depict aconstitutional monarch of modern Europe. Each generation, or school,says Sir F. Palgrave, with some little exaggeration, has endeavoured toexhibit him as a normal model of excellence. Courtly Mezeray invests theson of Pepin with the taste of Louis Quatorze; the polished Abbe Vellybestows upon the Prankish emperor the abstract perfection of a dramatichero. Boulainvilliers, the champion of the noblesse, worships the founderof hereditary feudality; Mably discovers in the Capitularies the maxims ofpopular liberty, Montesquieu the perfect philosophy of legislation. e. Cathedral at Aachen, where Charlemagne was buried
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