Old Times in the Colonies & The Story of Liberty. Charles Carleton Coffin
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| Автор произведения | Charles Carleton Coffin |
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Charles Carleton Coffin
Old Times in the Colonies & The Story of Liberty
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EAN 4064066051969
Table of Contents
The Story of Liberty
CHAPTER I JOHN LACKLAND AND THE BARONS
CHAPTER II THE MAN WHO PREACHED AFTER HE WAS DEAD
CHAPTER III THE FIRE THAT WAS KINDLED IN BOHEMIA
CHAPTER IV WHAT LAURENCE COSTER AND JOHN GUTTENBERG DID FOR LIBERTY
CHAPTER V THE MEN WHO ASK QUESTIONS
CHAPTER VI HOW A MAN TRIED TO REACH THE EAST BY SAILING WEST
CHAPTER VII THE NEW HOME OF LIBERTY
CHAPTER VIII A BOY WHO OBJECTED TO MARRYING HIS BROTHER'S WIDOW
CHAPTER IX THE MAN WHO CAN DO NO WRONG
CHAPTER X THE BOY WHO SUNG FOR HIS BREAKFAST
CHAPTER XI WHAT THE BOY WHO SUNG FOR HIS BREAKFAST SAW IN ROME
CHAPTER XIV THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD
CHAPTER XV THE MEN WHO OBEY ORDERS
CHAPTER XVI PLANS THAT DID NOT COME TO PASS
CHAPTER XVII THE MAN WHO SPLIT THE CHURCH IN TWAIN
CHAPTER XVIII THE QUEEN WHO BURNED HERETICS
CHAPTER XIX HOW LIBERTY BEGAN IN FRANCE
CHAPTER XX THE MAN WHO FILLED THE WORLD WITH WOE
CHAPTER XXI PROGRESS OF LIBERTY IN ENGLAND
CHAPTER XXII HOW THE POPE PUT DOWN THE HERETICS
CHAPTER XXIII THE QUEEN OF THE SCOTS
CHAPTER XXV HOW THE "BEGGARS" FOUGHT FOR THEIR RIGHTS
CHAPTER XXVI WHY THE QUEEN OF SCOTLAND LOST HER HEAD
CHAPTER XXVII THE RETRIBUTION THAT FOLLOWED CRIME
CHAPTER XXVIII WILLIAM BREWSTER AND HIS FRIENDS
CHAPTER XXIX THE STAR OF EMPIRE
CHAPTER XXXI STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS
INTRODUCTION
This "Story of Liberty" is a true narrative. It covers a period of five hundred years, and is an outline of the march of the human race from Slavery to Freedom.
There are some points in this book to which I desire to direct your attention. You will notice that the events which have given direction to the course of history have not always been great battles, for very few of the many conflicts of arms have had any determining force; but it will be seen that insignificant events have been not unfrequently followed by momentous results: You will see that everything of the present, be it good or bad, may be traced to something in the past; that history is a chain of events. You will also notice that history is like a drama, and that there are but a few principal actors. How few there have been!
The first to appear in this "Story" is King John of England. Out of his signing his. name to the Magna Charta have come the Parliament of Great Britain and the Congress of the United States, and representative governments everywhere. The next actors were John Wicklif and Geoffrey Chaucer, who sowed seed that is now ripening in individual liberty. Then came Henry VII., Henry VIII, Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Katherine's daughter (Mary Tudor), Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop Cranmer, Anne Boleyn's daughter (Elizabeth), King James, John Smith, John Robinson, William Brewster, and the men and women of Austerfield and Scrooby.
In Scotland were Mary Stuart and George Buchanan; in Bohemia, Professor Faulfash and John Huss; in Germany, the boy who sung for his breakfast (Martin Luther), Duke Frederick, John Tetzel, and John Guttenberg; in Holland, Laurence Coster, Doctor Erasmus, and William the Silent; in France, Francis I., Catherine de' Medici, the Duke of Guise, Charles IX., and Henry IV.; in Spain, Thomas de