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قراءة كتاب William Hickling Prescott
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ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS
PRESCOTT
ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS
WILLIAM HICKLING
PRESCOTT
BY
HARRY THURSTON PECK
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1905
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1905,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
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Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1905.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
To
WILLIAM ARCHIBALD DUNNING
AMICITIÆ CAUSA
PREFATORY NOTE
For the purely biographical portion of this book an especial acknowledgment of obligation is due to the valuable collection of Prescott's letters and memoranda made by his friend George Ticknor, and published in 1864 as part of Ticknor's Life of W. H. Prescott. All other available sources, however, have been explored, and are specifically mentioned either in the text or in the footnotes.
H. T. P.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY,
March 1, 1905.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I | |
| PAGE | |
| The New England Historians | 1 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| Early Years | 13 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| The Choice of a Career | 39 |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| Success | 54 |
| CHAPTER V | |
| In Mid Career | 72 |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| The Last Ten Years | 99 |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| "Ferdinand and Isabella"—Prescott's Style | 121 |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| "The Conquest of Mexico" as Literature and as History | 133 |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| "The Conquest of Peru"—"Philip II." | 160 |
| CHAPTER X | |
| Prescott's Rank as an Historian | 173 |
| Index | 181 |
PRESCOTT
WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT
CHAPTER I
THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIANS
THROUGHOUT the first few decades of the nineteenth century, the United States, though forming a political entity, were in everything but name divided into three separate nations, each one of which was quite unlike the other two. This difference sprang partly from the character of the population in each, partly from divergent tendencies in American colonial development, and partly from conditions which were the result of both these causes. The culture-history, therefore, of each of the three sections exhibits, naturally enough, a distinct and