Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Glorious Isle, or a Glance at the Leading Features of British History, From the Landing of the Romans to the Present Time: Founded on the Best Historians, Ancient and Modern, of British and Foreign Nations, Embracing a Period of 1903 Years
The study of History is no less delightful, than instructive.
The variety of character, and incidents it presents, and the ever-changing scenes which press before the reader, afford a charm to young and old, to prince and peasant, which cannot be too highly estimated.
The pages of Grecian and Roman history - penned as they are, generally, by their most illustrious scholars - have yielded much elevated instruction to the enquiring student, as he accompanied these great men, in their literary glories, relative to their own renowned nations. The useful knowledge, thus derived for the benefit of mankind, cannot easily be over-estimated.
British history, in the charm of its incidents, the variety of its topics, the greatness of the events, and the men who acted in them, equals, if it does not excel, all others, handed down to us. The sun never sets on the dominions of Russia, said a. Great author, and with, perhaps, far greater propriety does the remark apply to the British empire, which stretches from one extreme of the globe to the other into all latitudes and longitudes, embracing upwards of one hundred and sixty millions of the hu man race as its subjects, or fully one-sixth part of the human family! This is truly a magnificent idea, when we look upon the size of the parent Isle, only about 600 miles in length, and 560, in breadth!
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