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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 18: Prescott and Motley (search)
h came in 1877, and he was buried in England. What is the judgment of posterity upon the work into which Motley poured so much vigorous painstaking effort? This much can be said: he was first a brilliant searchlight, sweeping over an unknown field, and then an able draughtsman in describing the scene. Every new generation claims to have a light in its own hand which enables it to judge the past with greater accuracy than its predecessors. Scholars of today in Holland, Blok, Japikse, Colenbrander, all consider that the American failed to treat Netherland history on scientific lines. He did not understand Europe at large, he did not understand the Church. In his hands Philip II was treated too severely, as was Maurice in his conflict with Barneveld. There was a lack of perspective in his every estimate. Not only that, but in making one period so dominant, he dislocated the perspective of the whole history of the Netherlands. For the last thirty years scholars in Belgium as we
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
, Rebecca, 402 Clarke, Thomas, 286 Clarkson, Thomas, 45 Clay, Henry, 45, 50, 71, 86-88, 90, 93 n., 116, 135 Clemens, S. L., 157, 159, 360, 363, 379, 405, 406 Clemm, Virginia, 58, 58 n. Cleveland plain dealer, the, 158 Clouds in the West, 306 Cobbett, Wm., 181 Cobwebs from an empty Skull, 387 Coercion, 305 Coffin, Charles Carleton, 404 Coffin, Joshua, 44 Cogswell, Joseph G., 111 Cohens vs. Virginia, 74 Coke, Sir, Edward, 77 Coleman, William, 184 Colenbrander, H. T., 146 Coleridge, 65, 66, 197, 213 College of California, 212 Colonial ballads, 311 Columbia, 298 Columbian Centinel, 180 Columbian magazine, the, 114, 161, 368 Columbus, 128, 254 Columbus, 128 Commemoration ode, 252, 256, 279, 303 Commentaries on American law, 77 Commentaries on the Constitution, 76, 77 Commercial Advertiser. See Minerva, 180 Compendious history of New England, 109 Confederate flag, the, 309 Conflict of laws, 77 Congdon, Charles T.,