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"our Fathers Have Told Us."
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SKETCHES OF THE HISTORY OF CHRISTENDOM FOR BOYS AND GIRLS WHO HAVE BEEN HELD AT ITS FONTS. JOHN RUSKIN, HONORARY STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, AND HONORARY FELLOW OF CORl'US CHRIST! COLLEGE, OXFORD. PART L-THE BIBLE OF AMIENS. CHAPTER II.-UNDER THE DRACHENFELS. GEORGE ALLEN, SUNNYSIDE, ORPINGTON, KENT. chapter{Section 4CHAPTER IL UNDER THE DRACHENFELS. I. WITHOUT ignobly trusting the devices of artificial memory---far less slighting the pleasure and power of resolute and thoughtful memory---my younger readers will find it extremely useful to note any coincidences or links of number which may serve to secure in their minds what may be called Dates of Anchorage, round which others, less important, may swing at various cables' lengths. Thus, it will be found primarily a most simple and convenient arrangement of the years since the birth of Christ, to divide them by fives of centuries, ---that is to say, by the marked periods of the fifth, tenth, fifteenth, and, now fast nearing us, twentieth centuries. And this---at first seemingly formal and arithmetical---division, will be found, as we use it, very singularly emphasized by signs of most notable change in the knowledge, disciplines, and morals of the human race. 2. All dates, it must farther be remembered, falling within the fifth century, begin with the number 4 (401, 402, etc.) ; and all dates in the tenth century with the number 9 (901, 902, etc.); and all dates in the fifteenth century with the number 14 (1401, 1402, etc.) In our immediate subject of study, we are concerned with the first of these marked centuries--- the fifth---of which I will therefore ask you to observe two very interesting divisions. All dates of years in that century, we said, must begin with the number 4. If you halve it for ...
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Pages 106
Dimensions: Length: 9.02" Width: 5.98" Height: 0.24"
Weight: 0.37 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Aug 14, 2009
ISBN 0217422063
EAN 9780217422062
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