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- Author: John Fiske
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 120
- ISBN-10: 1508816468
- ISBN-13: 9781508816461
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.6 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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It is always difficult in history to mark the beginning and end of a period. Events keep rushing on and do not pause to be divided into chapters; or, in other words, in the history which really takes place, a new chapter is always beginning long before the old one is ended. The divisions we make when we try to describe it are merely marks that we make for our own convenience. In telling the story of the American Revolution we must stop somewhere, and the inauguration of President Washington is a very proper place. We must also begin somewhere, but it is quite clear that it will not do to begin with the Declaration of Independence in July, 1776, or even with the midnight ride of Paul Revere in April, 1775.
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- Author: John Fiske
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 120
- ISBN-10: 1508816468
- ISBN-13: 9781508816461
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.6 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
It is always difficult in history to mark the beginning and end of a period. Events keep rushing on and do not pause to be divided into chapters; or, in other words, in the history which really takes place, a new chapter is always beginning long before the old one is ended. The divisions we make when we try to describe it are merely marks that we make for our own convenience. In telling the story of the American Revolution we must stop somewhere, and the inauguration of President Washington is a very proper place. We must also begin somewhere, but it is quite clear that it will not do to begin with the Declaration of Independence in July, 1776, or even with the midnight ride of Paul Revere in April, 1775.
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