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Author Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902.

Title The history of freedom and other essays / by John Emerich Edward Dahlberg-Acton, first Baron Acton ; edited with an introduction by John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence
Published London : Macmillan, 1907
London [England] : Macmillan, 1907

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Description xxxix, 638 pages : portraits ; 23 cm
Contents Chronicle--Introduction.--I. The history of freedom in antiquity [Address, Bridgnorth institution, 16th Feb. 1877]--II. The history of freedom in Christianity [Address, Bridgnorth institution, 28th May, 1877]--III. Sir Erskine May's Democracy in Europe [Quar., Jan. 1878]--IV. The massacre of St. Bartholomew [No. Brit., Oct. 1869]--V. The Protestant theory of persecution [Rambler, Mar. 1862]--VI. Political thoughts on the church [Rambler, 1858]--VII. Introduction to L. A. Burd's edition of Il principe by Machiavelli.--VIII. Mr. Goldwin Smith's Irish history [Rambler, Mar. 1862]--IX. Nationality [Ho. & for. r., July, 1862]--X. Döllinger on the temporal power [Rambler, Nov. 1861]--XI. Döllinger's historical work [Eng. hist. r., 1890]
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Includes some text in French, German and Latin
Subject History -- Philosophy.
History.
Liberty.
History.
Author Figgis, John Neville, 1866-1919.
Laurence, Reginald Vere, 1876-1934.
LC no. 08002560