ISBN: 9781458923783

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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: CHAPTER VIII. The Eastern Question. A Visit To Greece. General Correspondence. A.d. 1875-1878. Freeman's visit to Dalmatia, originally planned with a view to the study of antiquities in that country, occurred two months after the insurrection had broken out in Herzegovina, which soon swelled into a 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: CHAPTER VIII. The Eastern Question. A Visit To Greece. General Correspondence. A.d. 1875-1878. Freeman's visit to Dalmatia, originally planned with a view to the study of antiquities in that country, occurred two months after the insurrection had broken out in Herzegovina, which soon swelled into a general revolt amongst the Slave population in south-eastern Europe against the rule of the Turk. It is needless to say that Freeman's sympathy with this movement would in any case have been very ardent, but it was intensified by his being brought into close contact with the scene of the first outbreak, and by learning from the mouths of eye-witnesses the tale of intolerable wrongs, which had driven the people to take up arms, and of the frightful cruelties perpetrated by their oppressors in their endeavours to suppress the insurrection. He had seen some of the refugees, the destitute women, children, and aged people, who had escaped from their merciless destroyers by flight into the Austrian territory of Dalmatia. He could ' bear witness,' he said, ' to the sight, as the saddest which his eyes had ever looked upon.' In the language of Burke, speaking of thevictims of another desolating war, ' it was a people in beggary, it was a nation which stretched out its hand for food.' During the next three years he was indefatigable in collecting money and clothing for these refugees, nor was he less industrious in stirring up public sympathy by his writings and speeches, not only in England but throughout Europe. He regarded it as a kind of sacred duty to do what he could to break down the mass of prejudice with which diplomatic sophistry and ignorance of history had surrounded the whole subject of Ottoman rule in Europe, and to urge the course of action which, as he thought, was Books, History~~General, Life-and-Letters-of-Edward-A-Freeman-DCL-LL-D~~William-Richard-Wood-Stephens, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781458923783

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895. Excerpt: ... LIFE OF EDWARD A. FREEMAN CHAPTER VII. Honorary Degree At Oxford. The War Between Germany And France. Swiss Politics. Articles On Trikoopes, General Church, Mr. Finlay, Bishop Thirlwall, ProFessor Willis. Foreign Tours. Literary Projects. General Correspondence. A.d. 1870-1875. THREE volumes of the History of the Norman Conquest had now been published, and Freeman''s claim to take a high rank amongst the historians of his country was fully established. The University of Oxford recognized his merits by conferring upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law in June, 1870. The Latin speeches with which the candidates selected for this honour are presented in the Sheldonian Theatre were made by Mr. Bryce, at that time the Regius Professor of Civil Law. He introduced Freeman in the following terms:--''Virum vobis praesento Universitatis nostrae decus insigne, quern Oxonienses omnes honoris atque salutis Academiae semper studiosissimum novistis, in originibus VOL. II. B et Graccis et Germanis et maxime Angiitis mire doctum, in negligentiorum hominum erroribus detegendis acerrimum, eundemque facetiarum plenum, inter historiae patriae scriptores, quum verborum vi atque copia dicendi, turn quoque cura atque diligentia in rerum veritate indaganda loco nulli secundo vere dignum, illustrissimis Germaniae Galliaeque scriptoribus comparandum, Edwardum Augustum Freeman Coll. SS. et indiv. Trinitatis olim soc. ut admittatur ad gradum Doctoris in lure Civili honoris causa.'' In July, 1870, the great war between France and Germany began. Freeman watched the course of it with the keenest interest, and hailed the success of the Germans with the deepest satisfaction. Not that he had any sympathy with Prussia. He had indignantly denounced the joint attack made by Prussia ... William Richard Wood Stephens, Books, History, The Life And Letters Of Edward A. Freeman, D.c.l., Ll. D. (volume 2) Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781458923783

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895. Excerpt: ... LIFE OF EDWARD A. FREEMAN CHAPTER VII. Honorary Degree At Oxford. The War Between Germany And France. Swiss Politics. Articles On Trikoopes, General Church, Mr. Finlay, Bishop Thirlwall, ProFessor Willis. Foreign Tours. Literary Projects. General Correspondence. A.d. 1870-1875. THREE volumes of the History of the Norman Conquest had now been published, and Freeman''s claim to take a high rank amongst the historians of his country was fully established. The University of Oxford recognized his merits by conferring upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law in June, 1870. The Latin speeches with which the candidates selected for this honour are presented in the Sheldonian Theatre were made by Mr. Bryce, at that time the Regius Professor of Civil Law. He introduced Freeman in the following terms:--''Virum vobis praesento Universitatis nostrae decus insigne, quern Oxonienses omnes honoris atque salutis Academiae semper studiosissimum novistis, in originibus VOL. II. B et Graccis et Germanis et maxime Angiitis mire doctum, in negligentiorum hominum erroribus detegendis acerrimum, eundemque facetiarum plenum, inter historiae patriae scriptores, quum verborum vi atque copia dicendi, turn quoque cura atque diligentia in rerum veritate indaganda loco nulli secundo vere dignum, illustrissimis Germaniae Galliaeque scriptoribus comparandum, Edwardum Augustum Freeman Coll. SS. et indiv. Trinitatis olim soc. ut admittatur ad gradum Doctoris in lure Civili honoris causa.'' In July, 1870, the great war between France and Germany began. Freeman watched the course of it with the keenest interest, and hailed the success of the Germans with the deepest satisfaction. Not that he had any sympathy with Prussia. He had indignantly denounced the joint attack made by Prussia ... William Richard Wood Stephens, Books, History, The Life And Letters Of Edward A. Freeman, D.c.l., Ll. D. (volume 2) Books>History <