John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton 
Lecture on the Study of History [EPUB ebook] 

pub One.info present you this new edition. I look back to-day to a time before the middle of the century, when I was UNITY OF MODERN HISTORY reading at Edinburgh, and fervently wishing to come to this University. At three colleges I applied for admission, and, as things then were, I was refused by all. Here, from the first, I vainly fixed my hopes, and here, in a happier hour, after five-and-forty years, they are at last fulfilled.