Identifier: storyofonehundre00shep ( find matches)
Title: Story of one hundred years : A comprehensive review of the political and military events, the social, intellectual and material progress, and the general state of mankind in all lands. Embodying detailed and accurate accounts of all things of importance and interest, from 1801 to 1900, inclusive
Year: 1900 ( 1900s)
Authors: Shepp, Daniel B
Subjects: History, Modern
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Globe Bible publishing company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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roidsto be discovered. In 1802 The Edinburgh Review, the first of the famous quarterlyreviews, was founded. Its founders were Francis Jeffrey, Sidney Smith,Henry Brougham and Francis Horner, and its publisher was Constable.It was a success from the first, and in a few years rose to the foremostplace in the literary world. The deaths of Klopstock, Alfieri and Herder occurred in 1803, andthe fact indicates the quality of intellect that then prevailed. Klopstock,author of The Messiah, must always be reckoned among thegreatest of German poets, and Alfieri holds similar rank among Italianpoets. Herder, the teacher and guide of Goethe, is well entitled to beremembered as the founder of modern German literature. In 1804Immanuel Kant, one of the greatest philosophers of any age, died. AMERICAN LITERATURE. In these years American literature may be said to have had its foun-dation. Washington Irving began his work in the Morning Chronicle I o o o X n M > Or•^>H ?^X MR : : O :c C C HC r,
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