Dr. Goldsmith's Abridgment of the History of England, Brought Down to the General Peace of Europe, Concluded at Paris in 1815: With Exercises on Each Chapter, for the Use of Schools and Private Classes (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Dr. Goldsmith's Abridgment of the History of England, Brought Down to the General Peace of Europe, Concluded at Paris in 1815: With Exercises on Each Chapter, for the Use of Schools and Private Classes

As to their government, it consisted of several small principalities, each under its res ective leader and this seems to be the earliest mode 0 dominion with which mankind are acquainted. Upon great and uncommon dangers, a commander in chief was chosen by common consent, in a general assembly and to him was com mitted the conduct of the general interest, the power of making peace or leading to war.

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As Samuel Johnson said in his famous epitaph on his Irish-born and educated friend, Goldsmith ornamented whatever he touched with his pen. A professional writer who died in his prime, Goldsmith wrote the best comedy of his day, She Stoops to Conquer (1773). Amongst a plethora of other fine works, he also wrote The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), which, despite major plot inconsistencies and the intrusion of poems, essays, tales, and lectures apparently foreign to its central concerns, remains one of the most engaging fictional works in English. One reason for its appeal is the character of the narrator, Dr. Primrose, who is at once a slightly absurd pedant, an impatient traditional father of teenagers, a Job-like figure heroically facing life's blows, and an alertly curious, helpful, loving person. Another reason is Goldsmith's own mixture of delight and amused condescension (analogous to, though not identical with, Laurence Sterne's in Tristram Shandy and Johnson's in Rasselas, both contemporaneous) as he looks at the vicar and his domestic group, fit representatives of a ludicrous but workable world. Never married and always facing financial problems, he died in London and was buried in Temple Churchyard.

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