Arnold, Thomas. History of the later Roman Commonwealth, from the end of the Second Punic War to the Death of Julius Caesar; and of the Reign of Augustus: with a Life of Trajan (2 volume set). London: B. Fellows; F. and J. Rivington; etc., 1845. First Edition. [12528]
Two volumes in teal blue cloth, decorated in blind, spines in gilt, clean with slight edge-wear, 9 x 6 inches, both bindings tight. Waxed yellow end papers with a couple of previous owner's signatures. viii, 543; [iv], 476 pp.; the texts are generally clean with some foxing in the first and last few leaves of each volume. Very good. Hardcover.
Republished from "the portion of Roman History contributed by Dr. Arnold to the 'Encyclopaedia Metropolitana,' between the years 1823 and 1827."
Thomas Arnold, D.D. (1795-1842), b. Isle of Wight; d. Westmorland, England. He was an educator and historian, headmaster of Rugby School (1828) and professor of Modern History at Oxford University (1841). A "Broad Church" Anglican, he emphasized Christian manliness, morality, and discipline in his school management and writings.
"As a moral and religious teacher, the special engine of his influence was the weekly sermon...these discourses conveyed to the hearers, with a power exceeding that of the most finished compositions, the spirit that was in him. But more potent perhaps than any sermon was the impression habitually conveyed, with all the force of his powerful character, that in everything that he said or did, whether in the pulpit or out of it, he was seeking to do all to the glory of God." - DNB (1908).
