Pius VII., at Notre Dame, in For. Quart. Rev., 20, 54. Paris, Dec. 2, 1804.
Probably Pepin le Bref is meant. But he was not crowned by a Pope. Crowned by Archbishop Boniface of Mayence, at the advice of Pope Zachary. _b_. @ 715. _d_. 768.
452 to 1815. St. Real's History. Quart. Rev. 31, 420. Otway's Tragedy, Venice Preserved. Month. Rev., 90, 525. Hazlitt's Hist, of Venice. West. Rev., 23, 38. Ruskin's Stones of Venice.
There are two Augustines. This is St. Austin, _b_. in 5th century, _d_. 604-614. Southey's Book of Church. Sharon Turner's Anglo-Saxons. Wm. of Malmesbury. Bede's Ecc. History.
Turner as above. Edin. Rev., 89, 79. Ang.-Saxon Chronicle. Quart. Rev., 7, 92. Six old Eng. Chronicles. Eclect. Rev., 25, 669.
Well established on west side, For. Quart. Rev., 17, 139. at the beginning of 5th century.
Muller's Antiquitates Antiochianæ Greek Orators. Ed. Rev., 36, 62.
3 islands, as large as Italy. N. Am. Rev., 18, 328. Discovered, 1642; taken by Cook for England, 1769. Gov. sent out, 1838. West. Rev., 45, 133. Thomson's story of N. Z. Edin. Rev., 91, 231; 56, 333. Cook's Voyages. N. Brit. Rev., 16, 176. Sir G. Gray's Poems, &c. of Living Age. Maoris.
5 elliptical arches. "Presents an aspect unequalled for interest and animation."
Built in thirty years between 1675 and 1705, by Christ. Wren.
Now I am by no means going to leave you to the reading of cyclopædias. The vice of cyclopædias is that they are dull. What is done for this passage of Macaulay in the lists above is only preliminary. It could be easily done in three hours' time, if you went carefully to work. And when you have done it, you have taught yourself a good deal about your own knowledge and your own ignorance,--about what you should read and what you should not attempt. So far it fits you for selecting your own course of reading.
I have arranged this only by way of illustration. I do not mean that I think these a particularly interesting or particularly important series of subjects. I do mean, however, to show you that the moment you will sift any book or any series of subjects, you will be finding out where your ignorance is, and what you want to know.
Supposing you belong to the fortunate half of people who know what they need, I should advise you to begin in just the same way.