Download or read book English Eccentrics and Eccentricities Illustrated Edition written by John Timbs and published by Echo Library. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in two volumes in 1866 and reprinted from the Chatto & Windus single volume edition of 1868. This work by English author and antiquary John Timbs (1801-75) provides both enteraining light reading and a source of biographical incident on unusual characters from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, including celebrities and recluses, religious notables and country astrologers, and those from the sporting field and the world of art, literature and the theatre.
Download or read book English Eccentrics and Eccentricities written by John Timbs and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
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Download or read book English Eccentrics And Eccentricities written by John Timbs and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Download or read book English Eccentrics and Eccentricities written by John Timbs and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Eccentrics and Eccentricities written by John Timbs and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Download or read book English Eccentrics written by Edith Sitwell and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "English Eccentrics" by Edith Sitwell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book English Eccentrics and Eccentricities written by John Timbs and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the PREFACE to the first volume. GENTLE READER, a few words before we introduce you to our Eccentrics. They may be odd company: yet how often do we find eccentricity in the minds of persons of good understanding. Their sayings and doings, it is true, may not rank as high among the delicacies of intellectual epicures as the Strasburg pies among the dishes described in the Almanack des Gourmands; but they possess attractions in proportion to the degree in which "man favours wonders." Swift has remarked, that "a little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious, and low." Into the latter extremes Eccentricity is occasionally apt to run, somewhat like certain fermenting liquors which cannot be checked in their acidifying courses. Into such headlong excesses our Eccentrics rarely stray; and one of our objects in sketching their ways, is to show that with oddity of character may co-exist much goodness of heart; and your strange fellow, though, according to the lexicographer, he be outlandish, odd, queer, and eccentric, may possess claims to our notice which the man who is ever studying the fitness of things would not so readily present. Many books of character have been published which have recorded the acts, sayings, and fortunes of Eccentrics. The instances in the present Work are, for the most part, drawn from our own time, so as to present points of novelty which could not so reasonably be expected in portraits of older date. They are motley-minded and grotesque in many instances; and from their rare accidents may be gathered many a lesson of thrift, as well as many a scene of humour to laugh at; while some realize the well-remembered couplet or the near alliance of wits to madness....
Download or read book English Eccentrics and Eccentricities written by John Timbs and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book English Eccentrics and Eccentricities written by John Timbs and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Eccentrics and Eccentricities is a humorous work by John Timbs. An entertaining and light reading that covers different personalities, in a quirky fashion that Brits are well acquainted with.
Download or read book English Eccentrics and Their Bizarre Behaviour written by David Long and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English history is laced with eccentric and endearing characters whose legacy lives on to this day. In this book David Long studies the quirky individuals and the monuments they created to express their odd tendencies.
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Download or read book In Search of the English Eccentric written by Henry Hemming and published by John Murray Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English eccentric is under threat. In our increasingly homogenised society, these celebrated parts of our national identity are anomalies that may soon no longer fit. Or so it seems. On his entertaining and thought-provoking quest to discover the most eccentric English person alive today, Henry Hemming unearths a surprisingly large array of delightfully odd characters. He asks what it is to be an eccentric. Is it simply to thrive on creativity and non-conformity, and where does this incarnation of Englishness stem from? Hemming concludes that this tribe is, in fact, in rude health, as essential as ever to the English national identity, only they are no longer to be found where youd expect them.
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