Download or read book The Letters to Gilbert White of Selborne from His Intimate Friend and Contemporary the Rev John Mulso written by John Mulso and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Letters to Gilbert White of Selborne from His Intimate Friend and Contemporary the Rev John Mulso Edited with Notes and an Introduction by Rashleigh Holt White written by John MULSO and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book LETTERS TO GILBERT WHITE OF SELBORNE written by RASHLEIGH. HOLT-WHITE and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Letters to Gilbert White of Selborne From His Intimate Friend and Contemporary the Rev John Mulso written by John Mulso and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming collection of correspondence between two close friends in the late 18th century. The letters provide a witty and insightful look into daily life at the time, as well as the natural world that both men were passionate about. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Letters to Gilbert White of Selborne from His Intimate Friend and Contemporary the Rev John Mulso written by John Mulso and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Letters to Gilbert White of Selborne written by Rashleigh Holt-White and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Letters to Gilbert White of Selborne: From His Intimate Friend and Contemporary, the Rev. John Mulso; Edited With Notes and an Introduction Admirers of the Selborne naturalist will greatly regret the destruction of his letters to Mulso, all the more since, with the exception of a very few lines of biography written by his nephew, John White, the publisher, there is no account of Gilbert White by any of his contemporaries, of whom all those who knew him, even in their earliest years, have now long been dead. TO these letters from his friend, then, we must turn to see what is almost the only contemporary estimate of the naturalist's character and career, as it were in a mirror: a mirror which is, perhaps, not always Of the clearest or purest lustre, but which may be trusted to give out bright, and generally faithful reflections. In reading them through I have sometimes wondered whether there ever were two men, whose friendship lasted without the smallest apparent cloud for fifty years, of more totally Opposite habits and character. Both, it is true, were men of good birth and education, and fond of books and reading; but, while Gilbert White grew up in a home situate in the depths of the country, literally five miles from anywhere, and amid circumstances which must have been such as to cultivate hardihood and self reliance, Mulso was a typical townsman, who loved the corner seat Of a carriage much better than the back of a horse, an animal which he seems to have regarded in the light of a rather disagreeable, though sometimes necessary, means of exercise. And the two friends certainly took very different views of life and its duties. They both, no doubt, in adopting the profession of a clergyman, were to some extent influenced by the expecta tion of enjoying a reasonable competence; but, while one of them, as time went on became almost absolutely idle, the other, whose circumstances would, as a bachelor, have equally admitted of laziness, spent his whole life, after taking holy orders, in the active performance Of clerical duty, from his sentiment, as his friend records, that a clergyman should not be idle and unemployed. Nor was this duty of a merely perfunctory character, since I have been frequently assured by Old people in Selborne that their parents distinctly recollected and dwelt upon the very assiduous manner in which Gilbert White visited his parishioners, by whom he was ever held in the greatest respect and regard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Letters to Gilbert White of Selborne from His Intimate Friend and Contemporary the Rev John Mulso Primary Source Edition written by John Mulso and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book The Letters to Gilbert White of Selborne from His Intimate Friend and Contemporary John Mulso written by John Mulso and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Bibliography of British Ornithology from the Earliest Times to the End of 1912 written by William Herbert Mullens and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Birds in Eighteenth Century Literature written by Brycchan Carey and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines literary representations of birds from across the world in anage of expanding European colonialism. It offers important new perspectives intothe ways birds populate and generate cultural meaning in a variety of literary andnon-literary genres from 1700–1840 as well as throughout a broad range ofecosystems and bioregions. It considers a wide range of authors, including someof the most celebrated figures in eighteenth-century literature such as John Gay,Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Anna Letitia Barbauld, William Cowper, MaryWollstonecraft, Thomas Bewick, Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, andGilbert White. ignwogwog[p
Download or read book The Life and Letters of Gilbert White of Selborne written by Rashleigh Holt-White and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Letters of Gilbert White of Selborne written by Rashleigh Holt-White (ed) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century written by Frank O'Gorman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-12-14 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eighteenth century is often represented, applying Tom Paine's phrase, as 'The Age of Reason': an age when progressive ideals triumphed over autocracy and obscurantism, and when notions of order and balance shaped consciousness in every sphere of human knowledge. Yet the debates which surrounded the development of Eighteenth-century thought were always open to troubling doubts. Was nature itself truly an ordered entity, as Newton had argued, or was it a mass of chaotic, randomly moving atoms, as some materialist thinkers believed? This book explores the tensions and conflicts in these debates through a series of interdisciplinary essays from leading international scholars, each challenging the idea that the Eighteenth century was an age of order.
Download or read book The Rural Tradition written by William J. Keith and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1974-12-15 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There is probably no single quality or characteristic – besides love of the countryside – that must inevitably distinguish a rural writer,' notes W.J. Keith. However, 'what distinguishes rural writing that belongs to literature from that belonging to natural history, agricultural history, etc., is, as Richard E. Haymaker has observed, the writer's "means of revealing Nature as well as describing her"...In the final analysis the rural essayist paints neither landscapes nor self-portraits; instead he communicates the subtle relationship between himself and his environment, offering for our inspection his own attitudes and his own vision. We may be asked to look or to agree, but more than anything else we are invited to share. Ultimately, then, the best rural writing may be said to provide us, in a phrase adapted from Robert Langbaum, with a prose of experience.' Keith argues that non-fiction rural prose should be recognized as a distinct literary tradition that merits serious critical attention. In this book he tests the cogency of thinking in terms of a 'rural tradition,' examines the critical problems inherent in such writing, and traces significant continuities between rural writers. Eleven of the more important and influential writers from the seventeenth century to modern times come under individual scrutiny: Izaak Walton, Gilbert White, William Cobbett, Mary Russell Mitford, George Borrow, Richard Jefferies, George Sturt/'George Bourne', W.H. Hudson, Edward Thomas Williamson, and H.J. Massingham. In examining these writers within the context of the rural tradition, Keith rescues their works from the literary attic where they have too often been relegated as awkward misfits. When studied together, each throws fascinating light on the others and is seen to fit into a loose but nonetheless discernible 'line.'
Download or read book The Annals of Scottish Natural History written by John Alexander Harvie-Brown and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deep Things Out of Darkness written by John G. T. Anderson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural history, the deliberate observation of the environment, is arguably the oldest science. From purely practical beginnings as a way of finding food and shelter, natural history evolved into the holistic, systematic study of plants, animals, and the landscape. This book chronicles the rise, decline, and ultimate revival of natural history within the realms of science and public discourse. It charts the journey of the naturalist's endeavour from prehistory to the present, underscoring the need for natural history in an era of dynamic environmental change.
Download or read book Reading Daughters Fictions 1709 1834 written by Caroline Gonda and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-14 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been argued that the eighteenth century witnessed a decline in paternal authority, and the emergence of more intimate, affectionate relationships between parent and child. In Reading Daughters' Fictions, Caroline Gonda draws on a wide range of novels and non-literary materials from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in order to examine changing representations of the father-daughter bond. She shows that heroine-centred novels, aimed at a predominantly female readership, had an important part to play in female socialization and the construction of heterosexuality, in which the father-daughter relationship had a central role. Contemporary diatribes against novels claimed that reading fiction produced rebellious daughters, fallen women, and nervous female wrecks. Gonda's study of novels of family life and courtship suggests that, far from corrupting the female reader, such fictions helped to maintain rather than undermine familial and social order.
