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Book The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres  Arts  Sciences

Download or read book The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres Arts Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres  Arts  Sciences  Etc

Download or read book The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres Arts Sciences Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres  Arts  Sciences  Etc

Download or read book Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres Arts Sciences Etc written by William Jerdan and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life of Sir William Wallace of Elderslie Volume 1  of 2

Download or read book Life of Sir William Wallace of Elderslie Volume 1 of 2 written by John D. Carrick and published by CONSTABLE AND CO. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In presenting to the British Public the Life of a man, whose name has been for ages the slogan, or cri de guerre, when the liberty of his country was in danger, few words may suffice in the way of Preface. The unprovoked aggression of England on the freedom of Scotland, produced, in the latter country, one of those grand national convulsions, which seldom fail to call forth some master-spirit from obscurity. Owing to circumstances, however, connected with the unsettled and turbulent state of the times, the transcendent talents of the Knight of Elderslie had been, among his contemporaries, more a subject for grateful admiration,than historical record; and, in consequence, no small degree of fiction has been mixed up with his story, while his real achievements have become in a manner obscured by their own undefined greatness. The Proprietors of Constable’s Miscellany, conceiving that a work exclusively devoted to the elucidation of the occurrences in the life and times of the Deliverer of Scotland, would be an important addition to our stock of historical knowledge, the writer was requested to undertake the present work, having become partially conversant with the subject, while engaged in drawing up a Life of Wallace, some years ago,1 for the use of juvenile readers. In venturing before the Public as the biographer of the Guardian of Scotland, the Author is not unconscious of the difficulties that surround him. The subject is one with which his countrymen in all ranks of life have been from their early years more or less familiar; and are all qualified, to a certain extent, to become his critics. With so numerous a host of reviewers, the errors he may have committed have no chance to escape detection, while the strong partiality with which such readers are imbued, will no doubt be occasionally offended, when they find the tame realities of historical evidence substituted for the more pleasing details of romantic and poetical embellishment. With another class of readers, whose cooler temperament and neutralized feelings may enable them to view the narrative of our hero’s transactions through a different medium, the writer runs an equal hazard of being charged with overstepping the limits of probability. Thus circumstanced, the hope of his production meeting any thing like general approbation becomes extremely faint, and excites the apprehension that he will have to measure his success only by the mildness with which his labours may be censured. It remains only to be added, that to John Strachan, Esq. of Thornton, Stirlingshire, (late of Woodside), the Publishers lie under deep obligation for the kind manner in which he furnished information connected with Wallace’s Oak, and for the sketch of the tree itself, after a painting by Nasmyth, executed in 1771, which illustrates the present Volume. The building, represented in the back ground, is the ruins of Tor Castle, where the unfortunate James III. is supposed to have passed the night previous to the fatal battle of Sauchie.

Book Life of Sir William Wallace of Elderslie

Download or read book Life of Sir William Wallace of Elderslie written by John D. Carrick and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Life of Sir William Wallace of Elderslie by John D. Carrick

Book The London Magazine

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Book Hawaiian National Bibliography  1780 1900

Download or read book Hawaiian National Bibliography 1780 1900 written by David W. Forbes and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive, annotated, multivolume bibliography is a record of all printed works touching on some aspect of the political, religious, cultural, or social history of the Hawaiian Islands-from the first printed notice mentioning the Islands (in a German periodical of January 1780) to the beginning of the twentieth century, when the Islands ceased to be a separate political entity. Volume I covers the period from 1780 to 1830, when exploratory voyages to the northern Pacific had largely concluded and the arrival of improved printing equipment in the Islands resulted in a substantial increase in the number of works printed by the Mission Press in Honolulu. In addition to books and pamphlets, the bibliography includes newspaper and periodical accounts and single sheet publications such as broadsides, circulars, playbills, and handbills because they often contain the only eyewitness or contemporary description of an important event or individual. Entries pertaining to Captain Cook's Third Voyage dominate the first twenty years of the bibliography. They reflect the profound impact of the voyage on both the Hawaiian culture and on nineteenth-century European thought. Extensive annotations provide a brief summary of approximately 760 published works in the first volume of the bibliography. All known editions of each work are listed, together with the exact title, date of publication, size of the volume, collation of pages, number and type of plates and maps, references, and location of copies. The bibliography will be invaluable to scholars, librarians, rare book sellers, and book collectors within the field of Hawaiiana.

Book The Culture of the Publisher s Series  Volume 2

Download or read book The Culture of the Publisher s Series Volume 2 written by John Spiers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores problems concerning the series, national development and the national canon in a range of countries and their international book-trade relationships. Studies focus on issues such as the fabrication of a national canon, and on the book in war-time, the evolution of Catholic literature, imperial traditions and colonial libraries.

Book The Quarterly Review  London

Download or read book The Quarterly Review London written by and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Literary Gazette

Download or read book The Literary Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monthly Review  Or Literary Journal Enlarged

Download or read book Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged written by and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths.

Book The Monthly Review

Download or read book The Monthly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of Books for the Library

Download or read book A Catalogue of Books for the Library written by Sotheran, Henry and Co and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: