Author: Constable and co, ltdPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 734
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Constable's Miscellany of Original and Selected Publications in the Various Departments of Literature, Science, & the Arts
Author: Constable's miscellany of original and selected publications
Author: Constable and co, ltdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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Constable's Miscellany of Original and Selected Publications in the Various Departments of Literature, Science & the Arts, 10
Author: Constable's Miscellany of Original and Selected Publications in the Various Departments of Literature, Science, & the Arts
Author: Travels in the Mogul Empire, A.D. 1656-1668
Author: François BernierPublisher: Westminster : Constable
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Constable's Miscellany of Original and Selected Publications in the Various Departments of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Author: Archibald ConstablePublisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781770458116
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...quality, learns, You're an honest good man, and take care of your bairns. Your Mercurie's hill, too, a wit doth betoken, Some book-craft you have, and are pretty well spoken. But, stay, in your Jupiter's mount, what's here? A king, a monarch! what wonders appear! High, bountiful, just; a Jove for your parts, A master of men, and that reign in their hearts.' One passage in this address deserves to be commerited on; 'You are an honest good man, and take care of your bairns;' which, as it does not yield the praise that is apt to enter into a set panegyric, but seems to be a plain unvarnished account of what James really was, must be held as saying a great deal in favour of the homely worth, and good domestic character, of the King. James has often been stigmatised as a bad husband and father. It has even been insinuated against him, that he was instrumental in the death of his eldest son, from jealousy of his rising popularity. We learn, on the contrary, from Sir Theodore Mayerne, his physician, that This was written two years after Queen Anne's death. his health was considerably affected by grief for the deaths of Prince Henry and Queen Anne. That he was sincerely attached to his consort, and regarded her womanly foibles with that gentleness of construction which marks the truly good husband, is, we think, pretty well evidenced by the letter which he wrote to her in consequence of the fracas about Prince Henry before she left Scotla. It is further proved by a delightful anecdote, which is thus recorded in a private letter, of date July 1613---' At their last being at Theobald's, the Queen, shooting a deer, mistook her mark, and killed Jewel, the King's most special and favourite hound at which he stormed exceedingly a while; but, after be knew who did it...
Letters Written in a Mahratta Camp During the Year 1809
Author: Thomas Duer BroughtonPublisher:
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Category : Maratha (Indic people)
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Life of Sir William Wallace of Elderslie Volume 1 (of 2)
Author: John D. CarrickPublisher: CONSTABLE AND CO
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Languages : en
Pages : 145
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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.
Life of Sir William Wallace of Elderslie
Author: John D. CarrickPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734041805
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Reproduction of the original: Life of Sir William Wallace of Elderslie by John D. Carrick
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