Author: James STATTERPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Ministerial faithfulness. A sermon preached in the parish church of Ulverston, on Monday, July 20th, 1835, etc
Author: James STATTERThe British Library general catalogue of printed books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The Church of Grasmere
Author: Mary L. ArmittHistory of the Fylde of Lancashire
Author: John PorterPublisher: Fleetwood ; Blackpool : W. Porter
ISBN:
Category : Fylde (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
A History of Lancashire
Author: Henry FishwickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lancashire
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland
Author: Daniel ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cumberland (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The Nine Days' Queen, Lady Jane Grey, and Her Times
Author: Richard DaveyPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146561656X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
The tragedy of Lady Jane Grey is unquestionably one of the most poignant episodes in English history, but its very dramatic completeness and compactness have almost invariably caused its wider significance to be obscured by the element of personal pathos with which it abounds. The sympathetic figure of the studious, saintly maiden, single-hearted in her attachment to the austere creed of Geneva, stands forth alone in a score of books refulgent against the gloomy background of the greed and ambition to which she was sacrificed. The whole drama of her usurpation and its swift catastrophe is usually treated as an isolated phenomenon, the result of one man’s unscrupulous self-seeking; and with the fall of the fair head of the Nine Days’ Queen upon the blood-stained scaffold within the Tower the curtain is rung down and the incident looked upon as fittingly closed by the martyrdom of the gentlest champion of the Protestant Reformation in England. Such a treatment of the subject, however attractive and humanly interesting it may be, is nevertheless unscientific as history and untrue in fact. An adequate appreciation of the tendencies behind the unsuccessful attempt to deprive Mary of her birthright can only be gained by a consideration of the circumstances preceding and surrounding the main incident. The reasons why Northumberland, a weak man as events proved, was able to ride rough-shod over the nobles and people of England, the explanation of his sudden and ignominious collapse and of the apparent levity with which the nation at large changed its religious beliefs and observance at the bidding of assumed authority are none of them on the surface of events; and the story of Jane Grey as it is usually told, whilst abounding in pathetic interest gives no key to the vast political issues of which the fatal intrigue of Northumberland was but a by-product. To represent the tragedy as a purely religious one, as is not infrequently done, is doubly misleading. That one side happened to be Catholic and the other Protestant was merely a matter of party politics, and probably not a single active participator in the events, except Jane herself, and to some extent Mary, was really moved by religious considerations at all, loud as the professions of some of the leaders were.
George Whitefield: A Biography, with special reference to his labors in America
Author: Joseph BelcherPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "George Whitefield: A Biography, with special reference to his labors in America" by Joseph Belcher. 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.