Author: Joseph PaynePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Studies in English Prose, Consisting of Specimens of the Language in Its Earliest, Succeeding, and Latest Stages
Author: Joseph PaynePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher and Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author: Studies in English Poetry
Author: Joseph PaynePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368853473
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Knowledge for the Time: A Manual of Reading, Reference, and Conversation on Subjects of Living Interest, Useful Curiosity, and Amusing Research
Author: John TimbsPublisher: anboco
ISBN: 3736413866
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
The great value of contemporary History—that is, history written by actual witnesses of the events which they narrate,—is now beginning to be appreciated by general readers. The improved character of the journalism of the present day is the best evidence of this advancement, which has been a work of no ordinary labour. Truth is not of such easy acquisition as is generally supposed; and the chances of obtaining unprejudiced accounts of events are rarely improved by distance from the time at which they happen. In proportion as freedom of thought is enlarged, and liberty of conscience, and liberty of will, are increased, will be the amount of trustworthiness in the written records of contemporaries. It is the rarity of these high privileges in chroniclers of past events which has led to so many obscurities in the world's history, and warpings in the judgment of its writers; to trust some of whom has been compared to reading with "coloured spectacles." And, one of the features of our times is to be ever taking stock of the amount of truth in past history; to set readers on the tenters of doubt, and to make them suspicious of perversions; and to encourage a whitewashing of black reputations which sometimes strays into an extreme equally as unserviceable to truth as that from which the writer started. It is, however, with the view of correcting the Past by the light of the Present, and directing attention to many salient points of Knowledge for the Time, that the present volume is offered to the public. Its aim may be considered great in proportion to the limited means employed; but, to extend what is, in homely phrase, termed a right understanding, the contents of the volume are of a mixed character, the Author having due respect for the[v] emphatic words of Dr.
Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature
Author: Samuel HalkettPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Publishers' Trade List Annual
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1756
Book Description
The Boy's Own Book
Author: William ClarkePublisher:
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Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Old Jolliffe
Author: Mrs. Henry S. MackarnessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Author: