Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 88
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The Barring Out, Or, Party Spirit
Author: Maria EdgeworthStories for Children, from "Parent's Assistant": The Barring Out
Author: Maria EdgeworthAlbion's Seed
Author: David Hackett FischerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199742537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 981
Book Description
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Realities of Irish Life
Author: William Steuart TrenchPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
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Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Observations on popular antiquities: including the whole of mr. Bourne's Antiquitates vulgares. revised by sir H. Ellis
Author: John BrandSchool Days at Saxonhurst
Author: Percy FitzgeraldPublisher:
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Category : Saxonhurst
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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A Righte Merrie Christmasse: The Story of Christ-Tide
Author: John AshtonPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465515380
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The day on which Jesus Christ died is plainly distinguishable, but the day of His birth is open to very much question, and, literally, is only conjectural; so that the 25th December must be taken purely as the day on which His birth is celebrated, and not as His absolute natal day. In this matter we can only follow the traditions of the Church, and tradition alone has little value. In the second and early third centuries of our æra, we only know that the festivals, other than Sundays and days set apart for the remembrance of particular martyrs, were the Passover, Pentecost, and the Epiphany, the baptism or manifestation of our Lord, when came "a voice from Heaven saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." This seems always to have been fixed for the 6th of January, and with it was incorporated the commemoration of His birth. Titus Flavius Clemens, generally known as Clemens of Alexandria, lived exactly at this time, and was a contemporary of Origen. He speaks plainly on the subject, and shows the uncertainty, even at that early epoch of Christianity, of fixing the date: "There are those who, with an over-busy curiosity, attempt to fix not only the year, but the date of our Saviour's birth, who, they say, was born in the twenty-eighth year of Augustus, on the 25th of the month Pachon," i.e. the 20th of May. And in another place he says: "Some say that He was born on the 24th or 25th of the month Pharmuthi," which would be the 19th or 20th of April.
The Parent's Assistant
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher:
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Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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