Author: Jeremiah Whitaker NewmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Lounger's Common-place Book, Or, Miscellaneous Anecdotes
Author: Jeremiah Whitaker NewmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Lounger's Common-place Book, Or, Miscellaneous Anecdotes
Author: Jeremiah Whitaker NewmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Monthly Review; Or, New Literary Journal
Author: Ralph GriffithsThe Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal
Author: Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged
Author: Ralph GriffithsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths.
The Monthly Review
Author: Ralph GriffithsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The Monthly review. New and improved ser
Author: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 6
Author: Thomas JeffersonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400833736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 761
Book Description
Volume Six of the definitive edition of Thomas Jefferson's papers from the end of his presidency until his death presents 516 documents from 11 March to 27 November 1813. Although free from the cares of government, Jefferson cannot disassociate himself from politics entirely. He recommends to President James Madison during the War of 1812 that gunboats be used to protect the Chesapeake Bay, and writes to his congressional son-in-law, John Wayles Eppes, urging the repayment of the national debt and the reining in of the American banking system. Jefferson remains active and healthy, making trips to his beloved Poplar Forest estate, entertaining visitors at Monticello, and happily supervising the education of his grandchildren and other relations. His correspondence shows no signs of abating--he writes to John Waldo and John Wilson to discuss the improvement of English orthography, addresses Isaac McPherson as part of a plea for limits on government-sanctioned intellectual-property rights, and provides a study of Meriwether Lewis for Nicholas Biddle's History of the Expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark. Finally, this volume records the most intense period of correspondence between Jefferson and John Adams during their retirement. In an exchange of thirty-one letters, the two men reveal their hopes and fears for the nation.
The British Critic
Author: James Shergold BoonePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368511602
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1795.
You Could Look It Up
Author: Jack LynchPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802777945
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
"Knowledge is of two kinds," said Samuel Johnson in 1775. "We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line of aggregated knowledge--reference works that have shaped the way we've seen the world for centuries. You Could Look It Up chronicles the captivating stories behind these great works and their contents, and the way they have influenced each other. From The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest known compendium of laws in ancient Babylon almost two millennia before Christ to Pliny's Natural History; from the 11th-century Domesday Book recording land holdings in England to Abraham Ortelius's first atlas of the world; from Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language to The Whole Earth Catalog to Google, Jack Lynch illuminates the human stories and accomplishment behind each, as well as its enduring impact on civilization. In the process, he offers new insight into the value of knowledge.