Author: Beggars' benison societyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Notes on 'The records of the Beggar's benison society and Merryland of Anstruther, Fife', 1739-1836
Author: Beggars' benison societyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Register of Erotic Books, Vel (sub Haec Specie) Dubiorum
Author: Alfred RosePublisher:
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Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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'By the Banks of the Neva'
Author: Anthony CrossPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521552931
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
This book offers a unique and fascinating investigation into the lives and careers of the British in eighteenth-century Russia and, more specifically, into the development of a vibrant British community in St Petersburg during the city's first century of existence as the new capital of an ever-expanding Russian empire. Based on an extremely wide use of primary sources, particularly archival, from Britain and Russia, the book concentrates on the activities of the British within various fields such as commerce, the navy, the medical profession, science and technology and the arts, and ends with a broad survey of travellers and of travel accounts, many of them completely unknown. Also included are many attractive and unusual illustrations which help demonstrate the variety and character of Russia's British community.
Genealogical Memoirs of the Scottish House of Christie
Author: Charles RogersPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015695337
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
"By the Banks of the Thames"
Author: Anthony Glenn CrossPublisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Living the Enlightenment
Author: Margaret C. JacobPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199762791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Long recognized as more than the writings of a dozen or so philosophes, the Enlightenment created a new secular culture populated by the literate and the affluent. Enamoured of British institutions, Continental Europeans turned to the imported masonic lodges and found in them a new forum that was constitutionally constructed and logically egalitarian. Originating in the Middle Ages, when stone-masons joined together to preserve their professional secrets and to protect their wages, the English and Scottish lodges had by the eighteenth century discarded their guild origins and become an international phenomenon that gave men and eventually some women a place to vote, speak, discuss and debate. Margaret Jacob argues that the hundreds of masonic lodges founded in eighteenth-century Europe were among the most important enclaves in which modern civil society was formed. In France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Britain men and women freemasons sought to create a moral and social order based upon reason and virtue, and dedicated to the principles of liberty and equality. A forum where philosophers met with men of commerce, government, and the professions, the masonic lodge created new forms of self-government in microcosm, complete with constitutions and laws, elections, and representatives. This is the first comprehensive history of Enlightenment freemasonry, from the roots of the society's political philosophy and evolution in seventeenth-century England and Scotland to the French Revolution. Based on never-before-used archival sources, it will appeal to anyone interested in the birth of modernity in Europe or in the cultural milieu of the European Enlightenment.
The History and Genealogy of the Gurley Family...
Author: Albert Ebenezer GurleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The Satires of Cynicus
Author: CynicusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
History of the Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary's Chapel) No.1.
Author: David Murray LyonPublisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
Travels Into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark
Author: William CoxePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Denmark
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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