A Paquet of advices and animadversions
Author : Marchamont Nedham
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Page : 60 pages
File Size : 15,48 MB
Release : 1676
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Author : Marchamont Nedham
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 15,48 MB
Release : 1676
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Author : American Antiquarian Society. Library
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Page : 580 pages
File Size : 40,72 MB
Release : 1837
Category : America
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Collection includes about 8,000 vols. donated by Isaiah Thomas, founder of the Society. The catalogue is "almost wholly the work of the late lamented librarian, Christopher C. Baldwin ... completed and brought up to the present date by ... Maturin L. Fisher."
Author : American antiquarian society
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Page : 568 pages
File Size : 46,25 MB
Release : 1837
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Author : Brian Cowan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,12 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300133502
What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.
Author : Henry Colin Gray Matthew
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Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 25,23 MB
Release : 2004
Category : British
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55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.
Author : Devoney Looser
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 39,76 MB
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801887054
This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.
Author : Hilary Mantel
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 44,36 MB
Release : 2006-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312426399
Set during the French Revolution, this "riveting historical novel" ("The New Yorker") is the story of three young provincials who together helped destroy a way of life and, in the process, destroyed themselves.
Author : A. C. Grayling
Publisher : Thoemmes
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 50,81 MB
Release : 2006-06-28
Category : Philosophy
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Author : William Cothren
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Page : 872 pages
File Size : 19,49 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Bethlehem (Conn. : Town)
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Author : Barbara Ann Kipfer
Publisher : Laurel
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 25,58 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780440215554
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