Chronicon Ricardi Divisiensis de rebus gestis Ricardi Primi regis Angliæ: Nunc primum typis mandatum

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Sumptibus Societatis, 1838 - 92 Seiten

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Seite 6 - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE , Of YORK. MARINER: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of AMERICA, near the Mouth of the Great River of OROONOQUE; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. WITH An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by PYRATES. Written by Himself.
Seite 7 - ... stains, not by protection of law, but by their own pure essence. Had every school-boy, whose young imagination has been prompted by his great work, and whose heart has learned to throb in the strange, yet familiar, solitude he created, given even the halfpenny of the statute of Anne, there would have been no want of a provision for his children, no need of a subscription for a statue to his memory...
Seite 15 - Reader's Handbook.") Crown 8vo, half-bound, 12s. 6d. [In preparation. Dramatists, The Old. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Vignette Portraits, 6s. per Vol. Ben Jonson's Works. With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir by WM. GIFFORD. Edited by Colonel CUNNINGHAM.
Seite 6 - The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Being the Second and Last Part of his Life, and of the Strange Surprizing Accounts of his Travels Round three parts of the Globe. Written by Himself.
Seite 7 - I have elsewhere observed, the importance of the mechanick arts, which they, who know not what it is to be without them, are so apt to undervalue: it fixes in the mind a lively idea of the horrors of solitude, and, consequently, of the sweets of social life, and of the blessings we derive from conversation, and mutual aid: and it shows, how, by labouring with one's own hands, one may secure independence, and open for one's self many sources of health and amusement. I agree, therefore, with Rousseau,...
Seite 29 - De Augmentis Scientiarum, does from his Advancement of Learning. I shall however blend the two in a single analysis, and this I shall generally give, as far as is possible, consistently with my own limits, in the very words of Hobbes. His language is so lucid and concise, that it would be almost as improper to put an algebraical process in different terms as some of his metaphysical paragraphs.
Seite 8 - Was there ever yet any thing written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?
Seite 11 - MONASTICON ANGLICANUM : a History of the Abbies and other Monasteries, Hospitals, Frieries, and' Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with their Dependencies, in England and Wales ; also of all such Scotch, Irish, and French Monasteries, as were in any Manner connected with Religious Houses in England.
Seite 19 - But it would he an unjust conclusion to infer that these heautiful volumes embraced no other subjects : for there is much of HISTORICAL RESEARCH, and more of SOCIAL INTERCOURSE ; the author having been made a welcome visitor at s( me of the most respectable societies in the North of England, and in Scotland.
Seite 24 - MAP OF AZERBAEEJAUN, AND PART OF ARMENIA AND GEORGIA, With the Route of His Majesty's Mission, under the RIGHT HON. SIR HARFORD JONES BRYDGES, BART, from Abooshehr to the North of Persia, constructed chiefly from personal survey, by COLONEL SIR JAMES SUTHERLAND.

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