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Facts and Inventions

Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell

By: James Boswell

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Facts and Inventions

Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell

By: James Boswell

James Boswell (1740–1795), best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson, was also a lawyer, journalist, diarist, and an insightful chronicler of a pivotal epoch in Western history. This fascinating collection, edited by Paul Tankard, presents a generous and varied selection of Boswell’s journalistic writings, most of which have not been published since the eighteenth century. It offers a new angle on the history of journalism, an idiosyncratic view of literature, politics, and public life in late eighteenth-century Britain, and an original perspective on a complex and engaging literary personality.

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Yale University Press

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0300210949

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9780300210941

The London Corresponding Society, 1792-1799 Vol 6

By: Michael T Davis,James Epstein,Jack Fruchtman Jr,Mary Thale

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The London Corresponding Society, 1792-1799 Vol 6

By: Michael T Davis,James Epstein,Jack Fruchtman Jr,Mary Thale

This six-volume set reproduces the complete writings of the London Corresponding Society (LCS) as well as other contemporary literature and parliamentary debates, and reports relating to the Society. The LCS was at the forefront of the call for political reform in the late 18th century. Volume 6 incudes reports and debates from 1794 to 1799 and an Index.

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438

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Routledge

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1000419088

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9781000419085

Fairbairn’s Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland

By: James Fairbairn

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Fairbairn’s Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland

By: James Fairbairn

In two volumes. Volume I: 601 pages including a 522 page index of family names, in alphabetical order, describing the crest of every name listed and where to find an illustration in the volume of plates; a glossary of heraldic terms and other words; and nearly seventy pages of family mottoes with translations of those in Latin, French or other foreign languages. Volume II: contains 130 plates, each depicting 15 family crests in b&w and a further 18 plates illustrating regalia, insignia, crowns, flags, monograms, arms of principal cities etc. also in b&w. There is a key to all the plates which, in the case of the crests, shows which families have which crest.

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798

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Andrews UK Limited

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1781502455

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9781781502457

A Profane Wit

The Life of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

By: James William Johnson

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A Profane Wit

The Life of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

By: James William Johnson

A biography of the poet and libertine the Earl of Rochester. Of the glittering, licentious court around King Charles II, John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, was the most notorious. Simultaneously admired and vilified, he personified the rake-hell. Libertine, profane, promiscuous, heshocked his pious contemporaries with his doubts about religion and his blunt verses that dealt with sex or vicious satiric assaults on the high and mighty of the court. This account of Rochester and his times provides the facts behind his legendary reputation as a rake and his deathbed repentance. However, it also demonstrates that he was a loving if unfaithful husband, a devoted father, a loyal friend, a serious scholar, a social critic, and an aspiring patriot. An Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Rochester, James William Johnson is the author or editor of nine books and many articles treating British and American Literature.

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University Rochester Press

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1580461700

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In Nelson's Wake

The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars

By: James Davey

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The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars

By: James Davey

Battles, blockades, convoys, raids: An “impressive” account of how the indefatigable British Royal Navy ensured Napoleon’s ultimate defeat (International Journal of Military History). Horatio Nelson’s celebrated victory over the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 presented Britain with an unprecedented command of the seas. Yet the Royal Navy’s role in the struggle against Napoleonic France was far from over. This groundbreaking book asserts that, contrary to the accepted notion that the Battle of Trafalgar essentially completed the Navy’s task, the war at sea actually intensified over the next decade, ceasing only with Napoleon’s final surrender. In this dramatic account of naval contributions between 1803 and 1815, James Davey offers original and exciting insights into the Napoleonic wars and Britain’s maritime history. Encompassing Trafalgar, the Peninsular War, the War of 1812, the final campaign against Napoleon, and many lesser known but likewise crucial moments, the book sheds light on the experiences of individuals high and low, from admiral and captain to sailor and cabin boy. The cast of characters also includes others from across Britain—dockyard workers, politicians, civilians—who made fundamental contributions to the war effort, and in so doing, both saved the nation and shaped Britain’s history.

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0300217323

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9780300217322

Book's by James Maitland Earl of Lauderdale

Facts and Inventions

Facts and Inventions

The London Corresponding Society, 1792-1799 Vol 6

The London Corresponding Society, 1792-1799 Vol 6

Fairbairn’s Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland

Fairbairn’s Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland

A Profane Wit

A Profane Wit

In Nelson's Wake

In Nelson's Wake

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