W. M. Thackeray:THE ENGLISH HUMOURISTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
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Lulu.com. Paperback. New. Paperback. 308 pages. Dimensions: 9.0in. x 5.9in. x 0.8in.Memoirs of a Watch Case Engraver was composed from 1941 to 1942 by Fritz Baumgartner and translated f… More...
Lulu.com. Paperback. New. Paperback. 308 pages. Dimensions: 9.0in. x 5.9in. x 0.8in.Memoirs of a Watch Case Engraver was composed from 1941 to 1942 by Fritz Baumgartner and translated from German to English in 2007 by his great-grandson Brian Pittman. This story recounts the hardships and successes of one family during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Central to his autobiography are the Swiss immigrant experience and a struggling watch case industry confronting the Industrial Revolution. Upon immigrating to the United States in 1904, Fritz was one of 27 employees at the fledgling Star Watch Case Company, where he remained for over 25 years. When the factory moved from Elgin, Illinois to Ludington, Michigan, Fritz remained with the Engraving Department. For watch and clock enthusiasts, this volume offers over 1, 650 original case designs produced for the Star Watch Case Company. Dating from roughly 1920 to 1930, this unique collection offers pocket watch collectors an intriguing possibility: do you own a Fritz This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., Lulu.com, Dodo Press. Paperback. New. William M'connell. Paperback. 412 pages. Dimensions: 9.0in. x 6.0in. x 1.2in.George Augustus Henry Sala (1828-1895) was an English journalist and author. At an early date he tried his hand at writing, and in 1851 attracted the attention of Charles Dickens, who published articles and stories by him in Household Words and subsequently in All the Year Round, and in 1856 sent him to Russia as a special correspondent. He became in 1857 a contributor to the Daily Telegraph, and it was in this capacity that he did his most characteristic work, whether as a foreign correspondent in all parts of the world, or as a writer of leaders or special articles. In 1860, he was given the editorship of Temple Bar, and over his own initials G. A. S. , he began writing Echoes of the Week for the Illustrated London News. His works include: Twice Round the Clock; or, The Hours of the Day and Night in London (1859), The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous (1863), My Diary in America in the Midst of War (1865), Under the Sun: Essays Mainly Written in Hot Countries (1872), America Revisited (1882) and Echoes of the Year Eighteen Hundred and Eighty-Three (1884). This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., Dodo Press, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 90 pages. Dimensions: 9.5in. x 7.3in. x 0.3in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: . . . Iambara had a beautifully-proportioned court, with steps up to the pavilion, the symmetry of the spacing being rather pleasantly broken by the mosque on one side being placed at a different angle in order to point to the direction of Mecca, as all Mohammedan mosques must do. Inside the pavilion, under canopies of heavy embroidery in gold and silver, supported by chased silver poles, were the tombs of one of the kings and his zenana. On the walls were mirrors which reminded us of our English empire-period framed mantle-glasses. Some of these had curious tempera paintings inserted in their frames of native birds and trees, and there were other Indian paintings, one showing General or Captain Martin--the French adventurer who founded the Martiniere at Lucknow in the early nineteenth century--in a blue coat and gold lace and white nankeen trousers, like a naval officer of that period, conferring with the King of Oudh and his court. An image of a winged horse (a Buddhist symbol) strikingly resembled the Assyrian type of winged manheaded creatures, the treatment being remarkably similar. The crowned head, with long, black, curled locks, and formal, rather small, wings, with each feather expressed. There was an umbrella attached, which moved to and fro over the head of the figure by clock-work. We were interested to see in the Daulat Khan--a sort of gallery up a steep flight of steps--a series of full-length portraits of the kings of Oudh in their robes, painted by English artists. Most of these were signed by my friend T. Erat Harrison, 1882-4, and I recalled the fact of having seen him at work on one of them about that time. An English lady, Mrs Dowden (wife of Colonel Dowden), was kind enough to conduct us through Lucknow and its wonders, and she proved an exce. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub, General Books. Paperback. New. Paperback. 162 pages. Dimensions: 9.0in. x 6.0in. x 0.4in.General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1891 Original Publisher: W. Scott Subjects: Fiction Anthologies Fiction Classics Fiction Literary Fiction Short Stories Literary Criticism European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books. com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., General Books, Belknap Press, Cambridge: 2014. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Generations of students have been taught that the American Revolution was a revolt against royal tyranny. In this revisionist account, Eric Nelson argues that a great many of our "founding fathers" saw themselves as rebels against the British Parliament, not the Crown. The Royalist Revolution interprets the patriot campaign of the 1770s as an insurrection in favor of royal powerÑdriven by the conviction that the Lords and Commons had usurped the just prerogatives of the monarch. Leading patriots believed that the colonies were the king's own to govern, and they urged George III to defy Parliament and rule directly. These theorists were proposing to turn back the clock on the English constitution, rejecting the Whig settlement that had secured the supremacy of Parliament after the Glorious Revolution. Instead, they embraced the political theory of those who had waged the last great campaign against Parliament's "usurpations": the reviled Stuart monarchs of the seventeenth century. When it came time to design the state and federal constitutions, the very same figures who had defended this expansive conception of royal authorityÑJohn Adams, Alexander Hamilton, James Wilson, and their alliesÑreturned to the fray as champions of a single executive vested with sweeping prerogatives. As a result of their labors, the Constitution of 1787 would assign its new president far more power than any British monarch had wielded for almost a hundred years. On one side of the Atlantic, Nelson concludes, there would be kings without monarchy; on the other, monarchy without kings. Eric Nelson is Robert M. Beren Professor of Government at Harvard University. "The Royalist Revolution is a thought-provoking book, and Nelson is to be commended for reviving discussion of the complex ideology of the American Revolution. He reminds us that there was a spectrum of opinion even among the most ardent patriots and a deep British influence on the political institutions of the new country."ÑAndrew O'Shaughnessy, The Wall Street Journal "A scrupulous archaeology of American revolutionary thought."ÑThomas Meaney, The Nation "[Nelson's] argument will alternately surprise, shock, distress, and outrage many scholars, but it will also help to reshape a debate about the origins of the presidency, a topic that gravely matters as we agonize over the role of the post-9/11 executive in our impassioned and impasse-ridden politicsÉ Eric Nelson's real genius is to force us to rethink both the origins and substance of critical political ideasÉ We will be wrestling with the implications of its argument for some time."ÑJack N. Rakove, The Weekly Standard "Eric Nelson's new book advances the royalist reinterpretation of 18th-century America a crucial stage furtherÉ The Royalist RevolutionÉprovide[s] a powerful double-barrelled challenge to historiographical orthodoxy. Nelson argues persuasively that the RevolutionÑat least in the beginningÑwas not a revolt against the supposed tyrant George III, but a rebellion against the claims of the British Parliament."ÑColin Kidd, London Review of Books "For anyone interested in the founding of the American Republic it is indispensable reading."ÑJeremy Jennings, Standpoint "Brilliantly arguedÉ The Royalist Revolution is surely one of the most important works on Revolutionary era political thought to appear in many years."ÑJohn W. Compton, American Political Thought "Nelson has given us a text of monumental importance. It is clear that historians will not be able to ignore this significant contributionÉ The Royalist Revolution will make many of us think very hard about what we thought we knew."ÑMatthew Dziennik, Canadian Journal of History "Eric Nelson's provocative new work, The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding, represents an important contribution to our understanding of the framing of the Article II powers of the PresidencyÉ Nelson is to be congratulated for his elegant and illuminating treatment of this important body of patriot revolutionary thought. He provides a persuasive rebuttal to the conventional wisdomÉ Nelson's discussion of the debate over the executive at Philadelphia will be of inestimable value to scholars of constitutional law and history. For it is here that he maps with great depth and subtlety the way that royal authority informed the Framers' understanding of America's chief magistracy. And as scholars and statesmen alike continue to debate the scope of the President's discretionary authority, the ideas that helped shape the powers of the executive in 1787 become all the more relevant today."ÑTara Helfman, Harvard Law Review "Nelson eloquently underlines the significance of his reinterpretation for American historians. The Royalist Revolution challenges readers to rethink the conventional narrative about the revolt against tyranny, the republicanism of the Founding Fathers, and the surprising extension of executive power in 1787."ÑHannah Weiss Muller, Journal of British Studies "Sure to fire up an old debate, Nelson's book constitutes an important contribution to the literature on early American constitutionalism."ÑPublishers Weekly "The Royalist Revolution is the most challenging and original account of the constitutional history of the American Revolution in generations. With admirable lucidity and impeccable scholarship, Eric Nelson traces the ideological origins of colonial revolt and the prerogatives of a powerful Presidency back to their roots in seventeenth-century British arguments against Parliament. In light of his findings, the Founding Era will never look quite the same again."ÑDavid Armitage, author of The Declaration of Independence: A Global History "The unseen author of American independence, it turns out, was King George III, who chose to remain a parliamentary monarch, and declined (if he ever understood) the American invitation to become an emperor ruling through several independent parliaments. He obliged Americans to pursue a democratic empire and rethink the role of monarchy in their republic. Eric Nelson's brilliant revision displays both American and British history in their exceptionalisms."ÑJ.G.A. Pocock "The Royalist Revolution is a provocative and important contribution to our never-ending interest in the invention of American constitutionalism. It dares the reader to rethink basic premises of American constitutional history. Carefully researched, ingeniously argued, this book will have a significant and controversial impact on scholarship."ÑJack Rakove, Stanford University, Belknap Press, Cambridge: 2014, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 100 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: . . . half-a-crown a day: and then Swift goes off from Gay to pay some grand compliments to Her Grace the Duchess of Queensberry, in whose sunshine Mr. Gay was basking, and in whose radiance the Pean would have liked to warm himself too. But we have Gay here before us, in these letters, --lazy, kindly, uncommonly idle; rather slovenly, I am afraid; for ever eating and saying good things; a little, round, French abbe of a man, sleek, soft-handed, and soft-hearted. Our object in these lectures is rather to describe the men than their works; or to deal with the latter only in as far as they seem to illustrate the character of their writers. Mr. Gays Fables, which were written to benefit that amiable Prince, the Duke of Cumberland, the warrior of Dettingen and Culloden, I have not, I own, been able to peruse since a period of very early youth; and it must be confessed that they did not effect much benefit upon the illustrious young Prince, whose manners they were intended to mollify, and whose natural ferocity our gentlehearted Satirist perhaps proposed to restrain. But the six pastorals called the Shepherds Week, and the buslesque poem of Trivia, any man fond of lazy literature will find delightful, at the present day, and must read from beginning to end with pleasure. They are to poetry what charming little Dresden china figures are to sculpture: graceful, minikin, fantastic; with a certain beauty always accompanying them. The pretty little personages of tho pastoral, with gold clocks to their stockings, and fresh satin ribbons to their crooks and waistcoats and boddices, dance their loves to a minuet-tune played on a bird-organ, approach the charmer, or rush from the false one daintily on their red-heeled. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<
