Historical and Critical Remarks on Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time (Classic Reprint)

Historical and Critical Remarks on Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time (Classic Reprint)
Author: Bevil Higgons
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2016-12-03
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781334503092

Excerpt from Historical and Critical Remarks on Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time H I S Malice to the four la/t Princes, of a Race, who, we may believe the Scotch Heftorians, have govern'd him and his Ance ors two thoufand Tears, is very unaccounta ble: This Pa ionfeems to befo very unfatiable, as not to be the natural Growth of a Northern Climate, but to have been brou ht with him from the other Side t e Alps. It is Pity that he to n a journey only to Italianize a 8mm Man, and make no better Improvement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

English Historical Documents, 1660-1714

English Historical Documents, 1660-1714
Author: David Charles Douglas
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 1005
Release: 1996
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: 0415143713

This is a collection of documents on English history. Editorial comment is directed towards making sources intelligible rather than drawing conclusions from them. Full account has been taken of modern textual criticism. A general introduction to each volume portrays the character of the period under review and critical bibliographies have been added to assist further investigation. Documents collected include treaties, personal letters, statutes, military dispatches, diaries, declarations, newspaper articles, government and cabinet proceedings, orders, acts, sermons, pamphlets, agricultural instructions, charters, grants, guild regulations and voting records. Volumes include genealogical tables, lists of officials, chronologies, diagrams, graphs and maps.

Charting the Past

Charting the Past
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2018-10-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253037794

Eighteenth-century England was a place of enlightenment and revolution: new ideas abounded in science, politics, transportation, commerce, religion, and the arts. But even as England propelled itself into the future, it was preoccupied with notions of its past. Jeremy Black considers the interaction of history with knowledge and culture in eighteenth-century England and shows how this engagement with the past influenced English historical writing. The past was used as a tool to illustrate the contemporary religious, social, and political debates that shaped the revolutionary advances of the era. Black reveals this "present-centered" historical writing to be so valued and influential in the eighteenth-century that its importance is greatly underappreciated in current considerations of the period. In his customarily vivid and sweeping approach, Black takes readers from print shop to church pew, courtroom to painter's studio to show how historical writing influenced the era, which in turn gave birth to the modern world.