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서명/저자사항 | Knowledge for the Time. |
개인저자 | Timbs, John. |
발행사항 | Dinslaken: Anboco, 2016. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource (339 pages). |
기타형태 저록 | Print version: Timbs, John. Knowledge for the Time: A Manual of Reading, Refful Curiosity, and Amusing Research. Dinslaken : anboco, ?016 |
ISBN | 9783736413863 3736413866 |
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내용주기 | KNOWLEDGE FOR THE TIME:; TO THE READER.; THE FRONTISPIECE.; CONTENTS.; KNOWLEDGE FOR THE TIME.; Historico-Political Information.; Politics not yet a Science.; The Philosopher and the Historian.; Whig and Tory Ministries.; Protectionists.; Rats, and Ratting.; The Heir to the British Throne always in Opposition.; Legitimacy and Government.; "The Fourth Estate."; Writing for the Press.; Shorthand Writers.; The Worth of Popular Opinion.; Machiavelism.; Free-speaking.; Speakers of the Houses of Parliament.; The National Conscience.; "The Nation of Shopkeepers."; Results of Revolutions. Worth of a Republic."Safe Men."; Church Preferment.; Peace Statesmanship.; The Burial of Sir John Moore.; The Ancestors of Washington.; The "Star-spangled Banner" of the United States.; Ancestry of President Adams.; The Irish Union.; The House of Bonaparte.; Invasion of England projected by Napoleon I.; Fate of the Duc d'Enghien.; Last Moments of Mr. Pitt.; What drove George the Third mad.; Predictions of the Downfal of Napoleon I.; Wellington predicts the Peninsular Campaign.; The Battle of Waterloo.; Wellington's Defence of the Waterloo Campaign.; Lord Castlereagh at the Congress of Vienna. The Cato-street Conspiracy. Money Panic of 1832.; A Great Sufferer by Revolutions.; Origin of the Anti-Corn-Law League.; Wellington's Military Administration.; Gustavus III. of Sweden.; Fall of Louis-Philippe.; The Chartists in 1848.; Revival of the French Emperorship.; French Coup d'Etat Predictions.; Statesmanship of Lord Melbourne.; Ungraceful Observance.; The Partition of Poland.; The Invasion of England.[2]; What a Militia can do.; White-Boys.; Naval Heroes.; How Russia is bound to Germany.; Count Cavour's Estimate of Napoleon III.; The Mutiny at the Nore. Catholic Emancipation and Sir Robert Peel. The House of Coburg.; A Few Years of the World's Changes.; Noteworthy Pensions.; Progress of Civilization.; How the Earth was peopled.; Revelations of Geology.; The Stone Age.; What are Celtes?; Roman Civilization of Britain.; Roman Roads and British Railways.; Domestic Life of the Saxons.; Love of Freedom.; The Despot deceived.; True Source of Civilization.; The Lowest Civilization.; Why do we shake Hands?; Various Modes of Salutation.; What is Comfort?; What is Luxury?; What do we know of Life?; The truest Patriot the greatest Hero. The old Philosophers. Glory of the Past.; Wild Oats.; How Shyness spoils Enjoyment.; "Custom, the Queen of the World."; Ancient Guilds and Modern Benefit Clubs.; The Oxford Man and the Cambridge Man.; "Great Events from Little Causes spring."; Great Britain on the Map of the World.; Ancient and Modern London.; Potatoes the national food of the Irish.; Irish-speaking Population.; Our Colonial Empire.; The English People.; Dignities and Distinctions.; Worth of Heraldry.; Heralds' College.; The Shamrock.; Irish Titles of Honour.; The Scotch Thistle.; King and Queen. |
일반주제명 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries. REFERENCE --Encyclopedias. Encyclopedias and dictionaries. |
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