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Excerpt from 'Mann' and Manners at the Court of Florence, 1740-1786, Vol. 2 of 2: Founded on the Letters of Horace Mann to Horace Walpole I forgot to tell you that the 3000 Tuscans are to take their oath to the empress-queen, at Lintz, and to enter into her pay and service.' 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 im...

Excerpt from 'Mann' and Manners at the Court of Florence, 1740-1786, Vol. 1 of 2: Founded on the Letters of Horace Mann to Horace Walpole Deaths of Cardinals - The Duc De Penthiévre - Sir Horace Mann, Bart - The Margravine of Bareith - A Curious Game - The Margrave of Bareith - The Kings of Prussia and England Mann's Arms - French Guests - Use made of Martyrs' Bones English, departing - Character of Sir Horace Mann - Pretender. About the Pub...

Excerpt from Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover, Vol. 2 of 3 The queen's in¿uence was ever stronger than the favourite's credit. Except a barony, a red riband, and a good place for her brother, Sir John Hobart, Earl of Buckinghamshire, Lady Suffolk could succeed but in very subordinate recommendations. Her own acquisitions were so moderate, that, besides Marble Hill, which cost the king ten or twelve thousand pounds, her c...

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A memoir about the recovery from alcoholism, habitual drug use and mental illness, from broadcaster, and co-founder and editor of The Quietus website, John Doran.

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Excerpt from Saints and Sinners, Vol. 2 of 2: Or, in Church and About ItIn those old days an abbot was a princely person, especially reverenced, and scrupulously obeyed. When he passed by, all inferior brethren rose and saluted their chief. At night it was no less a person than his own chaplain who carried the lantern before him No one could walk by his side except to mass, and no man ever dared sit by the side of a lord abbot without in vitat...

Excerpt from In and About Drury Lane, Vol. 2 of 2: And Other Papers, Reprinted From the Pages of the Temple Bar Magazine But for Pepys and Evelyn we should know but little of the social life of the seventeenth century. A host of letter writers - Walpole, Mrs. Delany, and Mrs. Montagu, at the head of them - may be said to have photographed the next century for us. Lord Malmesbury, Lord Auckland, and some others succeeded, and now we are beginn...

Excerpt from Habits and Men: With Remnants of Record Touching the Makers of Both Why in this robe dost thou appear? Wouldst thou a white most perfect show, Thou must at all no garment wear: Thou wilt seem much whiter so Than winter when 'tis clad with snow. 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...

Excerpt from Monarchs Retired From Business, Vol. 1 of 2 Whatever may be the origin of the term (the Latin form Of which, Rex, is from the Hebrew Roach, a chief, from which is derived Rayon), the first man who wore it is said to have been Shem, who is identified, by persons of more than ordinary acuteness, with Melchizedek, King of Salem. There is probably a truer, certainly a prettier, legend, which makes of Nimrod the first King who ever wo...

Excerpt from Monarchs Retired From Business, Vol. 2 of 2Some of these, who lived to know and see that their sovereign power had passed into the keeping of a successor, may come under our notice as unsceptred monarchs. The detail of their conduct belongs to our subject and we may say at once, that in no one case was that conduct marked by dignity.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find ...

Excerpt from A Lady of the Last Century In the year 1809, Mr. Matthew Montagu published the first two of four volumes of letters of his aunt, Elizabeth Montagu. He was not only her nephew, he was also her adopted son and her executor. On the 5th of December in that year, the celebrated statesman, William Windham, was reading those volumes, "in the evening, up-stairs, " and he subsequently recorded the following judgment of them in his diary: ...

Excerpt from Table Traits With Something on ThemRoe, and finally there was much more Of the first than there was Of the last. One summer eve, the husband, in a fit Of frantic jealousy, assaulted his wife so ferociously, that he left her insen sible on the threshold Of their house, and threatened never' again to keep up a me'nage with so incorrigible a partner.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classi...