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Origins of the English Jury. Originally published: Jersey City: Frederick D. Linn, [1875]. x, 388 pp. First published in England in 1852, Forsyth's History of Trial by Jury is the first full-scale historical account of the rise and growth of the jury system in England. Highly regarded, this book went through 37 editions. The first American edition, the source of this reprint, adds a number of notes and corrections to American references in pre...

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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit-Trees, In Which a New Method of Pruning and Training Is Fully Described, to Which Is Added, a New and Improved Dwarf Peaches and Nectarines planted in the pits of forcing-houses should be trained horizontally, in which mode they will produce much more fruit than when they are trained fan-fashion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and cla...

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Excerpt from History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena, Vol. 3 of 3: From the Letters and Journals of the Late Lieut.-Gen. Sir Hudson Lowe, Official Documents Not Before Made Public Nata - At page 96 of vol. I. It is stated that the Maltese regiment at Capri behaved with pusillanimity, and were taken prisoners, but it ought to have been added, that Major Hammill, who commanded that regiment, refused to deliver up his sword to the ene...

Excerpt from History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena, Vol. 2 of 3: From the Letters and Journals of the Late Lieut.-Gen. Sir Hudson Lowe, Official Documents Not Before Made Public A voluminous correspondence now commenced and many interviews took place between Las Cases and Sir Hudson Lowe. The former says in his Journal, referring to this period, that a state of inactivity and passiveness did not agree with the nature of his dispo...

Excerpt from The Novels and Novelists: Of the Eighteenth Century, in Illustration of the Manners and Morals of the AgeFacts from other sources. But I have not thought it necessary to adhere strictly and for mally to this programme, and have therefore introduced sketches of the plots and characters of some of the most interesting and once widely popular novels, which for various reasons remain practically unknown to the great mass of readers of...

Excerpt from Idylls and Lyrics "Thou shalt cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of the atonement shall the trumpet sound throughout all your land." - Levit. xxv. 9. "How soft the music of these village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet." - Cowper. I. They sing the lays Of golden days, But sweetest tongue could never Tell half the bliss Of a day like this, Alt...

Excerpt from Essays: Critical and Narrative I have collected in this volume some of the Articles which at various times I have contributed to different periodicals. It is, perhaps, pardonable in an author to wish to rescue a few of his anonymous productions from the wave of oblivion which so soon passes over ephemeral literature. I have added one or two Lectures, which I have delivered at several places. Whether the Essays which I have here r...

Excerpt from The Martyrdom of Kelavane: A Poem The life of Kelavane, a princess of Georgia, who Buffered martyrdom during the reign of Abbas the Great, is one of the many instances of truth that is "stranger than fiction." Her story is told by that enlightened and instructive traveller, Chardin, who visited Persia and the Caucasus in the years 1670-72, and whose authority is uniformly respected by subsequent travellers and historians. He give...

Excerpt from Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero My object has been to exhibit Cicero not only as an orator and a politician, but as he was in private life surrounded by his family and friends - speaking and acting like other men in the ordinary affairs of home. And the more we accustom ourselves to regard the ancients as persons of like passions as ourselves, and familiarise ourselves with the idea of them as fathers, husbands, friends, and gentle...

Excerpt from A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit-Trees: In Which a New Method of Pruning and Training Is Fully Described, To Which Is Added, a New and Improved Edition of "Observations on the Diseases, Defects, and Injuries, in All Kinds of Fruits and Forest Trees:" With an Account of a Particular Method of Cu That Your Majefiy may long live to patronize the Arts and Sciences, and to reign over a loyal, brave. About the Publish...

Excerpt from The Slavonic Provinces South of the Danube: A Sketch of Their History and Present State in Relation to the Ottoman Porte Paft hiflory and prefent Rate of the Slavonic Provinces of Turkey, and the information to be got is fcattered in (0 many volumes - molt of them in foreign languages - that I thought it might be ufeful to bring the falient points within the compafs of a ibort notice, and thus afiift in forming a correct judgment...