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Excerpt from The Ballads of Ireland, Vol. 1Periods of great excitement are unfavourable to the de velopment of letters, or the progress of civilization. History teems with illustrations of this truth. After the impetus given to English literature by Chaucer, its progress wasfcompletely checked by the civil contentions which succeeded. The Wars of the Roses threw English poetry back for two hundred years. We almost lose sight of it from the fou...
Excerpt from The Ballads of Ireland, Vol. 2: Collected and EditedFor beauty and bravery Cathan was known, And the long ¿owing conlin he wore in Tyrone, The sweetest of singers and harpers was he.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally ...
Excerpt from A Memoir of Prof. Benjamin Francis Hayes, D.D: With Brief Extracts From His WritingsEjohn Hayes, grandfather of Benjamin Francis Hayes, was born at Barrington, New Hampshire. He was one of a family of eight children, and was left fatherless when nine years of age. Subsequently he was appren ticed to his uncle in the adjoining town of Dover. When John was fourteen years old his uncle was drafted for the Continental Army, to serve i...
Excerpt from Sociology and Ethics: The Facts of Social Life as the Source of Solutions for the Theoretical and Practical Problems of EthicsThis essay skirts the entrance to vistas which 'it does not penetrate. But it suffices to convey the main idea of _sociology as the scientific ethics, an idea which It'hope will fructify in many minds. Mo'st of the manuscript has lain in a drawer for years, other years and the labor of other minds must be e...
Excerpt from Introduction to the Study of SociologyThis is an elementary textbook with the limitations which that fact implies. It is intended for the use of classes and also for general readers who desire a clearer view of the field of thought designated by the much used word sociology.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of...
Excerpt from The Ballads of Ireland, Vol. 2: Collected and Edited
For beauty and bravery Cathan was known, And the long ¿owing conlin he wore in Tyrone, The sweetest of singers and harpers was he.
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Excerpt from A Memoir of Prof. Benjamin Francis Hayes, D.D: With Brief Extracts From His Writings
Ejohn Hayes, grandfather of Benjamin Francis Hayes, was born at Barrington, New Hampshire. He was one of a family of eight children, and was left fatherless when nine years of age. Subsequently he was appren ticed to his uncle in the adjoining town of Dover. When John was fourteen years old his uncle was drafted for the Continental Army, to serve...
The Love Scrolls is a non-sequential rhyming epic series, and The Unsearchable Title, its next work is a love story for the ages, one that might just define our age. One man of faith shall be caught between two worlds, one in which he has given his heart and one in which he has given his soul and he soon will be torn between them. Seeing the signs that foretell the end of the world, a prelude to the rapture, he finds himself in a race for time...
Excerpt from The Ballads of Ireland, Vol. 1
"If you would find the ancient gentry of Ireland, " said Swift, "you must seek them on the coal-quay, or in the Liberties." The ancient minstrelsy of Ireland has shared the fate of her gentry, you must seek for it in the peasant's cabin or in the dusty corners of the libraries of Europe. This parallel is by no means surprising. The common fate of our ancient gentry and our ancient minstrelsy is perf...
Excerpt from Sociology and Ethics: The Facts of Social Life as the Source of Solutions for the Theoretical and Practical Problems of Ethics
Hope that they will nevertheless find the treatment as a whole not destructive but decidedly constructive. If I am somewhat venturesome in handling the accepted be liefs, it is not for mere love of adventure, nor from dis regard of the values affected, but because I hold the theory that in the end thought...
Excerpt from Introduction to the Study of SociologyAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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 ballads of Ireland is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1869.
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The ballads of Ireland is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1869.
Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes the...
