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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Collections in the Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1878 The arrangement of the natural orders in the Materia Medica portion of the Museum is that adopted in Bentley's Manual of Botany. The names printed in italics and inclosed in parentheses are the common or vernacular names of the specimens or of the plants from which they are derived. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hund...

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Excerpt from In Watchings Often: Addresses to Nurses and Others I have been asked to write a few words of Preface to these addresses. I should naturally have declined to do so, as such words cannot be needed from anyone, much less from me. Canon Holmes's own spiritual experience, and his life as Chaplain to the late great Bishop of Oxford (Dr. Stubbs), to his excellent predecessor, Bishop Mackarness, and to the good Bishop of Cape Town, are a...

Excerpt from Prayer and Action: Or the Three Notable Duties This book was originally issued under the title Prayer a: Practice, but as that title had already been used, it is now reissu as Prayer and Action. 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 techn...

Excerpt from A Ramble Among the Musicians of Germany: With Remarks Upon the Church Music As the preface to a little book of this kind will denote what Shakespear calls "a foregone conclusion, " and appear to the reader like the summing up of the judge, and the verdict of the jury, before the cause is tried, I must beg that (unless he be of unusual faith and trustingness) he withhold his concurrence with the opinions here expressed of German m...

Excerpt from Catalogue of the Hanbury Herbarium, in the Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain In taking steps to carry out this wish, I have heard many regrets expressed by the scientific friends of my late brother, that there should be any division of his Pharmaceutical collection, which being unique and sui generis, would, it is considered, greatly lose in interest by being divided and scattered. I share this opinion, and be...

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Edward Holmes, a schoolfellow of Keats, provides the first complete account of Mozart, based upon Mozart's own letters and memoirs. In this biography, written long before the significance of Mozart's work was fully realized, Holmes captures his struggles, his influence on art and the brilliant reputations that surrounded him.

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Published in 1845 as the first adequate account of Mozart to appear in English, Holmes' biography also was the first to be based upon Mozart's letters and the memoirs written following the composer's death in 1791. Writing just before vast changes would occur, Holmes describes music as it must have appeared to the cultured and liberal minds of his era.

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Edward Holmes' 1845 biography of Mozart was the first to be published in English.