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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from A Life of Archbishop LaudIn making quotations from old books or manuscripts, it is a question whether the better course is to give them as they stand, or in modern spelling and phraseology. Some critics object to the former as wearisome, others to the latter as too commonly inaccurate. I have adopted both, but, for the most part, I have given the literal rendering, partly because the English of the period with which I had to deal ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Chisel, Pen and Poignard, or Benvenuto Cellini: His Times and His ContemporariesThis book must doubtless risk the criticism that, if there were one man above all others con cerning whom there was no need for anything more to be written, that man was Benvenuto Cellini, wh'ose autobiography was pronounced by Horace Walpole to be more amusing than any novel.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare an...

Excerpt from The Adventures of King James II of EnglandThe following pages contain an attempt to demonstrate that the life of James II. Was chie¿y remarkable for the number and variety of his ad ventures. The historical and political aspects of that life are here but slightly noticed, and only so far as seemed necessary to make the whole coherent.The Author wishes to express his gratitude to Abbot Gasquet for the admirable Introduction, to Mr....

Excerpt from The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck: A Scandal of the 17th CenturyThe curious case of Lady Purbeck is here pre sented without embellishment, much as it has been found in Old books and Old manuscripts, chie¿y at the Record Office and at the British Museum. Readers must not expect to find any well - drawn characters, fine descriptions, local colour, or dramatic talent, in these pages, on each of which Mr. Dry-as-dust will be encountere...

Excerpt from The Life of a Conspirator: Being a Biography of Sir Everard DigbyThe chief difficulty in writing a life of Sir Everard Digby is to steer clear of the alternate dangers of perverting it into a mere history of the Gunpowder Plot, on the one hand, and of failing to say enough of that great conspiracy to illustrate his conduct, on the other. Again, in dealing with that plot, to con demn all concerned in it may seem like kicking a dead...

Excerpt from Pryings Among Private Papers, Chiefly of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesThis volume is not strictly speaking a book. It can scarcely be even called so much as a piece of book-making. It is a mere collection of extracts. If few should care to read much of it, perhaps something more than a few may take it up and glance at some of its anecdotes of the past relating to. Matters in which they happen to feel an interest.About t...

Excerpt from The Life of Sir Kenelm DigbyJames I. And the projected Spanish match - Objections from Puritans in England and the Pope in Rome - Sir John Digby sent to Spain - He is made Lord Digby - Death of Philip III. - Digby made Earl of Bristol and sent as ambassador to Spain - Bristol invites Kenelm to Madrid - On his way thither Kenelm makes the acquaintance of a Brach man - Kenelm's heterodoxy and pessimism - He confides his trouble A sp...

Excerpt from Rochester and Other Literary Rakes of the Court of Charles IIIt will not be pretended in these pages that this little clique of writing and rhyming companions of Charles II. Had an important in¿uence on English literature, yet they probably exercised upon it an in¿uence of some sort, and their appearance in a Court abandoned to pleasure was somewhat pheno menal.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of ...

Excerpt from Rochester and Other Literary Rakes of the Court of Charles IIIt will not be pretended in these pages that this little clique of writing and rhyming companions of Charles II. Had an important in¿uence on English literature, yet they probably exercised upon it an in¿uence of some sort, and their appearance in a Court abandoned to pleasure was somewhat pheno menal.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of ...

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The Life of Sir Kenelm Digby is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. 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 publi...