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Joseph Rogers, M. D. - Reminiscences of a workhouse medical officer is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1889.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...

Excerpt from Six Centuries of Work and Wages: The History of English LabourWith few exceptions, the anglo-saxon lords were de graded, and assumed a lower social position, or were wholly dispossessed, and sought their fortunes in other countries. But the higher social element of the residual English was still strong enough to be useful to the sovereign in an emergency, and the lower retained and clung to their local institutions. It was therefo...

Excerpt from The Free Trade Policy of the Liberal Party: A Speech Delivered at Pendleton, September 30, 1868ON Wednesday evening, September 3oth, 1868, at the Pendleton Club, Charlestown, Henry Rawson, Esq., in the chair, Professor J. E. Thorold rogers spoke as follows upon the free trade policy of the Liberal party.Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, - There are, perhaps, several reasons why at the present crisis the attention, not of you only, but a...

Excerpt from Education in Oxford: Its Method, Its Aids, and Its RewardsThe author of the following pages has more than one purpose in what he has written, and hopes to attract the attention of more than one class of readers.First of all, he wishes to give information to that very large body of persons who may think of placing their sons in the University of Oxford, but who know nothing but what is very vague about the studies of the university...

Excerpt from The British Citizen, His Rights and Privileges: A Short HistoryBut the early promise of these nations passed away. The genius and the free institutions of Italy had a very short duration. The manu factures of Flanders and southern France were well-nigh extirpated. The parliaments of Spain and France were silenced, and the liberties of the people were violently reft from them. The trading Cities and markets of the Middle Ages, the ...

Excerpt from Social EconomyThe object of this little book is to give instruction in the rudiments of social science, and to do so in such language and in such a form as will make the subject clear to the youngest students, The author has stated what he has to say in the shape of a series of lessons, each of which should be carefully read and understood before the pupil passes on to the next. It is hoped that when he has read through the whole,...

The British Citizen - his rights and privileges - A short history is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885.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 a...

Excerpt from Six Centuries of Work and Wages, Vol. 1: The History of English LabourThe economical history Of England is illustrated with Singular clearness towards the end Of the eleventh century, by that great survey Of the whole kingdom, with the exception Of the four northern counties and part Of Lancashire, which is known as Domesday Book. This unique and invaluable record, which has never yet been adequately analysed, is a register Of lan...

Excerpt from Historical Gleanings: A Series of Sketches, Wiklif, Laud, Wilkes, Horne TookeThe Essays contained in this Second Series were written with the same purpose as those which have been already published, and on the same plan. They are lectures, in which it has been my, object to state the social facts of the time in which the individual, whose history is handled, took part in public business. Hence, as before, each person is introduced...

Excerpt from A Manual of Political EconomyThe Delegates of the Clarendon Press, having deter mined on issuing a series of manuals intended for educational purposes, have entrusted me with the duty of supplying a short treatise on Political Economy. The several topics discussed in this little work have formed the material for certain courses of lectures which I have given during some years in London and Oxford, though they are presented in the ...

Excerpt from Economic Interpretation of HistoryThe lectures contained in this volume were delivered in the hall of the author's College (worcester, Oxford) in his capacity as lecturer in Political Economy to that Society. They were open to all members of the university, and were very numerously attended. I mention this, because, being printed as they were read, the fact may explain or excuse the various local allusions which they con tain, and...

Excerpt from A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 7: From the Year After the Oxford Parliament (1259) To the Commencement of the Continental War (1793), 1703-1793, Part IIVol. Iii. Pp. 76 - 114. 2 Unless the company called King George's Salt is the same as the good ship called Royal George.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book i...

Excerpt from A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 7: From the Year After the Oxford Parliament, 1259, to the Commencement of the Continental War, 1793, Compiled Entirely From Original and Contemporaneous Records, Part I, 1708-1793AS it has been decided to bring the Histom (y Agriculture and Prices to an end with the seventh volume, which is now laid before the public, some apology for the incomplete condition of the work is nec...

Excerpt from A Complete Collection of the Protests of the Lords, 1826-1874, Vol. 3: With Historical IntroductionsWith such a statement of the nature of the calamity thus solemnly laid before the public, I must think they had a right to expect that Parliament would devise some immediate remedy for the evil to which it was held to be competent to administer a corrective - and that it would at least abstain from encouraging that portion of the ev...

Excerpt from A Complete Collection of the Protests of the Lords, 1826-1874, Vol. 3: With Historical IntroductionsWith such a statement of the nature of the calamity thus solemnly laid before the public, I must think they had a right to expect that Parliament would devise some immediate remedy for the evil to which it was held to be competent to administer a corrective - and that it would at least abstain from encouraging that portion of the ev...

Excerpt from A Complete Collection of the Protests of the Lords, Vol. 1: With Historical Introductions, 1624-1741Henry VIII The list of the Lords heads the entry for the day, and from 1514 the attendances are registered. The prominence given to the names of Lords is due to the fact that attendance on the business of the House was compulsory, fines being leviable on absentees without leave, and proxies being re quired from those who could not a...

Excerpt from A Complete Collection of the Protests of the Lords, Vol. 2: With Historical Introductions, 1741-1825Of Chesterfield, who urged with great emphasis that the object of creating these eleven new regiments, with 362 commissions, was bribery at the ensuing election. The motion was as follows, That an humble address be presented to his Majesty, humbly representing to his Majesty, that this House cannot conceive the intended augmentation...

Excerpt from A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 4: From the Year After the Oxford Parliament (1259) To the Commencement of the Continental War (1793)The material progress of England was for a time ao companied by great advances in political liberty and by the noble energy of the Commons in Parliament. The action of the House of Commons in the first half of the fifteenth century supplied the precedents on which the liberties o...

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