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Excerpt from A Collection of Engraved Portraits: Exhibited at the Opening of the New Library and Museum of the Corporation of London, November, 1872, Accompanied by Biographies, and With an Introduction 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 technolog...

Excerpt from A Collection of Engraved Portraits, Vol. 2There be that tell me that there is a certain cunning fellow in Scotland called George Monck, who is said to lye in wait there to introduce Charles Stuart. I pray you, use your diligence to apprehend him, and send him up to me.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 im...

Focusing on the steel works at Duquesne, Pennsylvania, James D. Rose demonstrates the pivotal role played by a nonunion form of employee representation usually dismissed as a flimsy front for management interests.The early New Deal set in motion two versions of workplace representation that battled for supremacy: company-sponsored employee representation plans (ERPs) and independent trade unionism. At Duquesne, the cause of the unskilled, hour...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

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The Devil's Backbone (2001) is a Gothic film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, 2006). Studying The Devil's Backbone explores the narrative of the film in relation to central concerns, such as genre, theme, iconography, representation, and film language.

Excerpt from Untrodden Spain, and Her Black Country, Vol. 1 of 2: Being Sketches of the Life and Character, of the Spaniard of the Interior IT is related of a certain eminent lawyer, that when, being retained for an arduous and extraordinary case, the solicitor handed to him an unusually large amount of manuscript, explaining that the greater portion of the writing consisted of his own (the solicitor's) observations, he asked, Where do your o...

Excerpt from The State of Protestantism in Germany, Described: Being the Substance of Four Discourses Preached Before the University of Cambridge in 1825 The Advertisement to the First Edition which will be found below, will sufficiently explain the circumstances under which the following work first appeared. In the present edition I have consulted my own convenience, and, I trust, that of my readers, by changing the form and order of the wor...

Excerpt from A New General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 4 of 12 Bringa-della, the last king of Pegu, who conquered Ava, and m 1754, put to death Douipdi, an old man, the last emperor of its ancient dynasty. In the following wars he lost his cap1tal, Pegu, and became the prisoner of Alom pra, chief of the Birmans. For some time his captivity' was mild, but the inhabitants of Pegu breaking out into rebellion against their conquerors, he was tr...

Excerpt from Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 6 of 12: Projected and Partly Arranged C A PE L lo, (bianca, ) called also Buonaventuri, (which was the name of her first husband, ) was born in 1540. She was the daughter of Bartolomeo Capello, a nobleman and senator of Venice, and is represented by the French Biography as a monster of iniquity, upon the authority of the Jesuit Angiolo Gal luzzi, who lived a century after her time, and whose partial...

Excerpt from A Sermon: Preached at Chelmsford on Friday, July 25, 1834, at the Visitation of the Right Hon. and Right Rev. The Lord Bishop of London The same word of life which impresses on the Christian, at every page, the necessity of lowliness of mind, both on account of his unworthiness, and because of the deadly and destructive nature of pride, reminds him, nevertheless, as clearly, if not as constantly, that he is to shine like a light ...

Excerpt from The Study of Church History Recommended: Being the Terminal Divinity Lecture, Delivered in Bishop Cosins's Library, April XV, MDCCCXXXIV, Before the Right Rev. The Dean, the Chapter, and the University of DurhamAnd, on this topic, let me cite the simple words of one whom I cannot pass unremembered to-day. If he says, if the historian tells us the good deeds of the good, we are excited to imitate them, if the bad deeds of the bad, ...

Excerpt from A New General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 1 of 12 Aaron, (isaac, ) a Jew of the Greek empire, travelled much in the twelfth century, and was in the service of his imperial master, Manuel Comnenus. But he was a knave, who betrayed that mas ter, and suffered for it. Aaron, (pietro, ) a Florentine monk of the sixteenth century, wrote two or three odd works on music. One was called I] Toscanello della Musica. Libri Tre. Ven. 1523,...

Excerpt from A New General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 9 of 12 Jephson, (Robert, ) a dramatic writer, born in Ireland in 1736. He entered early into the army, and attained the rank of captain in the 73d regiment of foot on the Irish establishment. He became acquainted with William Gerard Hamilton, Dr. Johnson, Burke, Charles Townsend, Garrick, Goldsmith, &c., He afterwards became master of the horse to lord viscount Townsend, then appointed...

Excerpt from A New General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 5 of 12 Brahe was a man of very powerful under standing, and an accurate observer, he never could bring himself to embrace the simple and rational system of Copernicus, but framed an hypothesis of his own, called after him the Tychonic system, which is essentially that of Ptolemy, though framed to meet some objections. It was, however, so embarrassed and perplexed, that few admitted it....