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Excerpt from Twelve Bad Men: Original Studies of Eminent Scoundrels by Various HandsSociety is apt to ¿atter itself that exceptional talents are denied to persons who indulge in the worst forms of depravity. But it can hardly be denied that some of the individuals Whose exploits we have recorded, from materials which have hitherto been often completely unexplored, were men of really great ability. All Of them attained to eminence in ill-doing,...

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bTitle:/b The Story of Prince Hildebrand and the Princess Ida ... With 110 illustrations by the author.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more...

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Excerpt from In Praise of Oxford, Vol. 2: An Anthology in Prose and Verse, Life and Manners It only remains to make the acknowledgements most rightly cus tomary in all anthologies. 'the booksellers of London, ' said Dr. Johnson, 'are generous, liberal-minded men, ' and the editors again beg to acknowledge most gratefully the ready kindness with which the publishers have permitted them to draw from books still pro tected by copyright. They the...

Excerpt from The Age of Shakespeare, Vol. 1: 1579-1631 The Lyrical Miscellanies Robert Greene Thomas Lodge - Nicholas Breton - Thomas Campion - Richard Barnfield - Shakespeare's Poems. 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 technology to digitally reco...

Excerpt from Twelve Bad Men: Original Studies of Eminent Scoundrels by Various Hands Frontispiece. Simon, Lord Lovat, counting the clans on his fingers. "Drawn from the life and etch'd in aquafortis by William Hogarth." Published on August 25, 1746. The original of this famous etching, a sketch in oils, is now in the National Portrait Gallery. It is said that, when the plate was finished, a bookseller offered its weight in gold for it. The i...

Excerpt from The Age of Shakespeare, Vol. 2: 1579-1631, DramaLove's Labour's Lost The Comedy of Errors Two Gentlemen of Verona - Richard I I I -richard I I - T itns Androm'cns.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 reconstruct the wor...

Excerpt from In Praise of Oxford: An Anthology in Prose and Verse The present work owes its origin to the suggestion of one of those gifted friends whose day dreams sometimes take the form of book-titles. Travelling upon the London and North-Western Railway one evening in the summer of 1904, he saw the words 'In Praise of Oxford, ' in letters of gold upon the horizon somewhere above Harrow Weald Common. For some weeks after this I devoted all...

Excerpt from The John Rylands Library, Manchester: An Analytical Catalogue of the Contents of the Two Editions of an English Garner, Compiled by Edward Arber (1877-97), And Rearranged Under the Editorship of Thomas Seccombe (1903-04) This analysis was made for insertion in our own cumulative slip catalogue, and consequently follows our own cataloguing practice, which may be found to differ in some unimportant points from the Cataloguing Rules...

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