439 research outputs found
Christ in the clouds coming to judgment: or, The dissolution of all things [electronic resource] : Recommended to every person's perusal. By Rev. Mr. Isaac Ambrose, Minister of the Gospel.
No full textExtracted from the chapter on Dooms-day in: Ambrose, Isaac. Prima, media, et ultima. Some editions name "Dr. Bates" (perhaps William Bates, 1625-1699) as author, and several editions are entered under the surname Bates in the National Union Catalog.Date of publication supplied by Evans.Signatures: [A]p4s Bp4s (B4 verso blank)Evans,Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from Library of Congress
Arthur William Upfield: a biography
No full textThis dissertation is an exhaustive account of the life and work of Arthur William Upfield (1890-1964). It is presented as a critical biography and narrates the life of the writer, in his socio-cultural milieu, from birth. It also positions Upfield as a writer who dealt with issues of Aboriginality at a time when this was a singularly polemical subject. My work is informed by the theory of Zygmunt Bauman and others and is posited in the context of late-modern biography theory.
English-born, Upfield arrived in Australia in 1911 and took work in the bush, serving overseas with the Australian army at the outbreak of World War I and marrying an Australian army nurse in Egypt. Returning with his wife and son to Australia in 1921 he intermittently carried his swag until he was employed patrolling the Western Australian number 1 rabbit-proof fence for three years to 1931. By that time he had published four novels, including two crime novels featuring his fictional creation, the part-Aboriginal, part-European, Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte ('Bony'), arguably the first fully-developed character in Australian popular fiction.
Leaving the fence, Upfield settled with his family in Perth and wrote full-time until joining the Melbourne Herald in 1933. Retrenched, he resumed career writing to be further interrupted by a war-time intelligence posting in 1939. In 1943 the first Bony mysteries were published in America, where Upfield's critical success was maintained until his death. In 1945 he left his wife for Jessica Uren, to whom he remained devoted.
Upfield's in all twenty-nine Bony novels, many of which have been translated across eleven languages, afforded him notable success both at home and abroad, in good part due to his descriptive gifts and the uniqueness of his fictional character, the part-Aboriginal Bony
Paley, William: science and rhetoric in his natural theology
No full textWilliam Paley's Natural Theology is probably the nineteenth century's most well- known design argument. As such an influential book, it is almost expected that twentieth century intellectual historians should at least pay a footnote to it. In midst of all these studies about the impact of Natural Theology upon the nineteenth century, one key fact is forgotten: Natural Theology and its sources were written in the eighteenth century. It is the goal of this thesis to demonstrate that Paley's design argument must be compared to the intellectual climate of that time period. Chapters 1 and 2 outline the rhetorical argument and the tools that Paley used to persuade his polite eighteenth century audience. The majority of scientific sources and examples he used were well-known names and therefore implicitly contributed to the believability of his argument. Accordingly, chapters 3 and 4 investigate why Paley's scientific sources added credibility to Natural Theology. Chapters 5 and 6 examine the actual scientific data that Paley turned into examples for his design argument. Setting the rhetoric aside, what was the actual scientific picture communicated by his examples? In these chapters, we find that even though Paley argues against random change, he does support a morphological telic change—the development of a supplemental part based on a pre-existing, fixed body part. As every chapter of this thesis unfolds, it will become more apparent that Paley was an intellectual heir to the eighteenth century. He wrote in a polite manner and employed a body of standard eighteenth century natural philosophical knowledge. It is this context that must be addressed and seriously considered when studying the nineteenth century intellectual legacy of Natural Theology
On the Sherlocks, Jane Coleman and County Kildare in the Eighteen Forties
No full textIn the late 1980s and early 1990s the author acquired about 30,000 letters written mainly in the 1840s. These pertained to estates throughout Ireland managed by the firm of James Robert Stewart and Joseph Kincaid, hereafter denoted SK. Until the letters – called the SK correspondence in what follows – became the author’s property, they had not seen light of day since the 1840s. Addressed mainly to the firm’s office in Dublin, they were written by landlords, tenants, the partners in SK, local agents, etc. After about 200 years in operation as a land agency, the firm in which members of the Stewart family were the principal partners – Messrs J. R. Stewart & Son(s) from the mid- 1880s onwards – ceased operations in the mid-1980s. Since 1994 the author has been researching the SK correspondence of the 1840s. It gives many new insights into economic and social conditions in Ireland during the decade of the great famine, and into the operation of Ireland’s most important land agency during those years. It is intended ultimately to publish details on several of the estates managed by SK in a study more comprehensive than the present article, in book form. The proposed title is Landlords, tenants, famine: business of an Irish land agency in the 1840s, a draft of which has now been completed. A majority of the letters in that study are on themes some of which one might expect - rents, distraint (seizure of assets in lieu of rent); ‘voluntary’ surrender of land in return for ‘compensation’ upon quitting quietly; formal ejectment (a matter of last resort on estates managed by SK); landlordassisted emigration (on a scale much more extensive than most historians of Ireland in the 1840s appear to believe); petitions from tenants; complaints by tenants, both about other tenants and about local agents; landlord-financed and other relief of distress both before and during the great famine; major works of improvement (on almost all of the estates managed by SK which have been investigated in detail in the draft book); applications by SK, on behalf of landlords, for government loans to finance improvements; recommendations of agricultural advisers hired by SK, etc. Thus, most of the SK correspondence is about aspects of estate management. But the firm of SK was not only a manager of land. The correspondence reveals only two estates in Kildare, each of them relatively small, managed by SK in the 1840s. These were the lands of the Sherlocks near Naas and of Jane Coleman in the Kilcullen district. The correspondence on these properties differs substantively from most of those discussed in detail in the draft of Landlords, tenants, famine: first, it is relatively small in quantity, and secondly, it contains relatively little on the core aspects of estate management indicated above. Much of that on the Sherlocks focuses on misfortunes among family members, while the correspondence on Jane Coleman highlights the benevolence of that proprietor.
Christ in the clouds coming to judgment
No full text[4], 20 p.Half title: Dr. Bates on Christ's coming to judgment.Extracted from the chapter on Dooms-day in Ambrose, Isaac. Prima, media, et ultima. Some editions name "Dr. Bates" (perhaps William Bates, 1625-1699) as author, and several editions are entered under the surname Bates in the National Union Catalogue
[Isaac N. Johnston?].
No full textThree quarter length portrait of man with pencil mustache wearing Union Army uniform, coat partially unbuttoned, officer insignia on shoulders. Isaac Johnston served in the 6th Kentucky Infantry Regiment.; Title from accompanying typed note: Daguerreotype [i.e. tintype] of Capt. I.H. [i.e. I.N.] Johnston, author of "Four Months in Libby Prison, 1864.
Letter to Lemuel Shaw from the Massachusetts Senate Judiciary Committee, April 7, 1854
No full textThis letter accompanied an Order from the Massachusetts Senate asking Lemuel Shaw to explain why no Supreme Judicial Court decisions had been published between 1851 and 1854
The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq: revised and corrected by the author. ...
No full text5v. ; 12⁰.Isaac Bickerstaff = Steele, Addison and others.First published as 'The tatler'.vols. 1-4 contain a reprint of 271 numbers originally published in folio three times a week from 12 April 1709 to 2 January 1710/11.Vol.5 is entitled: 'The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq; By W. H-n Esq; Dr. S-t, A. H-y Esq; deceased; and several other hands. ..', with the imprint: London, printed for John Morphew, 1712, and contains a reprint of 52 numbers, from 13 January 1710/11 to 19 May 1711, being the continuation of Steele's paper edited by William Harrison, assisted by Jonathan Swift.Vertical chain lines.Reproduction of original from the British Library.Teerink-Scouten, 15 (this ed. "not seen")English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT123917.Electronic data. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Page image (PNG). Digitized image of the microfilm version produced in Woodbridge, CT by Research Publications, 1982-2002 (later known as Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of the Gale Group)
The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq: revised and corrected by the author. ...
No full text5v. ; 12⁰.Isaac Bickerstaff = Steele, Addison and others.First published as 'The tatler'.vols. 1-4 contain a reprint of 271 numbers originally published in folio three times a week from 12 April 1709 to 2 January 1710/11.Vol.5 is entitled: 'The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq; By W. H-n Esq; Dr. S-t, A. H-y Esq; deceased; and several other hands. ..', with the imprint: London, printed for John Morphew, 1712, and contains a reprint of 52 numbers, from 13 January 1710/11 to 19 May 1711, being the continuation of Steele's paper edited by William Harrison, assisted by Jonathan Swift.Vertical chain lines.Reproduction of original from the British Library.Teerink-Scouten, 15 (this ed. "not seen")English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT123917.Electronic data. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Page image (PNG). Digitized image of the microfilm version produced in Woodbridge, CT by Research Publications, 1982-2002 (later known as Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of the Gale Group)
The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq: revised and corrected by the author. ...
No full text5v. ; 12⁰.Isaac Bickerstaff = Steele, Addison and others.First published as 'The tatler'.vols. 1-4 contain a reprint of 271 numbers originally published in folio three times a week from 12 April 1709 to 2 January 1710/11.Vol.5 is entitled: 'The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq; By W. H-n Esq; Dr. S-t, A. H-y Esq; deceased; and several other hands. ..', with the imprint: London, printed for John Morphew, 1712, and contains a reprint of 52 numbers, from 13 January 1710/11 to 19 May 1711, being the continuation of Steele's paper edited by William Harrison, assisted by Jonathan Swift.Vertical chain lines.Reproduction of original from the British Library.Teerink-Scouten, 15 (this ed. "not seen")English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT123917.Electronic data. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Page image (PNG). Digitized image of the microfilm version produced in Woodbridge, CT by Research Publications, 1982-2002 (later known as Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of the Gale Group)
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