Title: Publications. I. Short History of the Rights of Common upon the Forest of Dartmoor and the Commons of Devon. By Percival Birkett.] Report of Mr. Stuart A. Moore ... and appendix of documents. With an introduction by Sir Frederick Pollock.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe 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. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF BRITAIN & IRELAND collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. As well as historical works, this collection includes geographies, travelogues, and titles covering periods of competition and cooperation among the people of Great Britain and Ireland. Works also explore the countries' relations with France, Germany, the Low Countries, Denmark, and Scandinavia. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Anonymous; 1890. xxxii. 181 p.; 8 . 010358.i.55.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT124620With a half-title.London: printed for T. Davies, 1772. 4], lxv, 11],236p.; 8
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT050198With a half-title and a final errata leaf.London: printed for Joseph Johnson, 1771. 2],98, 2]p.; 8
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT018661The titlepage is engraved. The eleven unnumbered leaves contain the notes. Printer's name from colophon. The plates bear the imprint of A. Hamilton. Variant: the plates bear the imprint of J. Murray and are different.London: printed by T. Chapman] for A. Hamilton, 1793. 2], xxiv,221, 22],224-227, 1]p., plates: port., ill; 8
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Bodleian Library (Oxford)T150537London: printed for L. Hawes, W. Clarke, and R. Collins, 1771. 2],42p., plates; 8
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay "Nature". Following this work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar" in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's "intellectual Declaration of Independence". Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first and then revised them for print. His first two collections of essays, Essays: First Series (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844), represent the core of his thinking. They include the well-known essays "Self-Reliance", "The Over-Soul", "Circles", "The Poet" and "Experience". Together with "Nature", these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period. Emerson wrote on a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom, the ability for humankind to realize almost anything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world. Emerson's "nature" was more philosophical than naturalistic: "Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul". Emerson is one of several figures who "took a more pantheist or pandeist approach by rejecting views of God as separate from the world." He remains among the linchpins of the American romantic movement, and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers and poets that followed him. When asked to sum up his work, he said his central doctrine was "the infinitude of the private man." Emerson is also well known as a mentor and friend of Henry David Thoreau, a fellow transcendentalist. Ernest Percival Rhys ( 17 July 1859 - 25 May 1946) was a Welsh-English writer, best known for his role as founding editor of the Everyman's Library series of affordable classics. He wrote essays, stories, poetry, novels and plays.Rhys was born in London, and brought up in Carmarthen and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. After working in the coal industry, he was employed doing editorial work on the Camelot Series of 65 reprints and translations from 1886, for five years, while he turned to writing as a profession. He was a founder member in 1890 of the Rhymers' Club in London, and a contributor to The Book of the Rhymers' Club (1893). In 1906, Rhys persuaded J. M. Dent, the publisher, for whom he was working on The Lyric Poets series, to start out on the ambitious Everyman project, aiming to publish 1000 titles; the idea was to put out ten at a time. The target was eventually reached, ten years after Rhys died.
Here he stood before the Emperor Full of big plans for all the peas he would harvest (if he got around to planting the three little peas he had found) the penniless boaster began regaling his highness with wild tales of places far away -- until the Emperor was listening with mouth agape "I see you have traveled widely, know a great deal, and are cunning and experienced," said the Emperor. "I will gladly give you my daughter in marriage." The braggart now regretted having told so many lies -- for what would happen if the Emperor learned he was not, indeed, the Pea Emperor he made himself out to be?
I hjärtat av Europa möter läsaren diktaren Samuel Beckett, en av personerna i Västerlandsfärden, vars reviderade nyutgåva fått titeln Västerlandsfärden. En hednisk historia. Denna genomskådande roman, som inte bara utspelar sig i välbekanta miljöer, kan ses som en spirituell iscensättning både i ett litet och i ett stort tidssammanhang, och det är i detta tidsdrama vi fortfarande rör oss på väg mot en möjlig gryning. Något år efter det att den första utgåvan utkommit skrev Skånska Dagbladet: För många är Percival kanske mest känd genom den säregna och fascinerande tidsanalysen Västerlandsfärden (Norstedts) där mycket som i Västerlandet upplevs som konst, vetenskap, människosyn betraktas genom kamelskötarens ögon och därmed avvinnes nya, från vedertagen normbildning frigjorda aspekter. En utopi som ingår i denna bok vann (under titeln Allt att göra om) ett pris år 1994 i tävlingen Vision 2025, och om detta kan man läsa i en nyskriven efterskrift. Prisjuryn skrev bl.a.: Allt att göra om får ett speciellt omnämnande för den härligaste tanken och den positivaste synen på människan. Den har vi tagit som lycklighetslitteratur. Författaren, konstnären och kompositören Percival (tilltalsnamn och efternamn) har gett ut dramatik, lyrik, romaner och essäer. Han har skrivit om John Kennedy Tooles roman Dumskallarnas sammansvärjning i sin essäbok Från en värld till en annan (CKM förlag 2004), och humorn i denna roman har en viss likhet med de humoristiska undertonerna i Västerlandsfärden. En hednisk historia, som belyser och genomlyser ett nutida västerland men också gläntar på dörren till en ny historia.
Julen på jorden är en berättelse och ett drama som bl.a. skildrar en ung människas utveckling under 40-talet och 50-talet. Scenen är ett bondkök i mitten av Sverige, där världen är närvarande i radiosändningarna. En främling och en samisk schamankvinna har avgörande roller. Bokens titel, "Julen på jorden", har hämtats från en visionär fredsdikt av den franske 1800-talspoeten Arthur Rimbaud. I slutet av boken beskrivs livet i byn och på gården där dramat utspelas. Det är en lättläst bok som har något av sagans skimmer över sig.
Forntid, nutid och framtid möts i författaren, kompositören och konstnären Percivals diktverk Tema på Tiden där fornegyptiska vinjetter ingår. Tidshjulet och Livshjulet står i centrum. Tid möter tid. Afrika, Asien, Europa... valplats och mötesplats. Om detta tidsepos, som nu utkommer som faksimilupplaga, skriver Clemens Altgård: "Diktverket Tema på Tiden tillhör det bästa han har skapat, en märklig formulering av det universella mysteriet."
Artaud Beckett Blake (essäer och ett representativt urval tolkningar) är en bok om världsberömda nyskapare inom teater, litteratur och konst. På ett medskapande sätt presenteras deras liv och verk. Inte minst Samuel Beckett, som Percival stått i kontakt med, ges en mångsidig belysning, där Dantevärlden spelar en stor roll. “Ständigt öppen för det heliga - Percival odlar ett särskilt slags mod. Det var länge sedan jag läste samtida texter som andas en sådan djup förtröstan på litteraturens och konstens befriande kraft.” Ulf Eriksson (DN 1992) om Artaud Beckett Blake
Percival (efternamn och tilltalsnamn) har under hela sin författarbana intresserat sig för livsförsvarare som går sina egna vägar. Han har skrivit om de medeltida sydfranska katarerna (kättarna) i sin roman Den röde riddaren och hans drömda världar (1992), och här ger han läsaren en spirituell dialog mellan en kvinna och en man en het måndag i en Medelhavsvåning samt ett minst sagt kätterskt försvarstal (i dramatisk form) tillägnat den världsberömde italienske soltänkaren och samhällsvisionären Giordano Bruno, bränd på bål den 17 februari år 1600 för sin odogmatiska kosmiska filosofi.
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