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.This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society.++++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 LibraryT128575Translated from the French of Louis S bastien Mercier. With a list of subscribers.London: printed for the translator; and sold by her: also by T. Chapman; and Hookham and Carpenter, 1797. xii,308p.; 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 LibraryW029913Translation of: L'an deux mille quatre cent quarante. Halkett and Laing attribute this to a Henry James Mercier but this is apparently a mistake. All other authorities, including the "Nouvelle biographie g n rale," attribute it to Louis-S bastien MercierRichmond: Published by N. Pritchard, 1799. xi, 1], 360 p.; 12
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 LibraryT122248Anonymous. By Louis S bastien Mercier. With an epilogue. Pagination irregular; but text and register continuous.Dublin: printed by Thomas Burnside, for P. Wogan, J. Boyce, W. Porter, W. Jones and 14 others in Dublin], 1800. 48,50-61,61-63, 5]p.; 12
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.Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++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 LibraryT063182A translation by J. P. Macmahon of the French text by Louis S bastien Mercier. With a final advertisement leaf.London: printed for G. Kearsly, 1782. 6],170, 2]p.; 8
R ve s'il en f t jamais. AVANT-PROPOS Desirer que tout soit bien est le voeu du philosophe. J'entends par ce mot, dont on a sans doute abus , l' tre vertueux & sensible qui veut le bonheur g n ral, parce qu'il a des id es pr cises d'ordre et d'harmonie. Le mal fatigue les regards du Sage, il s'en plaint; on soup onne qu'il a de l'humeur; on a tort. Le Sage sait que le mal abonde sur la terre; mais en m me tems il a toujours pr sente l'esprit cette perfection si belle & si touchante, qui peut & qui doit m me tre l'ouvrage de l'homme raisonnable. En effet, pourquoi nous seroit-il d fendu d'esp rer qu'apr s avoir d crit ce cercle extravagant de sottises autour duquel l' garent ses passions, l'homme ennuy reviendra la lumi re pure de l'entendement ? Pourquoi le genre humain ne seroit-il pas semblable l'individu ? Emport , violent, tourdi dans son jeune ge; sage, doux, mod r dans sa vieillesse 1]. L'homme qui pense ainsi, s'impose lui-m me le devoir d' tre juste. Mais savons-nous ce que c'est que perfection ? Peut-elle tre le partage d'un tre foible et born ? Ce grand secret n'est-il pas cach sous celui de la vie ? & ne faudra-t-il pas d pouiller notre v tement mortel pour percer cette sublime nigme ? En attendant t chons de rendre les choses passables, ou, si c'est encore trop, r vons du moins qu'elles le sont. Pour moi, concentr avec Platon, je r ve comme lui. mes chers concitoyens Vous que j'ai vu g mir si fr quemment sur cette foule d'abus dont on est las de se plaindre, quand verrons-nous nos grands projets, quand verrons-nous nos songes se r aliser Dormir, voil donc notre f licit . Au sujet de l'auteur Louis-S bastien Mercier, n le 6 juin 1740 Paris o il est mort le 25 avril 1814, est un crivain, dramaturge, journaliste et publiciste fran ais. Auteur prolifique, l'un des hommes dont la vie litt raire a t la plus active, Louis-S bastien Mercier, qui s'appelait lui-m me le plus grand livrier de France, est surtout connu pour son Tableau de Paris et l'An 2440, publi s avant la R volution. Il est galement l'auteur de cinquante pi ces de th tre et de nombreux essais critiques, et le fondateur des Annales patriotiques et litt raires. Biographie Sa famille Issu d'une famille de la petite bourgeoisie, Mercier naquit le 6 juin 1740 Paris, quai de l' cole, entre le Pont Neuf et le Louvre, o son p re, Jean-Louis Mercier, tenait boutique de marchand fourbisseur, et baptis deux jours plus tard en l' glise Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois. Originaire de Metz et veuf d'une premi re femme, Claude Galloy, Jean-Louis Mercier signa le 24 ao t 1739 un contrat de mariage avec lisabeth Andr e Le Pas, fille de feu Martin Le Pas, ma tre ma on. Louis-S bastien naquit l'ann e suivante. Un cadet, Charles Andr , qui devait plus tard tenir l'h tel des Trois-Villes, rue de Tournon, vit le jour en 1741. Un troisi me enfant, Jean-Baptiste, mourut au berceau. Sa m re mourut son tour le 30 juillet 1743, et son p re se remaria une troisi me fois avec Charlotte Spol, qui lui donna une fille, Anne Charlotte.
The Iron Man is a fascinating cross-section of the works of Louis-S bastien Mercier (1740-1814), a unique writer whose originality and enterprise has never yet been given the full credit that it deserves. From an early contribution to the development of the literary vampire to a pair of revealing philosophical spectacles, from a world that seems to be the best of all possible worlds to interplanetary voyages, and the eponymous "Iron Man," a precursor of superhero fiction, many of Mercier's visionary fantasies are still fresh and original today, his exploratory zest not having been weighed down by the burden of subsequent sophistication. We can best appreciate the full effect of the liberation that the device of dreaming gave to his literary imagination, turning him into a genuine precursor of surrealism who created a number of what were to become conventional tropes of supernatural fiction in original ways.
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