The Eagle

The Eagle PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Cambridge Papers

Cambridge Papers PDF Author: Walter William Rouse Ball
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Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Selected Titles from the Digest

Selected Titles from the Digest PDF Author:
Publisher: CUP Archive
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Category : Roman law
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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De Condictionibus : Digest XII. I. and IV.-VII. and Digest XIII. I. -III.

De Condictionibus : Digest XII. I. and IV.-VII. and Digest XIII. I. -III. PDF Author:
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Category : Restitution
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Swift And The Dialectical Tradition

Swift And The Dialectical Tradition PDF Author: James A Rembret
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349190721
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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The Eagle

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Languages : en
Pages : 886

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The Welsh Owens

The Welsh Owens PDF Author: Jane Merrill
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039143229
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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In an age when the political institutions of Europe and America were already democratizing, the owners of a huge parcel of land in North America went the other way, to feudalism. This book is an original study of the patricians who directed the history of gorgeous Campobello Island. A unique governance underpinned the Owens until their power strained and broke. Three Tory aristocrats from Wales – a father, his son, and between them the father’s nephew – exercised rule over Campobello Island from 1767 to 1857. They were called Principal Proprietors. Theirs was a fractious family that patterned a rule by landlord which they endeavored impose on North American soil. The first Welsh squire, Captain William Owen, a swashbuckling adventurer, received the grant of the 24-square-mile “Outer Island” as a reward for his heroism in the Royal Navy. A restless person, he returned to the Navy at 60 to fight the French in India. The second, a distrustful snob, who took Cambridge University’s highest mathematical prize was David Owen. A friend in London, General Benedict Arnold, convinced him to go to Canada and claim the Island. The third Welsh squire of Campobello, Admiral Fitzwilliam Owen, had an illustrious career as a surveyor for the Empire. He was a great abolitionist who led sting operations against slave traders on the African coasts and created a British colony in Mombasa which he governed as a protectorate not to profit from trade but from which to hunt slavers and free slaves. On Campobello he was popular but autocratic and took a particular interest in the young ladies. The story thread continues with the island being acquired by an American company that sold parcels to rusticators like the Roosevelt family. Franklin Delano Roosevelt summered on the Island for three decades and left an indelible mark on its culture.

A History of Classical Scholarship

A History of Classical Scholarship PDF Author: John Edwin Sandys
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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 542

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From the revival of learning to the end of the eighteenth century (in Italy, France, England, and the Netherlands)

From the revival of learning to the end of the eighteenth century (in Italy, France, England, and the Netherlands) PDF Author: John Edwin Sandys
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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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Weighing the World

Weighing the World PDF Author: Russell McCormmach
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400720211
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 495

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The book about John Michell (1724-93) has two parts. The first and longest part is biographical, an account of Michell’s home setting (Nottinghamshire in England), the clerical world in which he grew up (Church of England), the university (Cambridge) where he studied and taught, and the scientific activities he made the center of his life. The second part is a complete edition of his known letters. Half of his letters have not been previously published; the other half are brought together in one place for the first time. The letters touch on all aspects of his career, and because they are in his words, they help bring the subject to life. His publications were not many, a slim book on magnets and magnetism, one paper on geology, two papers on astronomy, and a few brief papers on other topics, but they were enough to leave a mark on several sciences. He has been called a geologist, an astronomer, and a physicist, which he was, though we best remember him as a natural philosopher, as one who investigated physical nature broadly. His scientific contribution is not easy to summarize. Arguably he had the broadest competence of any British natural philosopher of the eighteenth century: equally skilled in experiment and observation, mathematical theory, and instruments, his field of inquiry was the universe. From the structure of the heavens through the structure of the Earth to the forces of the elementary particles of matter, he carried out original and far-reaching researches on the workings of nature.

Cavendish

Cavendish PDF Author: Christa Jungnickel
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838754450
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 844

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"The Cavendishes flourished during the high tide of British aristocracy following the revolution of 1688-89, and the case can be made that this aristocracy knew its finest hour when Henry Cavendish gently laid his delicate weights in the pan of his incomparable precision balance. For this it took two generations and two kinds of invention, one in social forms and the other in scientific technique. This biography tells how it came to pass."--BOOK JACKET.