The English Works of Sir Henry Spelman, Kt PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The English Works of Sir Henry Spelman, Kt PDF full book. Access full book title The English Works of Sir Henry Spelman, Kt by Sir Henry Spelman. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Sir Henry Spelman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Admiralty
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Get Book
Book Description
Author: Sir Henry Spelman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Admiralty
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Get Book
Book Description
Author: Henry Spelman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Get Book
Book Description
Author: Henry Spelman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Get Book
Book Description
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Get Book
Book Description
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Get Book
Book Description
Author: Thomas M. Curley
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299151508
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Get Book
Book Description
Sir Robert Chambers (1737-1803) was a literary as well as a legal man. Friend and collaborator of Samuel Johnson, professor of English law at Oxford University, and one of the four judges on the first Supreme Court of India, Chambers was an enormously influential figure in the eighteenth-century British empire. This book is the first authoritative biography of Chambers and is also the first major contribution in decades to historical scholarship on Johnson. It demonstrates Chambers's important role in early English legal education, in Samuel Johnson's life and political thinking, and in the formation of British India during a period of active cultural exchange between East and West. The cooperation of Chambers's descendants and the discovery of all his judicial notebooks have given Curley access to a splendid archival collection of rare documents about Sir Robert's private life and public career. Curley adds important dimensions to political and legal history by recounting the establishment of the Vinerian Chair of English law at Oxford University and by documenting long-hidden activities, motives, and decisions in the stormy foundation of British India, beginning with Chambers's farsighted role in the century's most infamous criminal case, the prosecution of Maharajah Nuncomar in 1775. Sir Robert Chambers is the first analysis of Chambers's groundbreaking commingling of English law and Indian practice, as detailed in seventy-two volumes of his judicial notebooks recovered in Calcutta. As an Indian judge, Chambers founded the enduring hybrid heritage of Anglo-Indian law on which the modern constitution of the Republic of India still rests. This book also provides the first full account of Chambers's close friendship with Samuel Johnson and their collaboration on a survey of the British constitution, which profoundly influenced the later writings of both men. Curley reveals Johnson's literary and political interest in India, and his call for encyclopedic study of the East by the West, a call heeded by Chambers and Sir William Jones in founding the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Amassing the largest library of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Western World, Chambers contributed significantly to European awareness of the riches of ancient Indian literature. Lively and readable, this authoritative biography examines the relationships and activities of prominent men in eighteenth-century England, and it supplements Curley's two-volume edition of Chambers's and Johnson's A Course of Lectures on the English Law. It will interest readers curious about multiculturalism--two centuries before the term existed--as it developed under the British empire. All scholars of legal and literary history and of Asian and British studies, as well as lovers of biography, should relish this absorbing and well-researched history.
Author: Fannie Cooley Williams Barbour
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Get Book
Book Description
Author: Rocío G. Sumillera
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 1907322817
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Get Book
Book Description
Juan Huarte de San Juan (1529-1588) was a Spanish physician and natural philosopher who strove to answer why men possess specific natural abilities that prepare them to excel only in particular fields of knowledge. With his treatise Examen de ingenios para las ciencias (Baeza, 1575), dedicated to King Philip II, Huarte hoped to form a body of naturally accomplished professionals by providing readers with clues to identify their leading wit and the career path associated with it. The book experienced such overwhelming success in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—it underwent fifty-five editions in six different languages—that it is now considered one of the most influential Spanish scientific books of the early modern period. The present edition modernizes the text of Richard Carew’s The Examination of Men’s Wits (London, 1594), the first rendering into English of Huarte’s work—via a previous Italian translation. In addition, the Introduction contextualizes both the Spanish and the English texts and their authors, discusses the censorship imposed by the Inquisition, the (often deliberate) textual divergences of the English translation, the multiple translations and editions the book underwent in early modern Europe, and its domestic and European reception, with a focus on the English scientific, educational and literary arenas. William Camden, John Marston, Ben Jonson and Sir Francis Bacon are some of the household names acquainted with Huarte’s theories, thanks to Richard Carew’s widely read English version.
Author: British history
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Get Book
Book Description
Author: Sir Henry Spelman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Admiralty
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Get Book
Book Description
