Author: Henry Adamson
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Languages : en
Pages : 500
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The Muses Threnodie
Author: Henry Adamson
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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The Muses Threnodie: Or, Mirthful Mournings on the Death of Mr Gall. Containing Variety of Pleasant Poetical Descriptions, Moral Instructions, Historical Narrations, and Divine Observations, with the Most Remarkable Antiquities of Scotland, Especially of Perth
Author: Henry Adamson
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Category : Gowrie Conspiracy, 1600
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Category : Gowrie Conspiracy, 1600
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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The Muses Threnodie
Author: Henry Adamson
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Category : Perth (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 461
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Category : Perth (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 461
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Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Author: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Includes List of members.
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Includes List of members.
Bibliotheca Scotia
Author: John Smith & Sons
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness, from Pre-History to our Post-Modern World
Author: Roy J. Shephard
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319116711
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1095
Book Description
This book examines the health/fitness interaction in an historical context. Beginning in primitive hunter-gatherer communities, where survival required adequate physical activity, it goes on to consider changes in health and physical activity at subsequent stages in the evolution of “civilization.” It focuses on the health impacts of a growing understanding of medicine and physiology, and the emergence of a middle-class with the time and money to choose between active and passive leisure pursuits. The book reflects on urbanization and industrialization in relation to the need for public health measures, and the ever-diminishing physical demands of the work-place. It then evaluates the attitudes of prelates, politicians, philosophers and teachers at each stage of the process. Finally, the book explores professional and governmental initiatives to increase public involvement in active leisure through various school, worksite, recreational and sports programmes.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319116711
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1095
Book Description
This book examines the health/fitness interaction in an historical context. Beginning in primitive hunter-gatherer communities, where survival required adequate physical activity, it goes on to consider changes in health and physical activity at subsequent stages in the evolution of “civilization.” It focuses on the health impacts of a growing understanding of medicine and physiology, and the emergence of a middle-class with the time and money to choose between active and passive leisure pursuits. The book reflects on urbanization and industrialization in relation to the need for public health measures, and the ever-diminishing physical demands of the work-place. It then evaluates the attitudes of prelates, politicians, philosophers and teachers at each stage of the process. Finally, the book explores professional and governmental initiatives to increase public involvement in active leisure through various school, worksite, recreational and sports programmes.
Essays on Politics and Society
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520387910
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1103
Book Description
Essays on Politics and Society brings together the most significant writings on the topic by the acclaimed Victorian historian, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle. This volume includes some of his most well-known and influential pieces, such as "Characteristics" and "Chartism." In keeping with the Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle, these essays are accompanied by a thorough historical introduction to the material, extensive notes providing historical and cultural context while expanding on references and allusions, and a textual apparatus that carefully details and explains the editorial decisions made in reconciling the editions of each essay.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520387910
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1103
Book Description
Essays on Politics and Society brings together the most significant writings on the topic by the acclaimed Victorian historian, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle. This volume includes some of his most well-known and influential pieces, such as "Characteristics" and "Chartism." In keeping with the Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle, these essays are accompanied by a thorough historical introduction to the material, extensive notes providing historical and cultural context while expanding on references and allusions, and a textual apparatus that carefully details and explains the editorial decisions made in reconciling the editions of each essay.
The North British Review
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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The Muses Threnodie
Author: Henry Adamson
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Reliquiae Trotcosienses, Or, The Gabions of the Late Jonathan Oldbuck Esq. of Monkbarns
Author: Walter Scott
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Reliquiae Trotcosienses was one of Scott's last works, and, after his death, was suppressed by his literary executor and his publisher. Although extracts were published in 1889 and 1905, this is the first complete edition, and has been edited from the manuscript recently relocated in the library at Abbotsford, the house near Melrose in the Scottish Borders which Scott built for his library and museum.Reliquiae Trotcosienses (the relics of Trotcosey) is a guide to Abbotsford and to its collections, and illustrates in miniature all the different ways in which Scott tried to recover the past: in building, in collecting, and in the multiple acts of narration which invest objects with significance. But it is simultaneously a work of fiction, which satirises the impulses of antiquarian collection. Scott would not take himself seriously, and through the learned buffoonery of this extraordinary work he mocks the kind of activity in which he was engaged as writer and collector.Yet this is also a personal, elegiac creation, for the narrator as he approaches death recognises that the house, its artefacts, and above all the writings will live on to mourn their begetter: they are fragments shored against his ruin.
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Reliquiae Trotcosienses was one of Scott's last works, and, after his death, was suppressed by his literary executor and his publisher. Although extracts were published in 1889 and 1905, this is the first complete edition, and has been edited from the manuscript recently relocated in the library at Abbotsford, the house near Melrose in the Scottish Borders which Scott built for his library and museum.Reliquiae Trotcosienses (the relics of Trotcosey) is a guide to Abbotsford and to its collections, and illustrates in miniature all the different ways in which Scott tried to recover the past: in building, in collecting, and in the multiple acts of narration which invest objects with significance. But it is simultaneously a work of fiction, which satirises the impulses of antiquarian collection. Scott would not take himself seriously, and through the learned buffoonery of this extraordinary work he mocks the kind of activity in which he was engaged as writer and collector.Yet this is also a personal, elegiac creation, for the narrator as he approaches death recognises that the house, its artefacts, and above all the writings will live on to mourn their begetter: they are fragments shored against his ruin.