Author: Francis Abell
Publisher: London Oxford University Press 1914.
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Prisoners of War in Britain 1756 to 1815
Author: Francis Abell
Publisher: London Oxford University Press 1914.
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher: London Oxford University Press 1914.
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
A History of Tasmania, from Its Discovery in 1642 to the Present Time
Author: James Fenton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tasmania
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
James Fenton (1820-1901) was born in Ireland and emigrated to Tasmania (then known as Van Diemen's Land) with his family in 1833. He became a pioneer settler in an area on the Forth River and published this history of the island in 1884. The book begins with the discovery of the island in 1642 and concludes with the deaths of some significant public figures in the colony in 1884. The establishment of the colony on the island, and the involvement of convicts in its building, is documented. A chapter on the native aborigines gives a fascinating insight into the attitudes of the colonising people, and a detailed account of the removal of the native Tasmanians to Flinders Island, in an effort to separate them from the colonists. The book also contains portraits of some aboriginal people, as well as a glossary of their language.
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Category : Tasmania
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
James Fenton (1820-1901) was born in Ireland and emigrated to Tasmania (then known as Van Diemen's Land) with his family in 1833. He became a pioneer settler in an area on the Forth River and published this history of the island in 1884. The book begins with the discovery of the island in 1642 and concludes with the deaths of some significant public figures in the colony in 1884. The establishment of the colony on the island, and the involvement of convicts in its building, is documented. A chapter on the native aborigines gives a fascinating insight into the attitudes of the colonising people, and a detailed account of the removal of the native Tasmanians to Flinders Island, in an effort to separate them from the colonists. The book also contains portraits of some aboriginal people, as well as a glossary of their language.
The History of Gambling in England
Author: John Ashton
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Difference between Gaming and Gambling-Universality and Antiquity of Gambling-Isis and Osiris-Games and Dice of the Egyptians-China and India-The Jews-Among the Greeks and Romans-Among Mahometans-Early Dicing-Dicing in England in the 13th and 14th Centuries-In the 17th Century-Celebrated Gamblers-Bourchier-Swiss Anecdote-Dicing in the 18th Century. Gaming is derived from the Saxon word Gamen, meaning joy, pleasure, sports, or gaming-and is so interpreted by Bailey, in his Dictionary of 1736; whilst Johnson gives Gamble-to play extravagantly for money, and this distinction is to be borne in mind in the perusal of this book; although the older term was in use until the invention of the later-as we see in Cotton's Compleat Gamester (1674), in which he gives the following excellent definition of the word: -"Gaming is an enchanting witchery, gotten between Idleness and Avarice: an itching disease, that makes some scratch the head, whilst others, as if they were bitten by a Tarantula, are laughing themselves to death; or, lastly, it is a paralytical distemper, which, seizing the arm, the man cannot chuse but shake his elbow.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Difference between Gaming and Gambling-Universality and Antiquity of Gambling-Isis and Osiris-Games and Dice of the Egyptians-China and India-The Jews-Among the Greeks and Romans-Among Mahometans-Early Dicing-Dicing in England in the 13th and 14th Centuries-In the 17th Century-Celebrated Gamblers-Bourchier-Swiss Anecdote-Dicing in the 18th Century. Gaming is derived from the Saxon word Gamen, meaning joy, pleasure, sports, or gaming-and is so interpreted by Bailey, in his Dictionary of 1736; whilst Johnson gives Gamble-to play extravagantly for money, and this distinction is to be borne in mind in the perusal of this book; although the older term was in use until the invention of the later-as we see in Cotton's Compleat Gamester (1674), in which he gives the following excellent definition of the word: -"Gaming is an enchanting witchery, gotten between Idleness and Avarice: an itching disease, that makes some scratch the head, whilst others, as if they were bitten by a Tarantula, are laughing themselves to death; or, lastly, it is a paralytical distemper, which, seizing the arm, the man cannot chuse but shake his elbow.
Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians
Author: John Hill Wheeler
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
All about Battersea
Author: Henry S. Simmonds
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Category : Battersea (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Category : Battersea (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Life of Edward Livingston
Author: Charles Havens Hunt
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Ten thousand wonderful things
Author: Edmund Fillingham King
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine
Author: George Thomas Little
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
The Stately Homes of England
Author: Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt
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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
The Story of Huddersfield
Author: Roy Brook
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description