A Catalogue of the Genuine and Pleasing Collection of Cabinet Pictures, Late the Property of William Simmons Esq., Deceased, and Brought from His Residence in George-Street for the Convenience of Sale [1830].

A Catalogue of the Genuine and Pleasing Collection of Cabinet Pictures, Late the Property of William Simmons Esq., Deceased, and Brought from His Residence in George-Street for the Convenience of Sale [1830]. PDF Author:
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The Athenaeum

The Athenaeum PDF Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Pages : 852

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The Athenaeum

The Athenaeum PDF Author:
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 856

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A Catalogue of a Genuine Collection of Pictures

A Catalogue of a Genuine Collection of Pictures PDF Author: Richard Frewin
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Pages : 8

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Men of Mark

Men of Mark PDF Author: William J. Simmons
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1376

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TO PRESUME to multiply books in this day of excellent writers and learned book-makers is a rash thing perhaps for a novice. It may even be a presumption that shall be met by the production itself being driven from the market by the keen, searching criticism of not only the reviewers, but less noted objectors. And yet there are books that meet a ready sale because they seem like "Ishmaelites"--against everybody and everybody against them. Whether this work shall ever accomplish the design of the author may not at all be determined by its sale. While I hope to secure some pecuniary gain that I may accompany it with a companion illustrating what our women have done, yet by no means do I send it forth with the sordid idea of gain. I would rather it would do some good than make a single dollar, and I echo the wish of "Abou Ben Adhem," in that sweet poem of that name, written by Leigh Hunt. The angel was writing at the table, in his vision. The names of those who love the Lord.Abou wanted to know if his was there--and the angel said "No." Said Abou, I pray thee, then, write me as one that loves his fellow-men. That is what I ask to be recorded of me. The angel wrote and vanished. The next night It came again, with a great awakening light. And showed the names whom love of God had blessed. And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest. I desire that the book shall be a help to students, male and female, in the way of information concerning our great names. I have noticed in my long experience as a teacher, that many of my students were wofully ignorant of the work of our great colored men--even ignorant of their names. If they knew their names, it was some indefinable something they had done--just what, they could not tell. If in a slight degree I shall here furnish the data for that class of rising men and women, I shall feel much pleased. Herein will be found many who had severe trials in making their way through schools of different grades. It is a suitable book, it is hoped, to be put into the hands of intelligent, aspiring young people everywhere, that they might see the means and manners of men's elevation, and by this be led to undertake the task of going through high schools and colleges. If the persons herein mentioned could rise to the exalted stations which they have and do now hold, what is there to prevent any young man or woman from achieving greatness? Many, yea, nearly all these came from the loins of slave fathers, and were the babes of women in bondage, and themselves felt the leaden hand of slavery on their own bodies; but whether slaves or not, they suffered with their brethren because of color. That "sum of human villainies" did not crush out the life and manhood of the race. I wish the book to show to the world--to our oppressors and even our friends--that the Negro race is still alive, and must possess more intellectual vigor than any other section of the human family, or else how could they be crushed as slaves in all these years since 1620, and yet to-day stand side by side with the best blood in America, in white institutions, grappling with abstruse problems in Euclid and difficult classics, and master them? Was ever such a thing seen in another people? Whence these lawyers, doctors, authors, editors, divines, lecturers, linguists, scientists, college presidents and such, in one quarter of a century?

A Catalogue of a Very Choice and Valuable Collection of Pleasing Cabinet Pictures, by Celebrated Masters in the Italian, French, Flemish, Dutch & English Schools, a Few Prints and Drawings ... and a Small Assemblage of Curious Oriental China, the Genuine Property of John Roberts, Esq. Dec: Brought from His Late Dwelling, 26, Lamb's-Conduit Street, and from the Neighbourhood of Aylesbury, Bucks ...

A Catalogue of a Very Choice and Valuable Collection of Pleasing Cabinet Pictures, by Celebrated Masters in the Italian, French, Flemish, Dutch & English Schools, a Few Prints and Drawings ... and a Small Assemblage of Curious Oriental China, the Genuine Property of John Roberts, Esq. Dec: Brought from His Late Dwelling, 26, Lamb's-Conduit Street, and from the Neighbourhood of Aylesbury, Bucks ... PDF Author:
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Corcoran Gallery of Art

Corcoran Gallery of Art PDF Author: Corcoran Gallery of Art
Publisher: Lucia Marquand
ISBN: 9781555953614
Category : Painting
Languages : en
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This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.

History of Jay County, Indiana

History of Jay County, Indiana PDF Author: M. W. Montgomery
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Slavery and the British Country House

Slavery and the British Country House PDF Author: Madge Dresser
Publisher: Historic England Publishing
ISBN: 9781848020641
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
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The British country house has long been regarded as the jewel in the nation's heritage crown. But the country house is also an expression of wealth and power, and as scholars reconsider the nation's colonial past, new questions are being posed about these great houses and their links to Atlantic slavery.This book, authored by a range of academics and heritage professionals, grew out of a 2009 conference on 'Slavery and the British Country house: mapping the current research' organised by English Heritage in partnership with the University of the West of England, the National Trust and the Economic History Society. It asks what links might be established between the wealth derived from slavery and the British country house and what implications such links should have for the way such properties are represented to the public today.Lavishly illustrated and based on the latest scholarship, this wide-ranging and innovative volume provides in-depth examinations of individual houses, regional studies and critical reconsiderations of existing heritage sites, including two studies specially commissioned by English Heritage and one sponsored by the National Trust.

American Slavery as it is

American Slavery as it is PDF Author:
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Category : Antigua
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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