Author: Elihu Burritt
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Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Elihu Burritt's Miscellaneous Writings
Author: Elihu Burritt
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Miscellaneous Writings
Author: Elihu Burritt
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Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Languages : en
Pages : 134
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The Learned Blacksmith - The Letters and Journals of Elihu Burritt
Author: Merle Curti
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528763238
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This antique book contains a collection of letters and journal entries, from Elihu Burritt. Elihu Burritt was a poor boy. Like other boys a hundred years ago, he gloried in the idea of self-improvement, and like many of his contemporaries he became a self-made man. But it was not worldly riches that he made. His lifelong ideal was to serve man kind, to promote human brotherhood, and he was never tempted to take another path. Unlike most Americans, he had no ambition to rise above the working class from which he came. This fascinating text will appeal to those with an interest in the early twentieth century, and will be of considerable value to collectors of such literature. The chapters of this book include: 'A Self-Made Man', 'The Crusade for World Peace', 'The Campaign for Ocean Penny Postage', 'Slavery and Civil War', and 'Assisted Emigration and Arbitration'. This volume was first published in 1937, and is proudly republished now for the enjoyment and edification of discerning readers.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528763238
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This antique book contains a collection of letters and journal entries, from Elihu Burritt. Elihu Burritt was a poor boy. Like other boys a hundred years ago, he gloried in the idea of self-improvement, and like many of his contemporaries he became a self-made man. But it was not worldly riches that he made. His lifelong ideal was to serve man kind, to promote human brotherhood, and he was never tempted to take another path. Unlike most Americans, he had no ambition to rise above the working class from which he came. This fascinating text will appeal to those with an interest in the early twentieth century, and will be of considerable value to collectors of such literature. The chapters of this book include: 'A Self-Made Man', 'The Crusade for World Peace', 'The Campaign for Ocean Penny Postage', 'Slavery and Civil War', and 'Assisted Emigration and Arbitration'. This volume was first published in 1937, and is proudly republished now for the enjoyment and edification of discerning readers.
a colletion from the miscellaneous writings of nathaniel peabody rogers
Author: william h. fisk
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Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Languages : en
Pages : 444
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A Collection from the Miscellaneous Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers
Author: Nathaniel Peabody Rogers
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Compassionate Stranger
Author: Maureen O'Rourke Murphy
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815652895
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The first biography of Asenath Nicholson, Compassionate Stranger recovers the largely forgotten history of an extraordinary woman. Trained as a school teacher, Nicholson was involved in the abolitionist, temperance, and diet reforms of the day before she left New York in 1844 “to personally investigate the condition of the Irish poor.” She walked alone throughout nearly every county in Ireland and reported on conditions in rural Ireland on the eve of the Great Irish Famine. She published Ireland’s Welcome to the Stranger, an account of her travels in 1847. She returned to Ireland in December 1846 to do what she could to relieve famine suffering—first in Dublin and then in the winter of 1847–48 in the west of Ireland where the suffering was greatest. Nicholson’s precise, detailed diaries and correspondence reveal haunting insights into the desperation of victims of the Famine and the negligence and greed of those who added to the suffering. Her account of the Great Irish Famine, Annals of the Famine in Ireland in 1847, 1848 and 1849, is both a record of her work and an indictment of official policies toward the poor: land, employment, famine relief. In addition to telling Nicholson’s story, from her early life in Vermont and upstate New York to her better-known work in Ireland, Murphy puts Nicholson’s own writings and other historical documents in conversation. This not only contextualizes Nicholson’s life and work, but it also supplements the impersonal official records with Nicholson’s more compassionate and impassioned accounts of the Irish poor.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815652895
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The first biography of Asenath Nicholson, Compassionate Stranger recovers the largely forgotten history of an extraordinary woman. Trained as a school teacher, Nicholson was involved in the abolitionist, temperance, and diet reforms of the day before she left New York in 1844 “to personally investigate the condition of the Irish poor.” She walked alone throughout nearly every county in Ireland and reported on conditions in rural Ireland on the eve of the Great Irish Famine. She published Ireland’s Welcome to the Stranger, an account of her travels in 1847. She returned to Ireland in December 1846 to do what she could to relieve famine suffering—first in Dublin and then in the winter of 1847–48 in the west of Ireland where the suffering was greatest. Nicholson’s precise, detailed diaries and correspondence reveal haunting insights into the desperation of victims of the Famine and the negligence and greed of those who added to the suffering. Her account of the Great Irish Famine, Annals of the Famine in Ireland in 1847, 1848 and 1849, is both a record of her work and an indictment of official policies toward the poor: land, employment, famine relief. In addition to telling Nicholson’s story, from her early life in Vermont and upstate New York to her better-known work in Ireland, Murphy puts Nicholson’s own writings and other historical documents in conversation. This not only contextualizes Nicholson’s life and work, but it also supplements the impersonal official records with Nicholson’s more compassionate and impassioned accounts of the Irish poor.
A Treatise on the Unconstitutionality of American Slavery
Author: Joel Tiffany
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Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Young Men's Association of the City of Chicago
Author: Young Men's Association of the City of Chicago. Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Catalogue of Books in the South End Branch Library of the Boston Public Library
Author: Boston Public Library. South End Branch
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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A Catalogue of Books of the Mercantile Library Association
Author: Mercantile Library Association (Boston, Mass.)
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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