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Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 144290674X
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Languages : en
Pages : 450
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The Mississippi Bubble (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)
Author:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 144290674X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 144290674X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Essays
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Books for Libraries
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher: Books for Libraries
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The Rise of Historical Criticism
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427056986
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The Rise of Historical Criticism, published in complete form in 1908, is a mature essay by Oscar Wilde, evaluating the history and current state of criticism. The writer goes back in history and tries to remould the art of criticism with allusions to various critics, genres, and periods. Filled with wit and sublimity, the essay is a comprehensive piece of writing that enlightens the ordinary sense through innovative spirit.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427056986
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The Rise of Historical Criticism, published in complete form in 1908, is a mature essay by Oscar Wilde, evaluating the history and current state of criticism. The writer goes back in history and tries to remould the art of criticism with allusions to various critics, genres, and periods. Filled with wit and sublimity, the essay is a comprehensive piece of writing that enlightens the ordinary sense through innovative spirit.
The English Renaissance of Art
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781548295585
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
AMONG the many debts which we owe to the supreme aesthetic faculty of Goethe is that he was the first to teach us to define beauty in terms the most concrete possible, to realise it, I mean, always in its special manifestations. So, in the lecture which I have the honour to deliver before you, I will not try to give you any abstract definition of beauty - any such universal formula for it as was sought for by the philosophy of the eighteenth century - still less to communicate to you that which in its essence is incommunicable, the virtue by which a particular picture or poemaffects us with a unique and special joy; but rather to point out to you the general ideas which characterise the great English Renaissance of Art in this century, to discover their source, as far as that is possible, and to estimate their future as far as that is possible.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781548295585
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
AMONG the many debts which we owe to the supreme aesthetic faculty of Goethe is that he was the first to teach us to define beauty in terms the most concrete possible, to realise it, I mean, always in its special manifestations. So, in the lecture which I have the honour to deliver before you, I will not try to give you any abstract definition of beauty - any such universal formula for it as was sought for by the philosophy of the eighteenth century - still less to communicate to you that which in its essence is incommunicable, the virtue by which a particular picture or poemaffects us with a unique and special joy; but rather to point out to you the general ideas which characterise the great English Renaissance of Art in this century, to discover their source, as far as that is possible, and to estimate their future as far as that is possible.
The Mississippi Bubble; a Memoir of John Law
Author: Adolphe Thiers
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230401263
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ...believed that so large an amount of property would glut. The holder of the assignats might use them as money or claim the land which they represented. As more forfeitures occurred, the issue of assignats increased. But it soon ceased to be measured by property and was enlarged according to the exigencies of the revolutionary government. The paper money fell to hah," then to a sixth part of the value of the same denomination in silver, and sinking rapidly through successive grades of decrease, silver held at last the value of one hundred and fifty times its denomination in paper. In August of 1793, 3,776 millions of francs were thus put in circulation; and virtually, the assignats became worthless. (11.) "The cupidity which it (speculation) excited among all classes of people, from the very lowest up to magistrates, bishops, and even princes, distracted all attention from public affairs, and all minds from political ambitious schemes, by filling them with the fear of losing and avidity of gain. It was a new and prodigious game in which all citizens bet, one against another. Desperate gamblers will not quit their cards to annoy the government. It happened, from a series of causes perceptible only to the most experienced and most sagacious understanding, that a system entirely chimerical created a real commerce and revived the Indian Company, formerly established, by the celebrated Colbert, and ruined by the wars. In fine, although there were many private fortunes ruined, the nation soon became more commercial and more rich. This system quickened the intelligence as civil war arouses the courage of a nation. "The fury for speculation was an epidemic disorder which spread into Holland and England. It merits the attention of...
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230401263
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ...believed that so large an amount of property would glut. The holder of the assignats might use them as money or claim the land which they represented. As more forfeitures occurred, the issue of assignats increased. But it soon ceased to be measured by property and was enlarged according to the exigencies of the revolutionary government. The paper money fell to hah," then to a sixth part of the value of the same denomination in silver, and sinking rapidly through successive grades of decrease, silver held at last the value of one hundred and fifty times its denomination in paper. In August of 1793, 3,776 millions of francs were thus put in circulation; and virtually, the assignats became worthless. (11.) "The cupidity which it (speculation) excited among all classes of people, from the very lowest up to magistrates, bishops, and even princes, distracted all attention from public affairs, and all minds from political ambitious schemes, by filling them with the fear of losing and avidity of gain. It was a new and prodigious game in which all citizens bet, one against another. Desperate gamblers will not quit their cards to annoy the government. It happened, from a series of causes perceptible only to the most experienced and most sagacious understanding, that a system entirely chimerical created a real commerce and revived the Indian Company, formerly established, by the celebrated Colbert, and ruined by the wars. In fine, although there were many private fortunes ruined, the nation soon became more commercial and more rich. This system quickened the intelligence as civil war arouses the courage of a nation. "The fury for speculation was an epidemic disorder which spread into Holland and England. It merits the attention of...
The Mississippi Bubble: A Memoir of John Law
Author: Adolphe Thiers
Publisher: Salzwasser-Verlag
ISBN: 9783375135195
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.
Publisher: Salzwasser-Verlag
ISBN: 9783375135195
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.
The Mississippi Bubble
Author: Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Mississippi Bubble
Author: Emerson Emerson Hough
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781981137879
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
As a novel embodying a wonderful period in the growth of America "The Mississippi Bubble" is of intense interest. As a love story it is rarely and beautifully told. John Law, as drawn in this novel, is a great character, cool, debonair, audacious, he is an Admirable Crichton in his personality, and a Napoleon in his far-reaching wisdom. -The Chicago American.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781981137879
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
As a novel embodying a wonderful period in the growth of America "The Mississippi Bubble" is of intense interest. As a love story it is rarely and beautifully told. John Law, as drawn in this novel, is a great character, cool, debonair, audacious, he is an Admirable Crichton in his personality, and a Napoleon in his far-reaching wisdom. -The Chicago American.
Life on the Mississippi; In Two Volumes
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387316445
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387316445
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Old Times on the Mississippi
Author: Mark Twain
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Languages : en
Pages :
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