ISBN: 9781231098134

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 278 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.6in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… Plus…

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 278 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.6in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: . . . at this period 317 Hume . ib. Robertson 318 Gibbon v. . . . 319 Their merits compared 321 Aid from Rolls and Deeds 322 Publication of Domesday Book 323 Varieties in the historical style 324 Attacks upon revealed religion 325 Superstitions in Italy 326 Lord Chesterfields Letters ib. Dr. Johnson 327 Origin of the Club. 329 Its progress to the present time ib. Dr. Goldsmith 332 The School of Pope In poetry 333 Gray ib. Cowper 334 Rise of British Art 335 Sir Joshua Reynolds ib. His early studies ib. Foundation of the Royal Academy 337 Portrait-painting 338 Hogarth 339 Ramsay. . . . . ib. Romney 340 Gainsborough ib. Meetings of the Royal Academy 341 Growing admiration for the Old Masters 342 National Gallery 343 New taste in gardening 344 Old-fashioned garden at Levens ib Lancelot Brown 345 APPENDIX 347--404 THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE PEACE OF UTEECHT. VOL. VI. CHAPTER LI. w Hile thus for very different reasons and with very different results both Franklin and Fox were dismissed from office, tidings of no common importance had reached England from North America. Throughout that country the appearance of the tea-ships, as planned by Lord North, and as freighted by the East India Company, had provoked not only resentment but resistance. It was believed, or at least it was asserted, that this was only the first step in a course of intended tyranny; that England desired nothing so much as the oppression of her Colonies; that if the local duty on the Teas should be quietly paid, other more odious imposts, --a window-tax, a hearth-tax, a land-tax, and a poll-tax, --were in contemplation, and were sure to be enacted. Even before any one of the tea-ships came in sight mobs had risen in several places, and violently threatened the consignees of the expec. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<