 | Bibliography, National - 1859 - 670 pages
...epitome, for it founds itself on a great deal of various reading, and gives results more than abstráete. At the same time, it devotes sufficient space to any...bearing on the progress or character of the nation." They also publish the first volume of Rawlinson's " History of Herodotus." The object of thU work is... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - Great Britain - 1860 - 596 pages
...results from its author.s mind of his various rending rather thun the abstracts of what he read, it yet devotes sufficient space to any occurrences which...bearing on the progress or character of the nation. It is believed to be more especially adapted to the benefit of general readers who are anxious for... | |
 | James White - History, Modern - 1862 - 546 pages
...results from its author's mind of his various reading rather than the abstracts of what he read, it yet devotes sufficient space to any occurrences which..."bearing on the progress or character of the nation. It is believed to be more especially adapted to the benefit of general readers who are anxious for... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1862 - 436 pages
...results from its author's mind of his various reading rather than the abstracts of what he read, it yet devotes sufficient space to any occurrences which...bearing on the progress or character of the nation. It is believed to be more especially adapted to the benefit of general readers who are anxious for... | |
 | David Page - Physical geography - 1863 - 228 pages
...Earliest Times to 1848. By the Rev. JAMES WHITE, Author of " The Eighteen Christian Centuries." " This book makes an attempt to furnish a readable account...in searching out the causes of obscure events."— Author's Preface. " Contains every leading incident worth the telling, and abounds in word-painting,... | |
 | John William Colenso - Bible - 1863 - 252 pages
...results from its author's mind of his various reading lather than the abstracts of what he read, it yet devotes sufficient space to any occurrences which...bearing on the progress or character of the nation. It is believed to be more especially adapted to the benefit of general readers who are anxious for... | |
 | Milo Mahan - Bible - 1863 - 136 pages
...mind of his various reading father than the abstracts of what he read, it yet devotes sufficient spam to any occurrences which seem to have a general bearing on the progress or character of the nation. It is believed to be more especially adapted to the benefit of general readers who are anxious for... | |
 | Alexander Mackay - Geography - 1864 - 334 pages
...Earliest Times to 1848. By the Rev. JAMES WHITE, Author of ' The Eighteen Christian Centuries.' " This book makes an attempt to furnish a readable account...philosophic in searching out the causes of obscure events."—Author's Preface. " Contains every leading incident worth the telling, and abounds in word-painting,... | |
 | David Page - Physical geography - 1864 - 374 pages
...At the same time it .evotes sufficient space to any occurrences which seem to have a general bearng on the progress or character of the nation. But it does not profess to be ery minute in its record of trifling or nninfluential occurrences, nor phOosoihic in searching out... | |
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This book makes an attempt to furnish a readable account of the country with which we are in closest neighbourhood, and yet of whose history the generality of us know less than of that of almost any other kingdom. It aims at something higher than a mere... 
