The Admission Registers of St. Paul's School, from 1748 to 1876
Author: St. Paul's School (London, England)
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 568
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Author: St. Paul's School (London, England)
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 568
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 562
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Published: 1884
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alfred Rayney Waller
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 638
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sir Adolphus William Ward
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 568
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: D. A. B. Ronald
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Published: 2019-01-19
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1612005225
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis biography of Britain’s spy chief during the Revolutionary War sheds new light on his conspiracy with Benedict Arnold—and his mysterious capture. John André was head of the British Army’s Secret Service in North America as the Revolutionary War entered its most decisive phase. In 1780, he masterminded the defection of the high-ranking American general Benedict Arnold. As the commander of West Point, Arnold agreed to turn the strategically vital fort over to the British. André and Arnold also conspired to kidnap George Washington. The secret negotiations between Arnold and André were protracted and fraught with danger. Arnold’s wife Peggy acted as go-between until September 21st, 1780, when the two men met face to face in no-man’s-land. But then André was captured forty-eight hours later, having broken every condition set by his commanding officer: he was within American lines, wearing civilian clothes, and carrying maps of West Point in his boots. When he announced himself as a spy, the Americans had no recourse. Tried by a military tribunal, he was convicted and hanged. André’s motives for his apparent sacrifice have baffled historians for generations. This biography provides a provocative answer to this mystery—explaining not only why he acted as he did, but how he wished others to see his actions.
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 564
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 1390
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Considine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-04-08
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0192568299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first volume in the trilogy Dictionaries in the English-Speaking World, 1500-1800, which will offer a new history of lexicography in and beyond the early modern British Isles. The volume explores the dictionaries, wordlists, and glossaries that were compiled and read by speakers of English from the end of the Middle Ages to the year 1600. These include the first printed dictionaries in which English words were collected; the dictionaries of Latin used by all educated English-speakers, from young children to Shakespeare to adult royalty; the dictionaries of modern languages that gave English-speakers access to the languages and cultures of continental Europe; dictionaries and wordlists documenting other languages from Armenian to Malagasy to Welsh; and a great variety of specialized English wordlists. No unified history has ever surveyed this vast, lively, and culturally significant lexicographical output before. The guiding principle of the book, and the trilogy, is that a story about dictionaries must also be a story about human beings. John Considine offers a full and sympathetic account of those who compiled and used these works, and those who supported them financially, paying particular attention to records of dictionary use and its traces in surviving copies. The volume will appeal to all those interested in the languages and literary cultures of the sixteenth-century English-speaking world.