Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1869-1870 (Classic Reprint)
Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1869-1870 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Massachusetts Historical Society

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2019-01-22

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 9780365264309

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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1869-1870 This volume contains a selection from the proceedings of the} massachusetts historical society, beginning With the Annual Meeting in April, 1869, and ending with the stated monthly meeting in December, 1870. The engraved portraits of the Hon. Levi lincoln, LL.D., the Rev. Alvan lamson, D.D., and the Rev. Nathaniel L. Frothingham, D.D., were furnished by their respective families, at the request of the Committee and-that of isaac P. Davis, Esq., by our associate Mr. George T. Davis. They were engraved from photo graphs by the artists Whose names they bear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Publications, Vol. 5
Publications, Vol. 5

Author: Cambridge Historical Society

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-07-11

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9781333040963

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Excerpt from Publications, Vol. 5: Proceedings, January 25 October 25, 1910 For every sin of management there are a dozen sins of use in publishing historical material. It is one thing to collect, and quite another to publish. The necessity for collecting printed matter has been much restricted in recent years by the growth Of the public library. The necessary tools of workers and the rare or unusual are proper Objects Of a collecting society. Yet even here there are limitations. Why, for example, should the Massachusetts Bistori cal Society, or this Society, seek to Obtain the rarities of New England history by purchase, when copies are available in the Boston Public, in Harvard University, in the John Carter Brown and in the American Antiquarian Society libraries? These rarities cost from $50 to $1000, and no one short of a millionaire can hope to gather even a small number of them in a lifetime Of ardent collecting. The Massachusetts Historical Society has directed its means towards publishing, and wisely; for many a society has been burdened with a few very good pieces, buried in eccentrically geo graphical situations, where they cannot be seen and their very exist ence is almost unknown; and many a one has been crippled at the outset by this ambition to have and to hold costly rarities. The mere possession and its cost have reduced them to a condition of helplessness in publishing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

MEMOIR OF WILLIAM C ENDICOTT L
MEMOIR OF WILLIAM C ENDICOTT L

Author: William Crowninshield Endicott

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-08

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9781333507282

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Excerpt from Memoir of William C. Endicott, LL. D: Communicated by Charles Francis Adams at a Meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, February 13, 1902 Vice-president Board Of Trustees for the Pro motion of Science and Useful Knowledge in the County of Essex. President of the Board of Trustees of the Peabody Academy of Science at Salem. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Mirror of Antiquity
The Mirror of Antiquity

Author: Caroline Winterer

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780801441639

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In The Mirror of Antiquity, Caroline Winterer uncovers the lost world of American women's classicism during its glory days from the eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Overturning the widely held belief that classical learning and political ideals were relevant only to men, she follows the lives of four generations of American women through their diaries, letters, books, needlework, and drawings, demonstrating how classicism was at the center of their experience as mothers, daughters, and wives. Importantly, she pays equal attention to women from the North and from the South, and to the ways that classicism shaped the lives of black women in slavery and freedom.In a strikingly innovative use of both texts and material culture, Winterer exposes the neoclassical world of furnishings, art, and fashion created in part through networks dominated by elite women. Many of these women were at the center of the national experience. Here readers will find Abigail Adams, teaching her children Latin and signing her letters as Portia, the wife of the Roman senator Brutus; the Massachusetts slave Phillis Wheatley, writing poems in imitation of her favorite books, Alexander Pope's Iliad and Odyssey; Dolley Madison, giving advice on Greek taste and style to the U.S. Capitol's architect, Benjamin Latrobe; and the abolitionist and feminist Lydia Maria Child, who showed Americans that modern slavery had its roots in the slave societies of Greece and Rome. Thoroughly embedded in the major ideas and events of the time--the American Revolution, slavery and abolitionism, the rise of a consumer society--this original book is a major contribution to American cultural and intellectual history.

Narrative Remarks, Expository Notes, and Historical Criticisms
Narrative Remarks, Expository Notes, and Historical Criticisms

Author: Samuel Gardner Drake

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-27

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9780666498526

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Excerpt from Narrative Remarks, Expository Notes, and Historical Criticisms: On the New England Historical and Genealogical Society, and Incidentally on the Massachusetts Historical Society Like sophists why will you dispute With wisdom so, you do confute None but yourselves for shame be mute. Charlatanism, or accident, may gain applause, genius may miss it. And who can be calm under slights and insults which he knows that he does not deserve. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Memoir of the Hon. Abbott Lawrence
Memoir of the Hon. Abbott Lawrence

Author: Nathan Appleton

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-28

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9781332058921

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Excerpt from Memoir of the Hon. Abbott Lawrence: Prepared for the Massachusetts Historical Society At a stated meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, on the 13th day of March, 1856, after the formal business of the morning had been transacted, the following Memoir of their late associate member, the Honorable Abbott Lawrence, was presented, agreeably to a previous appointment of the Society, by the Honorable Nathan Appleton, and, having been read by him, was referred to the Committee of Publication, for the purpose of being printed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.