Works and Life: Volume 4 - Couverture souple

Forster, John; Landor, Walter Savage

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3337093841 ISBN 13 : 9783337093846

Editeur : Hansebooks, 2017

Synopsis

Works and Life - Volume 4 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1876. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Broolce I come again unto the woods and unto the wilds of Penshurst, whither my heart and the friend of my heart have long invited me. Sidney. Welcome, welcome !H ow delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence !H ow delightful to chide him for that length of absence, to which we owe such delight. Brooke. I know not whether our names will be immortal; I am sure our friendship will. For names sound only upon the surface of the earth, while friendships are the purer, and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the sun not only of righteousness but of love. Ours never has been chipt or dimmed even here, and never shall be. Sidney. Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase Lord Brooke is less known than the personage with whom he converses, and upon whose friendship he had the virtue and good-sense to found his chief distinction. On his monument at Warwick, written by himself, we read that he was servant of Queen Elizabeth, counsellor of King James, and friend of Sir Philip Sidney. His style is stiff, but his sentiments are sound and manly. The same house produced another true patriot, slain in the civil wars by a shot from Lichfield minster. Clarendon, without any ground for his assertion, says there is reason to believe he would have abandoned his party and principles. The family is extant: a member of it was created Earl of Warwick by George II. for services as Lord of theB
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hansebooks
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3337093841
• ISBN 13: 9783337093846
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 538
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• Personne responsable: non disponible