The lessons for the day. Being the first and second chapters of the Book of preferment
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The lessons for the day. Being the first and second chapters of the Book of preferment

by Walpole, Horace

Publisher
Gale ECCO, Print Editions
Pages
20
Language
English
Published
2010

Overview

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.<br/>Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.<br/>++++<br/>The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:<br/>++++<br/>Harvard University Houghton Library<br/><br/>N002574<br/><br/>The second lesson" is the original text of Horace Walpole, which inspired this work, and several later imitations (see Hazen 1.1). A satire on William Pulteney and his friends.<br/><br/>London : printed for W. Webb, 1742. 12p. ; 2°

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