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The author traces his Campbell ancestors through at least seven
generations to Perth in central Scotland. Details on children and
grandchildren are included when known. The author also includes
interesting facts about the times and places where they lived as
well as weaving their life stories into local history when he
believes it will add value. Details on living persons is limited or
excluded. Much of the information was passed down within the
author's family and is based on original sources that have not been
made available in published works other than the author's earlier
publication ""Cottrell-Brashear Family Linage"" which contained
some Campbell history. The author includes copies of family
documents as well as family photographs. Sources are extensively
documented as footnotes at the bottom of each page. Timeline and
ancestor charts are also provided. An ""all name"" index lists page
numbers for each individual.
Writer and editor Robert A. Parker has followed up his six-volume A
Literary Cavalcade with a seventh volume. This volume of criticism
covers mainly the fiction he has read from 2013 to early 2017. His
comments are informed by his Jesuit upbringing but also by an
independent critical view that balances a moral and literary
sensibility. The writers here represent a broad range of writing
styles, cultural influences, and moral philosophies. And all are
rated on their literary achievement, the effectiveness of plot,
character, and setting, plus their recognition of the moral,
ethical, and spiritual values of mankind. Here is a unique critical
perspective that measures the meaning of literature against the
meaning of life.
This book contains masses of perfume and fragrance accords ideal
for the perfumer. Containing Hesperidic Facet Accords, Aromatic
Accords, Sensual Narcotic Accords, Floral Accords, Gourmand
Accords, Green Facet Accords, Gresh Spicy Facet Accords, Hot Spicy
Facet Accords, Moss Facet Accords, Wood Facet Accords, Soft
Balsamic Facet Accords, and much much more.
A collection of notes, observations, essays, effluvium, and
distractions from the busy mind of Eric Lunde. Not all of it works,
but some of it might have application.
In A Short History of Russia Mary Platt Parmele takes the reader on
a survey of Russia's rich past, from the state's early dramatic
beginnings to its struggle to control society, the transformation
of the empire into a multi-ethnic empire, and beyond.
On the Pleasure of Hating, William Hazlitt's classic contemplation
of human hatred, is in this edition accompanied by several of his
finest essays. As one of England's most distinguished wits of the
early 19th century, William Hazlitt was an accomplished author,
painter and critic whose barbed prose was notorious in literary
circles at the time. Hazlitt wrote the titular essay of this
collection in 1826, when his personal circumstances were strained;
we thus find his tone both markedly resentful and embittered. On
the Pleasure of Hating is, however, among the finest and most
consistently insightful and lucid works Hazlitt ever wrote. Perhaps
Hazlitt's greatest claim to prowess was his ability to produce
succinct and quotable passages. Each of the six essays in this
compendium contain prime examples of the perceptive phrases and
summations which Hazlitt regularly produced in his prime.
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