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This is a volume of selected passages from the extensive diary of
General Gordon: the soldier of fortune, whose memoirs are now
introduced to the SPALDING CLUB, had been but a short while dead
when public attention was turned to the eight or ten thick quartos,
in which, for forty years, he had recorded, day by day. the
incidents of his eventful life. So early as 1724, a translation of
the Journal from its original English into Russian. In printing
these selections, an attempt has been made so far to connect them
together, by an outline of Gordon's life in the interval, with
occasional quotations from some of the more memorable pages of his
Journal, such as those in which he notes the beginnings of his
intimacy with Peter the Great or chronicles the prompt and vigorous
acts by which he quelled the revolt of the Strelitzes.
First published in 1968. This is a volume of selected passages from
the extensive diary of General Gordon: the soldier of fortune,
whose memoirs are now introduced to the Spadling Club, who had been
but a short while dead when public attention was turned to the
eight or ten thick quartos, in which, for forty years, he had
recorded, day by day, the incidents of his eventful life. So early
as 1724, a translation of the Journal from its original English
into Russian. In printing these selections, an attempt has been
made so far to connect them together, by an outline of Gordon's
life in the interval, with occasional quotations from some of the
more memorable pages of his Journal, such as those in which he
notes the beginnings of his intimacy with Peter the Great or
chronicles the prompt and vigorous acts by which he quelled the
revolt of the Strelitzes.
One of the attractive features of the great classical ethologists
was their readiness to ask different kinds of questions about
behavior - and to do so without muddling the answers. Niko
Tinbergen, for instance, was interested in the evolution of
behavior. But he also had interests in the present-day sur vival
value of a behavior pattern and in the mechanisms that control it
from moment to moment. Broad as his interests were, he clearly
separated out the problems and recognized that questions about the
history, function, control, and development of behavior require
distinct approaches - even though the answers to one type of
question may aid in finding answers to another. The open-minded
(and clear-headed) style of ethologists like Tinbergen was based on
a recognition that there are diverse ways of usefully con ducting
research on behavior. This consciousness has been partially sub
merged in recent years by new waves of narrowly focused enthusiasm.
For instance, the study of the behavior of whole animals without
recourse to lower levels of analysis, and the treatment of
sociobiological theories as ex planation for how individuals
develop, has meant that the relatively fragile plants of
neuroethology and behavioral ontogeny have almost disappeared under
the flood."
Title: The history of the war in America between Great Britain and
her colonies: from its commencement to the end of the year 1778: i
which its origin, progress, and operations are faithfully related,
together with anecdotes and characters of the different commanders,
and accounts of such personages in Congress as have distinguished
themselves during the contest: to which is added, a collection of
interesting and authentic papers tending to elucidate the
history.Author: Patrick GordonPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography,
Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a
collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the
Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and
exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War
and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++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: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP01499001CollectionID:
CTRG95-B9PublicationDate: 17790101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: One of a number of histories of the American
Revolution plagiarized from the Annual register, London. Cf. Libby,
O.G. "Some pseudo-histories of the American Revolution."
Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters,
v. 13 (1900), p. 419. Attributed to Patrick Gordon in Halkett and
Laing. Made up of sheets used first in: Ferguson, T. A complete
history of the present civil war between Great Britain and the
United Colonies of North America ... London i.e., Dublin]: Printed
for J. Hayes, 1779. Cf. Adams, T.R. The American controversy, 1980,
no. 79-56. Vol. 1 includes "A new map of North America" and a
folded table with lists of His Majesty's forces killed, wounded and
missing in the battles of Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, and
Long Island. Vol. 2, with half-title "Interesting and authentic
papers, relative to the contest between Great Britain and her
colonies," includes index. Vol. 3, published in 1785, has title:
The history of the war in America between Great Britain and her
colonies, from its commencement to the conclusion in 1783. ... "In
two volumes." Includes index.Collation: 3 v.: map; 21 cm. (8vo.)
Title: The history of the war in America between Great Britain and
her colonies: from its commencement to the end of the year 1778: i
which its origin, progress, and operations are faithfully related,
together with anecdotes and characters of the different commanders,
and accounts of such personages in Congress as have distinguished
themselves during the contest: to which is added, a collection of
interesting and authentic papers tending to elucidate the
history.Author: Patrick GordonPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography,
Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a
collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the
Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and
exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War
and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++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: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP01499002CollectionID:
CTRG95-B9PublicationDate: 17790101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: One of a number of histories of the American
Revolution plagiarized from the Annual register, London. Cf. Libby,
O.G. "Some pseudo-histories of the American Revolution."
Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters,
v. 13 (1900), p. 419. Attributed to Patrick Gordon in Halkett and
Laing. Made up of sheets used first in: Ferguson, T. A complete
history of the present civil war between Great Britain and the
United Colonies of North America ... London i.e., Dublin]: Printed
for J. Hayes, 1779. Cf. Adams, T.R. The American controversy, 1980,
no. 79-56. Vol. 1 includes "A new map of North America" and a
folded table with lists of His Majesty's forces killed, wounded and
missing in the battles of Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, and
Long Island. Vol. 2, with half-title "Interesting and authentic
papers, relative to the contest between Great Britain and her
colonies," includes index. Vol. 3, published in 1785, has title:
The history of the war in America between Great Britain and her
colonies, from its commencement to the conclusion in 1783. ... "In
two volumes." Includes index.Collation: 3 v.: map; 21 cm. (8vo.)
Title: Geography anatomiz'd, or, The geographical grammar: being a
short and exact analysis of the whole body of modern geography
after a new and curious method: comprehending, I. A general view of
the terraqueous globe ...: II. A particular view of the terraqueous
globe ...Author: Patrick GordonPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography,
Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a
collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the
Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and
exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War
and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++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: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04741400CollectionID:
CTRG04-B296PublicationDate: 17300101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Collation: 20], 416 p., 16] leaves of plates (fold.):
maps; 20 cm
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.Rich in titles on
English life and social history, this collection spans the world as
it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles
include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of
nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world
that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American
Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side
of conflict. ++++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: ++++<sourceLibrary>William Andrews
Clark Memorial Library (UCLA)<ESTCID>N007003<Notes>With
a half-title and two final advertisement leaves. Titlepage in red
and black.<imprintFull>London: printed for S. and J. Sprint,
John Nicholson, and S. Burroughs; Andr. Bell, and R. Smith, 1704.
<collation> 24],428, 4]p., plates: maps; 8
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