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A guide to more than 100 sights, incidents and legends from the
various parts of Oxfordshire. It features the tales of unsolved
murders, witchcraft, hangings, poltergeists, underground caves and
passages, 'cunning men', backswording and riots.
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++++ Two Music Speeches At Cambridge, Spoken At Public
Commencements In The Years 1714 And 1730, By R. Long And J. Taylor.
To Which Are Added, Dr. Taylot's Latin Speech At St. Mary's, 1730;
Poems, Essays, And Correspondence. To The Whole Are Prefixed,
Memoirs Of Dr. Taylor And Dr. Long Roger Long, John Taylor
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.The Age of
Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical
understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking.
Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel
Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and
moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade.
The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and
Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a
debate that continues in the twenty-first century.++++The below
data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
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++++British LibraryT045075Dicaiophilus Cantabrigiensis = Roger
Long. With a half-title and a final leaf of advertisements. The
ornaments are those used by Henry Woodfall.London: printed for J.
Senex, 1731. 4],50, 2]p.; 8
Curious Buckinghamshire is a guide to over 100 unusual and
extraordinary sights from all parts of the county. Featured here
are tales of unsolved murders, witchcraft, hangings, poltergeists,
'cunning men', underground caves, backswording and riots, as well
as myths, legends and folklore from around Buckinghamshire.
Illustrated with a range of photographs and original drawings,
Roger Long's entertaining stories will inspire Buckinghamshire
residents and visitors alike to greater exploration of both
familiar and unknown sights of this historically rich and curious
county.
For such a small county, reports of supernatural happenings around
Berkshire are surprisingly plentiful and varied. The haunting
figures range from shades of kings, queens, and dukes, to
apparitions of sobbing maidens and moaning men. They haunt all
manner of places such as castles, mansions, churchyards, cottages,
follies, and grottoes. The ghosts are sometimes victims such as
wretched murdered children; other times they are the criminals like
murderous policemen and thieving highwaymen. Supposedly less scary
are the reports of phantom vicars, landlords, and nuns. This
intriguing and very readable volume contains numerous reported
sightings of ghosts across one of the oldest counties in England.
A Grim Almanac of Old Berkshire is a day-by-day catalogue of
ghastly tales dating from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries.
Full of torment and torture, heinous homicides and cataclysms of
nature, these pages contain multiple murders, horrendous hauntings
and audacious thefts. Have you heard the story of the pub landlord
who attempted to end it all by leaping down his own well? All he
achieved was a broken ankle. Also featured here are the Watchfield
farmer who tried to turn his wife into cooking fat, the family who
charged people to view their relative's decapitated body, and the
violent poltergeist activity that took place at the old forge at
Finchampstead and made national news headlines in 1926. This
compilation of grim deeds contains a veritable plethora of
poisonings, assaults, drownings, kidnappings, suicides and
disasters. If you have ever wondered about what nasty goings-on
occurred in the Berkshire of yesteryear, then look no further -
it's all here. But do you have the stomach for it?
Covers many historic hostelries along the Thames. This title
features over sixty inns, with potted histories, illustrations and
directions on how to find them. It begins in the capital and wends
its way along the course of the river, working its way back to the
source. It is useful to those with an interest in local and social
history.
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