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'To read it is like seeing the scenes described' Evening
Standard
'One of the world's best travel books' Spectator 'The work remains
a classic worthy of reproduction' The Times Published to critical
acclaim and well known for many years afterwards this account of
the journey across Mongolia to Lhasa in the early nineteenth
century owes much of its success to the literary skills of its
authors, made available in English for the first time by William
Hazlitt and Paul Pelliot.
Among other topics the chapters cover: The French mission of
Peking, Tartar manners and customs, festivals, an interview with a
Tibetan Lama, the flooding of the Yellow River, Tartar veterinary
surgeons, irrigation projects, comparative studies between
Catholicism and Buddhism, war between two living Buddhas, and the
Chinese account of Tibet.
First published in 1928.
'To read it is like seeing the scenes described' Evening
Standard
'One of the world's best travel books' Spectator 'The work remains
a classic worthy of reproduction' The Times
Published to critical acclaim and well known for many years
afterwards this account of the journey across Mongolia to Lhasa in
the early nineteenth century owes much of its success to the
literary skills of its authors, made available in English for the
first time by William Hazlitt and Paul Pelliot.
Among other topics the chapters cover: The French mission of
Peking, Tartar manners and customs, festivals, an interview with a
Tibetan Lama, the flooding of the Yellow River, Tartar veterinary
surgeons, irrigation projects, comparative studies between
Catholicism and Buddhism, war between two living Buddhas, and the
Chinese account of Tibet.
The critic, essayist and painter William Hazlitt (1778 1830)
published and lectured widely on English literature, from
Elizabethan drama to reviews of the latest work of his own time.
His first extended work of literary criticism was Characters of
Shakespeare's Plays, published in 1817. This volume from 1908 takes
the text of the first edition and adds notes explaining complex
terms to readers and an introduction by J. H. Lobban, a lecturer in
English at Birkbeck College. As such it is the ideal introduction
to Hazlitt's criticism. Hazlitt's political view of Shakespeare
drew the ire of the Tory Quarterly review, whose hostile review
destroyed sales of the second edition. The work remains of value,
however, both as a contribution to the study of Shakespeare and, as
with all of Hazlitt's prose, as a model of an elegant, persuasive
essay.
'To read it is like seeing the scenes described' Evening Standard
'One of the world's best travel books' Spectator 'The work remains
a classic worthy of reproduction' The Times Published to critical
acclaim and well known for many years afterwards this account of
the journey across Mongolia to Lhasa in the early nineteenth
century owes much of its success to the literary skills of its
authors, made available in English for the first time by William
Hazlitt and Paul Pelliot. Among other topics the chapters cover:
The French mission of Peking, Tartar manners and customs,
festivals, an interview with a Tibetan Lama, the flooding of the
Yellow River, Tartar veterinary surgeons, irrigation projects,
comparative studies between Catholicism and Buddhism, war between
two living Buddhas, and the Chinese account of Tibet.
First published in 1928. 'To read it is like seeing the scenes
described' Evening Standard 'One of the world's best travel books'
Spectator 'The work remains a classic worthy of reproduction' The
Times Published to critical acclaim and well known for many years
afterwards this account of the journey across Mongolia to Lhasa in
the early nineteenth century owes much of its success to the
literary skills of its authors, made available in English for the
first time by William Hazlitt and Paul Pelliot. Among other topics
the chapters cover: The French mission of Peking, Tartar manners
and customs, festivals, an interview with a Tibetan Lama, the
flooding of the Yellow River, Tartar veterinary surgeons,
irrigation projects, comparative studies between Catholicism and
Buddhism, war between two living Buddhas, and the Chinese account
of Tibet.
This work by Augustin Thierry (1795 1856) on the Norman conquest of
England was first published in French in 1825, the two-volume
translation into English following in 1847. Thierry employed a
relatively new technique in historiography, as he consulted only
original texts and documents, and insisted upon interpreting the
sources in as much detail as possible. He was adamant that the
events, ideas and political positions he chronicled should be
interpreted in their own terms and not subjected to a limited
nineteenth-century perspective. Volume 1 briefly outlines English
history in the Roman and Viking period before concentrating on the
period 1048 1137. The author also shares some of his reflections on
the challenges of writing history with his readers. Volume 2 deals
with England in the period 1137 to 1196, but also considers the
consequences of the Norman conquest on Scotland, Wales, Ireland and
France.
This work by Augustin Thierry (1795 1856) on the Norman conquest of
England was first published in French in 1825, the two-volume
translation into English following in 1847. Thierry employed a
relatively new technique in historiography, as he consulted only
original texts and documents, and insisted upon interpreting the
sources in as much detail as possible. He was adamant that the
events, ideas and political positions he chronicled should be
interpreted in their own terms and not subjected to a limited
nineteenth-century perspective. Volume 1 is divided into seven
parts and traces the aboriginal populations of Britain from the
period 55 BCE, closing with the death of William the Conqueror and
an account of the last efforts of the English to overthrow the
Norman yoke in 1137. The author also shares some of his reflections
on the challenges of writing history with his readers.
This work by Augustin Thierry (1795 1856) on the Norman conquest of
England was first published in French in 1825, the two-volume
translation into English following in 1847. Thierry employed a
relatively new technique in historiography, as he consulted only
original texts and documents, and insisted upon interpreting the
sources in as much detail as possible. He was adamant that the
events, ideas and political positions he chronicled should be
interpreted in their own terms and not subjected to a limited
nineteenth-century perspective. In Volume 2, Thierry widens his
scope, and while his main focus continues to be on England in the
period 1137 to 1196, he also considers the consequences of the
Norman Conquest on Scotland, Wales, Ireland and France. The volume
contains a number of fascinating appendices, ranging from the
correspondence of Thomas Becket to a popular ballad telling of the
birth of Robin Hood.
Originally given as a series of lectures at the Sorbonne, Francois
Guizots The History of Civilization in Europe was published to
great acclaim in 1828 and is now regarded as a classic in modern
historical research. The History was particularly influential on
Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis de Tocqueville.
Tocqueville, in fact, requested that a copy of The History be sent
to him when he arrived in the United States. This volume offers
what Guizot himself describes as a philosophic history of Europe,
one which searches for the underlying general causes and effects of
particular events. Guizot considers European civilization in its
broadest senses, encompassing not merely political, economic, and
social structures, but also the ideas, faculties, and sentiments of
man himself. Guizot understood a two-way relationship between
external conditions (i.e., social, political, and economic
conditions) and the inner man: external conditions affect the inner
man, whos moral and intellectual developments eventually shape
social and other external conditions. Guizots History describes the
development of European civilization in terms of the inevitable
advance of equality of conditions, due to many factors, including a
new emphasis on the individual. The author explores the
decentralization of power that characterized feudalism, the
centralization of power after the fifteenth century, and finally
the rebuilding of local autonomy necessary for representative and
free government. As Editor Larry Siedentop describes, The
[Historys] moral is about the social and political consequences of
destroying local liberty ...excessive concentration of power at the
center of any society is, in the long run, its own undoing.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830), that most engaging of English
essayists, is provocatively and congenially at home in this new
collection of his city essays that spark with urbane wit and
gossip. Characters from his world come alive: Wordsworth and Beau
Brummell, street jugglers and coffee house politicians, the ladies'
maid returning from Italy 'as giddy as if she had been up in a
balloon' and the literary footmen who 'wear green spectacles' and
'are seen reading books they do not understand at the Museum and
public libraries'.Gregory Dart's selection reminds us that Hazlitt
is not only an important critic and polemicist, but also a
reflective, wry, wise and humorous writer, a man who relished
London life. Many of the essays included here are made available
for the first time in paperback. A detailed introduction and notes
set them in their context and clarify contemporary references.
In 1822 William Hazlitt, forty-four years old and married, was both
tormented and enchanted by Sarah Walker, his landlady's
nineteen-year-old daughter. "Liber Amoris" is the chronicle of that
obsession, an extraordinary fragment of Romantic autobiography that
explores the unstable nature of what individuals perceive as
'truth', the unknowability of others, and leaves the reader unsure
of who is victim, who seducer in this haunting relationship.
Gregory Dart sets "Liber Amoris" in its context of Hazlitt's other
writings from 1822-3, and provides a wealth of fascinating notes
that take us deep into the period and the writer's imagination.
Originally given as a series of lectures at the Sorbonne, Francois
Guizots "The History of Civilization in Europe" was published to
great acclaim in 1828 and is now regarded as a classic in modern
historical research. The History was particularly influential on
Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis de Tocqueville.
Tocqueville, in fact, requested that a copy of The History be sent
to him when he arrived in the United States. This volume offers
what Guizot himself describes as a philosophic history of Europe,
one which searches for the underlying general causes and effects of
particular events. Guizot considers European civilisation in its
broadest senses, encompassing not merely political, economic, and
social structures, but also the ideas, faculties, and sentiments of
man himself". Guizot understood a two-way relationship between
external conditions (i.e., social, political, and economic
conditions) and the inner man: external conditions affect the inner
man, whos moral and intellectual developments eventually shape
social and other external conditions. Guizots History describes the
development of European civilisation in terms of the inevitable
advance of equality of conditions, due to many factors, including a
new emphasis on the individual. The author explores the
decentralisation of power that characterised feudalism, the
centralisation of power after the fifteenth century, and finally
the rebuilding of local autonomy necessary for representative and
free government. As Editor Larry Siedentop describes, The
[Historys] moral is about the social and political consequences of
destroying local liberty ...excessive concentration of power at the
centre of any society is, in the long run, its own undoing.
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