Extracts from the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry: From the Year 1783 to 1852, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1866 |
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Página xvii
... historical interest to many trifling incidents in her journals ; and changes and improvements that steal imperceptibly on , in manners , in morals , in refinement , in general convenience , and in opinions , become more defined and more ...
... historical interest to many trifling incidents in her journals ; and changes and improvements that steal imperceptibly on , in manners , in morals , in refinement , in general convenience , and in opinions , become more defined and more ...
Página xviii
... history becomes more or less valuable as it presents more or less lively pictures , not only of events , but of their effects on the minds and manners of contemporaries . Miss Berry's first literary effort was in assisting , or rather ...
... history becomes more or less valuable as it presents more or less lively pictures , not only of events , but of their effects on the minds and manners of contemporaries . Miss Berry's first literary effort was in assisting , or rather ...
Página xxiii
... history and the archives of the state furnish many of the documents required ; while those of private individuals have to collect every particular from accidental materials , from combining and comparing letters , and otherwise ...
... history and the archives of the state furnish many of the documents required ; while those of private individuals have to collect every particular from accidental materials , from combining and comparing letters , and otherwise ...
Página xxiv
... history . She disclaims ' great political speculations ' and ' finan- cial details , ' and says ' that nothing is attempted but a re- view of " Social Life " and manners , from materials open to every one as well as to the Author ...
... history . She disclaims ' great political speculations ' and ' finan- cial details , ' and says ' that nothing is attempted but a re- view of " Social Life " and manners , from materials open to every one as well as to the Author ...
Página xxv
... historical composition of accessories necessary to give substance and life to the events and characters of which they treat . Neither history nor biography can be re- corded with the fulness of the daily press or the minute- ness of a ...
... historical composition of accessories necessary to give substance and life to the events and characters of which they treat . Neither history nor biography can be re- corded with the fulness of the daily press or the minute- ness of a ...
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Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry: From ..., Volume 1 Mary Berry Visualização integral - 1865 |
Extracts from the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry: From ..., Volume 1 Mary Berry Visualização integral - 1866 |
Extracts from the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry: From ..., Volume 1 Mary Berry Visualização integral - 1866 |
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