View of ancient and modern Egypt : with an outline of its natural history /

Includes bibliographical footnotes.

A popular cyclopedia of history, ancient and modern, forming a copious historical dictionary of celebrated institutions, persons, places, and things; with notices of the present state of the principal cities, countries, and kingdoms of the known world: to which is added, a chronological view of memorable events ...

An earlier edition appeared in 1835.

An historical and descriptive account of China; its ancient and modern history, language, literature, religion, government, industry, manners, and social state; intercourse with Europe from the earliest ages; missions and embassies to the imperial court; British and foreign commerce; directions to navigators; state of mathematics and astronomy; survey of its geography, geology, botany, and zoology.

Added t.p., illustrated.

View of ancient and modern Egypt : with an outline of its natural history /

Pagination includes plates.

Ancient geography, as connected with chronology, and preparatory to the study of ancient history; accompanied with an atlas. Compiled chiefly from D'Anville, Adam, Lavoisne, Malte Brun, and other standard works. To which are added problems on the globes, and rules for the construction of maps. To accompany the modern geography by William C. Woodbridge.

Bound with Woodbridge, W.C. A system of universal geography. Hartford 1835.

The modern British Plutarch; or, Lives of men distinguished in the recent history of England for their talents, virtues, or achievements.

Richard Arkwright.--Edmund Burke.--Robert Burns.--Lord Byron.--George Canning.--Earl of Chatham.--Dr. Adam Clarke.--Lord Clive.--Captain Cook.--William Cowper.--Rev. George Crabbe.--Sir Humphrey Davy.--Lord Eldon.--Lord Erskine.--Charles James Fox.--Benjamin Franklin.--Oliver Goldsmith.--Henry Grattan.--Earl Grey.--Warren Hastings.--Bishop Heber.--John Howard.--Dr. Jenner.--Sir William Jones.--Sir James Mackintosh.--Rev. Henry Martyn, B.D.--Sir John Moore, K.B.--Lord Nelson.--William Pitt.--Sir Samuel Romilly.--Sir Walter Scott.--Richard Brinsley Sheridan.--John Smeaton.--James Watt.--Marquis of Wellesley.--William Wilberforce.--Sir David Wilkie.--Duke of Wellington.

The method of teaching and studying the belles lettres; or, An introduction to languages, poetry, rhetoric, history, moral philosophy, physics, &c. : with reflections on taste, and instructions with regard to the eloquence of the pulpit, the bar, and the stage; the whole illustrated with passages from the most famous poets and orators, ancient and modern, with critical remarks on them; designed more particularly for students in the universities /

Translation of: De la manière d'enseigner et d'étudier les belles-lettres.

Religion in history and in modern life; together with an essay on the church and the working classes,

Mode of access: Internet.

What is history? Five lectures on the modern science of history,

--Historical development and present character of the science of history.--The general course of German history from a psychological point of view.--The transition to the psychic character of the German present; universal mechanism of psychic periods of transition.--Psychology of the periods of culture in general.--Problems of universal history.

History of the transmission of ancient books to modern times; with The process of historical proof...

Mode of access: Internet.

Beverlac; or, The antiquities and history of the town of Beverley, in the county of York, and of the provostry and collegiate establishment of St. John's; with a minute description of the present minster and the church of St. Mary, and other ancient and modern edifices.

Paged continuously.

Epitome of ancient, medieval and modern history.

Mode of access: Internet.

A school history of ancient & modern India /

Title from spine: Ancient and modern India.

Mr. Punch's history of modern England,

--I. 1841-1857.--II. 1857-1874.--III. 1874-1892.--IV. 1892-1914.

Parley's Common school history revised: a pictorial history of the world, ancient and modern, for the use of schools.

An abridged edition of "Peter Parley's Universal history on the basis of geography" which was published in 2 v. in 1837, prepared for Goodrich originally by Nathanial Hawthorne with the aid of his sister Elizabeth. cf, Lathrop, G. P., Study of Hawthorne, 1876, p. 171-172; Goodrich, S. G., Recollections, 1856, v. 2, p. 541 (foot-note) 544.