The champagne standard,

The champagne standard.--American wives and English housekeeping.--Kitchen comedies.--Entertaining.--Temporary power.--The extravagant economy of women.--A modern tendency.--A plea for women architecs.--The electric age.-- Gunpowder or toothpowder.--The pleasure of patriotism.--Romance and eyeglasses.--The plague of music.--A domestic danger.--A study of frivolity.-- On taking oneself seriously.--Soft-soap.

Roger Bacon essays,

--Roger Bacon in English literature, by Sir John Edwin Sandys.--Roger Bacon's works, with reference to the mss. and printed editions, by A. G. Little (p. [375]-425, [1])

Criminal trials ...

Vol. 2 has imprint: London : Nattali and Bond, [1835]

Yan pao tu shuo ji yao : 4 juan, [chong ding tu shuo 1 juan] /

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Smeeton's historical and biographical tracts.

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Commentary on the Statute of Monopolies 1624

Legislation restricting the monarch's ability to make monopoly grants in accordance with the royal prerogative, and providing a statutory basis for the patent system. The legislation established the basis upon which patents for "new manufacture[s]" might be granted to "the true and first inventor" of the same in furthering the interests of industry, the economy, and the state. At the same time, privileges concerning printing were left unaffected by the legislation, as were those for the manufacture of saltpetre or gunpowder and for the casting and making of ordnance (canons). In limiting the term of protection for future patents to 14 years while confining existing patents for the same to a period of 21 years, the legislation influenced the choice of the two copyright terms in the Statute of Anne 1710.

Surprised by Syntax: Reading the Latinity of Paradise Lost

Stanley Fish in his monumental study argued that the reader of Paradise Lost is “surprised by sin” as he or she in the course of engaging with the text falls, like Adam and Eve, into sin and error and is brought up short. Through a “programme of reader harassment” the experience of the fall is re-enacted in the process of reading, wherein lies the poem’s meaning. And reader response criticism was born. But if for Fish the twentieth-century reader is “surprised by sin,” might not the twenty-first century reader, an all too frequently Latinless reader, be surprised by syntax, a syntax which despite of (or maybe because of) its inherent Latinity and associated linguistic alterity functions as a seductively attractive other? The reader, like Eve, is indeed surprised: enchanted, bemused, seduced by the abundant classicism, by the formal Latinate rhetoric achieved by a Miltonic unison of “Voice and Verse” and also by the language of a Satanic tempter who is—in the pejorative sense of the Latin adjective bilinguis—“double-tongued, deceitful, treacherous.” It is hardly an accident that this adjective (with which Milton qualifies hellish betrayal in his Latin gunpowder epic) was typically applied to the forked tongue of a serpent. This study argues that key to the success of the double-tongued Miltonic serpens bilinguis, is his use and abuse of Latinate language and rhetoric. It posits the possible case that this is mirrored in the linguistic methodology of the poeta bilinguis, the geminus Miltonus? For if, like Eve, the twenty-first century reader of Paradise Lost is surprised by syntax, by the Miltonic use and the Satanic abuse of a Latinate voice, might not he or she also be surprised by the text’s bilingual speaking voice?

Nuevas técnicas, ¿viejas ideas? Revolución militar, pirobalística y operaciones de expugnación castral castellanas en las guerras contra Granada (c.1325- c.1410)

En estas páginas, el autor pretende aportar alguna luz al debate de la denominada “Revolución Militar” y señalar cómo la introducción de la artillería de pólvora dentro de los trenes de asedio tuvo lugar ya a fines del siglo XIV y comienzos del XV. Para ello, se buscan los primeros ejemplos del empleo de piezas artilleras en la frontera con Granada, se apuntan algunas de las limitaciones que tenía la neurobalística y se analiza, sobre todo, un caso concreto: las grandes campañas efectuadas por el regente de Castilla don Fernando de Trastámara contra el emirato granadino en 1407 y 1410, examinándose cuestiones tales como la verdadera efectividad táctica de la paleoartillería, el aprendizaje de su empleo por experiencia acumulada o las necesidades logísticas que demandaba el uso de un arma que, en esos momentos, era bastante novedosa.