Author: Rollo OgdenPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 262
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William Hickling Prescott
Author: Rollo OgdenWilliam Hickling Prescott (Classic Reprint)
Author: Rollo OgdenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781440036972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Excerpt from William Hickling Prescott This volume makes no pretense of supplanting Ticknor's "Life of Prescott." It aims simply to supplement it. Ticknor wrote the biography of his lifelong friend, possessed of ample materials; but he was already an old man; his view of society and literature, always severe, had deepened into something like austerity; and to bring out vividly the playful and engagingly human aspects of Prescott's character would doubtless have seemed to him like taking liberties with the Muse of History. To complete and correct the picture of Prescott's personality, while giving a condensed but connected account of his life and work, has been the sole task undertaken by the present writer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Life of William Hickling Prescott (Classic Reprint)
Author: George TicknorPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528086363
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Excerpt from Life of William Hickling Prescott Electrotyped and Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company. Philadelphia, U. S. A. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Correspondence of William Hickling Prescott, 1833-1847 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Roger WolcottPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781527790421
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Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Excerpt from The Correspondence of William Hickling Prescott, 1833-1847 But the book would never have been published without the friendly encouragement of Worthington C. Ford, Editor of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He has given me his expert help without stint at every stage of its preparation, and to him my warmest thanks are due. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
English Men of Letters
Author: Harry Thurston PeckPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780656908516
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Excerpt from English Men of Letters: William Hickling Prescott Throughout the first few decades of the nineteenth century, the United States, though forming a political entity, were in everything but name divided into three separate nations, each one of which was quite unlike the other two. This difference sprang partly from the character of the population in each, partly from divergent tendencies in American colonial develop ment, and partly from conditions which were the result of both these causes. The culture history, therefore, of each of the three sections exhibits, naturally enough, a distinct and definite phase of intellectual activity, which is reflected very clearly in the records of American literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: Massachusetts Historical SocietyPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780260826374
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Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society: In Respect to the Memory of William Hickling Prescott, February 1, 1859 The theme is a broad one, Mr. President; but I will not encroach farther on the time, which may be employed with more effect by others. I will only repeat my cordial assent to what has been said by the gentlemen who have spoken, and to the sentiments expressed in the resolutions, and second those reso lutions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Complete Works of William Hickling Prescott, Vol. 9 of 12 (Classic Reprint)
Author: William Hickling PrescottPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780656531875
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Excerpt from The Complete Works of William Hickling Prescott, Vol. 9 of 12 The reign of Philip the Second has occupied the pen of the historian more frequently if we except that of Charles the Fifth than any other portion of the Spanish annals. It has become familiar to the English reader through the pages of Watson, who has deservedly found favor with the public for the perspicuity of his style, a virtue, however, not uncommon in his day, for the sobriety of his judg ments, and for the skill he has shown in arranging his com plicated story, so as to maintain the reader's interest un broken to the end. But the public, in Watson's day, were not very fastidious in regard to the sources of the informa tion on which a narrative was founded. Nor was it easy to obtain access to those unpublished documents which con stitute the best sources of information. Neither can it be denied that Watson himself was not so solicitous as he should have been to profit by opportunities which a little pains might have put within his reach, presenting, in this re spect, a contrast to his more celebrated predecessor, Robert son; that he contented himself too easily with such cheap and commonplace materials as lay directly in his path; and that, consequently, the foundations of his history are much too slight for the superstructure. For these reasons, the reign of Philip the Second must still be regarded as open ground for English and American writers. And at no time could the history of this reign have been undertaken with the same advantages as at present, when the more enlightened policy of the European governments has opened their national archives to the inspection of the scholar; when he is allowed access, in particular, to the Archives of Simancas, which have held the secrets of the Spanish monarchy hermetically sealed for ages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
William Hickling Prescott
Author: Harry Thurston PeckPublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859) was the first American to win international acclaim as an historian. Prescott has stood the test of time and is as fascinating to read today as he must have been 100 years ago. This biography was originally published in 1905 and contains the following chapters: The New England Historians Early Years The Choice of a Career Success In Mid Career The Last Ten Years ôFerdinand and Isabellaö - PrescottÆs Style ôThe Conquest of Mexicoö as Literature and as History ôThe Conquest of Peruö - ôPhilip IIö PrescottÆs Rank as an Historian Index
William Hickling Prescott
Author: Harry Thurston PeckPublisher: Trieste Publishing
ISBN: 9780649136810
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Memoir of William Hickling Prescott
Author: Charles H. HartPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266838388
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Excerpt from Memoir of William Hickling Prescott: Historian of Spain, Mexico and Peru William, born February 20, 1726, died October 13, 1795 and Oliver, born April 27, 1731, died November 17, 1804. From the second son, William, who commanded the American forces at Bunker's Hill, on the memorable 17th of June, 1775, the first real battle of the Revo lution, was descended, by his wife Abigail (hale) Prescott, William the father of the subject of this memoir. William Prescott, Jr., was born at Pepperell, Mass, August 19, 1762, and died in Boston Decem her 8, 1844. He married, December 18, 1793, Catherine Greene, daughter of Thomas Hickling, who for nearly half a century held the position of United States Consul at the Azores. This estimable lady died May 17, 1852, aged about eighty-five. In Speaking of Judge Prescott, Theophilus Parsons, in dedicating his great work on The Law of Contracts, To the historian of Spain, Mexico and Peru, says, When he died, at the age of 82, I had known him intimately for twenty-nine years, and had known of him many more. And I never yet heard a word spoken, and never heard of a word spoken, to his disparagement or dispraise during his long life or. Since its close, by any person whomsoeve'r; not even have I heard the 'but' or 'if, ' with which many indulge themselves in qualifying and cloud ing the commendation they cannot but render. Mr. And Mrs. Pres cott had seven children, four of whom died in infancy, and of the remaining three the eldest was the historian. William Ilickling Prescott was born in Salem, Massachusetts, May 4, 1796. In 1808, when he was twelve years old, he removed with his family to Boston, where he was placed in the school of Dr. John S. J. Gardiner, a pupil of the renowned Samuel Parr. It was at this school that Prescott formed that acquaintance which soon ripened into a life-long friendship, with his future biographer the accomplished author of the History of Spanish Literature. Mr. Ticknor, in the preface to his life of Prescott, states that it is written in part payment of a debt, which has been accumulating for above half a century the historian of Ferdinand and Isabella having exacted from his early and everlasting friend the promise, thatin case he should survive him, he would prepare such a memorial of his literary life as might be supposed would be expected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.