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A Few Footprints Second Edition
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Author : John Passmore EDWARDS
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1906
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A Few Footprints
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Author : J Passmore Edwards
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
A Few Footprints written by J Passmore Edwards and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Social history categories.
A Few Footprints
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Author : John Passmore Edwards
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1906
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A Few Footprints Classic Reprint
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Author : John Passmore Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-07-22
A Few Footprints Classic Reprint written by John Passmore Edwards and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Excerpt from A Few Footprints I was born March e4th, 1823, in Blackwater, a small village, situated between Redruth and Truro, in Cornwall, which contained at the time about two hundred inhabitants. My father was a Cornishman and by trade a carpenter, and my mother, whose maiden name was Passmore, was a native of Newton Abbot, Devonshire. I had three brothers, William, Richard, and James. The cottage in which I and my brothers were born consisted of four small rooms. As there was not much carpentering to do in the neighbourhood, and my father not being fully employed, he built, mainly by borrowed money, a larger house near by, for which he obtained a public-house licence. Though the new house had eight small rooms, it had more rooms than windows consequently two bedrooms at the back of the house had no direct window light, but only borrowed light from a small window between the two rooms, over the stairs. I mention this circumstance to recall the fact that during the early part of the last century almost every thing consumed by the people was taxed, including the wood, glass, and other materials used in the production of windows, and the windows as well. One of the results of this state of things was that I, with one of my brothers, slept thousands of times in a small bedroom into which the light of heaven never directly entered. As with us, so with hundreds of thousands of others. The window tax alone assisted to enfeeble the British race. As with the window tax, so with hundreds of other taxes, including the tax on bread, which still more enfeebled the race, and which a partisan states manship would triumphantly re-impose, and thereby endanger the power and prosperity of the country. I well remember some Of the blighting effects of the Corn Laws, when large numbers of the industrious poor of Cornwall ate barley bread, and many had not enough of that. The repeal of the Corn Laws and the introduc tion of a Free Trade era soon broadened and brightened national prospects. 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.
Few Footprints
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Author : JOHN PASSMORE. EDWARDS
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
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A Few Footprints
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Author : John Passmore Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... A Barbaric Challenge. I may here refer to an incident which may assist to point a moral, if inadequate to adorn a tale. In 1862, in one of the journals under my control, I condemned Du Chaillu, the African traveller, for an insult he committed on a member of a London scientific society, and blamed Captain Burton (afterwards Sir Richard Burton) for his partial vindication of the offence. A few days after I received a formal visit from Captain Blakeley, who handed me a challenge from Captain Burton to meet him in a duel! Captain Blakeley was well known at the time as the inventor of a method for strengthening field-guns. I had to accept the challenge, offer an apology, or do nothing. I decided to do nothing. No doubt Captain Burton, with his old-world notions, thought he sufficiently vindicated his honour by so challenging me in due form, as I heard no more about it. I, on the other hand, thought that I as effectively defended myself by treating his hostile message with contemptuous silence. But suppose the matter developed differently? Suppose we were equally foolish and about equal in man-killing ability, that we fought and one or both of us got killed or wounded? Would right or reason or truth or honour have been thereby vindicated? Not a jot. But we were not equal in killing ability. Burton was a soldier, and doubtless a good marksman. I was neither, and had we pistol-shotted each other it would not have been right or reason or justice or law that would have triumphed, but superior marksmanship! War and duelling owe their existence to the same barbaric origin. Duelling is war between two persons; war is duelling between two nations. Duelling, thanks to the good sense of the nation, is now made a criminal and punishable offence; and...
Footprints In Paris
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Author : Gillian Tindall
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010
Footprints In Paris written by Gillian Tindall and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Paris (France) categories.
This unique and intensely involving book evokes the texture and atmosphere of a hidden Paris which has survived against all the odds of time and chance. Gillian Tindall is well known for her ability to breathe a passionate life into the generations of those who have walked this earth before us.
A Few Footprints
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Author : Joan Goodall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-07-27
A Few Footprints written by Joan Goodall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-27 with categories.
A collection of deeply personal poems, some intensely moving, some humorous in character, but all expressing the writer's passionate love of life.
Footprints
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Author : Shannon Jade
language : en
Publisher: Library for All
Release Date : 2021-07-30
Footprints written by Shannon Jade and has been published by Library for All this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-30 with categories.
I can see some footprints. Who made these footprints? Your purchase of this book supports Library For All in its mission to make knowledge available to all, equally.
Footprints In Paris
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Author : Gillian Tindall
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-06-30
Footprints In Paris written by Gillian Tindall and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-30 with History categories.
Gillian Tindall is well known for her ability to breathe a passionate life into the generations of those who have walked the earth before us. Here, using a handful of lives, she evokes the texture and atmosphere of a hidden Paris which has survived against all the odds of time and chance. Her study shows how Paris has drawn into its magnetic field people who have variously found there education or enlightenment, a refuge or a secret garden, even a different identity. Five individuals, all related in some way, reveal a web of human feeling and experiences across two centuries. There is the young doctor who walked from Edinburgh to Paris at the time of Napoleon's downfall; the self-made Victorian businessman who traded with the brash capital of the Second Empire; his reserved son who found in the old stones of Paris a refuge from his fraught childhood; Maud, the archetypal English spinster, who somehow managed to construct an alternatative experience in Paris; and Julia , young and desperate, who found her own unlikely salvation there in a very different era. Gillian Tindall brings Paris alive - whether it's the network of streets that form the Left Bank, the resonance of 'Bohemia' and its garrets, cafes and artists, 'Gay Paree' with its music halls and courtesans or the past chroniclers of the city such as Zola, George du Maurier and Orwell. But featured far more than the famous, are the unsung citizens for whom Gillian Tindall has such empathy.
