The Auto-Biography of John Britton |
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Author:
| Britton, John |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-62097-0 |
Publication Date: | May 2012 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $23.35 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACCOUNT THE LITERARY WORKS JOHN BRITTON. SECTION I. IP THE STUDY OP ANTIQUITIES AND TOPOGRAPHY BE JUDICIOUSLY PURSUED AND TASTEFULLY DIRECTED, IT TEHDS TO DEVELOPE THE FLUCTUATIONS OF SCIENCE, ART, AND LITERATURE; IT CARRIES THE MIND BACK TO REMOTE AGES, AND DISPLAYS THE CONDITION, CUSTOMS, AND MANNERS OF...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACCOUNT THE LITERARY WORKS JOHN BRITTON. SECTION I. IP THE STUDY OP ANTIQUITIES AND TOPOGRAPHY BE JUDICIOUSLY PURSUED AND TASTEFULLY DIRECTED, IT TEHDS TO DEVELOPE THE FLUCTUATIONS OF SCIENCE, ART, AND LITERATURE; IT CARRIES THE MIND BACK TO REMOTE AGES, AND DISPLAYS THE CONDITION, CUSTOMS, AND MANNERS OF MEN IN FORMER TIMES. HENCE THIS PECULIAR BRANCH OF LITERATURE BECOMES THE MOST POSITIVE AND INCONTROVERTIBLE DATA FOR HISTORICAL DEDUCTION, AS IT SHOWS WHAT MAN HAS BEEN BY HIS WORKS, AND TEACHES US THE IMPORTANT LESSON OF KNOWING OURSELVES, BY CONTRAST AND COMPARISON WITH OUE ANCESTORS. Mr. Britton's opinion and estimate of the attributes of TopoGraphy are thus stated, in a volume which he devoted expressly to explain and illustrate its characteristics; and which volume will be described in a subsequent page. In attempting to classify this Author's literary works, it is obvious that those devoted to Topography are the most numerous. On that account it will be proper to describe them in the first place; and such an arrangement is the more natural, as Local History was the first branch of authorship to which the author seriously devoted his attention. His literary labours having moreover been chiefly, or to a great extent, devoted to the illustration of his native county, WILTSHIRE, it is desirable to notice, in the first instance, such of his works as are connected with that portion of Engknd. WILTSHIRE TOPOGRAPHY. Mr. Britton's earliest work in this department, in the order of publication, is the Beauties of Wiltshire, of which two octavo volumes were published, in 1801, although the third did not appear until after an interval of twenty-four years. In the preface to the latter volume (1825) the following particulars are given in respect to the o...