Books with author Charles 1719?-1800? Johnstone

Excerpt from Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, Vol. 2: Wherein Are Exhibited Views of Several Striking Scenes, With Curious and Interesting Anecdotes of the Most Noted Persons in Every Rank of Life, Whose Hands It Passed Through, in America, England, Holland, Germany, and PortugalBut. I am not at leisure to prescribe rules for avoiding this confusion, one of the most extensive causes of human error. I shall only give you some cautions to prevent your falling into it, in respect to what I say to you.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryN000968An adept = Charles Johnstone. With a final advertisement leaf.Dublin: printed for Henry Saunders, and Hulton Bradley, 1766. v.1 (xxiv,214, [2]p.); 12°

Excerpt from Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, Vol. 1: Wherein Are Exhibited Views of Several Striking Scenes, With Curious and Interesting Anecdotes of the Most Noted Persons in Every Rank of Life, Whose Hands It Passed-Through, in America, England, Holland, Germany, and PortugalTO acquit myself of the suspicion of presuming to aim at particular characters in the following work, shadd any fancied likeness be thought to direct any ap plication, as well as to do justice to the real author of it; I think it my duty to make known the manner by which it happened to come into my hands.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, Vol. 1: Wherein Are Exhibited Views of Several Striking Scenes, With Curious and Interesting Anecdotes of the Most Noted Persons in Every Rank of Life, Whose Hands It Passed-Through, in America, England, Holland, Germany, and PortugalTO acquit myself of the suspicion of presuming to aim at particular characters in the following work, shadd any fancied likeness be thought to direct any ap plication, as well as to do justice to the real author of it; I think it my duty to make known the manner by which it happened to come into my hands.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, Vol. 1: Wherein Are Exhibited Views of Several Striking Scenes, With Curious and Interesting Anecdotes, of the Most Noted Persons in Every Rank of Life, Whose Hands It Passed Through, in America, England, Holland, Germany and Portugal But there's no help for that now! Luck is all! To be fure we thought he mull be fome extraordinary man, for he never wanted money, and then we vred to hear him talking to himfelf fometimes. 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 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT068559Adept = Charles Johnstone.London: printed for J.F. and C. Rivington; G. Robinson; T. Cadell; T. Evans; and R. Baldwin, 1783. 4v.; 12°

Excerpt from Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, Vol. 1: Wherein Are Exhibited Views of Several Striking Scenes, With Curious and Interesting Anecdotes of the Most Noted Persons in Every Rank of Life, Whose Hands It Passed Through in America, England, Holland, Germany, and PortugalAs I was walking one evening, Iail fummer, along s'te-cbapel, I was obliged to take ihelter from a ihower of rain, in a cottage near the Turn pike. The family were at Breakfail, at their tea, and as the rain continued, I had leifure to refleél on the: advantages of commerce, which thus m a manner joins the oppofite extremltres of the earth, by bringing their products toge ther: at the fame time, that thevariety in the equipage of the tea-table, or in deed ilool, on which there was notbmg ofa piece, faggei'ted a jail ridicule on the vanity of luxury.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, Vol. 1: Wherein Are Exhibited Views of Several Striking Scenes, With Curious and Interesting Anecdotes of the Most Noted Persons in Every Rank of Life, Whose Hands It Passed Through in America, England, Holland, Germany, and PortugalAs I was walking one evening, Iail fummer, along s'te-cbapel, I was obliged to take ihelter from a ihower of rain, in a cottage near the Turn pike. The family were at Breakfail, at their tea, and as the rain continued, I had leifure to refleél on the: advantages of commerce, which thus m a manner joins the oppofite extremltres of the earth, by bringing their products toge ther: at the fame time, that thevariety in the equipage of the tea-table, or in deed ilool, on which there was notbmg ofa piece, faggei'ted a jail ridicule on the vanity of luxury.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, Vol. 3: Wherein Are Exhibited Views of Several Striking Scenes, With Curious and Interesting Anecdotes of the Most Noted Persons in Every Rank of Life, Whose Hands It Passed Through, in America, England, Holland, Germany, and PortugalAs to the objection made to Continua tiom, that they are written after the firfi: defign 18 completed, and when the imagi nation is exhaufied, it can by no means affect the following (beets, which are really a rq/zitution of the Original, not an addi-s tion of any thing new as will plainly ap pear to the judicious reader, who will find the fame fcope of imagination, the fame fpirited freedom, and depth of remark in every pe'iod of thefe volumes, winch fo eminently difiinguifhed the former; and trace the genuine connexion through the Whole.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from The Reverie, or a Flight to the Paradise of Fools, Vol. 1 of 2Flufhed with this fuccefs, he returned to Lon don, and going to Bridewell to communicate the good news to his newfriend, he found that: the guinea he had given him had put an end to his adventures the very night he got it, one of his fellow prifoners'and he having, for a trial of their heads, drank fuch a quantity ofgin as killed them upon the fpot. This event gave him an abfolute property in his acquifi tion, which he now offers to the Public, with the fame fcrupulous fidelity he obferved in te lation to the former works of this author; arid he hopes this honefl: account, added to what he faid in the Preface to that applauded per formance, and the arguments urged in the Advertifement prefixed to the fecond edition of it, will obviate any fufpicion' of its aiming at. Particular charaé'ters, or being other than a mexe work of imagination.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, Vol. 1: Wherein Are Exhibited Views of Several Striking Scenes, With Curious and Interesting Anecdotes, of the Most Noted Persons in Every Rank of Life, Whose Hands It Passed Through, in America, England, Holland, Germany and PortugalBut there's no help for that now! Luck is all! To be fure we thought he mull be fome extraordinary man, for he never wanted money, and then we vred to hear him talking to himfelf fometimes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.