Books with author John Wills

Excerpt from Too Fast to Last, Vol. 3 of 3On the table, and in front of the lawyer, was arranged several skins of parchment engrossed in black letters with a phraseology too technical for ordinary comprehension; but signifying, nevertheless, a remarkably clear and conclusive mode by which a family estate, devised in fee for ever, might be disentailed with one stroke of the pen, and sold to the highest bidder.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.

An Essay On the Weather: With Remarks On the Shepherd of Banbury's Rules for Judging of It's Changes; and Directions for Preserving Lives and Buildings from the fatal Effects of Lightening. Intended Chiefly for the Use of Husbandmen. This book, "An Essay On the Weather", by John Mills, is a replication of a book originally published before 1773. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.

Excerpt from The Stage Coach, Vol. 1 of 3: The Road of LifeIf I felt not a little diffidence in placing before the reading world my first literary pro duction, The Old English Gentleman, the unlocked-for favour and success which attended that work have doubled rather than dissipated my anxiety on the present occasion for tfien I could not help feeling myself fortunate in a subject which came more or less home to the business and bosom of every true-born Englishman. The sports of the field, and the pleasures and pastimes of a country life, are so interwoven with the associations of all grades and degrees of my countrymen, that to describe them with tolerable accuracy could scarcely fail to meet with public favour.But in my present undertaking I fear that Ihave less of the actual appliances and means of success to depend on, and must expect to be judged more by the extrinsic attire and circumstances in which I may have been able to clothe and set them forth; besides which, my subjects and characters are of so various and dissimilar a nature, that I can scarcely hope that those readers who may relish any one or more of them will be dis posed to look with favour on 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.