 | 1871 - 1202 Seiten
...national history. The aim of the volume could not be better expressed than in the preface : — " It is an attempt to delineate the influence of a particular man upon his age. Hence the background to the central figure is treated with an attention which will seem out of proportion... | |
 | 1871 - 798 Seiten
...Preface that her book " is not to be regarded as a biography. It is an vOL. XXvII. — NO. l6l. 21 attempt to delineate the influence of a particular man upon his age. Hence the background to the central figure is treated with an attention which will seem out of proportion... | |
 | John Harley - 1869 - 426 Seiten
...AND THE EVANGELICAL REACTION of the Eighteenth Century. By JULIA WEDGWOOD. Crown 8vo. 8s. dd. This book is an attempt to delineate the influence of a particular man upon his age. Wilson A MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON, MD, FRSE, Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh.... | |
 | Julia Wedgwood - 1870 - 426 Seiten
...slightness of the whole sketch, unless it is constantly borne in mind that the object of representation is not the vicissitude of a particular life, but that...in the life which impressed itself on the life of a nation,—an element which cannot be understood without a study of aspects of national thought which... | |
 | Sir Edwin Ray Lankester - 1870 - 200 Seiten
...AND THE EVANGELICAL REACTION of the Eighteenth Century. By JULIA WEDGWOOD. Crown 8vo. 8.r. fxl. This book is an attempt to delineate the influence of a particular man upon his age. Wilson. — A MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON, MD, FRSE, Regius Professor of Technology in the University of... | |
 | Julia Wedgwood - 1870 - 482 Seiten
...made the object of dissent their special study. The book is not .to be regarded as a biography. It is an attempt to delineate the influence of a particular man upon his age. Hence the background to the central figure is treated with an attention which will seem out of proportion... | |
 | H. Charlton Bastian - 1871 - 182 Seiten
...AND THE EVANGELICAL REACTION of the Eighteenth Century. By JULIA WEDGWOOD. Crown 8vo. &s. 6d. This book is an attempt to delineate the influence of a particular man upon his age. Wilson.. — A MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON, MD, FRSE, Regius Professor of Technology in the University... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1871 - 422 Seiten
...AND THE EVANGELICAL REACTION of the Eighteenth Century. By JULIA WEDGWOOD. Crown 8vo. 8r. 6d. This book is an attempt to delineate the influence of a particular man upon his age. Wilson.— A MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON, MD, FRSE, Regius Professor of Technology in the University of... | |
 | Caroline Emelia Stephen - 1871 - 410 Seiten
...AND THE EVANGELICAL REACTION of the Eighteenth Century. By JULIA WEDGWOOD. Crown 8vo. &s. 6d. This book is an attempt to delineate the influence of a particular man upon his age. Wilson.— A MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON, MD, FRSE, Regius Professor of Technology in the University of... | |
 | lady Mary Anne Broome - 1871 - 408 Seiten
...AND THE EVANGELICAL REACTION of the Eighteenth Century. By JULIA WEDGWOOD. Crown 8vo. &s. 6d. This book is an attempt to delineate the influence of a particular man upon his age. Wilson. — A MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON, MD, FRSE, Regius Professor of Technology in the University of... | |
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The background to the central figure is treated with considerable minuteness, the object of representation being not the vicissitude of a particular life, but that element in the life which impressed itself on the life of a nation, — an... 
