Author: WILLIAM. HODGES
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Published: 2018-04-23
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781385412077
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: ++++ National Library of Scotland T176201 London: printed for the author, and sold by J. Edwards, 1794. vii, [1],154, [2]p., plates; 4°
Author: William Hodges
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781019411339
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Filled with vivid descriptions of people, places, and customs, Travels in India is a fascinating firsthand account of life in India during the late 18th century. Written by the celebrated English artist and traveler William Hodges, this book provides a rare glimpse into a world that was then little known in the West, featuring stunning illustrations and insightful observations on a wide range of subjects, from architecture and art to religion and society. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: William Hodges
Publisher:
Published: 2009-05
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781104513153
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Author: William 1744-1797 Hodges
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2021-09-09
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781014232687
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Author: William Hodges
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-01-04
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780428362898
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Travels in India, During the Years 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783 While I acknowledge my.' heart-felt obligations to one friend, it is not confifient with myeprefent feelings to Omit the kind attentions of another. My learned friend, Dr. Gregory, by his perufal and revifion of my manufcript, con tributed greatly to leffen my apprehenfions of that ordeal to which I was about to commit myfelf; and though he infifts upon my {ta-ting, that this corrections were almof't entirely verbal, yet I cannot but be iconfcious, that, withoutthcm, the work would have appeared in a f'til'l more imperfefi fiate. After all, I am aware that I fland (inneed of every candid allowance 'ou the part of my readers. It is evident that the {indies abfolutely requifite to any degree of profi ciency in a liberal art, and the practice of that art'after wards as a profefiion, can leave but little leifure for the cultivation of literature and perhaps my engagements have been even more unfavourable to this object than thofe of mofi artifts. A long circumnav1gation, and the profefiional la bour required in completing the works for Captain Cook's fecond voyage, occupied me for feveral years; and a voyage to India, with my different excurfions In that country, ah forbed no inconfiderable portion of my time and attention. 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.
Author: William Hodges
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9781230335483
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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. 1783 edition. Excerpt: ... which contained his crumbling remains. There was an old Mollah who attended, and had the keys of the interior of the building, (which is still held in veneration) and who obtains a precarious subsistence by (hewing it to the curious traveller. The inside of the tomb is a vast hall, occupying the whole space of the interior of the building, which terminates in a dome; a few windows at the top admit a " dim religious" light, and the whole is lined with white marble. In the center the body is deposited in a sarcophagus of plain white marble, on which is written, in black marble inlaid, simply the name of A C B A R. From the summit of the minarets in the front a spectator's eye may range over a prodigious circuit of country, not less than thirty miles in a direct line, the whole of which is flat, and filled with ruins of ancient grandeur: the river Jumna is seen at some distance, and the glittering towers of Agra. This fine country exhibits, in its present state, a melancholy proof of the consequences of a bad government, of wild ambition, and the horrors attending civil dissentions; for when the governors of this country were in plenitude of power, and exercised their rights with wisdom, from the excellence of its climate, with some degree of industry, it must have been a perfect garden; but now all is desolation and silence. Surrounding the monument of Acbar are many tombs; some of them very beautiful: most probably they cover the remains of certain branches of his family. The traditionary report is here, that they are the tombs of his wives. On the high road from Agra to Dehli there are many small buildings, the form of which is a square pedestal, upon which rises a cone, to the heighth of about eight feet. In this cone there are a great...