Four Years in France: or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic FaithBeste, Henry Digby
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Four Years in France: or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith
Beste, Henry Digby
France -- Description and travel
The miscellaneous writings of the Philosopher and Naturalist, Evelyn,
(most of which are extremely rare) are here presented to the public in a
quarto volume, to range with his "Diary and Correspondence." These
works, with his noble discourse on Forest-Trees, under the title of
"Sylva," (of which an edition in two vols. 4to. with Notes, has also
just appeared) comprise the whole body of Evelyn's productions. The
tracts forming the present volume are, more or less, on subjects of
great interest, including lively pictures of the manners and amusements
of his time; memoirs, political, domestic, and religious: treatises on
Morals, Horticulture, Art, Science, Commerce, &c.; in all of which the
sound intellect of this "amiable and high-minded English Gentleman" will
be traced.
15. THE NAVAL SKETCH BOOK; or, Service Afloat and Ashore, with
Characteristic Reminiscences, Fragments, and Opinions. By an Officer of
Rank. Second Edition, with considerable Additions. In two vols. post
8vo. 18s.
16. DIARY of the MARQUIS DE DANGEAU, kept during his Residence (above
thirty years) at the Court of France. Now first translated from the
French, with Historical and Critical Notes. In two vols. 8vo. 28s.
A French Edition, with Supplementary Notes, three vols. 28s.
"The Memoirs of the Marquis de Dangeau are curious, and
certainly include a great deal of valuable information. Those
who have a taste for this kind of writing, and some previous
knowledge of the personages to whom it relates, will be pleased
at meeting so many of their old friends, and amused with the
transactions, great and small, which Dangeau records of them;
while those who look still deeper into the work will find a
great deal of chronological and some historical information,
with many important views of the manners and morals of the age,
of the character of the Sovereign and his Ministers, and the
secret springs and personal motives of many considerable
events."--_Quarterly Review_.
17. THE PRIVATE JOURNAL of MADAME CAMPAN'S CONVERSATIONS, comprising
Original Anecdotes of the French Court; with Extracts from her
Correspondence, her Thoughts on Education, &c. Editions in French and
English. In one vol. 8vo. French 12s. English 14s.
18. MEMOIRS and RECOLLECTIONS of COUNT SEGUR, Ambassador from France to
the Courts of Russia and Prussia. Volume the Second, 8vo. 12s.; French
10s. 6d.
The Count de Segur was connected by ties of friendship or consanguinity
with all the remarkable personages of the Courts of Louis XV. and XVI.,
and was engaged in the intercourse of Affairs and Society with Catherine
II., Frederic the Great, Potemkin, Joseph II., Gustavus III.,
Washington, Kosciusko, La Fayette, Mirabeau, and Napoleon, as well as
with the Chiefs of the Aristocratical and Democratical Parties, and the
most illustrious Writers of the times; of whom he records the most
interesting particulars.
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