James Fitzjames

Author : William Battersby
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459710733

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James Fitzjames by William Battersby Pdf

James Fitzjames was a hero of the early nineteenth-century Royal Navy. A charismatic man with a wicked sense of humour, he pursued his naval career with wily determination. When he joined the Franklin Expedition at the age of 32 he thought he would make his name. But instead the expedition completely disappeared and he never returned. Its fate is one of history’s last great unsolved mysteries, as were the origins and background of James Fitzjames – until now. Fitzjames packed a great deal into his thirty-two years. He had sailed an iron paddle steamer down the River Euphrates and fought with spectacular bravery in wars in Syria and China. But Fitzjames was not what he seemed. He concealed several secrets, including the scandal of his birth, the source of his influence and his plans for after the Franklin Expedition. In this first complete biography of the captain of the HMS Erebus, William Battersby draws extensively on Fitzjames’ personal letters and journals – most never published before – as well as official naval records, to strip away 200 years of misinformation and half-truths and enables us to understand for the first time this intriguing man and his significance for the Franklin Expedition.

Author : Christopher Ricks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192883629

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Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen by Christopher Ricks Pdf

James Fitzjames Stephen (1829-1894) is still highly valued as a judge, as the historian of the criminal law of England, and as the author of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, a forthright disagreement with John Stuart Mill. Stephen's weekly journalism established him as a vigorous cross-examiner in the controversies—cultural, social, religious, political, moral, and philosophical—of his time (and duly, of our time). Collected here now are his essays on the novel and journalism, the co-operation and collusion of these two, their responsibilities and irresponsibilities. Written between 1855 and 1867, while Stephen prosecuted twin careers as barrister and journalist, these reviews bring to bear his formidable powers of mind and of phrasing, scrutinizing many deep and disconcerting novelists—Dickens and Thackeray, Harriet Beecher Stowe and E. C. Gaskell, Flaubert and Balzac. His work also weighs journalism in the scales: from Addison's The Spectator to the Crimean war correspondence of William Howard Russell; from the scabrously detailed law-reports in The Times to the phenomenon of Letters to its Editor; from the high culture of Matthew Arnold to the mass market of 'Railroad Bookselling'.

Author : James Fitzjames Stephen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Equality
ISBN : HARVARD:32044038475927

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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity by James Fitzjames Stephen Pdf

Author : K. J. M. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521892244

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James Fitzjames Stephen by K. J. M. Smith Pdf

In this important study Dr Smith uses a wide range of primary materials to provide the first modern comprehensive examination of the work, writings and ideas of James Fitzjames Stephen. Stephen's broad rationalist/utilitarian ethical and intellectual stance manifested itself most prominently in law and social and political philosophy. Stephen's turn of mind led him to perceive the substance of literature and religious orthodoxy as of complementary interest and relevance to the social and political mores of Victorian England, making him one of Dickens' and Cardinal Newman's most formidable and trenchant critics. Dr Smith's account is the first to set Stephen's life and thought in its proper Victorian context, and marks a significant addition to the growing literature on the intellectual history of nineteenth-century England.

Author : Leslie Stephen
Publisher : Gregg International
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Judges
ISBN : PSU:000020005610

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The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I., a Judge of the High Court of Justice by Leslie Stephen Pdf

Author : James Fitzjames Stephen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Evidence (Law)
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000297023

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The Indian Evidence Act (I. of 1872) by James Fitzjames Stephen Pdf

Author : James Fitzjames Stephen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Criminal law
ISBN : OXFORD:N11307029

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A General View of the Criminal Law of England by James Fitzjames Stephen Pdf

Author : James Fitzjames Stephen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Criminal law
ISBN : SRLF:AA0008532236

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A Digest of the Criminal Law (crimes and Punishments.) by James Fitzjames Stephen Pdf

Author : Sir, James Fitzjames Stephen
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230195726

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A Digest of the Law of Evidence by Sir, James Fitzjames Stephen Pdf

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. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... 184 DIGEST OF THE LAW OF EVIDENCE. notes. These are the only Acts which deal with the Law of Evidence as I have denned it. It will be observed that they relate to three subjects only--the competency of witnesses, the proof of certain classes of documents, and certain details in the practice of examining witnesses. These details are provided for twice over, namely, once in 17 & 18 Vict c. 125, ss. 22-27, both inclusive, which concern civil proceedings only; and again in 28 Vict. c. 18, ss. 3-8, which re-enact these provisions in relation to proceedings of every kind. Thus, when the Statute Law upon the subject of Evidence is sifted and put in its proper place as part of the general system, it appears to occupy a very subordinate position in it. The ten statutes above mentioned are the only ones which really form part of the Law of Evidence, and their effect is fully given in twenty1 articles of the Digest, some of which contain other matter besides. INDEX. Abortion, 33. Accomplices, evidence of, 118. "Action," an, definition of, 2. Acts of conspirators, 6; illustrations of, 7., showing intention, good faith, &c., 15; illustration of, 17. Acts of notifications, relevancy of statement in certain, 45. of Parliament, 79. of State, judgments, &c. foreign and colonial, 82. Admissions defined, 22; who may make, and when, 23; illustrations of, a. by agents and persons jointly interested with parties, 24; illustrations of, 25. by strangers to an action, 26. by person referred to by party, 27; illustration of, ii. made without prejudice, ib. of evidence, improper, 130. Adultery, competency of witnesses in proceedings relating to, 111., letters as evidence in cases of, 84. Advocates' privileges as to certain questions, 112. Affairs of State, ...

Author : Dan Simmons
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316003889

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The Terror by Dan Simmons Pdf

The "masterfully chilling" novel that inspired the hit AMC series (Entertainment Weekly). The men on board the HMS Terror — part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage — are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, they struggle to survive with poisonous rations, a dwindling coal supply, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is even more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror clawing to get in. “The best and most unusual historical novel I have read in years.” —Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe

Author : Jerry Z. Muller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691213118

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Conservatism by Jerry Z. Muller Pdf

At a time when the label "conservative" is indiscriminately applied to fundamentalists, populists, libertarians, fascists, and the advocates of one or another orthodoxy, this volume offers a nuanced and historically informed presentation of what is distinctive about conservative social and political thought. It is an anthology with an argument, locating the origins of modern conservatism within the Enlightenment and distinguishing between conservatism and orthodoxy. Bringing together important specimens of European and American conservative social and political analysis from the mid-eighteenth century through our own day, Conservatism demonstrates that while the particular institutions that conservatives have sought to conserve have varied, there are characteristic features of conservative argument that recur over time and across national borders. The book proceeds chronologically through the following sections: Enlightenment Conservatism (David Hume, Edmund Burke, and Justus Möser), The Critique of Revolution (Burke, Louis de Bonald, Joseph de Maistre, James Madison, and Rufus Choate), Authority (Matthew Arnold, James Fitzjames Stephen), Inequality (W. H. Mallock, Joseph A. Schumpeter), The Critique of Good Intentions (William Graham Sumner), War (T. E. Hulme), Democracy (Carl Schmitt, Schumpeter), The Limits of Rationalism (Winston Churchill, Michael Oakeshott, Friedrich Hayek, Edward Banfield), The Critique of Social and Cultural Emancipation (Irving Kristol, Peter Berger and Richard John Neuhaus, Hermann Lübbe), and Between Social Science and Cultural Criticism (Arnold Gehlen, Philip Rieff). The book contains an afterword on recurrent tensions and dilemmas of conservative thought.

Author : James Fitzjames Stephen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Criminal law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044393986

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A Digest of the Criminal Law (crimes and Punishments) by James Fitzjames Stephen Pdf

Author : James Fitzjames Stephen
Publisher : London : Macmillan
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Criminal law
ISBN : BSB:BSB11584667

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A History of the Criminal Law of England by James Fitzjames Stephen Pdf

Author : Fitz-James O'Brien,Fitz James O'Brien
Publisher : Hesperus Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780940922

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The Diamond Lens and Other Stories by Fitz-James O'Brien,Fitz James O'Brien Pdf

An absorbing and haunting collection of early science fiction tales by an Irish-American author Fitz-James O'Brien capitalized on the success of his predecessors Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Shelley in writing disturbing stories with demented protagonists, and this collection of three tales shows his mastery of the macabre. "The Diamond Lens" tells of a lone scientist's discovery of a microcosmic world within a drop of water, and his growing obsession with the beautiful Animula, a fair maiden within this world which he can see but never enter. His uncompromising pursuit of knowledge at any cost foreshadows the mad scientist familiar to readers in a multitude of works. In "What Was It?" an invisible man is discovered by residents of a boarding house. The residents' capture and investigation of the creature blends the fantastic with the scientific as they seek rational explanations for this extraordinary phenomenon. "The Wondersmith" is a macabre tale of an embittered toymaker who seeks revenge upon the society that has persecuted him by creating demonic mannequins and imbuing them with life in order to slaughter the masses— a fantastic melodrama in which the cunning Wondersmith is offset by the unassuming and unlikely hero Solon the hunchback, in love with the villain's daughter.

Author : G. Varouxakis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230505834

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Victorian Political Thought on France and the French by G. Varouxakis Pdf

By scrutinizing the major Victorian political thinkers' perceptions and representations of France this book shows how comparisons with the country on the other side of the Channel, its politics, civilization, and the French 'national character' contributed to nineteenth-century Britain's self-definition. While the utterances on France of several other figures are also examined, the main focus is on Walter Bagehot, John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold, Lord Acton, Thomas Carlyle, Nassau William Senior, James Fitzjames Stephen, William Rathbone Greg, Thomas Babington Macaulay, John Morley, and Frederic Harrison.