The Late Lord

Author : Jacqueline Reiter
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1473856957

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The Late Lord by Jacqueline Reiter Pdf

John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham is one of the most enigmatic and overlooked figures of early nineteenth century British history. The elder brother of Pitt the Younger, he has long been consigned to history as 'the late Lord Chatham', the lazy commander-in-chief of the 1809 Walcheren expedition, whose inactivity and incompetence turned what should have been an easy victory into a disaster. Chatham's poor reputation obscures a fascinating and complex man. During a twenty-year career at the heart of government, he served in several important cabinet posts such as First Lord of the Admiralty and Master-General of the Ordnance. Yet despite his closeness to the Prime Minister and friendship with the Royal Family, political rivalries and private tragedy hampered his ascendance. Paradoxically for a man of widely admired diplomatic skills, his downfall owed as much to his personal insecurities and penchant for making enemies as it did to military failure. Using a variety of manuscript sources to tease Chatham from the records, this biography peels away the myths and places him for the first time in proper familial, political, and military context. It breathes life into a much-maligned member of one of Britain's greatest political dynasties, revealing a deeply flawed man trapped in the shadow of his illustrious relatives.

Author : George III (King of Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Catholic emancipation
ISBN : NWU:35556027366848

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Letters from His Late Majesty to the Late Lord Kenyon, on the Coronation Oath, with His Lordship's Answers by George III (King of Great Britain) Pdf

Author : John Dunton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1701
Category : Bloody Assizes, 1685
ISBN : NYPL:33433101778540

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The Merciful Assizes: Or, A Panegyric on the Late Lord Jeffreys Hanging So Many in the West by John Dunton Pdf

Author : James MacDonald
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802479464

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Lord, Change My Attitude by James MacDonald Pdf

Change your attitude, change your life. We’re very good at explaining why we’re unhappy: bad job, bad relationships, bad luck. But there’s probably a better reason: bad attitudes. In Lord, Change My Attitude, James MacDonald shows us just how much our attitudes affect our lives. One of his bestsellers, this book is classic James: It’s clear, it’s inspiring, and it packs a punch. Drawing from the experience of the Israelites who grumbled through the wilderness, MacDonald shows how bad attitudes rob us of joy. Coveting, complaining, and being critical are not what our hearts were made for. They were made for thankfulness, contentment, and love. Is your heart straining under the weight of a bad attitude? Don’t read this book if you’re looking for a quick fix. Don’t read this book if you’re unwilling to change. Read it if you’re ready for a serious, inside-out attitude adjustment.

Author : Frances Hodgson Burnett
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : England
ISBN : 9781427061805

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Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett Pdf

An American boy goes to live with his grandfather in England, where he becomes heir to a title, estate, and fortune.

Author : Karon Phillips Goodman
Publisher : Barbour Pub Incorporated
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1593109148

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You're Late Again, Lord! by Karon Phillips Goodman Pdf

Brimming with spiritual insights and light humor, Goodman's guide shows readers how to wait purposefully by acknowledging God's greater perspective, how to deepen their relationship with Him, and embracing the positive changes He desires.

Author : Archibald Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1747
Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
ISBN : NKP:1002297753

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The Trial of Archibald Stewart Esq; Late Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Before the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland, for Neglect of Duty, and Misbehaviour in the Execution of His Office, as Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Before and at the Time the Rebels Got Possession of that City in the Month of September 1745 by Archibald Stewart Pdf

Author : Sterling Lord
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781453254639

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Lord of Publishing by Sterling Lord Pdf

DIVA frank and insightful memoir of a life spent in publishing, by one of literature’s most legendary agents/divDIV Sterling Lord has led an extraordinary life, from his youth in small-town Iowa to his post-war founding and editing of an English-language magazine in Paris, followed by his move to New York City to become one of the most powerful literary agents in the field. As agent to Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, and countless others—ranging from Jimmy Breslin and Rocky Graziano to the Berenstains and four US cabinet members—Lord is the decisive influence and authors’ confidant who has engineered some of the most important book deals in literary history. In Lord of Publishing, his memoir of life and work (and tennis), Lord reveals that he is also a consummate storyteller. Witty and wise, he brings to life what was arguably the greatest era of book publishing, and gives a brilliant insider’s scoop on the key figures of the book business—as well as some of the most remarkable books and authors of our time. /div

Author : Carine van Rhijn
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015074268767

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Shepherds of the Lord by Carine van Rhijn Pdf

This book is the first study of the rural priesthood, its significance, and the statutes written for them in the time of the Carolingians. It seeks to trace and explain the rise and emergence in the Carolingian period of both local priests and episcopal statutes that aimed at steering their behaviour. It was in the context of Carolingian ideals of reform, formulated in court-centred circles from the late eighth century onwards, that local priests increasingly came to be seen as those that held the key to turning the local Frankish population into ideal Christians by their word and living example. First of all, however, these educators needed to be educated themselves, hence the emergence of the Episcopal statutes, a new tool to direct the local diocesan clergy into becoming the ideal 'Shepherds of the Lord' that they needed to be. Smooth as this process of empire-wide reform theoretically was, however, obstacles lurked, both from a top-down (episcopal) and a grass-roots (local) perspective on the status, role, and function of priests. Nevertheless, the ninth century saw the emergence of the priesthood and the development of their role as an important group that connected bishops with the lay inhabitants of their dioceses and, from a higher-up perspective, those who opened up the vast Carolingian country-side to the implementation of the ideal society in the minds of contemporary reformers.

Author : Jeff J. Tyler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004475557

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Lord of the Sacred City: The Episcopus exclusus in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany by Jeff J. Tyler Pdf

Urban histories have emphasized the rise of civic autonomy and proto-democracy. Based on chronicle and archival sources, this volume focuses on German bishops, former lords of the city and fierce opponents of civic freedom. The author investigates how bishops contested exclusion from political, economic, and religious dimensions of civic life (Episcopus exclusus), which culminated in the Protestant Reformation. Four chapters are devoted to episcopal expulsion throughout Germany and the cities of Constance and Augsburg in particular. A remarkable section explores the puzzle of the bishop's civic survival in the later Middle Ages, made possible through episcopal ritual. The emphasis on city, bishop, and ritual will be of special interest to urban historians as well as to scholars of medieval religion, the reformation, church history, church/state relations, and social history.

Author : Sabrina Jeffries
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061743832

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The Forbidden Lord by Sabrina Jeffries Pdf

Jordan Willis, the Earl of Blackmore, has played with the heart of many a society belle—yet one stolen kiss impulsively planted on the soft, irresistible lips of the preacher's daughter proves his undoing. The prim and proper Emily Fairchild's innocent response sends desire surging through the notorious rake, and he can't forget her. Now, meeting Lady Emma Campbell, an outrageously flirtatious debutante, leaves the earl more shaken than ever—for the brazen beauty is an uncanny double of the sweet Emily!Emily cannot reveal the reason for her scandalous masquerade—not even to the earl whose heated embrace awakens a sizzling passion. Her very life depends on convincing society that she is Lady Campbell, yet no disguise can hide her dangerous attraction to the earl. But does "Cinderella' dare risk losing her handsome "prince" by revealing that she is just a country girl?

Author : Julius Lester
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466862913

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Do Lord Remember Me by Julius Lester Pdf

In a gray fieldstone house in Nashville, Tennessee, the Reverend Joshua Smith Sr.--the staunch and gentle man known to thousands in black churches throughout the South as the Singing Evangelist and to one white reporter as "the Colored Billy Graham"--is trying to compose his own obituary on what will be the last day of his life. In doing so, he looks back over that life--from his childhood in rural northern Mississippi to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, from tears of humiliation to songs of celebration and triumph. When Do Lord Remember Me was first published in 1984, the Chicago Sun-Times compared it to Alex Haley's Roots, Newsday described it as "exquisitely crafted," People as "distinguished," the Philadelphia Inquirer as "riveting," and the Cleveland Plain-Dealer declared "every page has something worth remembering." Thirty years later and now a classic, Julius Lester's Do Lord Remember Me is an eloquent and deeply moving story about a black family's dignified struggle for survival.

Author : Daniel Lord Smail
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501718090

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Imaginary Cartographies by Daniel Lord Smail Pdf

How, in the years before the advent of urban maps, did city residents conceptualize and navigate their communities? In his strikingly original book, Daniel Lord Smail develops a new method and a new vocabulary for understanding how urban men and women thought about their personal geography. His thorough research of property records of late medieval Marseille leads him to conclude that its inhabitants charted their city, its social structure, and their own identities within that structure through a set of cartographic grammars which powerfully shaped their lives.Prior to the fourteenth century, different interest groups—notaries, royal officials, church officials, artisans—developed their own cartographies in accordance with their own social, political, or administrative agendas. These competing templates were created around units ranging from streets and islands to vicinities and landmarks. Smail shows how the notarial template, which privileged the street as the most basic marker of address, gradually emerged as the cartographic norm. This transformation, he argues, led to the rise of modern urban maps and helped to inaugurate the process whereby street addresses were attached to citizen identities, a crucial development in the larger enterprise of nation building.Imaginary Cartographies opens up powerful new means for exploring late medieval and Renaissance urban society while advancing understanding of the role of social perceptions in history.

Author : George R. R. Martin
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553900323

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A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin Pdf

THE BOOK BEHIND THE FOURTH SEASON OF THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin’s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in A Feast for Crows, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace . . . only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction. A FEAST FOR CROWS It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears. . . . With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in King’s Landing. Robb Stark’s demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil. Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still exist—or they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield them effectively. The war, which raged out of control for so long, has burned itself out. But as in the aftermath of any climactic struggle, it is not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters start to gather, picking over the bones of the dead and fighting for the spoils of the soon-to-be dead. Now in the Seven Kingdoms, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes, daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed, while surprising faces—some familiar, others only just appearing—are seen emerging from an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges ahead. It is a time when the wise and the ambitious, the deceitful and the strong will acquire the skills, the power, and the magic to survive the stark and terrible times that lie before them. It is a time for nobles and commoners, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and sages to come together and stake their fortunes . . . and their lives. For at a feast for crows, many are the guests—but only a few are the survivors.

Author : Daniel Lord Smail
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674737280

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Legal Plunder by Daniel Lord Smail Pdf

As a Europe grew rich in the Middle Ages, the well-made clothes, linens, and wares of households often substituted for hard currency. Pawnbrokers kept goods in circulation, and sergeants of the law marched into debtors’ homes to seize belongings equal in value to debts owed. David Smail describes a material world on the cusp of modern capitalism.