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Originally published in 1879.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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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.
The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.
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British Library

T002342

Half-title: 'A sermon preach'd at Bath, ..'.

London : printed: and sold by C. Henderson, and James Leake, at Bath, 1756. 32p. ; 8° ... Read more

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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.
Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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British Library

T101283

With a list of subscribers.

London : printed for the author, and sold by T. Evans; J. Southern; by Mess. Prince, Fletcher, and Parker, Oxford; and by the author, in Woodstock, 1774. xxxiv,[2],156p. ; 8° ... Read more

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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.
The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.
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T087812



London : printed for John and Barham Clark, 1724. 48p. ; 8° ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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EARLY SOCIAL CUSTOMS. Imagine holding history in your hands. Now you can. Digitally preserved and previously accessible only through libraries as Early English Books Online, this rare material is now available in single print editions. Thousands of books written between 1475 and 1700 can be delivered to your doorstep in individual volumes of high quality historical reproductions. Social customs, human interaction and leisure are the driving force of any culture. These unique and quirky works give us a glimpse of interesting aspects of day-to-day life as it existed in an earlier time.With books on games, sports, traditions, festivals, and hobbies it is one of the most fascinating collections in the series.

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Madrigalls to foure voyces newly published by Iohn Bennet his first works
Madrigals
Bennet, John, fl. 1599-1614.
Four partbooks, each with separate dated title page and register. At foot of title, part 1: "Cantus"; part 2: "Altus"; part 3: "Tenor"; part 4: "Bassus".
Signatures: A-C4; A-C4; A-C4; A-C4.
[96] p. :
At London : Printed in little Saint Hellens by [H. Ballard for] William Barley, the assigne of Thomas Morley. Cum priuilegio, M.D.XC.IX. [1599]
STC (2nd ed.) / 1882
English
Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery ... Read more

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Another of the recent volumes that is full of stir and red blood. It is a long story but it carries you clear to the end without a moment of flagging interest. If you are wanting a story that will completely carry you away from business you just join the Volunteer with Pike. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Orange Judd Co. in 1883 in 121 pages; Subjects: Soils; Fertilizers; Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / General; Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / Agronomy / Soil Science; Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / Agronomy / General; ... Read more

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Originally published in 1857.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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These twenty-one original contributions by composers, behavioral scientists, engineers, and other specialists from many of the international centers of research in computer music provide an inside report on the most sophisticated aspects of digital synthesis, control and understanding of musical sound, and related work on perception. Among the specific topics covered are speech songs, synthesis of the singing voice, spatial reverberation, the simulation of bowed instruments, and a conductor program utilizing a mechanical baton. A chapter authored jointly by Mathews and Pierce describes a new musical scale they have been working on for the past few years. ... Read more

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A must have for computer music enthusiasts
The articles in collection are very readable - a great deal of care seems to have been made in the editing process. Various authors give summaries of different parts of the area of computer music. Some of the articles Iparticularly like include the following: i) several articles by differentauthors on synthesis of the singing voice; ii) the article by Mathews andPierce on the Bohlen-Pierce scale, a non-octave-based scale of oddharmonics, with 3:5:7 and 5:7:9 chords; iii) Risset's article onparadoxical sounds; iv) Schottstaedt's article on automatic counterpoint.The subject is moving very rapidly, so some of the information is outdated,but most is not. ... Read more

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Poetry. Visual Poetry. LOOSE WATCH is a selection oftexts and graphics from issues 1-39 of Lost and Found Times.Itfeatures the work of 170 contributors from North and South America,Europe and the former Soviet Union.From its origins in mail art tothe present, the Lost and Found Times have provided a model of howmarginalised cultural workers can create productive areas ofengagement within a network of activity. "Shelves clogged with leavesresist physical/ melting except as the start of extinguished/ flamepeeling places of selves we thought were/ ringing rigid like a temple,but it's just a plate of/ dander corresponding to a subtle wheeze,directive/ toward the window. Where the wire sings the pigeon/ fingerslike the yellow wisps of snow" ("Shelves") - Sheila Murphy and JohnM. Bennett. ... Read more

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Fish? Sugar! Sienna no walk value, ah, a comb!
John M. Bennett, ed., Loose Watch: A Lost and Found Times Anthology (Invisible, 1999)

I was surprised my library actually had this in stock. The work of John M. Bennett, and the annals of his long-running mail-art mag Lost and Found Times, are notoriously hard to find. I'm proud of my ability to have hunted down two of Bennett's books in the past ten years. To find this treasure in the stacks at the local library was astonishing.

I thought it was going to be a faster read; Lost and Found Times has been quite graphically-oriented during the time I've been aware of its existence (since 1991). But it turns out the magazine's first twenty years were more about the text, and so while the two hundred pages here do contain a good deal of collage, word art, and other such fancies, there's a lot of text to work with, too. Be prepared.

Lost and Found Times, over the years, has featured some of the premier avant-garde literary names (Ivan Arguelles, Bennett himself, Al Ackerman, etc.) and some that should be premier, but have unfortunately become obscure (the great prose poet Robert Nagler being the foremost of them reprinted here). Bennett reprints what he considers the best of the magazine's output over the years, and there is truly some fantastic stuff to be found between the covers of this book. There's some mush, too, but it's an anthology. You expect it. If Andrei Codrescu couldn't put together two hundred pages of top-notch work for the Exquisite Corpse anthology that came out fifteen years ago, no one else has any hope. (Codrescu gave it the good old college try, though, and The Stiffest of the Corpse falls only inches shy of everlasting greatness; a fantastic read, and highly recommended here at Goat Central. But I digress.)

Perhaps the book's most pleasurable surprise is a series of Al Ackerman-penned prose articles called Ack's Wacks; alternately hysterical and horrifying, Ackerman gives himself free rein to be totally nuts, and does a fantastic job. This, folks, is comedy of the highest sort, and Ack's Wacks alone are more than enough reason to seek this out. But the evolution of Bennett from avant-garde wordsmith to dyslexia artist is also documented, and for anyone who's gotten a taste of the insanity that is Bennett's handwritten poetic musings (the covers of his own Was Ah and Ivan Arguelles' Chac Prostibulario are excellent examples), this is a great way to see how he got started writing close-to-indecipherable weirdness.

There are, of course, pieces that fail to please, but the majority of what's here is well worth reading. A definitive catalogue of twenty-five years of the avant-garde in America. *** ½ ... Read more