Encyclopaedia Britannica, or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Vol. 5

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from Encyclopaedia Britannica, or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Vol. 5: Enlarged and ImprovedHe was, at length, called off from his literary la bours by avocations of a far different kind. A gentle man who afterwards derived the cognomen of {ingle fpeech Hamilton, from a celebrated oration, having been appointed fecretary to the lord-lieutenant of Ire land, invited his friend Mr Burke to accompany him thither, this offer he readily complied with, and al though he aéted in no public ilation, and performed no public fervice while he remained in that country, he was rewarded with a penfion of 3001. Per annum, which he foon after difpofed of for a fum of money.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.