Observations on the Causes of the Dissoluteness Which Reigns Among the Lower Classes of the People - The Propensity of Some to Petty Larceny: And the Danger of Gaming, Concubinage, and an Excessive Fondness for Amusement in High Life (Paperback)


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.Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++<sourceLibrary>Harvard University Houghton Library<ESTCID>N010124<Notes><imprintFull>London: sold by J. and F. Rivington, and other booksellers, 1772. <collation> 4],88p.; 8

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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.Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++<sourceLibrary>Harvard University Houghton Library<ESTCID>N010124<Notes><imprintFull>London: sold by J. and F. Rivington, and other booksellers, 1772. <collation> 4],88p.; 8

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Imprint

Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Country of origin

United States

Release date

August 2010

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First published

August 2010

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Dimensions

246 x 189 x 5mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback - Trade

Pages

100

ISBN-13

978-1-171-47945-1

Barcode

9781171479451

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LSN

1-171-47945-X



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