1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462412403321

Autore

Burlingame Michael

Titolo

With Lincoln in the White House [[electronic resource] ] : Letters, Memoranda, and other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, 2006

ISBN

9786613673930

0-8093-8823-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Disciplina

973.7/092

973.7092

Soggetti

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Friends and associates

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 -- Correspondence

Private secretaries -- United States -- Correspondence

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives

United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865

Private secretaries - United States

United States - General

Regions & Countries - Americas

History & Archaeology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Frontis; Book Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1860; 1861; 1862; 1863; 1864; 1865; Notes; Index; Author Bio; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

From the time of Lincoln's nomination for the presidency until his assassination, John G. Nicolay served as the Civil War president's chief personal secretary. Nicolay became an intimate of Lincoln and probably knew him as well as anyone outside his own family. Unlike John Hay, his subordinate, Nicolay kept no diary, but he did write several memoranda recording his chief's conversation that shed direct light on Lincoln. In his many letters to Hay, to his fiancée, Therena Bates, and to



others, Nicolay often describes the mood at the White House as well as events there. He also expr

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996387331203316

Autore

Blount Charles <1654-1693.>

Titolo

The oracles of reason [[electronic resource] ] : Consisting of 1. A vindication of Dr. Burnet's Archiologiæ. 2. The seventh and eighth chapters of the same. 3. Of Moses's description of the original state of man, &c. 4. Dr. Burnet's appendix of the Brachmin's religion. 5. An account of the deist's religion. 6. Of the immortality of the soul. 7. Concerning the Arrians, Trinitarians and councils. 8. That felicity consists in pleasure. 9. Of fate and fortune. 10. Of the original of the Jews. 11. The lawfulness of marrying two sisters successively. 12. A political account of the subversion of Jewdaism, and original of the millenium. 13. Of the auguries of the ancients. 14. Natural religion as oppos'd to divine revelation. 15. That the soul is matter. 16. That the world is eternal, &c. : In several letters to Mr. Hobbs and other persons of eminent quality and learning. / / by Char. Blount, Esq. Mr. Gildon and others

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : [s.n.], Printed 1693

Descrizione fisica

[37], 228 p

Altri autori (Persone)

BurnetThomas <1635?-1715.>

GildonCharles <1665-1724.>

H. B

Soggetti

Rationalism

Deism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Pages [4]-[25] contain preface signed: C. Gildon [i.e. Charles Gildon].

Facing t.p.: "An account of the life and death, &c. Esteem (for I never presum'd to hope for love) I flatter'd my self Hermione had for her Zealous Adorer, Lindamour."

"The 7th. and 8th. Chapters of Dr. Burnet's Archaeologiæ Philosophicæ, together with his Appendix to the same, concerning the Brachmin's Religion, all Written Originally in Latin, and now rendred [sic] into



English, by Mr. H.B."  Cf. p. 20.

Reproduction of original in: Universität Göttingen Bibliothek.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0161

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910482481803321

Autore

Avicenna <980-1037.>

Titolo

Problemata. Fragstuck Aristotelis, Avicenne, Galeni unnd Alberti Magni. Darinn menschlicher und thierlicher Natur, Eygenschafften durch Frag und Antwurt, auch mancherhandt Artzneien den Menschen zu gut kurtz angezeygt werden / Itzunt von newen gemert begessert ... durch Q. Apollinarem [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Strasbourg, : Jacob Cammerlander, 1540

Descrizione fisica

Online resource ([24] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) , (4to))

Altri autori (Persone)

Galen

AlbertusMagnus, Saint, 1193-1280

RyffWalther Hermann <1548.>

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in The Wellcome Library, London.