Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    X567/95
  • Title
    Two foldings of paper (partly paginated) containing notes and draft articles:
  • Date free text
    Undated [1841 - c.1870]
  • Production date
    From: 1841 To: 1875
  • Scope and Content
    notes from 'Salopia Antiqua" by the Reverend C H Hartshorne 1841 Despotism in France "The Races of Men" by Robert Knox, M.D. 1850 "Salmonia, or days of Fly-fishing" by Sir Humphrey Davy "Siluria" by Sir Roderick Impey Murchison 1854 "History of the Conquests of Mexico" by William H Prescott Mixture of races in England c.1855 Byzantine Architecture c.1854 The misery of sensitiveness and modesty and the success of self-assurance and go-a-headism "The fear of ridicule is a great barrier to thousands. Men draw back from defeat - not so much because it is defeat - as because they are afraid of being laughed at. It is always the stupidest louts who jump in sacks at fairs, or bob for oranges, or climb the greasy pole. You may laugh at them as much as you like, so that they win the prize and carry off the dangling mutton. There are many standing by who could do it better, but they don't like to try. So it is with those who play the prominent parts in the world. They are wit-proof. …You may as well try to cut down an oak with a pen-knife." Russian Policy The first British Christian c.1855 A Good Library c.1855 Hungary Reaction of public feeling Theory of the tenth wave High cultivation of land [mentions a man renting 6 acres of land in Kempston at 30s an acre, which was offered to him to buy at £60 an acre, but he gave it up. Next tenant put down a crop of onions valued at £1,152. But this was a large crop, and onions had become unusually dear.] "Rambles of a Geologist" by Hugh Miller c.1858 Nuremberg Tokens ["I published a Paper on this subject in the Volume of the united Archaeological Societies"] Professor Huxley on the Celtic and Teutonic races c. 1870
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