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Observations on the Scottish Dialect
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Books in English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literature contain the works of English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh authors. Titles include: Gill's Irish Reciter. A Selection of Gems from Ireland's Modern Literature, The Pocket Library of English Literature: Elizabethan & Jacobean Pamphlets, Lectures on the English comic writers, Three Centuries of Scottish Literature. Vol. I. The Reformation to the Union, Three Centuries of Scottish Literature. Vol. II - the Union to Scott, and The Influence of Gothic Literature on Sir Walter Scott.
Also in this BookBooks on British and Irish Theatre mainly contain the full scripts of plays that were written in Britain and Ireland. The theatre flourished in Elizabethan times, led by William Shakespeare, was paused during the Puritan period, but restored in the late 17th century. Other titles provide critical analysis of plays. A long list of British and Irish plays written and performed between the 16th and 20th centuries has been preserved, some examples being: the full complement of Shakespeare's plays, Golden Texts from the Works of William Shakespeare, Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Sweet Lavender, The Mob, The Case of Rebellious Susan, Tristram & Iseult, The Sorcerer, and The Admirable Crichton.
And in this BookBooks about Travel in Great Britain describe travel, tourism and adventures in England, Scotland and Wales, which have their unique and intertwined histories and specific features. Titles include: A Journal of an Excursion Round the South-Eastern Coast of England, A Walk Through Southampton: Including a Survey of Its Antiquities, Authorised Guide to the Tower of London, Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain, The Derbyshire Tourist's Guide and Travelling Companion, The Land's End: A Naturalist's Impressions in West Cornwall, Tourist's Guide to North Devon and the Exmoor District, and Tourist's Guide to Warwickshire.
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John Sinclair
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Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish politician, writer on finance and agriculture and the first person to use the word statistics in the English language, in his vast, pioneering work, The Statistical Account of Scotland, in 21 volumes.
Sinclair was the eldest son of George Sinclair of Ulbster, a member of the family of the Earls of Caithness, and was born at Thurso Castle, Thurso, Caithness. After studying at the University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow and Trinity College, Oxford, he was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland, and called to the English bar, but never practised.
In 1780, he was returned to the British House of Commons for Caithness constituency, and subsequently represented several English constituencies, his parliamentary career extending, with few interruptions, until 1811. Sinclair established at Edinburgh a society for the improvement of British wool, and was mainly instrumental in the creation of the Board of Agriculture, of which he was the first president.
His reputation as a financier and economist had been established by the publication, in 1784, of his History of the Public Revenue of the British Empire; in 1793 widespread ruin was prevented by the adoption of his plan for the issue of Exchequer Bills; and it was on his advice that, in 1797, Pitt issued the "loyalty loan" of eighteen millions for the prosecution of the war.
Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish politician, writer on finance and agriculture and the first person to use the word statistics in the English language, in his vast, pioneering work, The Statistical Account of Scotland, in 21 volumes.
Sinclair was the eldest son of George Sinclair of Ulbster, a member of the family of the Earls of Caithness, and was born at Thurso Castle, Thurso, Caithness. After studying at the University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow and Trinity College, Oxford, he was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland, and called to the English bar, but never practised.
In 1780, he was returned to the British House of Commons for Caithness constituency, and subsequently represented several English constituencies, his parliamentary career extending, with few interruptions, until 1811. Sinclair established at Edinburgh a society for the improvement of British wool, and was mainly instrumental in the creation of the Board of Agriculture, of which he was the first president.
His reputation as a financier and economist had been established by the publication, in 1784, of his History of the Public Revenue of the British Empire; in 1793 widespread ruin was prevented by the adoption of his plan for the issue of Exchequer Bills; and it was on his advice that, in 1797, Pitt issued the "loyalty loan" of eighteen millions for the prosecution of the war.
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