Cockburn's Millennium
by Miller, Karl
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Like New/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0674136381
- ISBN 13
- 9780674136380
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About This Item
Harvard University Press, 1976. Hard cover. Like New/Very Good. Henry Thomas Cockburn of Bonaly, Lord Cockburn, was a Scottish lawyer, judge and literary figure. He served as Solicitor General for Scotland between 1830 and 1834. Cockburn contributed regularly to the Edinburgh Review. In this popular magazine of its day he is described as: "rather below the middle height, firm, wiry and muscular, inured to active exercise of all kinds, a good swimmer, an accomplished skater, an intense lover of the fresh breezes of heaven. He was the model of a high-bred Scotch gentleman. He spoke with a Doric breadth of accent. Cockburn was one of the most popular men north of the Tweed." He was a member of the famous Speculative Society, to which Sir Walter Scott, Henry Brougham and Francis Jeffrey belonged.The extent of Cockburn's literary ability only became known after he had passed his 70th year, on the publication of his biography of lifelong friend Lord Jeffrey in 1852, and from his chief literary work, the Memorials of his Time, which appeared posthumously in 1856. His published work continued with his Journal, published in 1874. These constitute an autobiography of the writer interspersed with notices of manners, public events, and sketches of his contemporaries, of great interest and value.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010024866
- Title
- Cockburn's Millennium
- Author
- Miller, Karl
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0674136381
- ISBN 13
- 9780674136380
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- Scotland
- X weight
- 27 oz
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