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This extensive eight-volume work was first published between 1867 and 1877 by the linguist John Dowson (1820-81) from the manuscripts of the colonial administrator and scholar Sir Henry Miers Elliot (1808-53). Before his death, hoping to bolster British colonial ideology, Elliot had intended to evaluate scores of Arabic and Persian historians of India, believing that his translations would demonstrate the violence of the Muslim rulers and 'make our native subjects more sensible of the immense advantages accruing to them under the mildness and the equity of our rule'. Volume 3 covers the period from the death of Nasir-ud-din Mahmud (1246-66) to the rise to power of Timur (1336-1405) at the end of the fourteenth century. It includes Timur's purported autobiography and the fifteenth-century Zafarnama of Sharafuddin Ali Yazdi, a history of the Timurid dynasty. The appendices contain studies of contemporaneous texts, including poetry and the Travels of Ibn Battuta.

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This Irish-language chronicle covers events in Ireland from the beginning of the eleventh to the end of the sixteenth centuries. Edited and translated by the native Irish speaker and acclaimed scholar William Hennessy (c.1829-89), the work was published for the Rolls Series in 1871 and remains an important source for Irish history. Hennessy also supplied an edited and translated excerpt from a closely related chronicle, The Annals of Connacht, to supplement years missing from the edited text (1316-1412). Volume 2, including a substantial index to both volumes, begins with an account of warfare among Gaelic-Irish and Anglo-Irish nobility in the fourteenth century and concludes shortly before the rebellion of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, in the 1590s.

Ireland --- History

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The book I herewith offer to the public is intended rather as a handbook for the general reader, than for the use of the philosophical student. Its statements might have been more fully supported by many interesting incidents and illustrations, but these would scarcely have been of sufficient importance to warrant the additional expense of a much enlarged volume, increasing its cost to the publisher, and consequently to the public. Living remote from the great centres of thought, I have not recently had access to extensive libraries, and some of my quotations have been made from memory. In other matters I have relied on the statements in Cyclopedias, and the treatises in such works are too brief to be of much use to an author. I have endeavored in all cases to avoid giving any doubtful authorities, but it is proper to say, that some of the notes from which this book were written were made many years ago, and may have grown rusty with age. I cannot but believe that this little volume, with all its imperfections, will supply a want to a great many readers who have neither the means to procure, nor the time to study the productions of the great philosophers of modern times, but who may still wish to acquire a concise knowledge of the great science of philosophy, and in this belief it is now submitted to their consideration.

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