Log of the proceedings of HMS Agamemnon
Title | Log of the proceedings of HMS Agamemnon PDF eBook |
Author | J. E. M. Wilson |
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Pages | |
Release | 1852 |
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Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute
Title | Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute PDF eBook |
Author | United States Naval Institute |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1134 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Naval art and science |
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Evangelicals in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815
Title | Evangelicals in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815 PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Blake |
Publisher | Boydell Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781843833598 |
Religious activity flourished in the eighteenth-century navy; this book examines the reasons why and its manifestations. The Evangelical Admiral Gambier, notorious for distributing tracts to his fleet in a theatre of war, is commonly seen as a misfit in a fighting service that had scant time for fervent piety. In fact, the navy of the Revolutionaryand Napoleonic Wars showed a level of religious observance not seen since the days of Queen Anne. Evangelical laymen provided one dynamic for this change: concentrating first on public worship, they moved to active proselytism insearch of converts amongst sailors, and in a third phase developed a loose network of prayer groups in scores of ships, uniting officers and seamen in voluntary gatherings that transcended rank. This book explores the effect this new piety had on discipline and human governance, on literacy, on the development of chaplains' ministry and on the mindset of the officer corps. It also looks at the larger question of how its values were absorbed into the ethos of the navy as a whole. It draws on sources both familiar and unusual - logs, letters, minutes, memoirs, tracts and sermons, Regulations - to explain how evangelical influence affected officer corps, lower deck andAdmiralty, showing how a movement that began by promoting public worship at sea became an agency for mass evangelism through literature, preaching and off-duty gatherings, where officers and men met for shared Bible reading and prayer a mere decade after the great Mutinies.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum
Title | Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum PDF eBook |
Author | British Library. Dept. of Manuscripts |
Publisher | |
Pages | 948 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Manuscripts |
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Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Title | Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers PDF eBook |
Author | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 592 |
Release | 1883 |
Genre | Civil engineering |
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Vols. 39-214 (1874/75-1921/22) have a section 2 containing "Other selected papers"; issued separately, 1923-35, as the institution's Selected engineering papers.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years ...
Title | Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years ... PDF eBook |
Author | British Museum. Department of Manuscripts |
Publisher | |
Pages | 948 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Great Britain |
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Index of Manuscripts in the British Library
Title | Index of Manuscripts in the British Library PDF eBook |
Author | British Library. Department of Manuscripts |
Publisher | |
Pages | 622 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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