Lives Of Illustrious Shoemakers

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Author

Winks, W. E. (William Edward), 1842-1926

Title

Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers

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Produced by Bill Tozier, Barbara Tozier, Matthew Wheaton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

CT: History: Biography

Subject

Shoemakers -- Biography

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Text

eBook-No.

40677

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40677

Release Date

September 6, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.LIVES OF ILLUSTRIOUS SHOEMAKERS.
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
5. 5.CHAPTER I. — SIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVEL.
6. 6.CHAPTER II. — JAMES LACKINGTON.
7. 7.CHAPTER III. — SAMUEL BRADBURN.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. — WILLIAM GIFFORD.
9. 9.CHAPTER V. — ROBERT BLOOMFIELD.
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. — SAMUEL DREW.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. — WILLIAM CAREY.
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. — JOHN POUNDS.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. — THOMAS COOPER.
14. 14.CHAPTER X.
15. 15.ANCIENT EXAMPLES IN ASIA AND AFRICA — THE COBBLER AND THE ARTIST APELLES. — TWO SHOEMAKER-BISHOPS—ANNIANUS OF ALEXANDRIA, AND ALEXANDER OF COMANA. — THE PIOUS COBBLER OF ALEXANDRIA. — RABBI JOCHANAN THE SHOEMAKER.
16. 16.EUROPEAN EXAMPLES. FRANCE. — SS. CRISPIN AND CRISPIANUS, THE PATRON SAINTS OF SHOEMAKERS. — THE LEARNED BAUDOUIN. — HENRY MICHAEL BUCH—“GOOD HENRY.”
17. 17.GERMANY. — HANS SACHS, THE NIGHTINGALE OF THE REFORMATION. — JACOB BOEHMEN, THE MYSTIC.
18. 18.ITALY. — GABRIEL CAPPELLINI, IL CALIGARINO, OR THE LITTLE SHOEMAKER. — FRANCESCO BRIZZIO, THE ARTIST.
19. 19.HOLLAND. — LUDOLPH DE JONG, THE DUTCH PORTRAIT-PAINTER. — SONS OF SHOEMAKERS.
20. 20.GREAT BRITAIN. — “YE COCKE OF WESTMINSTER.” — TIMOTHY BENNETT, THE HERO OF HAMPTON-WICK.
21. 21.MILITARY AND NAVAL HEROES. — “THE SOUTERS OP SELKIRK.” — WATT TINLINN. — COLONEL HEWSON, THE “CERDON” OF “HUDIBRAS.” — SIR CHRISTOPHER MYNGS, ADMIRAL OF THE ENGLISH FLEET.
22. 22.ASTROLOGERS AND OTHERS. — DR. PARTRIDGE, ASTROLOGER, PHYSICIAN TO HIS MAJESTY, ETC. — THE BROTHERS SIBLY.—EBENEZER SIBLY, M.D., F.R.C.P., ASTROLOGER, ETC. — MANOAH SIBLY, SHORTHAND WRITER, ETC. — MACKEY, THE LEARNED SHOEMAKER OF NORWICH, AND TWO OTHER LEARNED SHOEMAKERS. — ANTHONY PURVER, THE SHOEMAKER WHO REVISED THE BIBLE.
23. 23.POETS OF THE COBBLER’S STALL. — JAMES WOODHOUSE, THE FRIEND OF SHENSTONE. — JOHN BENNET OF WOODSTOCK, PARISH CLERK AND POET. — RICHARD SAVAGE, THE FRIEND OF POPE. — THOMAS OLIVERS, HYMN-WRITER, FRIEND AND COWORKER WITH JOHN WESLEY. — THOMAS HOLCROFT, DRAMATIST, NOVELIST, ETC. [143] — JOSEPH BLACKET, POET, “THE SON OF SORROW.” — DAVID SERVICE, AND OTHER SONGSTERS OF THE COBBLER’S STALL. — JOHN STRUTHERS, POET, EDITOR, ETC. — JOHN O’NEILL, THE POET OF TEMPERANCE. — JOHN YOUNGER, SHOEMAKER, FLY-FISHER, AND POET. — CHARLES CROCKER, “THE POOR COBBLER OF CHICHESTER”.
24. 24.PREACHERS. — GEORGE FOX, FOUNDER OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. — THOMAS SHILLITOE, THE SHOEMAKER WHO STOOD BEFORE KINGS. — JOHN THORP, FOUNDER OF THE INDEPENDENT CHURCH AT MASBRO’. — WILLIAM HUNTINGDON, S.S., CALVINISTIC METHODIST PREACHER. — REV. ROBERT MORRISON, D.D., CHINESE SCHOLAR AND MISSIONARY. — THE REV. JOHN BURNET, PREACHER AND PHILANTHROPIST. — JOHN KITTO, D.D., THE BIBLICAL SCHOLAR.
25. 25.SCIENCE. — WILLIAM STURGEON, THE ELECTRICIAN.
26. 26.POLITICIANS. — THOMAS HARDY, OF “THE STATE TRIALS.” — GEORGE ODGER, POLITICAL ORATOR.
27. 27.AMERICA. — NOAH WORCESTER, D.D., “THE APOSTLE OF PEACE.” — ROGER SHERMAN, ONE OF THE SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. — HENRY WILSON, “THE NATICK COBBLER.” — J. G. WHITTIER, “THE QUAKER POET.”
28. 28.INDEX.
29. 29.FOOTNOTES:

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