"It is now become so much the fashion to publish letters, that in order to avoid it, I put as little into mine as I can," Samuel Johnson declared, according to Boswell. And Boswell answered, "Do what ...you will, Sir, you cannot avoid it. Should you even write as ill as you can, your letters would be published as curiosities." But Johnson's letters are far more than that. Even at their most cursory and casual, they are never less than precious biographical documents, and many of them mirror, define, and re-create a vivid likeness of the most versatile writer of eighteenth-century England. With these three volumes Princeton University Press inaugurates the first scholarly edition of this remarkable material to appear in forty years--the planned five-volume series The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Known as the Hyde Edition, the project will be completed with the fourth volume, covering the years 1782 through 1784, and the fifth, containing the comprehensive index and appendices. The series as a whole will present fifty-two previously unknown letters or parts of letters that have come to light since the publication of R. W. Chapman's three-volume set (Oxford, 1952). Such "new" letters, however, are scarcely more important than those for which only inferior printed texts or copies of varying reliability had previously been recovered. The Hyde Edition offers scores of texts transcribed for the first time from the original documents--a feature of special importance in the case of Johnson's revealing letters to Hester Thrale, many of which have been available only in expurgated form. The Hyde Edition is also the first systematically to record substantive deletions, which can yield intimate knowledge of Johnson's stylistic procedures, mental habits, and chains of association. Furthermore, its ownership credits document the current disposition of the manuscripts, hundreds of which have changed hands during the last four decades. Finally, the annotation of the letters incorporates the many significant discoveries of postwar Johnsonian scholarship, as well as decoding references that had previously resisted explanation. The result is a far richer understanding of Samuel Johnson's life, work, and milieu.
Originally published in 1991.
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Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster is a memoir of a twenty-first-century literary pilgrimage to retrace the famous eighteenth-century Scottish journey of James Boswell and Samuel Johnson, two ...of the most celebrated writers of their day. William W. Starr enlivens this crisply written travelogue with a playful wit, an enthusiasm for all things Scottish, the boon and burden of American sensibility, and an ardent appreciation for Boswell and Johnson—who make frequent cameos throughout these ramblings. In 1773 the sixty-three-year-old Johnson was England's preeminent man of letters, and Boswell, some thirty years Johnson's junior, was on the cusp of achieving his own literary celebrity. For more than one hundred days, the distinguished duo toured what was then largely unknown Scottish terrain, later publishing their impressions of the trip in a pair of classic journals. In 2007 Starr embarked on a three-thousand-mile trek through the Scottish Lowlands and Highlands, following the path—though in reverse—of Boswell and Johnson. He recorded a wealth of keen observations on his encounters with people and places, lochs and lore, castles and clans, fables and foibles. Starr couples his contemporary commentary with passages from Boswell's and Johnson's published accounts, letters, and diaries to weave together a cohesive travel guide to the Scotland of yore and today. This is a celebration of Scottish life and a spirited endorsement of the wondrous, often unexpected discoveries to be made through good travel and good writing.
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We present 10‐ and 20‐μm images of IRAS 19500−1709 taken with the mid‐infrared camera, OSCIR, mounted on the Gemini North Telescope. An extended circumstellar envelope is detected, with the ...N‐band image indicating an elongation in a north‐east–south‐west direction. We use a dust radiation transport code to fit the spectral energy distribution from ultraviolet to submillimetre wavelengths, with a detached dust shell model. A good fit is achieved using dust composed of amorphous carbon, silicon carbide and magnesium sulphide. We derive estimates for the inner and outer radius, density and mass of the dust in the shell. The inner radius is not resolved in our OSCIR imaging, giving an upper limit of 0.4 arcsec. With this constraint, we conclude that IRAS 19500−1709 must be at least 4 kpc away in order to have the minimum luminosity consistent with a post‐asymptotic giant branch status.
Fighting in woods and forests is a very special form of war. Avoided by military commanders unless such terrain is to their advantage, for soldiers forest battles are a chaotic mix of dread, ...determination, and, all too often, death. Adversaries remain in constant fear of concealed ambush, casualties usually must be abandoned, and prisoners who cannot be guarded are killed. Heightened fear can lead to excesses. Too often, armies have been badly prepared and trained for such warfare and have suffered severely for it. In Warfare in Woods and Forests, noted military historian Anthony Clayton describes major events in woods and forest warfare from the first century CE to the 21st. These events involve Roman soldiers in Germany 2,000 years ago; North Americans in 18th- and 19th-century conflicts; invaders of Russia in 1812 and 1941; British, French, and Americans in France in 1916 and 1918; Americans in the Hürtgen Forest in 1944; and modern-day Russian soldiers in Chechnya.
Fire rated cables standards development - update Shoshani, G.; Loiselle, R.; McGrath, B. ...
2011 Record of Conference Papers Industry Applications Society 58th Annual IEEE Petroleum and Chemical Industry Conference (PCIC),
2011-Sept.
Conference Proceeding
The purpose of the paper is to educate safety, facility and design engineers about recent standards development with regards to fire rated cables and a new cable test method for the Petro-Chemical ...industry. The paper will summarize current standards and will introduce the new IEEE 1717, "Standard for Testing Circuit Integrity Cables Using a Hydrocarbon Pool Fire Test Protocol" currently under development at IEEE Insulated Conductor Committee (ICC). The scope of IEEE 1717 is to provide cable and/or system requirements and methods for performing circuit integrity cable testing on energized low voltage power, control, and instrumentation cables at temperatures and heat fluxes simulating a Hydrocarbon Pool Fire (HPF). The paper will explain the reasons for choosing the UL 1709 furnace test with the electrical set up from UL 2196 as the basis for IEEE 1717. The paper will cover the recent draft of API 2218 "Fireproofing Practices in Petroleum and Petrochemical Processing Plants" and related fire tests that are mentioned in the standard such as: UL 1709, ASTM 1529 and UL 2196. In addition, API 14 FZ "Recommended Practice for Design, Installation, and Maintenance of Electrical Systems for Fixed and Floating Offshore Petroleum Facilities for Unclassified and Class I, Zone 0, Zone 1 and Zone 2 Locations" will be reviewed. The summary will cover the fire protection requirements in areas that may be subjected to a HPF. The last standard that is covered in this paper and is under development is IEEE 1810 "IEEE Guide for the Installation of Fire-Rated Cables suitable for Hydrocarbon Pool Fires for Critical, and Emergency Shutdown Systems in Petroleum and Chemical Industries".
The purpose of this paper is to educate safety, facility and design engineers about fire rated cables used for emergency shut down due to a hydrocarbon fuel fire. The survivability of such cables in ...comparison to regular cables under fire conditions will be discussed. In addition, an explanation of the various technologies of fire rated cables available today will be provided, as well as issues with previous technology. A new standard, IEEE P1717, "Standard for Testing Circuit Integrity Cables Using a Hydrocarbon Pool Fire Test Protocol", is currently being developed. An overview of the draft test standard will be included as well as other test methods that are used in the US and Canada as well as internationally (such as UL1709, NEK 606 and IEC 61892-4). The installation practices of fire rated cables and what to consider for these cables when designing emergency shutdown systems will be reviewed. This will include information about the material selection for cable trays, support systems, cable glands and fire rated enclosures.
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