George Ticknor: 4 books

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. 1 - With Notices of its Principle Framers. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years,...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. 2 - with notices of principle framers. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back...

A special history of the origin and establishment of the Constitution of the United States has not yet found a place in our national literature. Many years ago, I formed the design of writing such a work, for the purpose of exhibiting the deep causes which at once rendered the Convention of 1787 inevitable,...

In the earliest ages of every literature that has vindicated for itself a permanent character in modern Europe, much of what constituted its foundations was the result of local situation and of circumstances seemingly accidental. Sometimes, as in Provence, where the climate was mild and the soil luxuriant,...