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Top Robert Morrison titles. Page 1 of 1. The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern. 203. The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre (Oxford World's Classics) 175. Persuasion: An Annotated Edition.
Jul 7, 2020 · Robert Morrison creates an indelible impression of the Regency." ― Clare Brant, Times Higher Education (UK) "Superb.… The Regency period lasted for less than a decade but, as Mr. Morrison argues, ‘its many legacies are still all around us.’ It was also, as this book amply proves, marvellously entertaining."
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Robert Morrison was born in Buller's Green, Morpeth in Northumberland on the 5th January 1782, the youngest son in a family of eight children. His father, James Morrison was a Scotsman who had been born in Dunfermline, and had settled in Northumberland. His mother was of local Northumberland ancestry. James Morrison was an active member of the Scot...
Aged 14, Robert leaves school, and is indentured as an apprentice to his father. He had been educated at a local school where his maternal uncle, James Nicholson, was a school master. Robert had initially shown no academic promise, and indeed was considered somewhat of a dunce, but under his uncle's tutelage Robert began to work diligently, and sho...
After leaving school Morrison had apparently fallen in with bad company and started to lead a less than exemplary life, but after a spiritual conversion he becomes a devout Christian, and joins the Presbyterian church.
In order to further his studies of the Scriptures, Morrison takes private tuition in Latin, Greek and Hebrew. At about this time he starts to consider a career as a missionary. His aspirations are not approved of by his parents. In particular his mother makes him promise not to become a missionary whilst she lives
Morrison applies for, and is accepted as a student to the Hoxton Academy, a training college for congregational ministers, in London.
Morrison's mother dies, and in May of this year he applies to join the London Missionary Society (LMS), which had been founded less than ten years earlier, in 1795, in order to promulgate missionary activity worldwide. He is accepted by the LMS, and is sent to Mr. Bogue's Academy in Gosport for further training.
Whilst Morrison was at Gosport, the LMS happened to be looking for a team of three or four individuals to lay the foundations for missionary work in China by going to China to learn Chinese and translate the Bible into Chinese. Fortuitously as it turned out, Morrison was the only suitable volunteer, and in August he is sent back to London to prepar...
An anonymous translation (presumably by a Jesuit missionary) of the Gospels into Chinese entitled Evangelia Quatuor Siniceis discovered amongst the books of the British Library. This single, folio-sized volume has the following colophon, indicating its provenance : Morrison determines to put this fortuitous discovery to his advantage, and so goes w...
On the 8th January Morrison is ordained a minister in the Scots church at Swallow Street, London, in readiness for his departure for China. The only ships sailing for China belong to the East India Company, and it is the Company's policy not to carry missionaries. Finding no ship bound for China that will carry him, Morrison gains passage on board ...
In his new quarters, Morrison immerses himself in Chinese culture and language : he dresses in Chinese costume, wears a false pigtail, lets his fingernails grow long. Not only does he adopt Chinese dress, custom and food, but he associates only with his Chinese tutor, avoiding contact with his more affluent countrymen. Morrison's constitution fails...
May 29, 2019 · In “The Regency Years,” Robert Morrison looks at a dramatic era of 19th-century Britain. ... (his previous book was an excellent biography of Thomas De Quincey). He thrillingly describes the ...
An Economist History Book of the Year “Elegant, entertaining and frequently surprising.” —Miranda Seymour, New York Times Book Review , The Regency Years, During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern, Robert Morrison, 9780393358247
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