John Timbs

TO THE READER.

THE FRONTISPIECE.

CONTENTS.

KNOWLEDGE FOR THE TIME.

Historico-Political Information. Politics not yet a Science.

Progress of Civilization. How the Earth was peopled.

Dignities and Distinctions. Worth of Heraldry.

Changes in Laws. The Statute Law and the Common Law.

Measure and Value. Numbers descriptive of Distance.

Progress of Science. What human Science has accomplished.

Life and Health. Periods and Conditions of Life.

Religious Thought. Moveable Feasts.

APPENDIX. Great Precedence Question.

INDEX.

Transcriber's Notes:

CAPTAIN COLES’S NEW IRON TURRET-SHIP-OF-WAR.

KNOWLEDGE
FOR THE TIME:

A Manual

OF

READING, REFERENCE, AND CONVERSATION ON SUBJECTS OF LIVING INTEREST, USEFUL CURIOSITY, AND AMUSING RESEARCH:

HISTORICO-POLITICAL INFORMATION.
PROGRESS OF CIVILIZATION.
DIGNITIES AND DISTINCTIONS.
CHANGES IN LAWS.
MEASURE AND VALUE.
PROGRESS OF SCIENCE.
LIFE AND HEALTH.
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

Illustrated from the best and latest Authorities.

By JOHN TIMBS, F.S.A.

AUTHOR OF CURIOSITIES OF LONDON, THINGS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN, ETC.

LONDON:

Lockwood and Co., 7 Stationers’-hall Court.

MDCCCLXIV.