Notes of Me: The Autobiography of Roger North

Edited by Peter Millard

Published by: University of Toronto Press

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442677968

Pages: 384

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442677968

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Front Matter

Front Matter (pp. i-iv)
Table of Contents

Table of Contents (pp. v-vi)
Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments (pp. vii-viii)
Plates

Plates (pp. ix-x)
Abbreviations

Abbreviations (pp. xi-xiv)
North Studies

North Studies (pp. xv-xx)
Introduction

Introduction (pp. 3-74)

‘It is not uneasy but a pleasure,’ declared Roger North towards the conclusion ofNotes of Me, ‘to sit as I now doe, passing the pen from side to side of the paper’ (243). When he wrote these words, probably in the mid-1690s, he had reached roughly the halfway point of his long life. There were still about forty years left to him to indulge his pleasure in writing and to add to the store of manuscripts he was now beginning to accumulate.
The range of subjects treated by North is wide. There are his writings in natural philosophy that...
Roger North’s Table of Contents

Roger North’s Table of Contents (pp. 77-78)
Notes of Me

Notes of Me (pp. 79-252)

The onely felicity,¹ which came at my nativity, attended me to this hour, and will to that of my last breath, and after all, leav a perfume, in a reasonable good name, at parting, is that of being descended from religious, vertuous, wise, and sound parents;² that they were so, is granted by all that knew them, and that I am happy from their vertues, I know and can affirme. And if I should goe about to trace all the stepps, by which I perceiv it, I must make a journall of my life, but that is too much, at...
Appendix

Appendix (pp. 253-254)
Notes

Notes (pp. 255-326)
Select Bibliography

Select Bibliography (pp. 327-342)
Index

Index (pp. 343-353)