Author:George Cornewall Lewis

George Cornewall Lewis
(1806–1863)

George Cornewall Lewis

Works

• An Essay on the Origin and Formation of the Romance Languages (1835) (external scan)
• On Local Disturbances in Ireland; and on the Irish Church Question (1836) (external scan)
• An Essay on the Origin and Formation of the Romance Languages (1839) (external scan)
• A Glossary of Provincial Words Used in Herefordshire and Some of the Adjoining Counties (1839) (external scan)
• Essay on the Government of Dependencies (1841) (transcription project)
• The Public Economy of Athens: to which is added, A dissertation on the silver mines of Laurion with August Boeckh (1842) (external scan)
• An Essay on the Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion (1849) (external scan)
• A Treatise on the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics (1852) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• An Inquiry into the Credibility of the Early Roman History (1855) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• On Foreign Jurisdiction and the Extradition of Criminals (1859) (external scan)
• An Historical Survey of the Astronomy of the Ancients (1862) (external scan)
• A Dialogue on the Best Form of Government (1863) (external scan)
• Essays on the Administrations of Great Britain from 1783 to 1830 (1864) (external scan)
• Letters of the Right Hon. Sir George Cornewall Lewis, bart., to various friends (1870) (external scan)
• Remarks on the Use and Abuse of some Political Terms (1877), edited by Roland Knyvet Wilson (external scan)
• An Essay on the Government of Dependencies (1891) (external scan)
• Remarks on the Use and Abuse of some Political Terms (1898), edited by Thomas Raleigh (external scan)
• Crime and Disturbance in Ireland

Also listed as a contributor to Edinburgh Review

As translator

• The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race (1839) by Karl Otfried Müller (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• A History of the Literature of Ancient Greece (1840) by Karl Otfried Müller
• History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: to the period of Isocrates (1847, 2nd ed.) by K. O. Müller (transcription project)
• History of the Literature of Ancient Greece (1858), in 3 vols., by Karl Otfried Müller (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)

Works about Lewis

• George Cornewall Lewis in The International Magazine, Vol. 1, Issue 1 (July 1 (1850)
• "Sir George Cornewall Lewis" in Biographical Studies (1881), by Walter Bagehot, edited by Richard Holt Hutton (external scan)
• "Lewis, George Cornewall," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Lewis, (Sir) George Cornewall (Bart.)," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Lewis, Sir George Cornewall," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Lewis, Sir George Cornewall," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)