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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Great Historical Geographical and Poetical Dictionary
Author: Louis MoreriPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415200462
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Languages : en
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On Enlightenment
Author: D. David Charles StovePublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9780765801364
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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The idea of enlightenment entails liberty, equality, rationalism, secularism, and the connection between knowledge and human well being. In spite of the setbacks of revolutionary violence, political mass murder, and two world wars, the spread of enlightenment values has become the yardstick by which moral, political, and even scientific advances are measured. Indeed, most critiques of the enlightenment ideal point to failure in implementation rather than principle. By contrast, David Stove, in On Enlightenment, attacks the intellectual roots of enlightenment thought, to define the limitations of its successes and the areas of its likely failures. Stove is not insensitive to the many valuable aspects of enlightenment thought. He champions the use of reason and rationality, and recognizes the falsity of religious claims as well as the importance of individual liberty. What he rejects is the enlightenment's uncritical optimism regarding social progress and its willingness to embrace revolutionary change. What evidence is there that the elimination of superstition will lead to happiness? Or that it is possible to accept Darwinism without Social Darwinism? Or that the enlightenment's liberal, rationalistic outlook will ever lead to the kind of social progress envisioned by its advocates. Despite their best intentions, social reformers who attempt to improve the world as a whole inevitably make things worse. He advocates a conservative "go slow" approach to change, pointing out that today's social structures are so large and complex that any widespread social reform will have innumerable unforeseen consequences. For example, the welfare state may diminish individual initiative, the use of pesticides may increase the food supply while polluting the water supply, the popularizing of university education may lead to a decline in academic standards. Since government has a virtual monopoly on large-scale change, it follows, in Stove's view, that its powers must be limited in order to prevent large-scale damage. Instead, he argues that reforms, when they are to be made at all, must be realistic, local, necessary and never coercive. Writing in the conservative tradition of Edmund Burke with the same passion for clarity and intellectual honesty as George Orwell, David Stove was one of the most precise, articulate, and insightful philosophers of his day. "Never just an academic, Stove was also a prominent, often crotchety, public intellectual of a conservative and, all too often, reactionary bent, many of whose views were extremist on any account, and his targets were many. ... For Stove the important question about a belief is not whether it is extreme or mainstream, but whether it is true, or probable, or has sound evidentiary and/or rational credentials. In this he was surely right." -D. D. Todd, Philosophy in Review David Stove (1927-1994) taught philosophy at the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney. He is the author of Against the Idols of the Age and Scientific Irrationalism, both available from Transaction. Andrew Irvine is professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Roger Kimball is managing editor of the New Criterion.
Catalogue des objets d'art et d'ameublement
Author: DemachyCatalogue des objets d'art et d'ameublement principalement du XVIIIe siecle
Author: M. E.-M. HodgkinsPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : fr
Pages : 36
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Catalogue d'objets d'art, antiquités, faïences, porcelaines, cristaux, bronzes, bonbonnières et objets de vitrine, argenteries, étoffes anciennes, vitraux, meubles anciens, tableaux, dessins, etc. dont la vente publique aura lieu pour cause de départ au château de Mr. Alfred Van Imschoot, propriétaire a Mont-St-Amand-lez-Gand, Chaussée d'Anvers, n° 270
Author: Catalogue d'objets d'art pendules, candélabres et cartels Louis XVI lustre en cristal de Roche bronzes belles porcelaines de Saxe, de Chine & du Japon; Tableaux anciens & modernes 14 tableaux de Gudin dont la vente ... aura lieu Hotel Drouot Salle no 3 les lundi 29 & mardi 30 janvier 1866 pour les objets d'art et le mercredi 31 janvier 1866 pour les tableaux ... Me Dutitre, commissaire-priseur ... et de Me J. Boulland ... assistés de M. Arondel, expert ... et de M. Horsin Déon, peintre ...
Author: Catalogue des objets d'art et d'ameublement anciennes porcelaines de Sèvres, pate tendre de Saxe, de Chine, etc., jades et cristaux de roche chinois, objets de vitrine, éventails, râpes à tabac, sculptures, pendules, bronzes & meubles du XVIIIe siècle, du 1er empire et autres, vitrines meuble de salon en tapisserie du temps de Louis XV, tapisseries des XVIIe siècles gravures des écoles française et anglaise du XVIIIe si0ecle dépendent des collections de M. Édouard Chappey: Moyen âge et renaissance
Author: Edouard ChappeyPublisher:
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Category : Antiques
Languages : fr
Pages : 136
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![Catalogue des objets d'art et d'ameublement, belles et anciennes porcelaines de Chine et du Japon, de Saxe et de Sèvres ... belles tapisseries, étoffes et broderies, tableaux, dépendant de la succession de Mme la M[arqu]ise de Montebello et dont la vente aura lieu Hôtel Drouot ... les jeudi 31 mai, vendredi 1er et samedi 2 juin 1877 ... par le ministère de M. Charles Pillet, commissaire-priseur ... assisté de M. Charles Mannheim, expert ... PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/8MzZ0AEACAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: ![Catalogue de la riche et nombreuse collection de porcelaines anciennes de Chine, de Japon, de Sèvres, de Saxe, de Vienne, de Berlin et autres ; objets d'art & de haute curiosité, orfévreries, armes anciennes, meubles de boule, pendules, meubles en bois sculpté, etc., garnissant les magasins de M. L. Stein, Montagne de la Cour, n° 22, dont la vente aura lieu, par cessation de commerce, Rue de Ruysbroeck, n° 7, le mardi 29 mars et jours suivants [...] par le ministère de M. le notaire Vergote, et sous la direction de M. Henri Leroy PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/WORr9f0UqIkC?fife=w80-h100)
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