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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
William James and the Affirmation of God
Author: George P. Graham
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This work explores William James' approach to the affirmation of God, as developed in The Will To Believe and, especially. The Varieties of Religious Experience. James affirmed the reality of God on the basis of his study of religious experience. After placing James' religious life and thought in its historical context, this book establishes James' «centre of vision» and his theory of truth. It then summarizes his description of religious experience and examines his «reconciling hypothesis» of the reality of God.
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This work explores William James' approach to the affirmation of God, as developed in The Will To Believe and, especially. The Varieties of Religious Experience. James affirmed the reality of God on the basis of his study of religious experience. After placing James' religious life and thought in its historical context, this book establishes James' «centre of vision» and his theory of truth. It then summarizes his description of religious experience and examines his «reconciling hypothesis» of the reality of God.
Miscellaneous Verdicts
Author: Anthony Powell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226677101
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Miscellaneous Verdicts represents the best of Anthony Powell's critical writing over a period of four decades. Drawn from his regular reviews for the Daily Telegraph, from his occasional humorous pieces for Punch, and from his more sustained pieces of critical and anecdotal writing on writers, this collection is as witty, fresh, surprising, and entertaining as one would expect from the author of Dance to the Music of Time. Powell begins with a section on the British, exploring his fascination both with genealogy and with figures like John Aubrey, and writing in depth about writers like Kipling, Conrad, and Hardy. The second section, on America, also opens with discussions of family trees (in this case presidential ones) and includes pieces on Henry James, James Thurber, American booksellers in Paris, Hemingway, and Dashiell Hammett. Personal encounters, and absorbing incidents from the lives of his subjects, frequently fill these pages—as they do even more in the section on Powell's contemporaries—Connolly, Orwell, Graham Greene, and others. Finally, and aptly, the book closes with a section on Proust and matters Proustian, including a marvellous essay on what is eaten and drunk, and by whom, in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. "An urbane book, quietly erudite, very sensible, highly civilized, remarkably useful."—Anthony Burgess, Observer "An acute intelligence and fastidious sense of humor make [Powell] the funniest and most profound living writer of the English language."—Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Sunday Telegraph Anthony Powell was born in London in 1905. He is the author of seven novels, a biography of John Aubrey, two plays, a collection of memoirs, and the twelve-volume novel sequence Dance to the Music of Time.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226677101
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Miscellaneous Verdicts represents the best of Anthony Powell's critical writing over a period of four decades. Drawn from his regular reviews for the Daily Telegraph, from his occasional humorous pieces for Punch, and from his more sustained pieces of critical and anecdotal writing on writers, this collection is as witty, fresh, surprising, and entertaining as one would expect from the author of Dance to the Music of Time. Powell begins with a section on the British, exploring his fascination both with genealogy and with figures like John Aubrey, and writing in depth about writers like Kipling, Conrad, and Hardy. The second section, on America, also opens with discussions of family trees (in this case presidential ones) and includes pieces on Henry James, James Thurber, American booksellers in Paris, Hemingway, and Dashiell Hammett. Personal encounters, and absorbing incidents from the lives of his subjects, frequently fill these pages—as they do even more in the section on Powell's contemporaries—Connolly, Orwell, Graham Greene, and others. Finally, and aptly, the book closes with a section on Proust and matters Proustian, including a marvellous essay on what is eaten and drunk, and by whom, in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. "An urbane book, quietly erudite, very sensible, highly civilized, remarkably useful."—Anthony Burgess, Observer "An acute intelligence and fastidious sense of humor make [Powell] the funniest and most profound living writer of the English language."—Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Sunday Telegraph Anthony Powell was born in London in 1905. He is the author of seven novels, a biography of John Aubrey, two plays, a collection of memoirs, and the twelve-volume novel sequence Dance to the Music of Time.
More Lasting Than Brass
Author: Peter H. Judd
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555536268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Skillfully joining genealogy with history, this volume chronicles and illuminates in accessible narrative the whole lives of members of a single strand of family through seven generations.
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555536268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Skillfully joining genealogy with history, this volume chronicles and illuminates in accessible narrative the whole lives of members of a single strand of family through seven generations.
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain
Author: Bernard Burke
Publisher:
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Category : Gentry
Languages : en
Pages : 1840
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Gentry
Languages : en
Pages : 1840
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of New York State
Author: Peter Eisenstadt
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815608080
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1960
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of New York State is one of the most complete works on the Empire State to be published in a half-century. In nearly 2,000 pages and 4,000 signed entries, this single volume captures the impressive complexity of New York State as a historic crossroads of people and ideas, as a cradle of abolitionism and feminism, and as an apex of modern urban, suburban, and rural life. The Encyclopedia is packed with fascinating details from fields ranging from sociology and geography to history. Did you know that Manhattan's Lower East Side was once the most populated neighborhood in the world, but Hamilton County in the Adirondacks is the least densely populated county east of the Mississippi; New York is the only state to border both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean; the Erie Canal opened New York City to rich farmland upstate . . . and to the west. Entries by experts chronicle New York's varied areas, politics, and persuasions with a cornucopia of subjects from environmentalism to higher education to railroads, weaving the state's diverse regions and peoples into one idea of New York State. Lavishly illustrated with 500 photographs and figures, 120 maps, and 140 tables, the Encyclopedia is key to understanding the state's past, present, and future. It is a crucial reference for students, teachers, historians, and business people, for New Yorkers of all persuasions, and for anyone interested in finding out more about New York State.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815608080
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1960
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of New York State is one of the most complete works on the Empire State to be published in a half-century. In nearly 2,000 pages and 4,000 signed entries, this single volume captures the impressive complexity of New York State as a historic crossroads of people and ideas, as a cradle of abolitionism and feminism, and as an apex of modern urban, suburban, and rural life. The Encyclopedia is packed with fascinating details from fields ranging from sociology and geography to history. Did you know that Manhattan's Lower East Side was once the most populated neighborhood in the world, but Hamilton County in the Adirondacks is the least densely populated county east of the Mississippi; New York is the only state to border both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean; the Erie Canal opened New York City to rich farmland upstate . . . and to the west. Entries by experts chronicle New York's varied areas, politics, and persuasions with a cornucopia of subjects from environmentalism to higher education to railroads, weaving the state's diverse regions and peoples into one idea of New York State. Lavishly illustrated with 500 photographs and figures, 120 maps, and 140 tables, the Encyclopedia is key to understanding the state's past, present, and future. It is a crucial reference for students, teachers, historians, and business people, for New Yorkers of all persuasions, and for anyone interested in finding out more about New York State.
Punch
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
A Place in History
Author: Warren Roberts
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 143843331X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
A journey into Albany’s historic past and the city’s role in three pivotal historical narratives: the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the construction of the Erie Canal.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 143843331X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
A journey into Albany’s historic past and the city’s role in three pivotal historical narratives: the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the construction of the Erie Canal.
These Exalted Acres: Unlocking the Secrets of Albany Rural Cemetery
Author: Paul Grondahl
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578134543
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
These Exalted Acres: Unlocking the Secrets of Albany Rural Cemetery
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578134543
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
These Exalted Acres: Unlocking the Secrets of Albany Rural Cemetery
Notable American Women, 1607-1950
Author: Radcliffe College
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674627345
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 2172
Book Description
Vol. 1. A-F, Vol. 2. G-O, Vol. 3. P-Z modern period.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674627345
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 2172
Book Description
Vol. 1. A-F, Vol. 2. G-O, Vol. 3. P-Z modern period.