Author: Edwin HodderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury
Author: Edwin HodderThe Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G.
Author: Edwin HodderPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108075541
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
A three-volume biography of the seventh earl of Shaftesbury, the great philanthropist, first published in 1886.
Shaftesbury
Author: Richard TurnbullPublisher: Lion Books
ISBN: 0745957315
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The best-loved politician and social reformer of nineteenth century England, Lord Shaftesbury's deep compassion for the poor became legendary. He campaigned tirelessly to limit factory hours, to stop the use of boys as chimney sweeps and children in coalmines, and to develop universal education. As a result he changed the character of English society forever. Areas covered in this important new biography include his upbringing and education; his work as a politician and his campaign for mental health; factory and industrial reforms; campaigns for climbing boys and for better sanitation and housing; his contribution towards the founding of the Bible Society, CPAS, London City Mission, Ragged School Union and CMS; his role as a defender of the Protestant faith and the campaign against ritualism; his personal theology.
The Making of a Tory Evangelical
Author: David Furse-RobertsPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532654294
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
As one of Victorian Britain’s pre-eminent social reformers, Lord Shaftesbury (1801–85) exerted a lasting impact surpassing all of his parliamentary contemporaries. Despite being born into one of England’s aristocratic families, a combination of early childhood deprivation, an earnest Evangelical faith, and an abiding sense of noblesse oblige made him a champion of the poor. His seminal contribution to the Victorian factory reform movement represented just one of his manifold legacies. This contextual study of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury probes the mind behind the man to evaluate the religious and philosophical ideas, and their leading figures, that ignited his lifelong activism in the public sphere. This book reveals that far from representing a relic of the Victorian age, the Earl of Shaftesbury, whilst a conservative by predilection, was essentially a forward-looking and farsighted reformer. The principles that Shaftesbury espoused of industrial justice, class harmony, subsidiarity, volunteerism, selfless individualism, religious observance, strong families and private enterprise tempered by moderate state intervention are essentially those prized by liberal democracies today as the foundation for social cohesion, prosperity, and human flourishing.
The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G.
Author: Edwin HodderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Shaftesbury: The Poor Man's Earl
Author: John PollockAn Inquiry Into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
Author: Francis HutchesonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
An Inquiry Concerning Virtue, Or Merit
Author: Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of ShaftesburyPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719006579
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The Life, Unpublished Letters, and Philosophical Regimen of Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury
Author: Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of ShaftesburyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Digital images
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The Child from the Sea
Author: Elizabeth GoudgePublisher: Hendrickson Publishers
ISBN: 161970837X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Against the pomp and pageantry of turbulent seventeenth century England, Elizabeth Goudge weaves the poignant tale of Lucy Walter, the proud and beautiful secret wife of Charles II. From her early childhood in a castle by the sea in Wales and the joys and pangs of childhood, to her tragic estrangement from the king and her death in Paris at the age of twenty-eight, Lucy Walter lived to the full a life of intense joy and equally intense drama. Miss Goudge portrays brilliantly a young love almost too ecstatic to bear. Equally moving is her characterization of Lucy—a spirited woman caught up in the cataclysmic wars and disruptive revolution of a tumultuous era. From London at the time of the Great Fire, to Paris when British royalty fled to the sanctuary of the Louvre, to Brussels and The Hague and a rich panoramic background—a master storyteller traces the life and loves of an extraordinary woman. The Child from the Sea is a superbly colorful and romantic historical novel alive with brilliant cameos and infused with a spiritual essence rare in our times.