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Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Memoirs of the Life and Character of the Late Rev. Cornelius Winter
Author: Memoirs of the Life and Character of the Late Rev. George Whitefield,of Pembroke College, Oxford, and Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Countess Dowager of Huntingdon
Author: Memoirs of the Life and Character of the Late Rev. George Whitefield
Author: Aaron Crossley Hobart SeymourPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Author: Cornelius WINTERMemoirs of the Life and Character of the Late Rev. Cornelius Winter
Author: Memoirs of the Life and Character of Cornelius Winter
Author: William JayPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230418827
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Languages : en
Pages : 96
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 edition. Excerpt: ... life and character of the late Reverend Cornelius Winter, compiled and composed by william jay.--jvow mark the man of righteousness, His several steps attend; True pleasure runs through all his life. And peaceful is his end'" Watts. "If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am there shall alse my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honor." Christ. bath: printed and sou) by M. gyk, market-place: sold also bt hazabd and binns, and oodwin, bath; williams and smith, stationeiis'-court, hatchasd, piccadilly, and ooii, orkat turnstile, london. preface. Before a work professedly biographical can be righteously justified or condemned, two things should be fairly examined. First--What advantages are derivable from the lives of particular individuals? Secondly--What characters are the most proper subjects for delineation? The former of these questions
Weeping Britannia
Author: Thomas DixonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199676054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
There is a persistent myth about the British: that they are a nation of stoics, with stiff upper lips, repressed emotions, and inactive lachrymal glands. Weeping Britannia--the first history of crying in Britain--comprehensively debunks this myth. Far from being a persistent element in the national character, the notion of the British stiff upper lip was in fact the product of a relatively brief and militaristic period of the nation's past, from about 1870 to 1945. In earlier times we were a nation of proficient, sometimes virtuosic moral weepers. To illustrate this perhaps surprising fact, Thomas Dixon charts six centuries of weeping Britons, and theories about them, from the medieval mystic Margery Kempe in the early fifteenth century, to Paul Gascoigne's famous tears in the semi-finals of the 1990 World Cup. In between, the book includes the tears of some of the most influential figures in British history, from Oliver Cromwell to Margaret Thatcher (not forgetting George III, Queen Victoria, Charles Darwin, and Winston Churchill along the way). But the history of weeping in Britain is not simply one of famous tear-stained individuals. These tearful micro-histories all contribute to a bigger picture of changing emotional ideas and styles over the centuries, touching on many other fascinating areas of our history. For instance, the book also investigates the histories of painting, literature, theatre, music and the cinema to discover how and why people have been moved to tears by the arts, from the sentimental paintings and novels of the eighteenth century and the romantic music of the nineteenth, to Hollywood weepies, expressionist art, and pop music in the twentieth century. Weeping Britannia is simultaneously a museum of tears and a philosophical handbook, using history to shed new light on the changing nature of Britishness over time, as well as the ever-shifting ways in which Britons express and understand their emotional lives. The story that emerges is one in which a previously rich religious and cultural history of producing and interpreting tears was almost completely erased by the rise of a stoical and repressed British empire in the late nineteenth century. Those forgotten philosophies of tears and feeling can now be rediscovered. In the process, readers might perhaps come to view their own tears in a different light, as something more than mere emotional incontinence.
The Literary panorama
Author: Preaching Politics
Author: Jerome Dean MahaffeyPublisher: Baylor University Press
ISBN: 1932792880
Category : Rhetoric
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Preaching Politics' traces the surprising and lasting influence of one of American history's most fascinating and enigamtic figures, George Whitefield, and his role in creating a 'rhetoric of community.
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