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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ...
Author: The Annual Biography and Obituary
Author: The Annual Biography and Obituary (etc.)
Author: A dissent from the Church of England, fully justified ... Being the dissenting gentleman's three letters and postscript signed: a Dissenter, i.e. M. Towgood , in answer to Mr. John White's on that subject
Author: Micaiah TOWGOODThe Travels of Robert Lyall, 1789–1831
Author: Gwyn CampbellPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030516482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
This book explores the life of Robert Lyall, surgeon, botanist, voyager, British Agent to the court of Madagascar. Born the year of the French Revolution, Lyall grew up in politically radical Paisley, Scotland, before studying medicine, in Edinburgh, Manchester, and subsequently St. Petersburg, Russia. His criticism of the Tsar and Russian aristocracy led to an abrupt departure for London where Lyall became the voice of liberalism and calls for political reform, before appointed British Resident Agent in Madagascar in 1827, representing the interests of the Tory establishment that he had hitherto so roundly castigated. However, Lyall discovered that the Malagasy crown had turned against the British alliance of 1820, his scientific pursuits alienated the local elite, and his efforts to re-establish British influence antagonized the queen, Ranavalona I, who accused Lyall of sorcery and forced him and his burgeoning family to leave for Mauritius where he died an untimely death, of malaria, in 1831.
The Edinburgh Review
Author: Aninquiry in to the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Author: Adam SmithBills and Acts
Author: Sheila LambertPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521081191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The eighteenth century Parliament gained much greater influence over the everyday life of the community.
Gentleman's Magazine, Or Monthly Intelligencer
Author: Sylvanus Urban (pseud. van Edward Cave.)Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Dugald Stewart's Empire of the Mind
Author: Charles Bradford BowPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192688979
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Dugald Stewart's Empire of the Mind recasts the cultivation of a democratic intellect in the late Scottish Enlightenment. It comprises an intellectual history of what was at stake in moral education during a transitional period of revolutionary change between 1772 and 1828. Stewart was a child of the Scottish Enlightenment, who inherited the Scottish philosophical tradition of teaching metaphysics as moral philosophy from the tuition of Adam Ferguson and Thomas Reid. But the Scottish Enlightenment intellectual culture of his youth changed in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Stewart sustained the Scottish school of philosophy by transforming how it was taught as professor of moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His elementary system of moral education fostered an empire of the mind in the universal pursuit of happiness. The democratization of Stewart's didactic Enlightenment—the instruction of moral improvement—in a globalizing, interconnected nineteenth-century knowledge economy is examined in this book.