Author: Samuel CroxallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
A Sermon Preach'd Before the Honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Westminster, on Friday, January Xxx. 1729. By Samuel Croxall, D.D
Author: Samuel CroxallIllusory Consensus
Author: Alexander PettitPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874135923
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Alexander Pettit analyzes the formation of and the reaction against the notion of a unified opposition to England's de facto prime minister Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745), the "great man" of Scriblerian satire who was reviled throughout the 1730s for his hostility to the belles lettres, his alleged disregard of the royal prerogative, and his concentration of power in an oligarchy of parliamentary "placemen." The discussion draws extensively on ephemeral plays, sermons, pamphlets, and newspapers that in their own day were regarded as significant contributions to the political debate. Pettit shows that the myth of coherent anti-Walpoleanism was promoted vigorously by Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751), cofounder of the popular opposition weekly, the Craftsman. But Pettit argues that much of the anti-Walpole literature of the 1730s responds anxiously to Bolingbroke's prescriptive theorizing and questions or criticizes the terms of his appeals to consensus. The opposition was fundamentally in disagreement about how to formulate its objection to modern government. Bolingbroke's reductive fantasy of the opposition has been regarded charitably by modern commentators, most of whom have chosen to regard the "print-wars" as the occasion for Bolingbroke's major political treatises or as background to the satire of his friends, the Scriblerians. This emphasis on a small and interconnected group of writers and sources, however, has caused scholars to neglect the opposition's diversity and its lack of coherence.
A Sermon Preach'd Before the Honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Westminster, on Friday, January XXX. 1729
Author: Samuel CroxallCatalogue of Books from Parochial Libraries in Shropshire
Author: Shropshire County LibraryPublisher: London : Mansell
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
The Eighteenth Century
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the University Library, 1919-1962
Author: University of California, Los Angeles. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
Bugs and the Victorians
Author: John F. M. ClarkPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300150911
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This text explores how science became increasingly important in 19th century British culture and how the systematic study of insects permitted entomologists to engage with the most pressing questions of Victorian times: the nature of God, mind, and governance, and the origins of life.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Early English Books, 1641-1700
Author: University Microfilms InternationalPublisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : U.M.I.
ISBN: 9780835721028
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Accessing Early English Books, 1641-1700: Subject index
Author: University Microfilms InternationalPublisher: Ann Arbor, MI : University Microfilm International
ISBN:
Category : Books on micorofilm
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
UMI's "Early English books, 1641-1700" series is a microfilm collection of works selected from: Donald Wing's "Short-title catalog of books ... 1641-1700".