Author: Alured CLARKE (Dean of Exeter.)Publisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A Sermon preached before the Honorable House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Westminster, on Monday, January xxxi, 1731
Author: Alured CLARKE (Dean of Exeter.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A Sermon Preached Before the Honourable House of Commons,
Author: Alured ClarkeIllusory 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.
The Eighteenth Century
Author: The Cult of King Charles the Martyr
Author: Andrew LaceyPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 0851159222
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The first study to deal exclusively with the cult ofKing Charles the Martyr - Charles I as suffering, innocent king, walking in the footsteps of his Saviour to his own Calvary at Whitehall - and the political theology underpinning it, taking the story up to 1859.
NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY VOL. X
Author: Dictionary Of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenOf its principal scholars
Author: Harry Bristow WilsonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1410
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description