Author: Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount)Publisher:
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Category : Conservatism
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Lord Bolingbroke
Author: Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conservatism
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Lord Bolingbroke
Author: Henry St. John BolingbrokePublisher:
ISBN: 9781331125648
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Excerpt from Lord Bolingbroke: Being Extracts From the Political Writings of Henry St. John Viscount Bolingbroke A few biographical details regarding the author of the following extracts may not be considered out of place in this little volume. Henry St. John, afterwards Viscount Bolingbroke, was born at Battersea in the month of October, 1678. He was of an ancient, and, in some respects, an illustrious family. His mother was Lady Mary, second daughter and joint heiress of Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick. His father possessed no title to fame, but some to notoriety, inasmuch as he treacherously killed Sir William Estcourt in a duel - a crime for which he was sentenced to be hanged, but subsequently procured a pardon. Young St. John was sent to Eton to be educated, and from thence, in due course, he was removed to Oxford. Both his school and his college days would appear to have been spent in a manner, excusable perhaps in youth and indiscretion, but not conducive to good report. From Christ Church, St. John removed to London, and in 1697 he left England in order to go the "grand tour." "The years 1698 and 1699," says Mr. Macknight, one of his biographers, "were spent by St. John in wandering through France and Italy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Lord Bolingbroke: Being Extracts from the Political Writings of Henry St. John Viscount Bolingbroke
Author: Ruaraidh ErskinePublisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN: 9780353033276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
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Lord Bolingbroke
Author: Ruaraidh ErskinePublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781293923993
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Lord Bolingbroke
Author: Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount)Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Lord Bolingbroke: extracts from the political writings of H. St. John, ed., with an intr., selected and arranged by the hon. S. Erskine
Author: Henry St. John (1st visct. Bolingbroke.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Decadent Conservatism
Author: Alex MurrayPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192858203
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
British Decadent literature was a radical attack on conventional morality and middle-class taste, its insistence on the autonomy of the art and its exploration of sexuality, dissipation, and depravity at odds with the literary and social establishment. Yet this counter-cultural narrative has obscured the often reactionary and elitist tendencies of Decadent writers and artists of the fin de siècle. Decadent Conservatism offers the first in-depth examination of the intersection of Decadence and conservatism, arguing that underpinning both was the desire to find alternatives to liberal modernity. Both Decadents and conservatism turned to the past to uncover values and models of social organisation that could offer stability in a chaotic world. From well-known figures such as Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, through to the forgotten editors of short-lived periodicals, important female aesthetes such as Michael Field, and politicians such as Arthur Balfour, Decadent Conservatism challenges conventional understandings of the relationship between aesthetics, politics, and the past in late-Victorian Britain. Through a series of thematic chapters exploring the alternative communities created by little magazines, the politics of Individualism, investments in monarchy and religion, Folk Decadence, and jingoistic and nationalist responses to the Second Anglo-Boer war, this study offers a new, and much messier, picture of fin-de-siècle literary politics. It will be of interest to those working on Victorian literature and modernism, as well as social, political, and cultural history of the period 1880-1920.
Bolingbroke: Political Writings
Author: Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount)Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521586979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, was one of the most creative political thinkers in eighteenth-century Britain. In this volume, modernised and fully annotated texts of his most important political works, the Dissertation upon Parties, the letter, 'On the Spirit of Patriotism', and The Idea of the Patriot King, are brought together for the first time. Bolingbroke was the first major thinker to face the long-term economic and political consequences of the Glorious Revolution, particularly the creation of the first modern system of party politics. In these works he attempted to forge an ideology of opposition to attack the Whig oligarchy of Sir Robert Walpole. His analyses of constitutional government and the party system are still relevant to the dilemmas of modern democratic politics, as are his recommendations for a patriotic commitment to the common good and the necessity of a non-partisan executive.
... Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Author: Oliver Goldsmith