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Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life and Character of the Late Rev. Cornelius Winter
Author: Memoirs 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
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
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
Memoirs of the Life and Character of ... Cornelius Winter
Author: William JayPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781022505292
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A moving and insightful biography of Cornelius Winter, the influential 17th-century cleric and theologian. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources and personal recollections, the book offers a nuanced portrait of Winter's life, work, and legacy, and his enduring impact on the Christian church. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Weeping Britannia
Author: Thomas DixonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191663573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
There is a persistent myth about the British: that we 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 our 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 we express and understand our 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.
Spaces for Feeling
Author: Susan BroomhallPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317554108
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Spaces for Feeling explores how English and Scottish people experienced sociabilities and socialities from 1650 to 1850, and investigates their operation through emotional practices and particular spaces. The collection highlights the forms, practices, and memberships of these varied spaces for feeling in this two hundred year period and charts the shifting conceptualisations of emotions that underpinned them. The authors employ historical, literary, and visual history approaches to analyse a series of literary and art works, emerging forms of print media such as pamphlet propaganda, newspapers, and periodicals, and familial and personal sources such as letters, in order to tease out how particular communities were shaped and cohered through distinct emotional practices in specific spaces of feeling. This collection studies the function of emotions in group formations in Britain during a period that has attracted widespread scholarly interest in the creation and meaning of sociabilities in particular. From clubs and societies to families and households, essays here examine how emotional practices could sustain particular associations, create new social communities and disrupt the capacity of a specific cohort to operate successfully. This timely collection will be essential reading for students and scholars of the history of emotions.
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library. Library CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1144
Book Description
Converting Britannia
Author: Gareth AtkinsPublisher:
ISBN: 1783274395
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
A compelling study of Anglican Evangelicalism in the Age of Wilberforce revealing its potency as a political machine whose reach extended into every area of the British establishment and its nascent Empire.
Modern Publications and New Editions of Valuable Standard Works, Published, Or Preparing for Publication
Author: Lea & FebigerGeorge Whitefield
Author: Geordan HammondPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198747071
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
George Whitefield (1714-70) was one of the best known and most widely travelled evangelical revivalists in the eighteenth century. For a time in the middle decades of the eighteenth century, Whitefield was the most famous person on both sides of the Atlantic. An Anglican clergyman, Whitefield soon transcended his denominational context as his itinerant ministry fuelled a Protestant renewal movement in Britain and the American colonies. He was one of the founders of Methodism, establishing a distinct brand of the movement with a Calvinist orientation, but also the leading itinerant and international preacher of the evangelical movement in its early phase. Called the "Apostle of the English empire," he preached throughout the whole of the British Isles and criss-crossed the Atlantic seven times, preaching in nearly every town along the eastern seaboard of America. His own fame and popularity were such that he has been dubbed "Anglo-America's first religious celebrity," and even one of the "Founding Fathers of the American Revolution." This collection offers a major reassessment of Whitefield's life, context, and legacy, bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary team of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. In chapters that cover historical, theological, and literary themes, many addressed for the first time, the volume suggests that Whitefield was a highly complex figure who has been much misunderstood. Highly malleable, Whitefield's persona was shaped by many audiences during his lifetime and continues to be highly contested.