Author: James Talboys WheelerPublisher:
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
An Analysis and Summary of Thucydides
Author: James Talboys WheelerPublisher:
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Fashionable Orthodoxy: or the High Road to preferment. Containing suitable directions for obtaining Popularity, Patrons, and Promotion in the Established Church; with instructions for the education of Young Gentlemen intended for the Ministry, and Hints for Ordinations ... Second edition, etc. [By Verax.]
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Author: An Analysis and Summary of Thucydides, Etc
Author: Thucydides. [Appendix.]Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
An analysis and summary of Thucydides, by the author of 'An analysis and summary of Herodotus' [signing himself J.T.W.].
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Author: James Talboys WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Works of Francis Osborn Esq
Author: Francis OsbornePublisher:
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt
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Author: Daniel DefoeAdvice to a Son
Author: Louis B. WrightPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789124352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
“Guides to conduct are common to all ages, for writers never cease to believe that the distillation of their wisdom will in some fashion improve the behavior of youth and provide useful instruction to their elders. The sixteenth century was a particularly didactic age and had more than its share of self-appointed instructors with faith in their missions.” So writes Louis B. Wright in his Introduction to Advice to a Son. This volume makes available three of the most famous sets of precepts. The manuals attributed to Lord Burghley and Sir Walter Raleigh and a treatise compiled by Francis Osborne are indicative of both the aspirations and the morals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and they provide an index to the social attitudes of the age. Immensely popular and influential, they were often reprinted, quoted from, and plagiarized. Some students of Shakespeare profess to see a parallel between Polonius advice to Laertes and Burghley’s practical counsel to his son Robert. The advice that these treatises offer is materialistic and even cynical, because the writers, moving in a political milieu, were realists who were attempting to provide instruction to their sons that would ensure success they would have cared not at all for the idealistic niceties. The distinction and position of Burghley and Raleigh may in part account for the popularity of their manuals in the seventeenth century, long after their deaths, but obviously both works possessed qualities congenial to the age, and readers approved of the way they mingled virtue and pragmatism. Of the three works, Dr. Wright comments, Osborne’s “must be regarded as a literary creation in addition to being a practical manual composed for the use of a particular person.” The student of English history will find this book a valuable addition to his library.
The Faith of Our Fathers
Author: James GibbonsPublisher:
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Category : Catholic Church
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
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Author: Francis Osborne