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Book Letter from Mr  Brothers to Miss Cott     With an address to the members of his Britannic Majesty s Council  and through them to all governments and people on earth

Download or read book Letter from Mr Brothers to Miss Cott With an address to the members of his Britannic Majesty s Council and through them to all governments and people on earth written by Richard BROTHERS and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book William Blake s Religious Vision

Download or read book William Blake s Religious Vision written by Jennifer Jesse and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative study, Jesse challenges the prevailing view of Blake as an antinomian and describes him as a theological moderate who defended an evangelical faith akin to the Methodism of John Wesley. She arrives at this conclusion by contextualizing Blake’s works not only within Methodism, but in relation to other religious groups he addressed in his art, including the Established Church, deism, and radical religions. Further, she analyzes his works by sorting out the theological “road signs” he directed to each audience. This approach reveals Blake engaging each faction through its most prized beliefs, manipulating its own doctrines through visual and verbal guide-posts designed to communicate specifically with that group. She argues that, once we collate Blake’s messages to his intended audiences—sounding radical to the conservatives and conservative to the radicals—we find him advocating a system that would have been recognized by his contemporaries as Wesleyan in orientation. This thesis also relies on an accurate understanding of eighteenth-century Methodism: Jesse underscores the empirical rationalism pervading Wesley’s theology, highlighting differences between Methodism as practiced and as publicly caricatured. Undergirding this project is Jesse’s call for more rigorous attention to the dramatic character of Blake’s works. She notes that scholars still typically use phrases like “Blake says” or “Blake believes,” followed by some claim made by a Blakean character, without negotiating the complex narrative dynamics that might enable us to understand the rhetorical purposes of that statement, as heard by Blake’s respective audiences. Jesse maintains we must expect to find reflections in Blake’s works of all the theologies he engaged. The question is: what was he doing with them, and why? In order to divine what Blake meant to communicate, we must explore how those he targeted would have perceived his arguments. Jesse concludes that by analyzing the dramatic character of Blake’s works theologically through this wide-angled, audience-oriented approach, we see him orchestrating a grand rapprochement of the extreme theologies of his day into a unified vision that integrates faith and reason.

Book Private Madhouses in England  1640   1815

Download or read book Private Madhouses in England 1640 1815 written by Leonard Smith and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the origins and early development of private mental health-care in England, showing that the current spectacle of commercially-based participation in key elements of service provision is no new phenomenon. In 1815, about seventy per cent of people institutionalised because of insanity were being kept in private ‘madhouses’. The opening four chapters detail the emergence of these madhouses and demonstrate their increasing presence in London and across the country during the long eighteenth century. Subsequent chapters deal with specific aspects in greater depth - the insane patients themselves, their characteristics, and the circumstances surrounding admissions; the madhouse proprietors, their business activities, personal attributes and professional qualifications or lack of them; changing treatment practices and the principles that informed them. Finally, the book explores conditions within the madhouses, which ranged from the relatively enlightened to the seriously defective, and reveals the experiences, concerns and protests of their many critics.

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pictorial History of England

Download or read book The Pictorial History of England written by George Lillie Craik and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sketches Of Imposture  Deception  And Credulity

Download or read book Sketches Of Imposture Deception And Credulity written by R. A. Davenport and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Book Solomon s Secret Arts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Kleber Monod
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2013-04-15
  • ISBN : 0300195397
  • Pages : 607 pages

Download or read book Solomon s Secret Arts written by Paul Kleber Monod and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVThe late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of science and reason. But in this illuminating book, Paul Monod reveals the surprising extent to which Newton, Boyle, Locke, and other giants of rational thought and empiricism also embraced the spiritual, the magical, and the occult./divDIV /divDIVAlthough public acceptance of occult and magical practices waxed and waned during this period they survived underground, experiencing a considerable revival in the mid-eighteenth century with the rise of new antiestablishment religious denominations. The occult spilled over into politics with the radicalism of the French Revolution and into literature in early Romanticism. Even when official disapproval was at its strongest, the evidence points to a growing audience for occult publications as well as to subversive popular enthusiasm. Ultimately, finds Monod, the occult was not discarded in favor of “reason� but was incorporated into new forms of learning. In that sense, the occult is part of the modern world, not simply a relic of an unenlightened past, and is still with us today./div/div

Book Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum

Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book English Messiahs

Download or read book English Messiahs written by Ronald Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Doomsayers

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  • Author : Susan Juster
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2010-08-03
  • ISBN : 0812202384
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book Doomsayers written by Susan Juster and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The age of revolution, in which kings were dethroned, radical ideals of human equality embraced, and new constitutions written, was also the age of prophecy. Neither an archaic remnant nor a novel practice, prophecy in the eighteenth century was rooted both in the primitive worldview of the Old Testament and in the vibrant intellectual environment of the philosophers and their political allies, the republicans. In Doomsayers: Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution, Susan Juster examines the culture of prophecy in Great Britain and the United States from 1765 to 1815 side by side with the intellectual and political transformations that gave the period its historical distinction as the era of enlightened rationalism and democratic revolution. Although sometimes viewed as madmen or fools, prophets of the 1790s and early 1800s were very much products of a liberal commercial society, even while they registered their disapproval of the values and practices of that society and fought a determined campaign to return Protestant Anglo-America to its biblical moorings. They enjoyed greater visibility than their counterparts of earlier eras, thanks to the creation of a vigorous new public sphere of coffeehouses, newspapers, corresponding societies, voluntary associations, and penny pamphlets. Prophecy was no longer just the art of applying biblical passages to contemporary events; it was now the business of selling both terror and reassurance to eager buyers. Tracking the careers of several hundred men and women in Britain and North America, most of ordinary background, who preached a message of primitive justice that jarred against the cosmopolitan sensibilities of their audiences, Doomsayers explores how prophetic claims were formulated, challenged, tested, advanced, and abandoned. The stories of these doomsayers, whose colorful careers entertained and annoyed readers across the political spectrum, challenge the notion that religious faith and the Enlightenment represented fundamentally alien ways of living in and with the world. From the debates over religious enthusiasm staged by churchmen and the literati to the earnest offerings of ordinary men and women to speak to and for God, Doomsayers shows that the contest between prophets and their critics for the allegiance of the Anglo-American reading public was part of a broader recalibration of the norms and values of civic discourse in the age of revolution.

Book A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland

Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland written by William Upcott and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland

Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland     and a Chronological Register of Their Publications

Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland and a Chronological Register of Their Publications written by [Anonymus AC09811518] and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Second Coming

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  • Author : J. F. C. Harrison
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-05-07
  • ISBN : 1136298762
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book The Second Coming written by J. F. C. Harrison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1979, The Second Coming is an experiment in the writing of popular history – a contribution to the history of the people who have no history and an exploration of some of the ideas, beliefs and ways of thinking of ordinary men and women in the late eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. Millenarianism is a conceptual tool with which to explore some aspects of popular thought and culture. It is also seen as an ideology of social change and as a continuing tradition, traced from the end of the seventeenth century to the 1790s, and is shown to be embedded in folk culture. Abundant in rich and lively descriptions of such colourful characters as Richard Brothers, Joanna Southcott, John Wroe, Zion Ward and Sir William Courtenay, as well as studies of the Shakers, early Mormons and Millerites, the result is a window into the world of ordinary people in the Age of Romanticism.

Book Millennial Expectations and Jewish Liberties

Download or read book Millennial Expectations and Jewish Liberties written by Mel Scult and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: