A Sermon, Preached in the Cathedral Church of St. Peter, Exeter, on Friday, February 28, 1794
Author : George Gordon
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Author : George Gordon
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Page : 26 pages
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Author : John Barrell
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Page : 860 pages
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Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780198112921
It is high treason in British law to imagine the king's death. But after the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, everyone in Britain must have found themselves imagining that the same fate might befall George III. How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George and imagining it, in the legal sense of intending or designing? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. He shows how the law of treason was adapted in the years following Louis's death to punish what was acknowledged to be a "modern" form of treason unheard of when the law had been framed. The result, he argues, was the invention of a new and imaginary reading, a "figurative" treason, by which the question of who was imagining the king's death, the supposed traitors or those who charged them with treason, became inseparable.
Author : David Armitage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
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Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0521807077
This insightful and wide-ranging volume traces the genesis of international intellectual thought, connecting international and global history with intellectual history.
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Containing scientific abstracts of important and interesting works, published in English; a general account of such as are of less consequence, with short characters; notices, or reviews of valuable foreign books; criticisms on new pieces of music and works of art; and the literary intelligence of Europe, &c.
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Page : 620 pages
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Release : 1795
Category : English literature
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Page : 694 pages
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Author : Edward Cave
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Page : 700 pages
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Page : 452 pages
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Release : 2001
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