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Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Author : William Ewart Gladstone
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,49 MB
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385509386
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Author : George Barnett Smith
Publisher :
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 16,35 MB
Release : 1879
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Author : William Fairfield Warren
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 17,10 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Cosmology
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Author : John Myres
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,67 MB
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317694686
Here is presented a succinct and insightful account of the reception of the Iliad and Odyssey from antiquity to the mid-twentieth century. The overall result is less a systematic history than a series of independent studies differing in scale and focus, the chapter on Gladstone being the most comprehensive and detailed. First published in 1958. The author gives greatest attention to those who made active use of Homer rather than passive, even if admiring, readers: Virgil because he wrote the Aeneid, Gladstone because he brought him to prominence in Oxford education, Wood because he sought out the geography and Schliemann because he dug for the kings. The emphasis is thus placed less on the purely academic critic than on the traveller and the innovative amateur. A valuable contribution to a subject of perennial fascination, this will be of interest to all students and teachers of the classics.
Author : Dennis O'Donovan
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Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 1899
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Author : David Bebbington
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 11,12 MB
Release : 2004-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0191514888
Gladstone's ideas are far more accessible for analysis now that, following the publication of his diaries, a record of his reading is available. This book traces the evolution of what the diaries reveal as the statesman's central intellectual preoccupations, theology and classical scholarship, as well as the groundwork of his early Conservatism and his mature Liberalism. In particular it examines the ideological sources of Gladstone's youthful opposition to reform before scrutinizing his convictions in theology. These are shown to have passed through more stages than has previously been supposed: he moved from Evangelicalism to Orthodox High Churchmanship, on to Tractarianism and then further to a broader stance that eventually crystallized as a liberal Catholicism. His classical studies, focused primarily on Homer, also changed over time, from a version that was designed to defend a traditional worldview to an approach that exalted the depiction of human endeavour in the ancient Greek poet. An enduring principle of his thought about religion and antiquity was the importance of community, but a fresh axiom that arose from the modifications of his views was the centrality of all that was human. The twin values of community and humanity are shown to have conditioned Gladstone's rhetoric as Liberal leader, so making him, in terms of recent political thought, a communitarian rather than a liberal, but one with a distinctive humanitarian message. As a result of a thorough scrutiny of Gladstone's private papers, the Victorian statesman is shown to have derived a distinctive standpoint from the Christian and classical sources of his thinking and so to have left an enduring intellectual legacy. It becomes apparent that his religion, Homeric studies and political thought were interwoven in unexpected ways. The evolution of Gladstone's central intellectual preoccupations, with religion and Homer, is the theme of this book. It shows how the statesman developed from Evangelism to Orthodox High Churchmanship, on to Tractarianism and then further to a broader stance that eventually crystallized as a liberal Catholicism. It demonstrates also that his Homeric studies developed over time. Neither aspect of his thinking was kept apart from his politics. Gladstone's early conservatism emerged from a blend of classical and Christian themes focusing on the idea of community. While that motif persisted in his speeches as Liberal leader, the category of the human emerged from his religious and Homeric ideas to condition the presentation of his Liberalism. In Gladstone's mind there was an intertwining of theology, Homeric studies and political thought.
Author : William Fairfield Warren
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Page : 546 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Bible
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Treatise on ancient, medieval and modern cosmologic, ethnologic, geologic and religious thought concerning Eden and the North Pole as a centre of distribution for animal and plant species.
Author : William F. Warren
Publisher : Health Research Books
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 19,50 MB
Release : 1996-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780787309343
1885 a study of the prehistoric world (the cradle of the human race at the North Pole). the author says this book is not the work of a dreamer. it is a thoroughly serious, sincere attempt to present what is, to the author's mind, the true and final sol.
Author : Newcastle upon Tyne (England). Public libraries
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Page : 304 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Classical literature
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Author : Haverhill Public Library
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Page : 520 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Dictionary catalogs
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