Letters of Principal T. M. Lindsay to Janet Ross
Author : Thomas Martin Lindsay
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Page : 288 pages
File Size : 25,5 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Authors, English
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Author : Thomas Martin Lindsay
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Page : 288 pages
File Size : 25,5 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Authors, English
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Author : Ben Downing
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 18,58 MB
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429942959
"Quite simply one of the best books of the year." —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Ben Downing's Queen Bee of Tuscany brings an extraordinary Victorian back to life. Born into a distinguished intellectual family and raised among luminaries such as Dickens and Thackeray, Janet Ross married at eighteen and went to live in Egypt. There, for the next six years, she wrote for the London Times, hobnobbed with the developer of the Suez Canal, and humiliated pashas in horse races. In 1867 she moved to Florence, Italy where she spent the remaining sixty years of her life writing a series of books and hosting a colorful miscellany of friends and neighbors, from Mark Twain to Bernard Berenson, at Poggio Gherardo, her house in the hills above the city. Eventually she became the acknowledged doyenne of the Anglo-Florentine colony, as it was known. Yet she was also immersed in the rural life of Tuscany: An avid agriculturalist, she closely supervised the farms on her estate and the sharecroppers who worked them, often pitching in on grape and olive harvests. Spirited, erudite, and supremely well-connected, Ross was one of the most dynamic women of her day. Her life offers a fascinating window on fascinating times, from the Risorgimento to the rise of fascism. Encompassing all this rich history, Queen Bee of Tuscany is a panoramic portrait of an age, a family, and our evolving love affair with Tuscany. A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2013
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Page : 1122 pages
File Size : 43,79 MB
Release : 1923
Category : English literature
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A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
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Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,45 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Theology
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Page : 754 pages
File Size : 15,24 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Glen G. Scorgie
Publisher : Regent College Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 10,29 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781573833271
"Glen Scorgie's pioneer study of Orr as a theologian is a work long overdue. Scorgie's fascinating narrative makes plain the real distinction of Orr's mind. The present-day resurgence of the convictions that Orr championed suggests that in calling for continuity and combating theological novelty Orr had found the way of wisdom. . . . This book rehabilitates the doughty Glasgow professor as a thinker still to be reckoned with by those who care for Christian truth." -- J. I . Packer Regent College
Author : Joshua Bennett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,75 MB
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0192574752
Exploring the rich relationship between historical thought and religious debate in Victorian culture, God and Progress offers a unique and authoritative account of intellectual change in nineteenth-century Britain. The volume recovers a twofold process in which the growth of progressive ideas of history transformed British Protestant traditions, as religious debate, in turn, profoundly shaped Victorian ideas of history. It adopts a remarkably wide contextual perspective, embracing believers and unbelievers, Anglicans and nonconformists, and writers from different parts of the British Isles, fully situating British debates in relation to their European and especially German Idealist surroundings. The Victorian intellectual mainstream came to terms with religious diversity, changing ethical sensibilities, and new kinds of knowledge by encouraging providential, spiritualized, and developmental understandings of human time. A secular counter-culture simultaneously disturbed this complex consensus, grounding progress in appeals to scientific advances and the retreat of metaphysics. God and Progress thus explores the ways in which divisions within British liberalism were fundamentally related to differences over the past, present, and future of religion. It also demonstrates that religious debate powered the process by which historicism acquired cultural authority in Victorian national life, and later began to lose it. The study reconstructs the ways in which theological dynamics, often relegated to the margins of nineteenth-century British intellectual history, effectively forged its leading patterns.
Author : James Hastings
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Page : 586 pages
File Size : 19,73 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Bible
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Page : 520 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Education
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Author : Boston Public Library
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Page : 634 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Boston (Mass.)
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