The Rambler. In Four Volumes. Volume the First [-fourth]
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Page : 318 pages
File Size : 27,27 MB
Release : 1784
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Page : 318 pages
File Size : 27,27 MB
Release : 1784
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Author : William Peterfield Trent
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Page : 620 pages
File Size : 30,40 MB
Release : 1917
Category : American literature
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Author : Laurie Throness
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351961993
How did the penitentiary get its name? Why did the English impose long prison sentences? Did class and economic conflict really lie at the heart of their correctional system? In a groundbreaking study that challenges the assumptions of modern criminal justice scholarship, Laurie Throness answers many questions like these by exposing the deep theological roots of the judicial institutions of eighteenth-century Britain. The book offers a scholarly account of the passage of the Penitentiary Act of 1779, combining meticulous attention to detail with a sweeping theological overview of the century prior to the Act. But it is not just an intellectual history. It tells a fascinating story of a broader religious movement, and the people and beliefs that motivated them to create a new institution. The work is original because it relies so completely on original sources. It is mystical because it mingles heavenly with earthly justice. It is authoritative because of its explanatory power. Its anecdotes and insights, poetry and song, provide intriguing glimpses into another era strangely familiar to our own. Of special interest to social and legal historians, criminologists, and theologians, this work will also appeal to a wider audience of those who are interested in Christianity's impact on Western culture and institutions.
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Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Bibliography, National
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Page : 1352 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 1866
Category : Bibliography
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Author : Patrick Spedding
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 2021-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 303056312X
Marginal Notes: Social Reading and the Literal Margins offers an account of literary marginalia based on original research from a range of unique archival sources, from mid-16th-century France to early 20th-century Tasmania. Chapters examine marginal commentary from 17th-century China, 18th-century Britain, and 19th-century America, investigating the reputations, as reflected by attentive readers, of He Zhou, Pierre Bayle, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Warton, and Sir Walter Scott. The marginal writers include Jacques Gohory, Mary Astell, Hester Thrale, Herman Melville, the young daughters of the Broome family in Gloucestershire, and the patrons of the library of the Huon Mechanics’ Institute, Tasmania. Though marginalia is often proscribed and frequently hidden or overlooked, the collection reveals the enduring power of marginalia, concluding with studies of the ethics of annotation and the resurrected life of marginalia in digital environments.
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Page : 1340 pages
File Size : 28,12 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Bibliography
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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Author : Francis James Child
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368635573
Reprint of the original, first published in 1898.
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Page : 870 pages
File Size : 36,55 MB
Release : 1906
Category : British periodicals
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Page : 610 pages
File Size : 42,37 MB
Release : 1855
Category : American literature
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