Author: Robert South
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Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Twelve sermons upon several subjects and occasions. The third volume
Author: Robert South
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Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Pages : 524
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The Age of Projects
Author: Maximillian E. Novak
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442692995
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
"The Projecting Age" was a term the English novelist Daniel Defoe used to describe the end of the seventeenth century. This term could just as easily be used, however, to describe the period known as the "Long Eighteenth Century" (1660-1789). The Age of Projects uses the notion of a project as a key to understanding the massive social, cultural, political, literary, and scientific transitions that occurred in Europe during this time. The contributors to this collection examine fraudulent, grandiose, altruistic, and idealistic projects that reveal the period's radical breaks from the past and its preoccupation with the future. Examining topics as diverse as Jonathan Swift's satire on the possibility of a computer, to Gottfried Leibniz's effort to build one, and Edmund Burke's prediction that the project of democratic governance would be taken over by greedy adventurers, this volume provides significant insight into the period's ambitions for an improved future. A well-balanced collection by leading scholars from diverse disciplines, The Age of Projects is a significant contribution to intellectual history, literary history, and the history of science.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442692995
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
"The Projecting Age" was a term the English novelist Daniel Defoe used to describe the end of the seventeenth century. This term could just as easily be used, however, to describe the period known as the "Long Eighteenth Century" (1660-1789). The Age of Projects uses the notion of a project as a key to understanding the massive social, cultural, political, literary, and scientific transitions that occurred in Europe during this time. The contributors to this collection examine fraudulent, grandiose, altruistic, and idealistic projects that reveal the period's radical breaks from the past and its preoccupation with the future. Examining topics as diverse as Jonathan Swift's satire on the possibility of a computer, to Gottfried Leibniz's effort to build one, and Edmund Burke's prediction that the project of democratic governance would be taken over by greedy adventurers, this volume provides significant insight into the period's ambitions for an improved future. A well-balanced collection by leading scholars from diverse disciplines, The Age of Projects is a significant contribution to intellectual history, literary history, and the history of science.
Catalogue of a Large and Valuable Collection of Ancient and Modern Books
Author: John Doyle (bookseller, New York.)
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
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Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Languages : en
Pages : 702
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A catalogue of new and second-hand books
Author: Robert Snare
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Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Languages : en
Pages : 272
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A New Classified Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
Author: Royal Institution of Great Britain. Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 978
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Languages : en
Pages : 978
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British Librarian, Or Book-collectors Guide to the Formation of a Library in All Branches of Literature (etc.)
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
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Languages : en
Pages : 738
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Languages : en
Pages : 738
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Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi
Author: Bulkeley Bandinel
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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The Gentleman's Magazine
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Category : Early English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Category : Early English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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British Librarian; Or, Book-collector's Guide ...
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
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Category : Religious literature
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Category : Religious literature
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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