Author: John Sainsbury
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754656265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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John Wilkes remains one of the most colourful and intriguing characters of eighteenth-century Britain. While his political career has been much explored, much less has been written about his private life. This biography provides a more comprehensive examination of Wilkes throughout his long life than has hitherto been available. Taking a thematic rather than chronological approach, it is divided into six main chapters covering family, ambition, sex, religion, class and money, which allows a much more rounded picture of Wilkes to emerge.
Author: Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount)
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Author: William Warburton
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Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Author: Rex A. Barrell
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780819171276
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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This text is essentially a monograph, since a definitive work on the subject must await publication (already in hand) of Bolingbroke's complete correspondence. First, the reader is taken briefly through the different periods of Bolingbroke's life where his francophilic interests and activities are stressed. For example, attention is paid to his early training, his various visits to France, his involvement in European philosophical, historical and political movements, his relationships with French personalities including Voltaire, and his exile and death in France. Second, there is a detailed analysis of his philosophical, historical and political ideas with an attempt to assess his debt to France and his impact on French writers. The monograph concludes with a sample of critical opinion on both sides of the Channel from Bolingbroke's death to the present day, supporting the theory that he continues to have a substantial impact on European thought. Full notes, a detailed bibliography and an index of persons complete the study.
Author: William Warburton
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Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Author: Bernard Cottret
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349258059
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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In turn, Tory minister, Jacobite renegade, English philosopher and anti-minister, Bolingbroke has elicited mixed reactions from his compatriots, both contempories and historians. Bernard Cottret discusses here his political writings in the context of contemporary thought in England and France. His analyses of 'A' Dissertation upon Parties' and 'The Idea of a Patriot King' are supported by a full mid-eighteenth-century political thought.
Author: William Warburton
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Languages : en
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Author: William Warburton
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Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Author: James Boswell
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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