Автор: Lord Chesterfield Название: Lord Chesterfield`s Letters ISBN: 0199554846 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199554843 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1899.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: `My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.`So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebrated and controversial correspondences between a father and son. Chesterfield wrote almost daily to his natural son, Philip, from 1737 onwards, providing him with instruction in etiquette and the worldly arts. Praised in their day as a complete manual of education, and despised by Samuel Johnson for teaching `the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing-master`, these letters reflect the political craft of a leading statesman and the urbane wit of a man who associated with Pope, Addison, and Swift. The letters reveal Chesterfield`s political cynicism and his belief that his country had `always been goverened by the only two or three people, out of two or three millions, totally incapable ofgoverning`, as well as his views on good breeding. Not originally intended for publication, this entertaining correspondence illuminates fascinating aspects of eighteenth-century life and manners.
Автор: Seneca, Fantham Elaine Название: Selected Letters ISBN: 0199533210 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199533213 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: от 273.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание: This is the largest selection of Stoic philosopher and tragedian Seneca`s letters currently available. In them Seneca advises his friend Lucilius on how to do without what is superfluous, whether on the subject of happiness, riches, reputation, or the emotions. We learn too about Seneca`s personal and political life in the time of Nero.
Автор: Hemingway Название: The Letters of Ernest Hemingway ISBN: 0521897351 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521897358 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5544.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The letters, many previously unpublished, of Volume 3 (1926-1929) explore Hemingway`s move into the American mainstream and a lifelong publishing contract with Scribner`s. Under the guidance of the legendary editor Maxwell Perkins, Hemingway begins to take his place on the national and international stage as a professional author.
Описание: In 1905 Rev. Francis Clement Kelley founded the Catholic Church Extension Society of the United States of America. Drawing attention to the common link of religion, Kelley proclaimed the Extension Society's duty to be that of preventing American Protestant missionaries, public school teachers, and others from separating people from their natural faith, Catholicism. Though domestic evangelization was its founding purpose, the Extension Society eventually expanded beyond the national border into Mexico in an attempt to solidify a hemispheric Catholic identity. Exploring international, racial, and religious implications, Anne M. Mart nez's Catholic Borderlands examines Kelley's life and actions, including events at the beginning of the twentieth century that prompted four exiled Mexican archbishops to seek refuge with the Archdiocese of Chicago and befriend Kelley. This relationship inspired Kelley to solidify a commitment to expanding Catholicism in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines in response to the national plan of Protestantization, which was indiscreetly being labeled as "Americanization." Kelley's cause intensified as the violence of the Mexican Revolution and the Cristero Rebellion reverberated across national borders. Kelley's work with the U.S. Catholic Church to intervene in Mexico helped transfer cultural ownership of Mexico from Spain to the United States, thus signaling that Catholics were considered not foreigners but heirs to the land of their Catholic forefathers. Anne M. Mart nez is in the Department of American Studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
Автор: Cicero Название: Selected letters ISBN: 0199214204 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199214204 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2058.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This selection of Cicero`s letters not merely documents in detail Cicero`s career but simultaneously provides a month-by-month record of the collapse of the republic and its replacement by a tyranny. It provides a vivid picture of daily life and politics in Rome, the assassination of Caesar, and Cicero`s vain resistance to the rise of Mark Antony.
Описание: Thisbook offers an innovative approach to the character of the intellectual life ofCatholics in Scotland. It looks at Catholic attempts to fight the appeal ofcommunism amongst the working classes in interwar Scotland, it analysesdevelopments in the devotional life of Scottish Catholics and it discusses theunique theological contribution made by Scottish clerics. Chapters also explorethe increasing presence of Catholics in Scotland in higher education and theirrole in shaping change within the Catholic Church. Finally, readers will havethe opportunity to learn more about the previously under-researched CatholicIntelligentsia, and the debate within it on the place of Catholicism in thehistory of Scotland.The History ofCatholic Intellectual Life in Scotland, 1918–1965 presents the domestic context of thechanging character of Scottish Catholicism, as well as the context of changes inEuropean Catholicism.
Описание: A religious and political history of transnational Catholic activism in Latin America during the 1920s and 1930s.
Автор: Davenport Hines Richard Название: One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper ISBN: 0198703112 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198703112 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4592.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A carefully chosen selection from the correspondence of Hugh Trevor-Roper, one of the most gifted and famous historians of his generation and one of the finest letter-writers of the twentieth century
Название: Paston letters ISBN: 0199538379 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199538379 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1582.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Pastons of Norfolk left behind them an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England in the earliest great collection of family letters in English. The letters span three generations and most were written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III, in a period of political turmoil, local anarchy, and war abroad and at home. They reveal personal hopes and anxieties, and contain as well as business matters a wealth of information onleisure pursuits, education, and domestic life. The writers express themselves with a clarity and vigour that is remarkable at this early date, and the letter illustrate, as no other documents can, the state of the language in daily use immediately before and after the introduction of printing. This modernized selection prepared from the original manuscripts is designed to present the full range of the Pastons` principle concerns.
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