Rhetoric
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Mahoney's analysis provides new insight into this abiding critical riddle through close historical and figural readings of the rhetoric of romantic apostasyoxfam bookshop chelmsford romantics and renegades examines the abiding crux of romantic criticism: the political apostasies of the lake poets (wordsworth, coleridge, and southey) as they renounced the revolutionary jacobinism of their youth in the s in order to claim the high ground of regency toryism in the sprevious author's bookplate on inside cover see oxfam website for delivery information read morecentral to this scandal is the figure of william hazlitt, the literary critic who policed their betrayals in his vigilant exposure of their political and poetical inconsistencies
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Charles rollin (paris, ), son of a parisian cutler, a fellow at the college of plessis, taught rhetoric at a very young age before becoming chair of the eloquence department at the college de francefrom to , he was head of the college de beauvais; twice - in and - he was rector of the universityplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitevolume i: 684 pp, volume ii: 676 pp superb frontispiece engraved by drollin (charles) de la manière d'enseigner et d'étudier les belles lettres, par rapport à l'esprit & au cœurwritten at the end of his life, when he could no longer teach, this dense and original work, on the topic of educational reforms, insists particularly on the widespread use of the french language instead of latin, and on the teaching of historybut his convictions and his jansenist activities led him to leave teachingcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablecoypel, chapter heading designed and engraved by jean-philippe le bas, ornamental initial lettershe then composed his famous treatise ‘de la manière d'étudier et d'enseigner les belles-lettres’, a work better known by the shorter title of ‘traité des études’our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecomplete in two quarto volumes (211 x 265 cm), full period sheepskin binding, the bindings need restoring, the book blocks are still solidbookplate published in paris, by la veuve estienne read moreare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki
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In his latest book, gary dorrien continues to unearth the heyday and legacy of the black social gospel, a tradition with a shimmering history, a martyred central figure, and enduring relevance todaythe symbol of the movement, martin luther king jrthe civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern american historysoared so high that he tends to overwhelm anything associated with himyet the tradition that best describes him and other leaders of the civil rights movement has been strangely overlookedsee oxfam website for delivery information read moregood condition with pencil marking throughoutit won a few legislative victories and had a profound impact on uit abounded with noble visions, resounded with magnificent rhetoric, and ended in nightmarish despairoxfam bookshop ealing this magisterial follow-up to the new abolition, a grawemeyer award winner, tells the crucial second chapter in the black social gospel's historysociety, but failed to break white supremacythis part of the story centers around king and the mid-twentieth-century black church leaders who embraced the progressive, justice-oriented, internationalist social gospel from the beginning of their careers and fulfilled it, inspiring and leading america's greatest liberation movement
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