1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455925103321

Autore

Grodzins Dean

Titolo

American heretic [[electronic resource] ] : Theodore Parker and transcendentalism / / Dean Grodzins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8078-6204-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (657 p.)

Disciplina

289.1/092

B

Soggetti

Transcendentalism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 581-610) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Note on Transcription; 1. This World of Joys and Sorrows; 2. An Immense Change in My Opinions; 3. Period of Disappointment; 4. I Preach Abundant Heresies; 5. All the Force of Transcendentalism That Is in Me; 6. Absolute Religion; Section of Illustrations; 7. I Can Stand Alone; 8. Recovery, Observation, and Thought; 9. Shut In for My Own Good; 10. The Ashes of My Success; Afterword: A Long, Long Warfare Opens before Me; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Theodore Parker was a powerful preacher who rejected the authority of the Bible and Jesus, a brilliant scholar, an agitator for women's rights, an abolitionist and one of the intellectuals who shaped transcendentalism. This account covers hidden facets of his life as well as his public profile.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996386767103316

Autore

Blount Thomas <1618-1679.>

Titolo

The academy of eloquence [[electronic resource] ] : containing a compleat English rhetorique, exemplified : common places and formula's [sic] digested into an easie and methodical way to speak and write fluently, according to the mode of the present times : with letters both [bracket] amorous and morall, upon emergent occasions / / by T.B. of the Inner Temple .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for Anne Mosely, and are to be sold by Thomas Clark ..., 1664

Edizione

[The third edition,]

Descrizione fisica

[8], 232 [i.e. 234] p

Soggetti

English language - Rhetoric

Eloquence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Epistle dedicatory signed: Tho. Blount.

Imperfect: pages stained.

Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018