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The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence – Carl Lotus Becker
In this long essay Becker analyzed the structure, drafting, and philosophy of the Declaration. He recognizes that it was not intended as an objective historical statement of the causes of the Revolution, but merely furnished a moral and legal justification for rebellion. Step by step, the colonists modified their theory to suit their needs.
Whenever men become sufficiently dissatisfied with the existing regime of positive law and custom, they will be found reaching out beyond it for the rational basis of what they conceive ought to be. This is what the Americans did in their controversy with Great Britain.
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Maria or the Wrongs of Woman
Maria or the Wrongs of Woman – Mary Wollstonecraft
“Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman” is an unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”. The book is widely considered to be her most radical feminist work. “Maria” is a philosophical as well as a gothic novel that revolves around the story of a woman imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband.
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Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights. During her … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...
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Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark – Mary Wollstonecraft
Like every word she wrote, Wollstonecraft’s letters are full of personal revelations and wise thoughts. They are doubly interesting because can trace the intimate thought which lay beneath the public statement. One could pick out of this book enough epigrams to make a motto calendar. “Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness.” “There is always a mixture of sentiment and imagination in voluptuousness ” might have been written as a partial apology for the wayward Imlay. She relates her interview with the Prime Minister of Denmark, and sums him up as being “more anxious not to do … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – Mary Wollstonecraft
No feminism or feminist philosophy without “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”. Wollstonecraft argues not only that women ought to have the education of a woman should fit her position and role in society, but also that they are human beings and thus deserve the same fundamental rights as men.
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Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Men
A Vindication of the Rights of Men – Mary Wollstonecraft
In 1790 came that “extraordinary outburst of passionate intelligence,” Mary Wollstonecraft’s reply to Edmund Burke’s attack on the principles of the French Revolution entitled a “Vindication of the Rights of Men.” In this pamphlet she held up to scorn Burke’s defence of monarch and nobility, his merciless sentimentality. “It is one of the most dashing political polemics in the language,” Mr. Taylor writes enthusiastically, “and has not had the attention it deserves. . . . For sheer virility and grip of her verbal instruments it is probably the finest of her works. Some of her sentences have the quality of a sword-edge, and they flash with the rapidity of a … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...
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Original Stories from Real Life
Original Stories from Real Life – Mary Wollstonecraft
This book was written while Wollstonecraft’s experience as school-mistress and governess was still fresh in her memory. As she explained in the preface, her object was to make up, in some measure, for the defective education or moral training which, as a rule, children in those days received from their parents. In addressing a youthful audience, Mary was as deeply inspired by her love of goodness, per se, and her detestation of conventional conceptions of virtue, as she was afterwards in appealing to older readers. She represents, in her book, two little girls, aged respectively twelve and fourteen, who have been sadly neglected during their early years, but fall, fortunately, at this … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...
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Mary, a Fiction
Mary, a Fiction – Mary Wollstonecraft
“Mary, A Fiction” is the only complete novel that Mary Wollstonecraft has ever written. She tells the tragic story of a heroine’s successive “romantic friendships” with a woman and a man. “Emile”, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s philosophical treatise on education, was one of the major literary influences on this book.
Format: Paperback
Mary, a Fiction.
ISBN: 9783849681029
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Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft (from Wikipedia):
Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children’s book. … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...
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Thoughts on the Education of Daughters
Thoughts on the Education of Daughters – Mary Wollstonecraft
The pamphlet consists of a number of short treatises, indicating certain laws and principles which Mary thought needed to be more generally understood and more firmly established. Many passages show that as early as 1787 she had seriously considered the problems which, in 1791, she attempted to solve. She was even then perplexed by the unfortunate situation of women of the upper classes who, having received but the pretence of an education, eventually become dependent on their own exertions. Her sad experience probably led her to these thoughts. Reflection upon them made her the champion of her sex.
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A Confederate Soldier in Egypt
A Confederate Soldier in Egypt – William Wing Loring
General Loring was one of many Confederate officers who after the close of the War of the Rebellion offered their services to foreign rulers. A number of these officers took their way to Egypt, and the author of this book was one of the most successful ot them all. He was made Pasha by the Khedive, and he rendered that ruler honorable and efficient service. It was natural that Loring Pasha should have been led to give his Egyptian experiences durable shape, and his book gives a clear and agreeably written account of the country. Such a writer has much more authority than the mere traveler. General Loring lived long in … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...
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The City of the Caliphs
The City of the Caliphs – Eustace Alfred Reynolds Ball
Cairo has for centuries been the home of Oriental magnificence and despotism, and still, though fallen from its high estate, it ranks as one of the most typical and picturesque—as well as the wickedest — of Mohammedan cities, while its mingling of Oriental luxury and laissez faire with Occidental bustle and commercial activity, give it a curiously cosmopolitan character. Its manifold aspects of commerce, history, art, and social life are described from intimate acquaintance by Mr. Reynolds-Ball, who tells not only of the city itself, but of its environs and approaches, and who describes the wonderful vista of the Nile from Cairo to the second cataract.
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