Monatsarchive: Mai 2017

Ideal Commonwealths

Publiziert am 3. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

Ideal Commonwealths – Henry Morley

In “Ideal Commonwealths” Professor Henry Morley offers a selection of the most known writings on this topic, as well as his own reflections. Included are Plutarch’s Lycurgus, More’s Utopia, Bacon’s New Atlantis, Campanella’s City of the sun and a fragment of Hall’s Mundus alter et ide.

Ideal Commonwealths

Ideal Commonwealths

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Ideal Commonwealths.

ISBN: 9783849691837

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Biography of Henry Morley (from Wikipedia):

The son of apothecary Henry Morley, the younger Morley was born in Hatton Garden, London. He was educated at a Moravian Church school in Neuwied, Germany and entered King’s College London 1838. Morley graduated in 1843 and became part of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, a professional organization, … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Twilight

Publiziert am 3. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

Twilight – Julia Frankau

Not perhaps since Henry James gave us the inimitable “Daisy Miller” has modern fiction presented the character of a woman so sensitive, so innately innocent in her faults and weaknesses, so inevitably tragic in her fate, as the heroine of this book, Margaret Capel. The story develops in this fashion: A talented woman writer, who is ill and under the influence of morphia, goes to a nursing home where a gifted girl has lived and died. For a year she lives in this home attended by the same physician who had treated the girl. In the “twilight” world, under the influence of drugs, she sees the phantom of the girl, and with the aid of a … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The New Atlantis

Publiziert am 2. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

The New Atlantis – Sir Francis Bacon

The ‘New Atlantis’, first published in 1627, but probably written between 1622 and 1624, is a fragmentary sketch of an ideal commonwealth, and in particular of an ideal “palace of invention” called “Solomon’s House,”—a great establishment of scientific research such as Bacon longed to see founded. The book, which expresses the idealistic spirit of the Renaissance, shows Bacon at his best. The description of Solomon’s house is said to have led to the establishment of the Royal Society. .

The New Atlantis

The New Atlantis

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The New Atlantis.

ISBN: 9783849691813

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Biography of Francis Bacon (from Wikipedia):

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, PC KC (22 January 1561 … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Essays

Publiziert am 2. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

Essays – Sir Francis Bacon

Of Bacon’s literary, as distinct from his philosophical and professional, works, far the most popular and important are the ‘Essays.’ But it may not be superfluous to remark that the ‘Essays’ are the most original of all Bacon’s works, those which, in detail, he seems to have thought out most completely for himself, apart from books and collections of commonplaces. Though the ‘Essays’ have the same title as the larger collection of Montaigne, the two works have little in common, except their rare power of exciting interest and the unmistakable mark of genius which is impressed on them both.

Essays

Essays

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Essays.

ISBN: 9783849692094

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Novum Organum

Publiziert am 2. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

Novum Organum – Sir Francis Bacon

The ‘Novum Organum,’ in the shape in which its author left it, is only a fragment of the larger work which Bacon contemplated under that title, as adequately representing the second part of the ‘Great Instauration.’ Nevertheless, though only a fragment, the ‘Novum Organum,’ and especially the first book, is the most carefully written of all Bacon’s philosophical works. Moreover, as describing the new method of which the renovation of knowledge was to be the result, it is the keystone of the entire system.

Novum Organum

Novum Organum

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Novum Organum.

ISBN: 9783849692087

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Biography of Francis Bacon (from Wikipedia):

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, PC KC (22 … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Advancement of Learning

Publiziert am 2. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

The Advancement of Learning – Sir Francis Bacon

The Advancement of Learning is a splendid attempt to defend and magnify the pursuit of learning and then to survey the existing state of human knowledge. Part of the argument of the first part has lost its cogency, or even its relevancy, today. But in breadth of view and fertility of suggestion the work is extraordinary. As a statement of intellectual ideals, and a program, or even a prophecy, of their accomplishment, it stands among the most significant productions of the Renaissance

The Advancement of Learning

The Advancement of Learning

The Advancement of Learning.

ISBN: 9783849692070

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Biography of Francis Bacon (from Wikipedia):

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, PC … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Soliloquies

Publiziert am 2. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

The Soliloquies – St. Augustine of Hippo

The Soliloquies were written by St. Augustine in the 4th-century. The two books contain an “inner dialogue” with questions, answers and thorough discussions, that finally aim to gain self-knowledge. While in the first book the dialogue longs to know a soul, it becomes evident in the second book that it is the author himself who wants to get to know his own.

The Soliloquies

The Soliloquies

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The Soliloquies.

ISBN: 9783849692063

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Biography of St. Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 28 August 430) was an early Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy. He was … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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From the Mountains to the Sea – A History of Los Angeles

Publiziert am 1. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

From the Mountains to the Sea – A History of Los Angeles – John Steven McGroarty

What the author of this book has to tell is the true story of a great City that was founded “by order of the King,” in the old days when the Western World was new. It is the story of a City that, for a century of time after its birth, showed few signs of promise, but which has now come to be the Greatest City of Western America and the metropolis of California— the “Land o’ Heart’s Desire.” The history of any city that can be named almost, is a story of its fortune that came from location or other accident to make … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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A History of California and an Extended History of Los Angeles

Publiziert am 1. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

A History of California and an Extended History of Los Angeles – James Miller Guinn

Few states of the United States have a more varied, a more interesting or a more instructive history than California, and few have done so little to preserve their history. In narrating the story of California, the author has endeavored to deal justly with the different eras and episodes of its history; to state facts; to tell the truth without favoritism or prejudice; to give credit where credit is due and censure where it is deserved. This accounts also for the prominence of Los Angeles in the second half of this volume. The consolidation of Los Angeles city and the cities of Wilmington, San Pedro … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Glinda of Oz

Publiziert am 1. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

Glinda of Oz – L. Frank Baum

This is the story of the adventures of Ozma and Dorothy when they set out to prevent a war between the Flatheads (who, for lack of a cranium, carry their brains in a can) and the Skeezers, whose island home can be submerged by their Queen. The two girls find themselves imprisoned below the lake and must be rescued with the help of Glinda the Good. Glinda of Oz was unfinished at the time of Baum’s death in May, 1919, and it was completed by one of his sons.

Glinda of Oz

Glinda of Oz

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Glinda of Oz.

ISBN: 9783849692148

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