A sincere and teachable heart : self-denying virtue in British intellectual life, 1736-1859 /
"In A Sincere and Teachable Heart : Self-Denying Virtue in British Intellectual Life, 1736-1859, Richard Bellon demonstrates that respectability and authority in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain were not grounded foremost in ideas or specialist skills but in the self-denying virtues o...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Brill,
2015.
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Colección: | History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1. The meaning function of patience and humility
- Common things to speak of the meaning of patience and humility in the nineteenth-century British imagination
- From virtue to duty the Victorian application of patience and humility to social and intellectual life
- Part 2. The eighteenth century
- Character and morality in eighteenth-century British thought
- The utility of virtue
- Patience, utility and revolution
- Part 3. Oxford
- Oxford and the age of reform
- The Oxford movement faith and obedience in a tumultuous and shifting world
- Faith and reason in Newman's university sermons
- The Hampden affair : divergent paths out of a spiritual wilderness
- Thomas Arnold confronts the "Oxford malignants"
- The Tamworth letters : virtue and science
- Tract go and the trial of patience in the Church of England.