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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bellon, Richard (Historian)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, 2015.
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.