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In these articles John Henry argues on the one hand for the
intimate relationship between religion and early modern attempts to
develop new understandings of nature, and on the other hand for the
role of occult concepts in early modern natural philosophy.
Focussing on the scene in England, the articles provide detailed
examinations of the religious motivations behind Roman Catholic
efforts to develop a new mechanical philosophy, theories of the
soul and immaterial spirits, and theories of active matter. There
are also important studies of animism in the beginnings of
experimentalism, the role of occult qualities in the mechanical
philosophy, and a new account of the decline of magic. As well as
general surveys, the collection includes in depth studies of
William Gilbert, Sir Kenelm Digby, Henry More, Francis Glisson,
Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke, and Isaac Newton.
Designed for the general reader and students of law, this is a
concise history and analysis of the civil law tradition, which is
dominant in most of Europe, all of Latin America, and many parts of
Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The fourth edition is fully
updated to include the latest developments in the field and to
correct and update historical details gleaned from newly-published
research on Roman and Medieval law. In the past ten years, the
legal profession has changed radically, with the growing
international ubiquity of large law firms operating across borders
(which was previously a uniquely American phenomenon). This new
edition updates the book from the post-Soviet era to ongoing
current issues, including Brexit and the status of the European
Union. It discusses how civil law codes have shifted in some
countries to adapt to modern and changing ideologies and also
includes brand-new material on legal education, which is of central
importance to the legal profession today.
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When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity
that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative
error he found himself without a hotel room and reliant on the
generosity of one of the veterans who had a spare bed. That veteran
was Patrick Thomas - and it was an encounter that would change both
their lives forever. Patrick's landing craft, LCH 185, had led the
first wave into Sword Beach on D-Day, and stayed off Normandy until
the 25th June when an acoustic mine sent it to the seabed along
with most of the crew. His story transfixed John, and the resulting
search for the shipwreck was to consume him. Jumping back and
forwards in time, between vivid descriptions of the final days on
board LCH 185 and John's thrilling search to find the shipwreck,
The Search is an emotional story of a devastating time in history,
an unlikely, life-changing friendship and a quest to honour a
wartime home and family lost over seventy-five years ago.
The Oxford bookseller and publisher John Henry Parker (1806-84), a
supporter of the Tractarian movement and a friend of Cardinal
Newman, was also a historian of architecture, and first published
this glossary in 1836. Reissued here is the enlarged third edition
of 1840. The work is ordered alphabetically, and illustrated with
700 woodcuts by various artists. As stated in the first edition's
preface, the book 'lays no claim to originality, its sole object
being utility'. By 1837, 'the rapid sale of the first edition of
this work clearly shews that something of the kind was required'.
The third edition was followed in 1841 by a companion volume which
contained 400 further examples and a chronological table: the two
books offered a useful guide for those travellers and others who
were taking a keen interest in the built environment. The first
volume contains explanations of terms from 'abacus' to 'zotheca'
and 105 plates with notes.
The Oxford bookseller and publisher John Henry Parker (1806-84), a
supporter of the Tractarian movement and a friend of Cardinal
Newman, was also a historian of architecture, and first published
this glossary in 1836. Reissued here is the enlarged third edition
of 1840. The work is ordered alphabetically, and illustrated with
700 woodcuts by various artists. As stated in the first edition's
preface, the book 'lays no claim to originality, its sole object
being utility'. By 1837, 'the rapid sale of the first edition of
this work clearly shews that something of the kind was required'.
The third edition was followed in 1841 by a companion volume: the
two books offered a useful guide for those travellers and others
who were taking a keen interest in the built environment. The
companion volume contains further line drawings and plates, an
index to the plates in both volumes, and a chronology of the
architectural developments and individual buildings being
discussed.
The Oxford bookseller and publisher John Henry Parker (1806-84), a
supporter of the Tractarian movement and a friend of Cardinal
Newman, was also a historian of architecture, whose two-volume
Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic
Architecture is also reissued in this series. In 1851, he published
a volume on English domestic architecture from the Norman Conquest
to 1300 by the antiquary Thomas Hudson Turner (1815-52), and on
Turner's death he completed the second volume, on the fourteenth
century, himself. Both volumes are highly illustrated with line
drawings and plans. Volume 2 follows a similar plan, describing the
rooms (such as halls, kitchens and chambers) common to domestic
buildings, of whatever size, in the fourteenth century, and
discussing their individual features and construction. The coverage
of surviving buildings is organised by county, and there is a
section on comparable buildings in France.
Famed for his masterful oratory and fearless criticism of
parliamentary opponents, William Pitt the Elder (1708 78)
distinguished himself through the strong leadership he provided
during Britain's struggle against France in the Seven Years' War.
Edited by his great-grandsons and first published between 1838 and
1840, this four-volume collection presents nearly forty years'
worth of letters to and from the great statesman. Each volume also
contains a useful list of the principal officers of state for the
period covered, along with facsimile plates of letters and
signatures by some of Pitt's eminent correspondents. Volume 1
(1838) covers the period 1741 59, although most of the letters date
from 1754 onwards. Pitt's early political career saw him launch
attacks on Sir Robert Walpole, contributing to the latter's
resignation in 1742. Once Pitt had himself taken up the reins of
power, the annus mirabilis of 1759 marked a high point of his
wartime strategy."
Famed for his masterful oratory and fearless criticism of
parliamentary opponents, William Pitt the Elder (1708 78)
distinguished himself through the strong leadership he provided
during Britain's struggle against France in the Seven Years' War.
Edited by his great-grandsons and first published between 1838 and
1840, this four-volume collection presents nearly forty years'
worth of letters to and from the great statesman. Each volume also
contains a useful list of the principal officers of state for the
period covered, along with facsimile plates of letters and
signatures by some of Pitt's eminent correspondents. Including six
pre-1760 letters, Volume 2 (1838) chiefly covers the period from
1760 through to the end of July 1766. The accession of a hostile
George III in October 1760 created difficulties for Pitt, which
resulted in his resignation from government a year later. During
his time in opposition, the Treaty of Paris concluded Anglo-French
hostilities."
Famed for his masterful oratory and fearless criticism of
parliamentary opponents, William Pitt the Elder (1708 78)
distinguished himself through the strong leadership he provided
during Britain's struggle against France in the Seven Years' War.
Edited by his great-grandsons and first published between 1838 and
1840, this four-volume collection presents nearly forty years'
worth of letters to and from the great statesman. Each volume also
contains a useful list of the principal officers of state for the
period covered, along with facsimile plates of letters and
signatures by some of Pitt's eminent correspondents. Volume 3
(1839) covers the period from 1766 through to November 1770.
Following Rockingham's resignation in July 1766, Pitt accepted a
peerage and became the Earl of Chatham, forming a new ministry that
lasted until 1768. As prime minister, he was constantly troubled by
longstanding health problems."
Famed for his masterful oratory and fearless criticism of
parliamentary opponents, William Pitt the Elder (1708 78)
distinguished himself through the strong leadership he provided
during Britain's struggle against France in the Seven Years' War.
Edited by his great-grandsons and first published between 1838 and
1840, this four-volume collection presents nearly forty years'
worth of letters to and from the great statesman. Each volume also
contains a useful list of the principal officers of state for the
period covered, along with facsimile plates of letters and
signatures by some of Pitt's eminent correspondents. Volume 4
(1840) covers the period from November 1770 until Pitt's death in
May 1778. Despite his retirement and deteriorating health, he
continued to take an active interest in politics, writing to his
many correspondents on a wide range of subjects, notably the
unfolding American Revolution."
One of the leading Christian theologians of the nineteenth century,
John Henry Newman (1801 90) was already a famous and controversial
figure, as the leader of the Oxford Movement, by the time he
published these lectures in 1838. He was still a Church of England
vicar, but in 1845 he would join the Roman Catholic Church and
eventually become a cardinal. The thirteen lectures here,
addressing the doctrine of salvation through faith, cover issues of
obedience, righteousness, Christ's resurrection, faith as the sole
source of justification, the role of rites and works, and that of
preaching. Offering a complementary rather than dichotomous
interpretation of the competing theological positions, this work
reveals the progress of Newman's thinking and reflects his journey
towards leaving the Church of England.
Originally published in 1908, this book contains untranslated
passages from the Hisperica Famina in verse, together with a large
index verborum and original manuscript images. The use of verse is
notable because previous reproductions had opted for prose.
Following on from research carried out by the renowned textual
scholar Henry Bradshaw, this volume constituted an attempt to
emphasize the essential metrical quality of the text. Consummately
researched, this book will be of value to anyone with an interest
in Hiberno-Latin and Irish literature.
Ecclesiasticus is a religious work, written in Hebrew in the second
century BCE by the Jewish scribe Jesus ben Sirach. Although it was
not accepted into the Hebrew Bible and the original version is
lost, its Greek translation is found in the Septuagint. The focus
of this study by Cambridge scholar J. H. A. Hart (1876 1952) is on
the Greek text of Ecclesiasticus from a fourteenth-century codex,
written in a miniscule cursive hand. First published in 1909, the
book contains the text in transcription, based on the work of
Charles Taylor, who had previously published a study of the text.
Hart next investigates its relationship to surviving fragments of
the Hebrew version, and the results of his research are included in
his textual commentary. He provides a thorough analysis of the
Greek translator's prologue and compares variant Greek versions of
the work. Hart's edition remains of use to biblical scholars today.
Chemist and illusionist John Henry Pepper (1821-1900) lectured at
the Royal Polytechnic Institution in London, and incorporated
experiments, illusions and magic lanterns into his popular science
lectures. In 1862 he developed a stage-show illusion called 'the
ghost'. This involved using strategically placed pieces of glass
and specific lighting in order to create the illusion of ghostly
figures on stage. The illusion was immensely popular in the second
half of the nineteenth century - it was visited by royalty, and
Pepper's show toured to America, Canada and Australia. In this
book, first published in 1890, Pepper details the history of 'the
ghost' and the process of carrying out the illusion. 'Pepper's
Ghost' is considered to be a precursor to cinema, and this book
will be of interest to those studying the development of popular
nineteenth-century culture, the 'entertainment industry', and the
origins of cinema.
First published in 1994, this scholarly edition of a major
Renaissance text is edited and introduced by John Henry Jones, a
leading expert on the Faust legend. The English translation of the
best-selling German Faust Book of 1587 has long been known as
Marlowe's principal source for Dr Faustus. The earliest surviving
edition of this translation, published in 1592, is here presented
complete, in modern spelling and with a line register for
reference, together with full details of all alterations and
omissions from the German source. Textual comparisons with Doctor
Faustus and with later editions of the English Faust Book provide
crucial information in the development of the Faust theme in
England and Germany. In an introduction making full use of hitherto
unpublished research, Dr Jones offers new arguments both on the
dating of Marlowe's play, and on the personal history and probable
identity of the original translator of the German Faust Book, known
only as 'P. F. Gent'.
John Henry Newman (1801 1890) was a theologian and vicar at the
university church in Oxford who became a leading thinker in the
Oxford Movement, which sought to return Anglicanism to its Catholic
roots. Newman converted to Catholicism in 1845 and became a
cardinal in 1879. He published widely during his lifetime; his work
included novels, poetry and the famous hymn 'Lead, Kindly Light',
but he is most esteemed for his sermons and works of religious
thought. This volume, first published in 1870, is an ambitious
examination of the logical processes that underpin religious faith.
Newman discusses how it is possible to believe what cannot be
proven empirically, and postulates that the mind has the facility
to bridge the logic gap to allow for humans to believe in things
that they do not fully comprehend. A lucid and masterful work which
remains relevant to contemporary discussions of faith.
John Henry Newman (1801-1890) remains one of the best-known and
influential English churchmen of the nineteenth century. Ordained
as a priest in the Anglican Church in 1825, he converted to Roman
Catholicism, being ordained as a priest and later appointed
cardinal. His works include Grammar of Assent (1870) and Apologia
Pro Vita Sua (1865-1866) as well as this Essay (1845), written in
the midst of his own religious transformation. He discusses his
theory of the development of Christian dogma: 'from the nature of
the human mind, time is necessary for the full comprehension and
perfection of great ideas ... the longer time and deeper thought
for their full elucidation'. By showing how fidelity to timeless
truths coexisted in Christianity together with deeper and more
developed understanding over time, Newman provides a helpful
personal and theological apology for the teaching and practice of
Catholicism against its detractors.
Throughout his career as a theologian, deacon, priest and cardinal,
John Henry Newman (1801 1890) remained a committed believer in the
value of education. A graduate of Trinity College, Oxford, his own
academic experiences shaped his friendships, politics and faith.
His Discourses (1852), delivered initially as a series of lectures
when he was rector of the newly-established Catholic University of
Ireland, inspired a generation of young and talented Catholic
scholars. Providing an intelligent but accessible analysis of the
relationship between theology and other academic disciplines, the
lectures were celebrated in the popular press for dispensing
instruction to those who 'had no traditions to guide them in
forming a correct estimate of what a university ought to be'.
Newman argued that a university should foster the 'diffusion and
extension of knowledge' rather than religious or moral training,
and that it should prepare students for life in the world.
John Henry Newman (1801-1890) was an English priest and theologian,
whose highly publicised and controversial conversion to Catholicism
helped to dispel prejudice towards Catholics in Victorian society.
After graduating from Trinity College, Oxford, Newman was ordained
as an Anglican deacon in 1824. He gradually became more
conservative in his beliefs, becoming a member of the Oxford
Movement before converting to Catholicism and being received into
the Roman Catholic Church in 1845; he was made a cardinal in 1879.
This volume, first published in 1864, contains Newman's classic
religious autobiography. Writing in response to a perceived attack
on Catholicism by historian and novelist Charles Kingsley, Newman
describes his changing religious beliefs between 1833 and 1845 and
discusses his spiritual motivations for converting. Newman's
emotional sensitivity and clear style ensured the popularity of
this volume, which was extremely influential in establishing him as
the leading exponent of Catholicism in Victorian England.
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