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The Principles of the Art of Conversation

By: John Pentland Mahaffy

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The Principles of the Art of Conversation

By: John Pentland Mahaffy

In this light-hearted book, the classical scholar J. P. Mahaffy (1839-1919) analyses the art of conversation in the same way that a classical scholar would analyse the art of rhetoric, discussing theoretical models as well as taking examples from history and from his own social life.

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Cambridge University Press

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110807863X

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9781108078634

The Decay of Modern Preaching. An Essay

By: John Pentland Mahaffy

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The Decay of Modern Preaching. An Essay

By: John Pentland Mahaffy

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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170

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3385482909

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9783385482906

The Flinders Petrie Papyri

With Transcriptions, Commentaries and Index

By: John Pentland Mahaffy

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The Flinders Petrie Papyri

With Transcriptions, Commentaries and Index

By: John Pentland Mahaffy

A three-volume collection, published 1891-1905, of transcribed Greek papyri fragments, illuminating Egyptian life in the third century BCE.

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235

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Cambridge University Press

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1108067999

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9781108067997

Authors in Context: Oscar Wilde

By: John Sloan

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Authors in Context: Oscar Wilde

By: John Sloan

Wit, dandy, literary anarchist, self-publicist, and homosexual martyr: Wilde achieved fame and notoriety at a time when mass culture and communication promoted the 'new' in every area of British life. This book examines the rich interplay between Wilde's society and his writings and shows the remarkable recontextualizing of Wilde and his work in film, stage, and the media in the century following his death. - ;Authors in Context examines the work of major writers in relation to their own time and to the present day. Combining history with lively literary discussion, each volume provides comprehensive insight into texts in their context. Wit, dandy, literary anarchist, self-publicist, and homosexual martyr: Wilde achieved fame and notoriety at a time when mass culture and communication promoted the 'new' in every area of British life - 'New Women', 'New Hedonism', 'New Journalism', 'New Imperialism'. His plays, tales, and critical writings questioned traditional attitudes to religion, sexuality, women and the home, crime and punishment, and the freedom of the individual. This book examines the rich interplay between Wilde's society and his writings and shows the remarkable recontextualizing of Wilde and his work on stage, in film and the media in the century that has followed his death. -

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244

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Oxford University Press, UK

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0191587591

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9780191587597

Anglican Evangelicalism in Sydney 1897 to 1953

Nathaniel Jones, D. J. Davies and T. C. Hammond

By: John A. McIntosh

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Anglican Evangelicalism in Sydney 1897 to 1953

Nathaniel Jones, D. J. Davies and T. C. Hammond

By: John A. McIntosh

John McIntosh attempts to describe more accurately and completely the spectrum of Evangelicalism (Anglican) that three successive principals of Moore Theological College appropriated and taught in the period. Each was an outstanding graduate of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, respectively. The study traces the circumstances of their appointment and seeks to define the convictions they held—against the background of challenges and changes to their Christian faith they faced in their day. A close examination of their published and unpublished literary oeuvre clears away misunderstandings and even misrepresentations of their thought and influence. In so doing it explains how it was that those Evangelicals in the diocese who adhered more closely to their Reformation tradition finally prevailed decisively over those who were Protestant but liberal.

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349

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532643071

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9781532643071

Oscar Wilde on Dress (ebook)

Including –The Philosophy of Dress– by Oscar Wilde

By: Oscar Wilde,John Cooper

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Including –The Philosophy of Dress– by Oscar Wilde

By: Oscar Wilde,John Cooper

Including The Philosophy Of Dress by Oscar Wilde. The recent print version was the first this work had been for the first time it had been published in 128 Years, and in book form for the first time ever. Now this is the first ebook.The work now forms the centerpiece of this unique collection of Wilde's writings on dress. As a compendium this book also includes several rarely published period articles and letters by Wilde on dress and fashion, along with a related exchange of correspondence that forms an instructional discourse. In addition there are generously annotated and illustrated chapters that analyze the importance of dress in the historical context of the writing career of Oscar Wilde, and a comprehensive review of the influences, trends, characters and source material that informed the development of his dress philosophy.The whole constitutes a thorough examination of a previously overlooked aspect in the Wilde canon, which should prove to be of interest not only to Wildean scholars, but also to anyone who enjoys his style of writing. Oscar Wilde continues to be favorably reappraised as a one of the most culturally avant garde tastemakers of the late nineteenth century. In an ever fashion-conscious world it is fitting that the themes explored, like the author himself, are still relevant. In this respect the book will also be of historical value to fashion students, historians, and practitioners.

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209

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CSM Press

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0989532712

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9780989532716

The Irish Beckett

By: John P. Harrington

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The Irish Beckett

By: John P. Harrington

Breaking with a powerful tradition among scholars that insists that Beckett’s Irishness is no more than an accident of birth, Harrington provides compelling evidence to the ways in which many of Beckett’s best-known texts are deeply involved in Irish issues and situations. Providing new readings of such works as More Pricks Than Kicks, Murphy, Watt, Mercier and Camier, Waiting for Godot, and Endgame, Harrington provides an understanding of Beckett’s work in its representation of Ireland, of Irish history, and of Irish literary traditions.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815625286

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9780815625285

A Man Sent by God

Blessed John Sullivan SJ

By: John Looby

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A Man Sent by God

Blessed John Sullivan SJ

By: John Looby

A Man Sent by God is a fascinating account of the life and times of one of Ireland's most revered holy men. The reader is guided through the various stages of John Sullivan's life from his childhood in Dublin, secondary school at Portora, university education at Trinity College, and his call to the bar in London. This is followed by an account of the second part of his life when he converted to Catholicism, entered the Jesuit order, and lived an ascetic and spiritual life in his various ministries, but most especially at his ministry in Clongowes Wood College in County Kildare. It is his work here, especially with the poor and the sick, which has led to his beatification by Pope Francis. John Sullivan SJ was beatified in May 2017.

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126

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Messenger Publications

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1788123689

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9781788123686

Additional Letters of John Stuart Mill

By: John Stuart Mill

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Additional Letters of John Stuart Mill

By: John Stuart Mill

This volume contains 300 letters presented in full scholarly form, with notes giving information about the texts and their provenance, and also historical and bibliographic information.

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370

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University of Toronto Press

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0802027687

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9780802027689

Archipelagic English

Literature, History, and Politics 1603-1707

By: John Kerrigan

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Archipelagic English

Literature, History, and Politics 1603-1707

By: John Kerrigan

Seventeenth-century 'English Literature' has long been thought about in narrowly English terms. Archipelagic English corrects this by devolving anglophone writing, showing how much remarkable work was produced in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, and how preoccupied such English authors as Shakespeare, Milton, and Marvell were with the often fraught interactions between ethnic, religious, and national groups around the British-Irish archipelago. This book transforms our understanding of canonical texts from Macbeth to Defoe's Colonel Jack, but it also shows the significance of a whole series of authors (from William Drummond in Scotland to the Earl of Orrery in County Cork) who were prominent during their lifetimes but who have since become neglected because they do not fit the Anglocentric paradigm. With its European and imperial dimensions, and its close attention to the cultural make-up of early modern Britain and Ireland, Archipelagic English authoritatively engages with, questions, and develops the claim now made by historians that the crises of the seventeenth century stem from the instabilities of a state-system which, between 1603 and 1707, was multiple, mixed, and inclined to let local quarrels spiral into all-consuming conflict. This is a major, interdisciplinary contribution to literary and historical scholarship which is also set to influence present-day arguments about devolution, unionism, and nationalism in Britain and Ireland.

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OUP Oxford

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0191615560

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9780191615566

The Gambling Century

Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency

By: John Eglin

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The Gambling Century

Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency

By: John Eglin

Gambling captures as nothing else the drama of the “long eighteenth century” between the age of religious wars and the age of revolutions. The society that was confronted with games of chance pursued as commercial ventures also came to grips with unprecedented social mobility, floated by new wealth from new sources created fortunes from trade in sugar, cotton, ivory, silk, tea, or enslaved human beings. Likewise, play for money was prominent in the public imagination as money itself, deployed through an ever expanding and ever more sophisticated range of mechanisms, increasingly invaded public awareness, as when prospective spouses in period fiction were rated in terms of annual income as if they were municipal bonds. Similarly, the archetypal figure of the gambler captured the imagination of the public in fiction, media, and politics. At the same time, new interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics - encouraged and bankrolled by those in power - fostered a new and unprecedented appreciation for mathematical probability and its applications, opening the possibility that games of chance might be pursued as a profitable commercial venture. The Gambling Century focuses like no previous work on those who enabled, facilitated, and profited from gambling, as well as on efforts to regulate or outlaw it. Using extensive archival material as well as printed sources, it follows its subjects from the Court to the coffeehouse, to private clubs and “at homes” in townhouses, all of which prefigure that quintessentially modern gambling space, the casino.

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Oxford University Press

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0192888234

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9780192888235

Book's by John Pentland Mahaffy

The Principles of the Art of Conversation

The Principles of the Art of Conversation

The Decay of Modern Preaching. An Essay

The Decay of Modern Preaching. An Essay

The Flinders Petrie Papyri

The Flinders Petrie Papyri

Authors in Context: Oscar Wilde

Authors in Context: Oscar Wilde

Anglican Evangelicalism in Sydney 1897 to 1953

Anglican Evangelicalism in Sydney 1897 to 1953

Oscar Wilde on Dress (ebook)

Oscar Wilde on Dress (ebook)

The Irish Beckett

The Irish Beckett

A Man Sent by God

A Man Sent by God

Additional Letters of John Stuart Mill

Additional Letters of John Stuart Mill

Archipelagic English

Archipelagic English

The Gambling Century

The Gambling Century

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