The Portrait of a Scholar
The Portrait of a Scholar

Author: Robert William Chapman

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-05

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9780484518185

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Excerpt from The Portrait of a Scholar: And Other Essays Written in Macedonia, 1916-1918 Cb'oeplzaroe in the train that morning You know, it 's monstrously good.' The quotation does feeble justice to my vivid sense of his being as intimate with Aeschylus as he was with Browning, and as intimate with Politian as With either. He was so profoundly versed in the literature and the manners of many ages, that he would speak of Sir Thomas More, or of Burke, very much as he spoke of Swinburne as if he had known them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Portrait of a Scholar
The Portrait of a Scholar

Author: Robert William Chapman

Publisher:

Published: 2015-11-08

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781522200000

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Hardcover reprint of the original 1920 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Chapman, R. W. Robert William. The Portrait Of A Scholar: And Other Essays Written In Macedonia, 1916-1918. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Chapman, R. W. Robert William. The Portrait Of A Scholar: And Other Essays Written In Macedonia, 1916-1918, . Oxford: University Press, 1920.

The Portrait of the Scholar
The Portrait of the Scholar

Author: R. W. Chapman

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-03-09

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781496198808

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Author's NOTE: HAVING been persuaded to think these essays worth collection, I have thought it prudent not to try to make them better. The circumstances of their composition in camps and dug-outs and troop-trains give them a kind of unity, and may excuse some of their defects. The titlepiece has been printed in Dr. Jackson's Memoir of Ingram By water (second impression 1919); Old Books, Textual Criticism, The Art of Quotation, The Decay of Syntax, and Johnson in Scotland are reprinted by courteous permission from the Times Literary Supplement; Silver Spoons has been printed in the Oxford University Magazine. The remainder are published for the first time. * * * * CONTENTS The Portrait of a Scholar Proper Names in Poetry On Rhyme Reading Aloud Old Books and Modern Reprints The Textual Criticism of English Classics The Art of Quotation Thoughts on Spelling Reform The Decay of Syntax Johnson in Scotland Silver Spoons

Halfway Home
Halfway Home

Author: Reuben Jonathan Miller

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2021-02-02

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0316451495

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A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller's "stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation's carceral system" (Heather Ann Thompson). Each year, more than half a million Americans are released from prison and join a population of twenty million people who live with a felony record. Reuben Miller, a chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago and now a sociologist studying mass incarceration, spent years alongside prisoners, ex-prisoners, their friends, and their families to understand the lifelong burden that even a single arrest can entail. What his work revealed is a simple, if overlooked truth: life after incarceration is its own form of prison. The idea that one can serve their debt and return to life as a full-fledge member of society is one of America's most nefarious myths. Recently released individuals are faced with jobs that are off-limits, apartments that cannot be occupied and votes that cannot be cast. As The Color of Law exposed about our understanding of housing segregation, Halfway Home shows that the American justice system was not created to rehabilitate. Parole is structured to keep classes of Americans impoverished, unstable, and disenfranchised long after they've paid their debt to society. Informed by Miller's experience as the son and brother of incarcerated men, captures the stories of the men, women, and communities fighting against a system that is designed for them to fail. It is a poignant and eye-opening call to arms that reveals how laws, rules, and regulations extract a tangible cost not only from those working to rebuild their lives, but also our democracy. As Miller searchingly explores, America must acknowledge and value the lives of its formerly imprisoned citizens. PEN America 2022 John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist Winner of the 2022 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences 2022 PROSE Awards Finalist 2022 PROSE Awards Category Winner for Cultural Anthropology and Sociology An NPR Selected 2021 Books We Love As heard on NPR’s Fresh Air

PORTRAIT OF A SCHOLAR
PORTRAIT OF A SCHOLAR

Author: Ingram 1840-1914 Bywater

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-28

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9781373011367

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Portraits from Memory
Portraits from Memory

Author: Bertrand Russell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-11-29

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 100026078X

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‘I have come to think that one of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence.’ – Bertrand Russell, Portraits from Memory Portraits from Memory is one of Bertrand Russell’s most self-reflective and engaging books. Whilst not intended as an autobiography, it is a vivid recollection of some of his celebrated contemporaries, such as George Bernard Shaw, Sidney and Beatrice Webb and D. H. Lawrence. Russell provides some arresting and sometimes amusing insights into writers with whom he corresponded. He was fascinated by Joseph Conrad, with whom he formed a strong emotional bond, writing that his Heart of Darkness was not just a story but an expression of Conrad’s ‘philosophy of life’. There are also some typically pithy Russellian observations; H. G. Wells ‘derived his importance from quantity rather than quality’, whilst after a brief and fraught friendship Russell thought D. H. Lawrence ‘had no real wish to make the world better, but only to indulge in eloquent soliloquy about how bad it was’. This engaging book also includes some of Russell’s customary razor-sharp essays on a rich array of subjects, from his ardent pacifism, liberal politics and morality to the ethics of education, the skills of good writing and how he came to philosophy as a young man. These include ‘A Plea for Clear Thinking’, ‘A Philosophy for Our Time’ and ‘How I Write’. Portraits from Memory is Russell at his best and will enthrall those new to Russell as well as those already well-acquainted with his work. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the Russell scholar Nicholas Griffin, editor of The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell.