Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated
Author: John Taylor
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 1886363439
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Author: John Taylor
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 1886363439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine)
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Published: 1818
Total Pages: 436
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 3849649741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1790 came that "extraordinary outburst of passionate intelligence," Mary Wollstonecraft's reply to Edmund Burke's attack on the principles of the French Revolution entitled a "Vindication of the Rights of Men." In this pamphlet she held up to scorn Burke's defence of monarch and nobility, his merciless sentimentality. "It is one of the most dashing political polemics in the language," Mr. Taylor writes enthusiastically, "and has not had the attention it deserves. . . . For sheer virility and grip of her verbal instruments it is probably the finest of her works. Some of her sentences have the quality of a sword-edge, and they flash with the rapidity of a practised duellist. It was written at a white heat of indignation; yet it is altogether typical of the writer that, in the midst of the work, quite suddenly, she had one of her fits of callousness and morbid temper, and declared she would not go on. With great skill Johnson persuaded her to take it up again; and with equal suddenness her eagerness returned, and the book was finished and published before any one else could answer Burke."
Author: Thomas G. West
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2000-11-28
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1442210273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis controversial, convincing, and highly original book is important reading for everyone concerned about the origins, present, and future of the American experiment in self-government.
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1996-07-03
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 0486290360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA manifesto for women's rights stresses the need for the education of women, defines the female character, and applies the egalitarian principles of the era to women.
Author: John Currie
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Published: 1740
Total Pages: 388
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert M. Andrews
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-05-12
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9004293795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLay Activism and the High Church Movement of the Late Eighteenth Century: The Life and Thought of William Stevens, 1732-1807, by Robert M. Andrews, is the first full-length study of Stevens’ life and thought. Historiographically revisionist and contextualised within a neglected history of lay High Church activism, Andrews presents Stevens as an influential High Church layman who brought to Anglicanism not only his piety and theological learning, but his wealth and business acumen. With extensive social links to numerous High Church figures in late Georgian Britain, Stevens’ lay activism is shown to be central to the achievements and effectiveness of the wider High Church movement during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
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Published: 1794
Total Pages: 550
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ruth Scobie
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 1351351893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMary Wollstonecraft’s 1792 Vindication of the Rights of Women is an incendiary attack on the place of women in 18th-century society. Often considered to be the earliest widely-circulated work of feminism, the book is a powerful example of what can be achieved by creative thinkers – people who refuse to be bound by the standard ways of thinking, or to see things through the same lenses that everyone else uses. In the case of the Vindication, Wollstonecraft’s independent thinking went directly against the standard assumptions of the age regarding women. During the seventeenth century and earlier, it was an entirely standard point of view to consider women as, largely speaking, uneducable. They were widely considered to be men’s inferiors, incapable of rational thought. They not only did not need a rational education – it was assumed that they could not benefit from one. Wollstonecraft, in contrast, argued that women’s apparent triviality was a direct consequence of society failing to educate them. If they were not men’s equals, it was the fault of a society that refused to treat them as such. So radical was her message that it would take until the 20th century for her views to become truly accepted.
Author: William CAMPBELL (D.D.)
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Published: 1787
Total Pages: 84
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