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A Profane Wit

Author : James William Johnson
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1580461700

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A biography of the poet and libertine the Earl of Rochester. Of the glittering, licentious court around King Charles II, John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, was the most notorious. Simultaneously admired and vilified, he personified the rake-hell. Libertine, profane, promiscuous, heshocked his pious contemporaries with his doubts about religion and his blunt verses that dealt with sex or vicious satiric assaults on the high and mighty of the court. This account of Rochester and his times provides the facts behind his legendary reputation as a rake and his deathbed repentance. However, it also demonstrates that he was a loving if unfaithful husband, a devoted father, a loyal friend, a serious scholar, a social critic, and an aspiring patriot. An Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Rochester, James William Johnson is the author or editor of nine books and many articles treating British and American Literature.

Bacon's Essays with Annotations

Author : Francis Bacon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000063818169

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Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately

Author : Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600082999

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The Parables Prophetically Explained; Being Lectures Delivered During Lent, 1853, at St. George's, Bloomsbury. By Twelve Clergymen of the Church of England. With a Preface by the Rev. W. Cadman

Author : William CADMAN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000554288

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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Author : William Dwight Whitney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Biography
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6N88

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The Sacred and the Profane

Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 015679201X

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The Sacred and the Profane by Mircea Eliade Pdf

Famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times in terms of space, time, nature, and the cosmos. In doing so he shows how the total human experience of the religious man compares with that of the nonreligious. This book serves as an excellent introduction to the history of religion, but its perspective also emcompasses philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and psychology. It will appeal to anyone seeking to discover the potential dimensions of human existence. -- P. [4] of cover.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary

Author : William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin Eli Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101074871821

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Wit's End

Author : James Combs
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443824699

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This book is a study of the “Great Movies,” that fluid category of feature films deemed by various authorities—film societies, critics, academics, and movie enthusiasts—to be the enduring and memorable works of cinematic history. But what are they about? In Wit’s End, the author attempts to “make sense” of these films in order to understand their greatness in the context of their relation to other films and to the worlds they come from and recreate on screen. To that end, we employ the conceptual power of pragmatic social theory and the rich idea of aesthesis to explore and arrange these films as a means of understanding what they express about the universality of human life in our keen use of wit, organization of social wont, and direction of cultural way. It is hoped that such an inquiry will illuminate the glory of the great films and contribute to the advance of film studies.

American Wit and Humor

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : UOM:39015091547714

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Benedict's Treatise: Containing a Summary of the Jurisdiction, Powers and Duties of Justices of the Peace in the State of New York, Adapted to the Code of Procedure in Civil Cases. Also, a Practical Treatise on Their Jurisdiction, Duties and Authority in Criminal Cases ...

Author : Joseph BENEDICT (Counsellor at Law.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026644884

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Benedict's Treatise: Containing a Summary of the Jurisdiction, Powers and Duties of Justices of the Peace in the State of New York, Adapted to the Code of Procedure in Civil Cases. Also, a Practical Treatise on Their Jurisdiction, Duties and Authority in Criminal Cases ... by Joseph BENEDICT (Counsellor at Law.) Pdf