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Author : Owen Chadwick
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015008551858
Author : Lionel Kochan
Publisher : Port Washington, N.Y : Kennikat Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Historians
ISBN : UCAL:$B676135
Study of Lord Acton's philosophy of history, and of its development.
Author : John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton,John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton
Publisher : Selected Writings of Lord Acto
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89009263369
History compels us to fasten on abiding issues and rescues us from the temporary and transient. Volume II brings together Acton's distinguished writings on history. Included is his famous Inaugural Lecture at Cambridge, "The Study of History." Writing on many diverse topics, Acton argues that history demonstrates progress and unity through the story of liberty and that the study of history should be impartial, based on archival research, and founded in moral judgment.
Author : Lord Acton
Publisher : VM eBooks
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Fellow Students—I look back to–day to a time before the middle of the century, when I was reading at Edinburgh and fervently wishing to come to this University. At three colleges I applied for admission, and, as things then were, I was refused by all. Here, from the first, I vainly fixed my hopes, and here, in a happier hour, after five–and–forty years, they are at last fulfilled. I desire, first, to speak to you of that which I may reasonably call the Unity of Modern History, as an easy approach to questions necessary to be met on the threshold by any one occupying this place, which my predecessor has made so formidable to me by the reflected lustre of his name. You have often heard it said that Modern History is a subject to which neither beginning nor end can be assigned. No beginning, because the dense web of the fortunes of man is woven without a void; because, in society as in nature, the structure is continuous, and we can trace things back uninterruptedly, until we dimly descry the Declaration of Independence in the forests of Germany. No end, because, on the same principle, history made and history making are scientifically inseparable and separately unmeaning.
Author : John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Church history
ISBN : HARVARD:32044087967881
Author : John Neville Figgis,Reginald Vere Laurence,Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
Publisher : Arkose Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1344768458
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Author : John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton,Richard Simpson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1973-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0521086884
Lord Acton (1834-1902) and Richard Simpson (1820-76) were the principal figures in the Liberal Catholic movement of nineteenth-century England, an ultimately unsuccessful effort to reconcile the Roman Catholic Church with the leading secular thought of the day. They collaborated in editing the Rambler (1858-62) and the Home and Foreign Review (1862-4), two of the most distinguished Catholic periodicals of the period. The correspondence is the record of this collaboration and sheds light on the religious, political and intellectual history of mid-nineteenth-century England. Though heaviest for the years of their joint work on the Rambler and the Home and Foreign Review, the correspondence continued up to 1875, a year before Simpson's death.
Author : Lord Acton
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734071713
Reproduction of the original: A Lecture on the Study of History by Lord Acton
Author : Christopher Lazarski
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501757426
Lord Acton (1834–1902) is often called a historian of liberty. A great historian and political thinker, he had a rare talent to reach beneath the surface and reveal the hidden springs that move the world. While endeavoring to understand the components of a truly free society, Acton attempted to see how the principles of self-determination and freedom worked in practice, from antiquity to his own time. But though he penned hundreds of papers, essays, reviews, letters and ephemera, the ultimate book of his findings and views on the history of liberty remained unwritten. Reading a book a day for years he still could not keep pace with the output of his time, and finally, dejected, he gave up. Today, Acton is mainly known for a single maxim, power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. In Power Tends to Corrupt, Christopher Lazarski presents the first in-depth consideration of Acton's thought in more than fifty years. Lazarski brings Acton's work to light in accessible language, with a focus on his understanding of liberty and its development in Western history. A work akin to Acton's overall account of the history of liberty, with a secondary look at his political theory, this book is an outstanding exegesis of the theories and findings of one of the nineteenth century's keenest minds.
Author : John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton
Publisher : Selected Writings of Lord Acto
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014163896
Selected writings of Lord Acton / by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, First Baron Acton ; edited by J. Rufus Fears.
Author : John Acton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1985752336
John Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO DL (10 January 1834 - 19 June 1902) was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. He was the only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet and a grandson of the Neapolitan admiral Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet. From 1837 to 1869 he was known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Baronet. He is perhaps best known for the remark in a letter to an Anglican bishop, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. Through extensive travels, Acton spent much time in the chief intellectual centres reading the actual correspondence of historical personalities. Among his friends were Montalembert, Tocqueville, Fustel de Coulanges, Bluntschli, von Sybel and Ranke. In 1855, he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Shropshire. A year later, he was attached to Lord Granville's mission to Moscow as British representative at the coronation of Alexander II of Russia. Acton's reputation for learning gradually spread abroad, largely through Gladstone's influence. Gladstone found him a valuable political adviser, and in 1892, when the Liberal government came in, Lord Acton was made a lord-in-waiting. Finally, in 1895, on the death of Sir John Seeley, Lord Rosebery appointed him to the Regius Professorship of Modern History at Cambridge. He delivered two courses of lectures on the French Revolution and on Modern History, but it was in private that the effects of his teaching were felt most. The Cambridge Modern History, though he did not live to see it, was planned under his editorship.
Author : Lord Acton,John Neville Figgis,Reginald Vere Laurence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : History
ISBN : 140995191X
Sir John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO (1834-1902), commonly known as simply Lord Acton, was an English historian, the only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet and grandson of the Neapolitan admiral, Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet. He was a master of the principal foreign languages and began at an early age to collect a magnificent historical library, with the object - which, however, he never realized - of writing a great aHistory of Liberty. a In politics, he was always an ardent Liberal. Acton took a great interest in America, considering its Federal structure the perfect guarantor of individual liberties. Acton became the editor of the Roman Catholic monthly paper, The Rambler, in 1859, on John Henry (later Cardinal) Newmanas retirement from the editorship. In 1862, he merged this periodical into the Home and Foreign Review. His works include: A Lecture on the Study of History (1895), The Life of Mandell Creighton (1904), Lectures on Modern History (1906), Historical Essays and Studies (1907), The History of Freedom and Other Essays (1907) and Lectures on the French Revolution (1910).
Author : David & Amanda Knights
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781445626468
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Acton has changed and developed over the last century
Author : John Dalberg Acton,John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Baron
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781602069343
Formerly known as Lord Acton, John E.E. Dalberg Acton was one of the great historians of the Victorian period and one of the greatest classical historians of all time. His life's work was advancing the history of liberty though he was never able to complete his magnum opus. THE HISTORY OF FREEDOM AND OTHER ESSAYS consists of articles reprinted from various journals of his time. Acton's other works include Lectures on Modern History (1906) and Historical Essays and Studies (1907), which were brought to light after his death. JOHN E.E. DALBERG ACTON (1834-1902), English scholar and historian, was denied entrance into Cambridge University because of his Roman Catholicism; he traveled to Munich, where he studied with Fr. Johann Joseph Ignaz von Dllinger. In 1895, Acton was appointed Professor of Modern History at Cambridge where he was known for his lectures, his writings for periodicals, and his personal contacts with the leading historians of the era. His impressive personal library - consisting of more than 59,000 volumes - was acquired by financier Andrew Carnegie and donated to Cambridge University.
Author : John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Church history
ISBN : HARVARD:32044018729640
