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Author : Baltasar Gracián y Morales
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1685
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020760113
Author : Baltasar Gracián y Morales
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1685
Category : Courts and courtiers
ISBN : UOM:39015078548826
Author : Baltasar Gracián y Morales
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1685
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:220626089
Author : Baltasar Gracian Y Morales
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230467629
Dieses historische Buch kann zahlreiche Tippfehler und fehlende Textpassagen aufweisen. Kaufer konnen in der Regel eine kostenlose eingescannte Kopie des originalen Buches vom Verleger herunterladen (ohne Tippfehler). Ohne Indizes. Nicht dargestellt. 1685 edition. Auszug: ... one sticks to the best, and the other to the worst. In all things there is somewhat that is good, and especially in a book, which commonly is made with study. Some are of so aukward a mind, that amongst a thousand perfections, they'll hit upon the onely fault that is to be found, and speak of nothing else, as if they were onely cut out for common sewers of the filth of the will and wit of others: and for keeping a Register of all the faults which they fee. That is rather the punilhment of their bad discerning, than the exercise of their subtiky. They spend their life ill, because they onely feed on naughty things. Happier are they, who amongst a thousand.faults at first discover a perfection that happened to be there by chance. MAXIME CXLI. Not to listen to ones self. It's worth little to be satisfied with ones self, if one content not others. Commonly self-esteem is punished by universal contempt. He that pays himself, remains a debtor to all others. It is misbecoming for one to speak, that he may hear himself. If it be folly to speak to ones self, it is doubly so to listen to himself before others. It is a fault in great men to speak with an imperious tone: and that which stuns those who hear them; at every word they fay, their ears importunately beg applause or flattery. The presumptuous speak also by echo: and since the conversation moves upon the stilts of Pride, every word comes guarded with this impertinent exclamation: Rarely well said! Ah that's a sweet faying. MAXIME CXLII. Never to espouse a bad party in spight to an Adversary yoho bath taken the letter. He that does it, is half overcome, and at length will be constrained wholly to yield. That is never a good way to be...
Author : Baltasar Gracián y Morales
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1685
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:220626089
Author : James Noggle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191635663
Is taste a quick, momentary experience in the individual mind? Or something durable, shaped by slow, historical processes, affecting groups of people at different times and places? British writers in the eighteenth century believed that it was both, and the tension between these temporal poles shaped the meaning of taste in the period and set a course for aesthetics in following centuries. Focusing on works in many genres-Alexander Pope's poems, David Hume's historiography, essays by Hannah More and Anna Barbauld, and novels by Frances Burney and William Beckford-this book sees the divided temporality of taste as an unpredictable force in British writing. The eighteenth century was the age of taste. Writers considered its intense effects on individual minds as especially characteristic of the collective present of British modernity, whilst they also recognized the disturbing tendency of taste's immediacy and its historical roles to interrupt and foreclose on each other. While noting how taste's two temporal flavours may be made to agree in order to consolidate various national, social, and gendered identities, this book also demonstrates that taste's dual temporality makes it more disruptive than scholars usually think. As such, taste models a kind of critical practice that this book itself endeavours to inherit: the insistent testing of the moment of discernment and on-going patterns of thinking and feeling against each other.
Author : Tom Tölle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110744606
"Heirs of Flesh and Paper" tells the story of early modern dynastic politics through subjects’ practical responses to royal illness, failing princely reproduction, and heirs’ premature deaths. It treats connected dynastic crises between 1699 and 1716 as illustrative for early modern European political regimes in which the rulers’ corporeality defined politics. This political order grappled with the endemic uncertainties induced by dynastic bodies. By following the day-to-day practices of knowledge making in response to the unpredictability of royal health, the book shows how the ruling family’s mortal coils regularly threatened to destabilize the institutionalized legal fiction of kingship. Dynastic politics was not only as a transitory stage of state formation, part of elite cooperation, or a cultural construct. It needs to be approached through everyday practices that put ailing dynastic bodies front and center. In a period of intensifying political planning, it constituted one of the most important sites for changing the political itself.
Author : Phoebevon Held
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351577038
Alienation (Vefremdung) is a concept inextricably linked with the name of twentieth-century German playwright Bertolt Brecht - with modernism, the avant-garde and Marxist theory. However, as Phoebe von Held argues in this book, 'alienation' as a sociological and aesthetic notionavant la lettre had already surfaced in the thought of eighteenth-century French philosopher and writer Denis Diderot. This original study destabilizes the conventional understanding of alienation through a reading ofLe Paradoxe sur le comedien, Le Neveu de Rameau and other works by Diderot, opening up new ways of interpretation and aesthetic practices. If alienation constitutes a historical development for the Marxist Brecht, for Diderot it defines an existential condition. Brecht uses the alienation-effect to undermine a form of naturalism based on subjectivity, identification and illusion; Diderot, by contrast, plunges the spectator into identification and illusion, to produce an aesthetic of theatricality that is profoundly alienating and yet remains anchored in subjectivity.
Author : Baltasar Gracian
Publisher : Crown Currency
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780307788979
A Pocket Mirror for Heroes is a mirror because it reflects "the person you are or the one you ought to be." It is a pocket mirror because its author took the time to be brief. And it is a mirror for heroes because it provides a vivid image of ethical and moral perfection to which all can aspire. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracian was all but forgotten for three hundred years, until its republication in 1992 turned this lost classic into a New York Times bestseller. Now Gracian, the Spanish Jesuit considered Machiavelli's better in strategy and insight, sets a new standard on the art of living and the practice of achieving. That new standard is the art of heroism--how to be "the consummate person, ripe and perfect: accurate in judgment, mature in taste, attentive in listening, wise in sayings, shrewd in deeds, the center of all perfection." Gracian teaches the reader to be "a giant"--"the greatest person possible, a miracle of perfection, a king." Wit, wisdom, courage, elegance, grace, humility, spontaneity--these are the qualities needed to reach heroism in any occupation. But it is not enough to be wise or graceful: one must learn as well how to manage that talent, how to distinguish a quality fiom its shadow. A Pocket Mirror for Heroes provides "a politics for governing oneself, a compass for sailing toward excellence, an art for reaching distinction with just a few rules of discretion," and it will be wise and witty company for anyone who recognizes--and relishes--the challenges of daily life.
Author : University of California, Los Angeles. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : UCSC:32106020978844
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : English imprints
ISBN : IND:30000092328883
Author : Virginia Ramos Foster
Publisher : Irvington Publishers
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015012082924
Author : George Watson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1698 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1971-07-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521079349
More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Author : Joseph L. Laurenti,Alberto Porqueras Mayo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Catalogs, Union
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026016043
Author : Antony Francis Allison
Publisher : [London] : Dawson of Pall Mall
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015026931264
