From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Anthology, Part 1This is the first of two anthologies designed to accompany the Open University course From Enlightenment to Romanticism, an interdisciplinary exploration of the changes and transitions in European culture between 1780 and 1830. sources on the death of the Old Regime, the Napoleonic phenomenon, slavery, religion and reform. Each selection is accompanied by a detailed introduction explaining the context and siginficance of the sources.Extracts in the anthology stimulate questions rather than provide reassuring answers and offer insights into the major events, movements and personaities of the time. |
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Page 165
Were the iniquitous laws in support of it , and the whole of that oppression and
injustice abolished , and the righteous laws of Christianity , equity , justice and
humanity established in the room thereof , multitudes of nations would flock to the
...
Were the iniquitous laws in support of it , and the whole of that oppression and
injustice abolished , and the righteous laws of Christianity , equity , justice and
humanity established in the room thereof , multitudes of nations would flock to the
...
Page 278
Christians , Jews , Turks , Infidels and Heretics , persons of ten thousand different
sorts of passions and opinions , being ... It is a truth which will hardly be
contested , that Christianity , whenever it has at all prevailed , has raised the
general ...
Christians , Jews , Turks , Infidels and Heretics , persons of ten thousand different
sorts of passions and opinions , being ... It is a truth which will hardly be
contested , that Christianity , whenever it has at all prevailed , has raised the
general ...
Page 293
It is left , alas ! to Paganism to administer to them , I had almost said happily , a
faint intimation of that more animating hope which Christianity should impart ; and
these poor beings are comforted by the idea , that death will once more restore ...
It is left , alas ! to Paganism to administer to them , I had almost said happily , a
faint intimation of that more animating hope which Christianity should impart ; and
these poor beings are comforted by the idea , that death will once more restore ...
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Contents
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Don Giovanni | 3 |
Faith and death in the late Enlightenment | 17 |
David Hume Of Suicide | 24 |
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