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 22
The step further seems unavoidable : their common dissolution in death . The last
symptoms which the mind discovers are disorder , weakness , insensibility , and
stupidity , the fore - runners of its annihilation . The farther progress of the same ...
The step further seems unavoidable : their common dissolution in death . The last
symptoms which the mind discovers are disorder , weakness , insensibility , and
stupidity , the fore - runners of its annihilation . The farther progress of the same ...
Page 74
If these principles , certain as they are , seem to be derived too much from
common ideas , I bring the reader back to a comparison right in front of his nose .
Is it not true that everyone finds it fair for the huge bailiwick of Poitou to have more
...
If these principles , certain as they are , seem to be derived too much from
common ideas , I bring the reader back to a comparison right in front of his nose .
Is it not true that everyone finds it fair for the huge bailiwick of Poitou to have more
...
Page 172
... political movements that opposed the enclosure of common lands , and
promoted in its stead common ownership . ... in which a dying man gives his ship
to his sons as common property , and The Giant Killer ( 1814 ) , which praises the
...
... political movements that opposed the enclosure of common lands , and
promoted in its stead common ownership . ... in which a dying man gives his ship
to his sons as common property , and The Giant Killer ( 1814 ) , which praises the
...
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Contents
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Don Giovanni | 3 |
Faith and death in the late Enlightenment | 17 |
David Hume Of Suicide | 24 |
Copyright | |
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