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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I see it now in motion and now at rest , from which I infer that neither rest nor
motion is essential to it . But motion , since it is an action , is the effect of a cause
of which rest is only the absence . Therefore , when nothing acts on matter , it
does ...
I see it now in motion and now at rest , from which I infer that neither rest nor
motion is essential to it . But motion , since it is an action , is the effect of a cause
of which rest is only the absence . Therefore , when nothing acts on matter , it
does ...
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Not the insolent and crafty author for slavery and oppression , who would have us
to believe , that the benign command of God in appointing the seventh day for a
sabbath of rest for the good purposes of our present and eternal welfare , is not ...
Not the insolent and crafty author for slavery and oppression , who would have us
to believe , that the benign command of God in appointing the seventh day for a
sabbath of rest for the good purposes of our present and eternal welfare , is not ...
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... and done other work required of us , we went into the bush and cut the long
soft grass , of which we made trusses for our legs and feet to rest upon , for they
were so full of the salt boils that we could get no rest lying upon the bare boards .
... and done other work required of us , we went into the bush and cut the long
soft grass , of which we made trusses for our legs and feet to rest upon , for they
were so full of the salt boils that we could get no rest lying upon the bare boards .
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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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| Title | From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Anthology, Part 1 A 207 From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Anthology, Ian L. Donnachie |
| Editors | Ian L. Donnachie, Carmen Lavin |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0719066700, 9780719066702 |
| Length | 307 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / General Philosophy / History & Surveys / General |
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