Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian EnglandClarendon Press, 1994 - 326 pagini This is a lively and readable reinterpretation of the Georgian political order. Samuel Johnson's life (1709-1784) spans most of the eighteenth century. His contacts in the literary and cultural, scholarly, and political worlds were wide, including Gibbon, Goldsmith, Fox, Burke, Reynolds, Adam Smith, and many others. This book uses Johnson's remarkable career as a point of entry into Hanoverian England. John Cannon explores major contemporary issues, such as education, the poor, capital punishment, the colonies, religious toleration, and Toryism. He challenges many assumptions about Johnson's own attitudes, and offers a substantial modification to the traditional picture of Johnson and the political world of the eighteenth century. |
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... continued in a family constitute a kind of nobility without any positive designation , and where the rank of nobles is established by an edict of the sover- eign authority , riches have always been considered as a motive to preference ...
... continued in a family constitute a kind of nobility without any positive designation , and where the rank of nobles is established by an edict of the sover- eign authority , riches have always been considered as a motive to preference ...
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... continued . Noble economic , social , and political power remained intact . There were many other roles for noblemen to play , as leaders of society , statesmen , patrons of sport , and as presidents , chancellors , and chairmen . Yet ...
... continued . Noble economic , social , and political power remained intact . There were many other roles for noblemen to play , as leaders of society , statesmen , patrons of sport , and as presidents , chancellors , and chairmen . Yet ...
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... continued with a series of convulsions that were to make the troubles of the eighteenth century seem very small beer . A comparison with the continent in the eighteenth century shows three tsars murdered in fifty years , the king of ...
... continued with a series of convulsions that were to make the troubles of the eighteenth century seem very small beer . A comparison with the continent in the eighteenth century shows three tsars murdered in fifty years , the king of ...
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Johnson and Religion | 8 |
Johnson and Jacobitism 36 88 | 36 |
Johnson and Politics | 68 |
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