Flesh in the Age of ReasonAllen Lane, 2003 - 573 страници The gloomy, anguished fears and concerns of the great English writers of the Civil War period (Milton, Bunyan et all) are in many ways completely baffling and alien to us and yet 150 years later with writers such as Byron we feel totally at home with their view of the world. How did this extraordinary change happen? How did we become modern? lifetime's work, offering an account of the writings of some of the most attractive figures ever to write in English. |
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... death closed a mundane life that was brief and wretched and opened the portal to life eternal . It was not extinction but metamorphosis . Death was thus not to be feared but welcomed , and ample testimony has come down of Christians ...
... death closed a mundane life that was brief and wretched and opened the portal to life eternal . It was not extinction but metamorphosis . Death was thus not to be feared but welcomed , and ample testimony has come down of Christians ...
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... death to be the wages of sin and , especially for those embracing Calvinist predestinarianism , stressed that for ... Death ' , proclaimed William Sherlock's influential A Practical Discourse Concerning Death ( 1690 ) . The deathbed ...
... death to be the wages of sin and , especially for those embracing Calvinist predestinarianism , stressed that for ... Death ' , proclaimed William Sherlock's influential A Practical Discourse Concerning Death ( 1690 ) . The deathbed ...
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... death's head on tombs , funeral tablets trumpeted earthly virtues rather than divine justice , and the Gothick paraphernalia of yew trees and screech owls - the props of Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Church- Yard transformed ...
... death's head on tombs , funeral tablets trumpeted earthly virtues rather than divine justice , and the Gothick paraphernalia of yew trees and screech owls - the props of Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Church- Yard transformed ...
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RELIGION AND THE SOUL | 28 |
MEDICINE AND THE BODY | 44 |
THE RATIONAL SELF | 62 |
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