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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions
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History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions.
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| Summary |
"In A Sincere and Teachable Heart : Self-Denying Virtue in British Intellectual Life, 1736-1859, Richard Bellon demonstrates that respectability and authority in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain were not grounded foremost in ideas or specialist skills but in the self-denying virtues of patience and humility. Three case studies clarify this relationship between intellectual standards and practical moral duty. The first shows that the Victorians adapted a universal conception of sainthood to the responsibilities specific to class, gender, social rank, and vocation. The second illustrates how these ideals of self-discipline achieved their form and cultural vigor by analyzing the eighteenth-century moral philosophy of Joseph Butler, John Wesley, Samuel Johnson, and William Paley. The final reinterprets conflict between the liberal Anglican Noetics and the conservative Oxford Movement as a clash over the means of developing habits of self-denial"--Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1. The meaning function of patience and humility -- Common things to speak of the meaning of patience and humility in the nineteenth-century British imagination -- From virtue to duty the Victorian application of patience and humility to social and intellectual life -- Part 2. The eighteenth century -- Character and morality in eighteenth-century British thought -- The utility of virtue -- Patience, utility and revolution -- Part 3. Oxford -- Oxford and the age of reform -- The Oxford movement faith and obedience in a tumultuous and shifting world -- Faith and reason in Newman's university sermons -- The Hampden affair : divergent paths out of a spiritual wilderness -- Thomas Arnold confronts the "Oxford malignants" -- The Tamworth letters : virtue and science -- Tract go and the trial of patience in the Church of England. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Church of England -- History.
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Church of England. |
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History. |
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Church of England. |
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Great Britain. |
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Intellectual life. |
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18th century |
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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19th century |
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Self-denial -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History.
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Self-denial. |
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Social aspects. |
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Virtue -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History.
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Virtue -- Social aspects. |
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Virtue. |
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Patience -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History.
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Patience. |
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Humility -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History.
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Humility. |
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Ethics -- Great Britain -- History.
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Ethics. |
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Great Britain -- Moral conditions.
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Moral conditions. |
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Oxford movement -- History.
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Oxford movement. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bellon, Richard (Historian). Sincere and teachable heart 9789004263369 (DLC) 2014035136 (OCoLC)890377757 |
| ISBN |
9789004263352 (electronic book) |
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9004263357 (electronic book) |
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9789004263369 |
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9004263365 |
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