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The Speedy Extinction of Evil and Misery / William David Schaefer.
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
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- Book
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (360 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2020
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. Satires and Profanities
- Proposals for the Speedy Extinction of Evil and Misery
- A Commission of Inquiry on Royalty
- The Story of a Famous Old Jewish Firm
- Christmas Eve in the Upper Circles
- Religion in the Rocky Mountains
- Mr. Kingsley's Convertîtes
- Hints for Freethought Novels
- Association for Intercessory Prayer
- Bishop Alford on Professor Tyndall
- Jesus Christ Our Great Exemplar
- II. Essays and Articles
- Bumble, Bumbledom, Bumbleism
- Per Contra: The Poet, High Art, Genius
- Indolence: A Moral Essay
- On the Worth of Metaphysical Systems
- Stray Whiffs, from an Old Smoker
- “Jottings” on the Popular Concerts
- The Saturday Review on Dr. Newman
- France Declares War against Prussia
- On the Way to Don Carlos
- In the Valley of Humiliation
- III. Critical Studies and Reviews
- Shelley
- Robert Browning's Men and Women
- The Poems of William Blake
- Review: Frederic Harrison, The Meaning of History
- Mill on Religion
- Heinrich Heine
- A Note on Forster's Life of Swift
- A Note on George Meredith
- Review: Principal Shairp, Robert Burns
- Review: Anthony Trollope, Thackeray
- IV. Phantasies
- A Lady of Sorrow
- In Our Forest of the Past
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780520333635
- 0520333632
- OCLC:
- 1224279341
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