 | - Book Title: Short Studies on Great Subjects . 4 volumes
- Author: James Anthony Froude
- ISBN: mw001002012
- Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd
- Year Published: 1900/1901
- Our Price: £236.50 GBP ($465.91 USD)
- Description: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1900/1901: set of four green full leather - bound hard covers: raised compartments and gilt lettering to spine: gilt crests to front and back: marbled end papers: gilt tooled edging to fixed end paper:all pages gilt edged: Vol 1, 662 pages: Vol 2, 598 pages: Vol 3 , 558 pages: Vol 4, 572 pages. Synopsis: A collection ofstudies and essays on a diversity of subjects first published by Longmans in 1890. Contents: Volume 1: the science of history. Times of Erasmus and Luther . The influence of the Reformation on the Scottish character. The philosophy of Catholicism. A plea for the free discussion of theological difficulties. Criticism and the gospel history. The book of top. Spinoza. The dissolution of the monasteries. England's forgotten worthies. Homer. The lives of the saints. Representative men. Reynard the Fox. The cats pilgrimage. Fables. Parable of the breadfruit tree. Compensation. Volume 2: Calvinism. The Bishop of the 12th century. Father Newman on ' The Grammar of assent '. Condition and prospects of protestantism. England and her colonies. A fortnight in Kerry. Reciprocal duties of state and subject. The merchant and his wife. On progress. The colonies once more. Education. England's war. Ireland since the union. Scientific method applied to history. Volume 3: Annals of an English abbey. Revival of Roman ism. Sea studies. Society in Italy in the last days of the Roman Republic. Lucian. Divus Caesar. On the uses of a landed gentry. Party politics. Leaves from a South African Journal. Volume 4: Life and times of Thomas Becket. The Oxford counter-reformation. Origen and Celsus. A Cagliostro of the second century. Cheneys and the house of Russell. Condition: slight, unobtrusive rubbing to spine edges: small tear to lower edge half title page volumes 3: overall all 4 volumes very clean, good, firm, and collectable: a handsome set in very good condition .
- Condition: Collectable- Very Good
- Dustcover: No
- Binding: Hardback
- Type: Used Books
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