Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia Literaria, a Christo NATO Usque Ad Saeculum XIV. Facili Methodo Digesta: Qua, de Vita Illorum AC Rebus Gestis ... Agitur
Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia Literaria, a Christo NATO Usque Ad Saeculum XIV. Facili Methodo Digesta: Qua, de Vita Illorum AC Rebus Gestis ... Agitur
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries ...
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT145835With a list of subscribers in vol.2. 'Appendix ad historiam literariam clarissimi viri Gulielmi Cave' and 'Gulielmi Cave SS. theologiae professoris, canonici Windesoriensis, dissertationes tres' each have separate titlepage and pagination; the register isOxonii: e theatro Sheldoniano, apud Josephum Pote bibliopolam Etonensem, 1740-43. 2v.; 2 "
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Good. Folio. Two volumes in 4 parts in one volume. (cm. 35, 8x21), pp. (20), XXIV, 523; pp. (4), 141, (20), (2b); pp. (6), VIII, (6), 328; pp. 48, (20), (2b). Bound in late 19th century quarter leather. Marbled boards and endpapers. Good binding and cover. Wear to extremities. Loss to spine labels. Front board almost detached. Initial title remounted. Library bookplate and sticker to spine. Scattered foxing. Lowndes I: 395. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US. Cave's merits as a writer consist in the thoroughness of his research, the clearness of his style, and, above all, the admirably lucid method of his arrangement. His Historia Literaria is still the best and most convenient complete work on the literary history of the Church. (Dowling 1838, 159-60. )