196 research outputs found
The maid of the mill: a comic opera. [electronic resource] : As performed at the theatres of London and Dublin. The music compiled, and the words written, by the author of Love in a village.
No full textAuthor of 'Love in a village' = Isaac Bickerstaffe.Based on Samuel Richardson's 'Pamela'.Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford)
The maid of the mill. A comic opera. [electronic resource] : As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. The music compiled, and the words written by the author of Love in a village.
No full textThe author of 'Love in a village' = Isaac Bickerstaffe.Based on Samuel Richardson's 'Pamela'.Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from British Library
The maid of the mill. A comic opera: As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. The music compiled, and the words written by the author of Love in a village.
No full text[4],iv,ii,[2],75,[1]p. ; 8⁰.Author of Love in a village = Isaac Bickerstaffe.With a half-title.Based on Samuel Richardson's 'Pamela'.Reproduction of original from the British Library.Roscoe, A37 (2)English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT38859.Electronic data. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Page image (PNG). Digitized image of the microfilm version produced in Woodbridge, CT by Research Publications, 1982-2002 (later known as Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of the Gale Group)
Critical transitions in asymptotically slow-fast systems
No full textWe discuss a geometric approach to the study of bifurcation and rate induced transitions in a class of asymptotically slow-fast systems, which are in some sense ‘intermediate’ between the (smaller resp. larger) classes of asymptotically autonomous and non-autonomous systems. After showing that the relevant systems can be viewed as singular perturbations of a limiting system with a discontinuity in time, we consider an analytical framework for their analysis based on geometric blow-up techniques. Using this approach, we provide sufficient conditions for the occurrence of bifurcation and rate induced transitions in low dimensions, as well as sufficient conditions for tracking in arbitrary (finite) dimensions, i.e. the persistence of an attracting and normally hyperbolic manifold through the transitionary regime. The proofs rely on geometric blow-up, a variant of the Melnikov method which applies on non-compact domains, and general invariant manifold theory. We conclude by applying these results to a low-dimensional problem with forward and backward attractors that feature slow but non-constant dependence on time
Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men : collected from the conversation of Mr. Pope, and other eminent persons of his time /
No full textIllustration: Full-page engraved portrait of Joseph Spence by T. Bragg after Isaac Whood.Errata: p. [502].Indexes: p. [479]-501."Now first published from the original papers, with notes, and a life of the author. By Samuel Weller Singer."Mode of access: Internet.Binding (Pforz. copy): Red half-calf, brown and red marbled boards, gilt spine titling. Binder's title: Spence's / anecdotes / large paper / 50 printed.Copy in NDG: Paper cut smaller; 22 cm. (8vo).Copy in NDG: Isaac Myer Collection
Isaac Newton learns Hebrew: Samuel Johnson's Nova cubi Hebræi tabella
Get PDFThis article concerns the earliest evidence for Isaac Newton’s use of Hebrew: a manuscript copy by Newton of part of a work intended to provide a reader of the Hebrew alphabet with the ability to identify or memorize more than 1000 words and to begin to master the conjugations of the Hebrew verb. In describing the content of this unpublished manuscript and establishing its source and original author for the first time, we suggest how and when Newton may have initially become acquainted with the language. Finally, basing our discussion in part on an examination of the reading marks that Newton left in the surviving copies of Hebrew grammars and lexicons that he owned, we will argue that his interest in Hebrew was not intended to achieve linguistic proficiency but remained limited to particular theological queries of singular concern
On the Sherlocks, Jane Coleman and County Kildare in the Eighteen Forties
Get PDFIn the late 1980s and early 1990s the author acquired about 30,000 letters written mainly in the 1840s. These pertained to estates throughout Ireland managed by the firm of James Robert Stewart and Joseph Kincaid, hereafter denoted SK. Until the letters – called the SK correspondence in what follows – became the author’s property, they had not seen light of day since the 1840s. Addressed mainly to the firm’s office in Dublin, they were written by landlords, tenants, the partners in SK, local agents, etc. After about 200 years in operation as a land agency, the firm in which members of the Stewart family were the principal partners – Messrs J. R. Stewart & Son(s) from the mid- 1880s onwards – ceased operations in the mid-1980s. Since 1994 the author has been researching the SK correspondence of the 1840s. It gives many new insights into economic and social conditions in Ireland during the decade of the great famine, and into the operation of Ireland’s most important land agency during those years. It is intended ultimately to publish details on several of the estates managed by SK in a study more comprehensive than the present article, in book form. The proposed title is Landlords, tenants, famine: business of an Irish land agency in the 1840s, a draft of which has now been completed. A majority of the letters in that study are on themes some of which one might expect - rents, distraint (seizure of assets in lieu of rent); ‘voluntary’ surrender of land in return for ‘compensation’ upon quitting quietly; formal ejectment (a matter of last resort on estates managed by SK); landlordassisted emigration (on a scale much more extensive than most historians of Ireland in the 1840s appear to believe); petitions from tenants; complaints by tenants, both about other tenants and about local agents; landlord-financed and other relief of distress both before and during the great famine; major works of improvement (on almost all of the estates managed by SK which have been investigated in detail in the draft book); applications by SK, on behalf of landlords, for government loans to finance improvements; recommendations of agricultural advisers hired by SK, etc. Thus, most of the SK correspondence is about aspects of estate management. But the firm of SK was not only a manager of land. The correspondence reveals only two estates in Kildare, each of them relatively small, managed by SK in the 1840s. These were the lands of the Sherlocks near Naas and of Jane Coleman in the Kilcullen district. The correspondence on these properties differs substantively from most of those discussed in detail in the draft of Landlords, tenants, famine: first, it is relatively small in quantity, and secondly, it contains relatively little on the core aspects of estate management indicated above. Much of that on the Sherlocks focuses on misfortunes among family members, while the correspondence on Jane Coleman highlights the benevolence of that proprietor.
Soul Recreation: Spiritual Marriage and Ravishment in the Contemplative-Mystical Piety of Isaac Ambrose
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Tom Schwanda
Soul Recreation: Spiritual Marriage and Ravishment in the Contemplative-Mystical Piety of Isaac Ambrose
This thesis examines the theology and piety of Isaac Ambrose (1604-1664), a moderate Lancashire Puritan minister. More specifically it raises the question about the nature of his spiritual practices and whether they reflect what Bernard McGinn calls the “mystical element” of Christianity? This research is distinctive since Ambrose has never been the primary focus of research. There are six chapters to this thesis.
Chapter 1 examines the definition of three key terms: “mysticism”, “Puritanism”, and “Puritan mysticism” and then substitutes “contemplative-mystical piety” for McGinn’s mystical element since this language is more familiar to the Reformed community. A review of the literature reveals the prevalence of contemplative-mystical piety within mainstream Puritanism. Chapter 2 explores the biblical and theological foundations of union with Christ, which the Puritans often called spiritual marriage. Contrary to common perception, the Puritans encouraged intimacy and sexual enjoyment in their godly marriage that they often perceived as a reciprocal relationship with their spiritual marriage. The third chapter creates a contemplative biography of Ambrose through his diary entries and examines his relationship with God and his neighbor through his annual retreats, the struggles of his soul, serving as a physician of the soul, times of public fasting and worship, and the significance of specific places or environment to his piety. Chapter 4 narrows the focus to Ambrose’s teaching on meditation and contemplation. The influence of Bernard of Clairvaux is clearly evident as Ambrose contemplatively looks at Jesus throughout all the manifestations of Jesus’ life. The fifth chapter considers Ambrose’s use of ravishment and examines the nature, dynamics and benefits of this ambiguous term of delight and enjoyment. The final chapter moves from the seventeenth-century to the present and inquires whether Ambrose’s contemplative-mystical piety can guide contemporary Reformed Christians. That requires an examination into the resistance of Karl Barth as well as the more receptive possibility of retrieval through Herman Bavinck. This work concludes with seven principles from Ambrose to encourage those who are members of the Reformed tradition
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