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Samuel D. Smith Collection
No full textPhotograph of Samuel D. Smith, a USS Oklahoma survivor, c. 1986. Photo by Westbrook Studios
Samuel D. Smith Collection
No full textPhotograph of Samuel D. Smith, a USS Oklahoma survivor, c. 1958. Photo by Westbrook Studios
Lucy Woodruff Smith correspondence, January 1910
No full textLucy Woodruff Smith correspondence, January 1910. Letters received while Lucy and George Smith were at Saint George, including letters from Lewis Peck at Cove, Oregon; Joseph Smith (President of the Reorganized LDS Church) at Independence, Missouri; George\u27s brother D. C. [Don Carlos]Smith at Salt Lake City; Edith A. Loves (?) at Salt Lake City; Ann D. Watson at Salt Lake City; Elias S. Woodruff at Salt Lake City; Elizabeth S. Cartwright at Salt Lake City; Elias A. Smith at Salt Lake City; Phebe S. Saville at Salt Lake City; Florence S. Sears at New York City; Clara W. Buhl at Salt Lake City; Mrs. Jesse B. Higgs at Salt Lake City; Dr. Samuel H. Allen at Salt Lake City; Emma Goddard at Salt Lake City; Frank G. Taylor at Salt Lake City; Mae T. Nystrom at Salt Lake City; and Joseph H. Smith at Rotterdam, Netherland
Writing and the rights of reality: usurpation and potentiality in Derrida, Plato, Nietzsche, and Beckett
No full textThe thesis critically evaluates Jacques Derrida's conferral of the rights of reality on writing, focussing on his theory of an arche-text in light of the speculative nature of this theory. The theory is initially considered in the context of Derrida's elucidation of the usurpatory status of writing within the Platonic and Nietzschean texts. This consideration reveals an admission of writing's usurpatory status by both writers while at the same time demonstrating their awareness of the intrinsically speculative nature of this view, the significance of writing lying in its ability to exteriorise the radically indeterminate status of consciousness m relation to reality rather than its ability to displace consciousness or reality The analyses, therefore, not only bring the Derridean hypothesis of a repressive or phonocentric metaphysical episteme into question but also exhibit the historical and philosophical role of potentiality in relation to writing, writing's ultimate significance lying in its capacity to exteriorise our existence as a mode of potentiality. Accordingly, in the second half of the thesis the Derridean theory of writing is countered with a specifically Aristotelian theory of the text as it is exhibited in the prose of Samuel Beckett, an author whose significance lies in his close alignment with Derridean theory within contemporary criticism. It is demonstrated that this identification has obviated an awareness of the significance of potentiality within the Beckettian text, his work consequently being appraised in the previously neglected context of Aristotelian metaphysics
The fables of pity: Rousseau, Mandeville and the animal-fable
No full textCopyright @ 2012 Edinburgh University PressPrompted by Derrida’s work on the animal-fable in eighteenth-century debates about political power, this article examines the role played by the fiction of the animal in thinking of pity as either a natural virtue (in Rousseau’s Second Discourse) or as a natural passion (in Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees). The war of fables between Rousseau and Mandeville – and their hostile reception by Samuel Johnson and Adam Smith – reinforce that the animal-fable illustrates not so much the proper of man as the possibilities and limitations of a moral philosophy that is unable to address the political realities of the state
Practical Observations Upon The Miracles Of Our Blessed Saviour / By Francis Bragge, B. D. Vicar of Hitchin in Hertfordshire
No full textIn 2 vol.Vorlageform der Veröffentlichungsangabe: London, Printed for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, at the Princes-Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yar
George Albert Smith correspondence, 1911 [04]
No full textMiscellaneous correspondence and papers of George A. Smith from August o December of 1911. Includes a letter from Samuel O. Bennion, President of the Central States Mission at Independence, Missouri, ; a letter to J. R. Boynton of Chicago, Illinois; to W. D. Brown of Rexburg, Idaho; and to Alonzo Brinkerhoff of Emery, Utah; and to Melvin J. Ballard of Portland, Orego
Samuel Beckett and the Writers of Port-Royal
No full textIt has been observed that ‘the literary influences on Beckett have been far more important than has been acknowledged, and more important indeed, than the philosophical influences’ (Smith 2002: 3). The truth of this statement is evidenced by the description that scholars have given of Samuel Beckett’s relationship to seventeenth century French classicism. To date, critical interest has been limited for the most part to the figure of the philosopher René Descartes on the (fragile) grounds that Beckett was exclusively concerned with the Cartesian imperative of clarity and order, the fundamental dualism between body and mind, and Nominalism.
Together with the assumption that Beckett’s vision was essentially Cartesian, his literary filiation with Pascal was suggested by critics, but only in terms of Beckett’s formal approach to the theatre. In his short article on En attendant Godot in 1953, the playwright Jean Anouilh was among the first reviewers to suggest that Beckett’s drama synthesizes the encounter between ‘classicism’ and a ‘modern’ form of art. It is well known that Beckett retained a lifelong admiration for Pascal – indeed, Pascal was one of his ‘old chestnuts’ (Knowlson 1997: 653). Little attention has been paid, however, to the originality of Pascal’s thought, the specific nature of his prose, and the impact these might have had upon Beckett’s mature work, especially the trilogy and the subsequent short prose. Yet, in the literary and philosophical context of post-war France, Beckett’s filiation with Pascal, their corresponding preoccupations, were evident to his contemporaries, who identified Pascal as an underlying presence in his works
Lucy Woodruff Smith correspondence, February 1910
No full textLucy Woodruff Smith correspondence, February 1910. Letters received while Lucy and George Smith were at Saint George, including letters from her father, Wilford Woodruff Jr. and Aunt Louise at Salt Lake City; George\u27s father, John Henry Smith, at Salt Lake City; Heber J. Grant at Salt Lake City; Mary E. Connelly at Salt Lake City; brother Elias S. Woodruff at Salt Lake City; George\u27s brother, D. C. [Don Carlos] Smith at Salt Lake City; "Claire" [probably George\u27s sister, Nancy Clarabelle] at Salt Lake City; George\u27s brother, Winslow F. Smith, at Ontario, Oregon; Florence S. Sears at New York City; Beulah G. Mason at Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts; cousin Florence Beatie at Provo, Utah; Aunt Josephine [wife of John Henry Smith]; S. O. Bennion at the Office of the Central States Mission, Independence, Missour
Reverend Samuel C. Alexander
No full textPhotograph of Rev. Samuel C. Alexander. Labeled ""Le Rue Lemer 206 Market St. Harrisburg PA"" on front, handwritten note on back reads ""Rev. Samuel C. Alexander S. D. Please return to Miss S. C. Alexander Millerstown Pennsylvania"
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