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Автор: Thomas Carlyle
Год: 2006
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 144
ISBN: 9781406723526
CONTENTS I. JOGELIN OF BRAKELOND II. ST. EDMUNDSBUKY III. LANDLORD EDMUND IV. ABBOT HUGO V. TWELFTH CENTURY VI. MONK SAMSON VII. THE CANVASSING VIII. THE ELECTION IX. ABBOT SAMSON X. GOVERNMENT XI. THE ABBOTS WAYS XII. THE ABBOTS TROUBLES XIII. IN PARLIAMENT XIV. HENRY OF ESSEX XV. PRACTICALDEVOTIONAL XVI. ST. EDMUND XVII. WORKINTRODUCTIONI. Past and Present, published in April, 1843, was written Jat a heat3 in the first seven weeks of that year its composi tion formed a pleasant interlude in the four rears of abstruse toil, obscure speculation, futile wrestling, and misery which Carlyle spent over his Onmicefl. The purpose of the book as a whole is apparent in its title: it is an attempt to find in the past a remedy for the present. Carlyle as he explains in Chapter I Bad been horrified by the sight of fifty robust paupers idly sitting outside the Workhouse of St. Ives in Huntingdonshire this he thought typical of the condition of England: cin the midst of plethoric plenty, the...
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