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Sermons --- English --- 18th century

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Die Universitätsstadt Göttingen war im 18. Jahrhundert ein Zentrum der Aufklärung im deutschsprachigen Raum. Zwei Freimaurerlogen öffneten nach dem Siebenjährigen Krieg hier ihre Pforten. Adelige, Bürger, Dozenten und Studenten versammelten sich, um gemeinsam ihr Brauchtum zu zelebrieren, mit auswärtigen Logen zu korrespondieren, Besucher zu empfangen und Bedürftige zu unterstützen. Doch auch Streit und Exklusion waren den Logen nicht fremd. Das Buch legt eine erste quellenbasierte Alltagsgeschichte der beiden Freimaurerlogen vor.

Enlightenment. --- 18th century. --- Freemasons, Göttingen.

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William Cowper was born 26th November 1731 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. Traumatically he and his brother, John, were the only survivors, out of seven, to survive infancy. His mother died when he was six. His education, after several temporary schools, was stabilised at Westminster school. Here he established several life-long friendships and a dedication to Latin. Upon leaving he was articled to a solicitor in London and spent almost a decade training in Law. In 1763 he was offered a Clerkship of Journals in the House of Lords. With the examinations approaching Cowper had a mental breakdown. He tried to commit suicide three times and a period of depression and insanity seemed to settle on him. The end of this unhappy period saw him find refuge in fervent evangelical Christianity, and it was also the inspiration behind his much-loved hymns. This led to a collaboration with John Newton in writing 'Olney Hymns'. However dark forces were about to overwhelm Cowper. In 1773, he experienced a devastating attack of insanity, believing that he was eternally condemned to hell, and that God was instructing him to make a sacrifice of his own life. With great care and devotion his friend, Mary Unwin, nursed him back to health. In 1781 Cowper had the good fortune to meet a widow, Lady Austen, who inspired a new bout of poetry writing. Cowper himself tells of the genesis of what some have considered his most substantial work, 'The Task'. In 1786 he began his translations from the Greek into blank verse of Homer's 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'. These translations, published in 1791, were the most significant since those of Alexander Pope earlier in the century. Mary Unwin died in 1796, plunging Cowper into a gloom from which he never fully recovered though he did continue to write. William Cowper was seized with dropsy and died on 25th April 1800.

English poetry. --- English poetry 18th century.

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Voltaire --- 1694-1778 --- Authors --- French --- 18th century --- Biography

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One of the most distinguished cultural and intellectual historians of our time, Frank Turner taught a landmark Yale University lecture course on European intellectual history that drew scores of students over many years. His lectures-lucid, accessible, beautifully written, and delivered with a notable lack of jargon-distilled modern European history from the Enlightenment to the dawn of the twentieth century and conveyed the turbulence of a rapidly changing era in European history through its ideas and leading figures.  Richard A. Lofthouse, one of Turner's former students, has now edited the lectures into a single volume that outlines the thoughts of a great historian on the forging of modern European ideas. Moreover, it offers a fine example of how intellectual history should be taught: rooted firmly in historical and biographical evidence.

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