Victorian People and IdeasLife in the Victorian period, focusing on the social, religious, scientific, and artistic movements that characterized the age. |
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... wealth , and venerable name , some three hundred of them in the early Victorian period , who had continually strengthened their position by intermarriage and by playing commanding roles in political life . They constituted the core of ...
... wealth , and venerable name , some three hundred of them in the early Victorian period , who had continually strengthened their position by intermarriage and by playing commanding roles in political life . They constituted the core of ...
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... Wealth of Nations , the Scots philosopher Adam Smith had propounded the doctrine that society is but the sum of its members , each of whom is motivated by self - interest , of which he is himself the best judge . " Led by an invisible ...
... Wealth of Nations , the Scots philosopher Adam Smith had propounded the doctrine that society is but the sum of its members , each of whom is motivated by self - interest , of which he is himself the best judge . " Led by an invisible ...
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... wealth to support schools , universities , museums , libraries , scientific institutions , and other cultural undertakings . Coleridge's principle was recog- nized , in a restricted way , by the Education Act of 1870 , which for the ...
... wealth to support schools , universities , museums , libraries , scientific institutions , and other cultural undertakings . Coleridge's principle was recog- nized , in a restricted way , by the Education Act of 1870 , which for the ...
Contents
THE LONGEST REIGN 18371901 | 1 |
ACTORS AND AUDIENCE | 17 |
The Gentry and the Middle Class | 25 |
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Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian ... Richard Daniel Altick No preview available - 1973 |
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