...Winter Jade Werner; Mimi Winick Abstract Recent developments in the field of Victorian studies include its increasingly “global” or “transnational” scope as well as its “religious turn,” with a proliferation of scholarship on religion from Christian sects to new religious movements...

... ygembreth M anori um Keddit libror. tenent. Medisholl Hered. Johis. Arundell milit. t. ibm. iij acr. terr. cornub. Et r. p. vij ann. vijs. Et coi. sect. cur...

... on the variations in religious sects and in language that cause memori- als to be extinguished. The aggressive destruction practiced by religious sects is an interesting example of hatred (the envy and fear he has related to present things in the proem to book 2) shaping knowledge of the past. 118...

..., 197. 33 “By Blue Ontario’s Shore,” Sects. 11, 19, 20. Benjamin T. Spencer 77 to celebrate the Identity theme; “Turn 0 Libertad” scorns the chants of “the trailing past,” of caste, slavery, and feudalism, for songs of the triumphs of the future. Reading...

... which place Stephen in the history of nineteenth-century thought. In Annan’s view, Stephen is essentially a transitional figure, standing chrono- logically and intellectually between the Clapham Sect in which he was born and the Bloomsbury Circle, which was illuminated by his...

... loses, and who wins; who’s in, who’s out; And take upon’s the mystery of things, As if we were God’s spies: and we’ll wear out In a wall’d prison, packs and sects of great ones, That ebb and flow by th moon. BASTARD:Take them away...

... appeared to him to catch all the various sects and societies, religious fanatics and scientists, in one very basic error.” Ulti- mately, any Enthusiasm can be reduced to a core of Gnosticism, but the En- thusiasm of the seventeenth century seems more accurately sectarian than Gnostic...

..., of Rabelais, whose preface to the Tiers livre inscribes his work under the sign of Diogenes). With the Counter- Reformation in France, however, Cynicism once again received short shrift, written off, along with Epicureanism and other dubious Greek sects, as a disgrace to Christianity and a source...

... in regeneration, [and] the imaginative myth of the poet culminating in prophetic potency” (p. 304). We do not read much concerning the four chapter-heading addresses ofjerusalem, but, I suppose, as three are directed to the “sects” of Jews, Deists, and Christians, these might be figured...

.... But the original con- straints of brevity, mortally mediated address, and physical location, together with the enduring aura of durability itself, became resources for “pseudo- inscriptional epitaphs” even in the classical period. And even while they inter- sect with entirely new purposes and pressures...

... penetrating and informative book. Most penetrating and informative are his chapters which place Stephen in the history of nineteenth-century thought. In Annan’s view, Stephen is essentially a transitional figure, standing chrono- logically and intellectually between the Clapham Sect in which he...

... . Mid-seventeenth-century theologians, faced by the unacceptable cer- tainties of the Roman Catholics, by the anti-intellectualism of many of the sects, and by an apparent growth of atheism, turned to natural religion. Assent to these religious truths-many of which relied on observation...

..., are at once “complex, ambigu- ous, and yet.. . strikingly simple” (p. 132). In a very direct manner, he leads the reader of Rilke as close to the meaning of the poetry as he can without dis- secting it beyond reason. Peters’ fair treatment of the various interpretations of Rilke must also...

... it is argued that all conquerors, contrivers of philosophical systems, and founders of new religious sects are thus mad.l there is a fire And motion of the Soul which will not dwell In its own narrow being, but aspire Beyond...

... and wiser Swift in A TuLe oja rub (p. 59). Swift is one of the “first Sect” (76), the “Flyes,” rather than the “Wasps,” one of the “good Brethren of the Surly Sect” (81). This is uncharacteristic. 28 SWIFT’S EARLY ODES (and apparently protected...

... of the satire in the Tale. “Whether Swift himself had Gnosticism in mind is not so impor- tant as that some such category appeared to him to catch all the various sects and societies, religious fanatics and scientists, in one very basic error.” Ulti- mately, any Enthusiasm can be reduced to a core...

... before he placed his head on the block.lS The idea of the “beatific vision” had long been familiar as a dogma of the Roman Catholic Church, “expressly defined by Benedict XI I ( 1336) I4 and the Protestant communions and sects did not surrender the belief that the heavenly bliss would...

... and America with his notion of the “Gothic,” asserted that the “Gothic mind” had attained a perfect development “in the character of the great sect to which the Puritan belonged,” and concluded that this sect was therefore the “noblest branch of the human race.”18 Marsh and other writers championed...

... of 1742, for example, David Hume depicted the type of “The Stoic,” along with its Epicurean, Platonist, and Skeptic counterparts, “not so much to explain accurately the sentiments of the ancient sects of philosophy, as to deliver the sentiments of sects that naturally form themselves...

... of those living through the period find it unbearable. Their thirst for certainty on the other side of the death of God results in new powers for the forces of homogeneity: “The temptation to entrust oneself to a sect which solved all problems with a single for- mula, whose power of suggestion...