John Morley: 68 books

Critical Miscellanies - Volume I John Morley,  1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, british liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor (1838-1923) This ebook presents «Critical Miscellanies - Volume I», from John Morley. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly...

This edition features • three complete books • a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked Index CONTENTS VOL. I Book I (1809-1831) Book II(1832-1846) Book III (1847-1852) Book IV (1853-1859) Appendix Chronology VOL. II Book V. 1859-1868 Book VI. 1869-1874 Appendix Footnotes VOL....

In this influential 1874 essay, Morley asks the question, "How far, and in what way, ought respect either for immediate practical convenience, or for current prejudices, to weigh against respect for truth?"  At once philosophical and practical, Morley's essay remains relevant in today's hyper-partisan political climate.

This 1878 installment in John Morley's English Men of Letters Series sympathetically reviews the life and works of the Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith. Black defends Goldsmith by reviewing his education, travel, personal traits, literature, and the difficulties he faced along the way.

An insightful portrait of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), who the author says, “stands first, half warrior, half saint, in the calendar of the English-speaking democracy.” This compelling biography examines Cromwell’s early life up through his adulthood to his death. The volume focuses on his personality...

Classic biography of the French philosophyer. According to Wikipedia: "Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (19 January 1798 5 September 1857), better known as Auguste Comte, was a French philosopher, a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism. He may be regarded...

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This 1889 volume in the Twelve English Statesmen series focuses on Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745), who laid the groundwork for the modern parliamentary system of government that distinguished Great Britain.  "No intelligent reader who picks up this volume on Walpole will lay it down unread," said an 1889 review in the New York Times.

There was a moment in the last century when the Gallican church hoped for a return of internal union and prosperity. This brief era of hope coincided almost exactly with the middle of the century. Voltaire was in exile at Berlin. The author of the Persian Letters and the Spirit of Laws was old and near...

According to Wikipedia: "Denis Diderot (October 5, 1713 July 31, 1784) was a French philosopher and writer. He was a prominent figure during the Enlightenment, his major contribution to the Enlightenment being the Encyclopédie. Diderot also contributed to literature, notably with Jacques le fataliste...