Leslie Stephen: 42 books

11 works of Leslie Stephen English author, critic and mountaineer (1832-1904) This ebook presents a collection of 11 works of Leslie Stephen. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - Alexander Pope - English Literature and...

The Best Works of Leslie Stephen   Alexander Pope English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century Hours in a Library Volume 2 Hours in a Library, Volume I Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists Social Rights and Duties Volume 1 The English Utilitarians Volume 1 The English Utilitarians, Volume II The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen  

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Swift - English Men of Letters Series. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work...

The English Utilitarians, Volume 1 (of 3) by Leslie Stephen.

Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet.  Pope became famous quickly for his use of the heroic couplet and aside from Shakespeare he is the most frequently quoted writer in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.  Pope's most famous works are An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, and...

Sir Leslie Stephen was a distinguished literary and social critic. The third of four wide-ranging volumes on books, writers, and history, this 1907 edition includes the essays “Charlotte Brontë,” “Charles Kingsley,” “Godwin and Shelley,” “Macaulay,” “Landor’s Imaginary Conversations,”...

Apasionado amante del paseo y pionero del alpinismo, Leslie Stephen supo encontrar en la naturaleza tanto un fortalecedor elixir vital como un inagotable venero de revelación espiritual. Los tres textos reunidos en este volumen, donde los grandiosos paisajes descritos quedan sublimados por una prosa...

In writing the following pages I have felt very strongly one disqualification for my task. The life of my brother, Sir J. F. Stephen, was chiefly devoted to work which requires some legal knowledge for its full appreciation. I am no lawyer; and I should have considered this fact to be a sufficient reason...

Bentham's mantle fell upon James Mill. Mill expounded in the tersest form the doctrines which in Bentham's hands spread into endless ramifications and lost themselves in minute details. Mill became the leader of Bentham's bodyguard; or, rather, the mediator between the prophet in his 'hermitage'...

Published in two volumes (1876 and 1881), this encyclopedic work championed rationalism and led the Victorian revolt against social orthodoxy. Tracing religious thought from 1688 to 1750, Stephen reviews the Deist controversy and the intuitional and utilitarian schools. His wide-angle lens creates a...

Published in two volumes (1876 and 1881), this encyclopedic work championed rationalism and led the Victorian revolt against social orthodoxy. Tracing religious thought from 1688 to 1750, Stephen reviews the Deist controversy and the intuitional and utilitarian schools. His wide-angle lens creates a...

In addition to the title essay, this 1893 collection contains "The Scepticism of Believers," "Dreams and Realities," "What is Materialism?", "Newman's Theory of Belief," "Toleration," and "The Religion of All Sensible Men."  Stephen asserts that theological matters are beyond the grasp of human reason, and so it is fruitless to speculate upon them.

Thomas Swift married Elizabeth Dryden, niece of Sir Erasmus, the grandfather of the poet Dryden. By her he became the father of ten sons and four daughters. In the great rebellion he distinguished himself by a loyalty which was the cause of obvious complacency to his descendant. On one occasion he came...

The English Utilitarians of whom I am about to give some account were a group of men who for three generations had a conspicuous influence upon English thought and political action. Jeremy Bentham, James Mill and John Stuart Mill, were successively their leaders; and I shall speak of each in turn. It...