The Education of Henry AdamsCosimo, Inc., 2008 M01 24 - 456 páginas Originally written for close friends and family The Education of Henry Adams was released to the public only after the death of its author, American historian HENRY BROOKS ADAMS (1838-1918), a member of the Adams political family, Harvard professor of medieval history, and a journalist dedicated to exposing corruption. A reflective chronicle of life as a man crossing eras, Adams details how he saw the world around him change from the 19th century to the 20th. The schooling he had as a child left him wholly unprepared for the newer, faster world. The 20th century was dominated by scientific development, and Adams's education had been grounded in classical literature and history-areas that, he believed, offered no real advantages to modern man. Readers interested in historical periods of transition will find this autobiography a moving and thoughtful way to access the stresses and fears of those who lived through the last great societal shift. |
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... once in philosophy and mechanics . Setting himself to the task , he began a volume which he mentally knew as Mont- Saint - Michel and Chartres : a Study of Thirteenth - Century Unity . ' From that point he proposed to fix a position for ...
... once in philosophy and mechanics . Setting himself to the task , he began a volume which he mentally knew as Mont- Saint - Michel and Chartres : a Study of Thirteenth - Century Unity . ' From that point he proposed to fix a position for ...
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... Once acquired , the tools and models may be thrown away . The manikin , therefore , has the same value as any other geometrical figure of three or more dimensions , which is used for the study of relation . For that purpose it cannot be ...
... Once acquired , the tools and models may be thrown away . The manikin , therefore , has the same value as any other geometrical figure of three or more dimensions , which is used for the study of relation . For that purpose it cannot be ...
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... once its inferiority in fashion . It showed plainly enough its want of wealth . It smacked of colonial age , but not of Boston style or plush curtains . To the end of his life he never quite overcame the prejudice thus drawn in with his ...
... once its inferiority in fashion . It showed plainly enough its want of wealth . It smacked of colonial age , but not of Boston style or plush curtains . To the end of his life he never quite overcame the prejudice thus drawn in with his ...
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... Once as a very young boy he was taken to pass a few days with his grandfather Brooks under charge of his aunt , but became so violently homesick that within twenty - four hours he was brought back in disgrace . Yet he could not remember ...
... Once as a very young boy he was taken to pass a few days with his grandfather Brooks under charge of his aunt , but became so violently homesick that within twenty - four hours he was brought back in disgrace . Yet he could not remember ...
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... once said to the child : " You'll be thinkin ' you'll be President too ! " The casuality of the remark made so strong an impression on his mind that he never forgot it . He could not remember ever to have thought on the subject ; to him ...
... once said to the child : " You'll be thinkin ' you'll be President too ! " The casuality of the remark made so strong an impression on his mind that he never forgot it . He could not remember ever to have thought on the subject ; to him ...
Contenido
ECCENTRICITY 1863 | 169 |
THE PERFECTION OF HUMAN SOCIETY 1864 | 182 |
DILETTANTISM 18651866 | 194 |
DARWINISM 18671868 | 208 |
THE PRESS 1868 | 220 |
PRESIDENT GRANT 1869 | 235 |
FREE FIGHT 18691870 | 247 |
CHAOS 1870 | 261 |
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DIPLOMACY 1861 | 107 |
FOES OR FRIENDS 1862 | 123 |
POLITICAL MORALITY 1862 | 138 |
THE BATTLE OF THE RAMS 1863 | 158 |
FAILURE 1871 | 274 |
TWENTY YEARS AFTER 1892 | 287 |
CHICAGO 1893 | 302 |
SILENCE 18941898 | 315 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Adams never Adams's admitted afterwards American amusing asked became better Boston Bostonian chance chaos Charles Charles Francis Adams Charles Sumner charm Christian anarchist Church Clarence King diplomatic doubt eccentricity eighteenth century energy England English Europe Evarts father felt force friends German Gladstone Government Grant habit Harvard College Hay's Henry Adams historian House idea ignorance inertia instinct interest John John La Farge Karl Pearson knew learned Legation less lesson London looked Lord Lord Palmerston matter meant Milnes mind Minister Adams moral Mount Vernon nature needed offered one's Palmerston Paris party perhaps political President private secretary Pteraspis Quincy reason rebel Russell Russia seemed Senator sense Seward social society stood Street student Sumner talk taste taught thought took Trent Affair unity universe wanted Washington whole woman young Adams
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Página 5 - As he grew accustomed to the great gallery of machines, he began to feel the forty-foot dynamos as a moral force, much as the early Christians felt the Cross.
Página 39 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Página 90 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 245 - Grant fretted and irritated him, like the / Terebratula, as a defiance of first principles. He had no right to ; exist. He should have been extinct for ages. The idea that, as society grew older, it grew one-sided, upset evolution, and made of education a fraud. That, two thousand years after Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, a man like Grant should be called — and should actually and truly be — the highest product of the most advanced evolution, made evolution ludicrous. One must be as...
Página 347 - ... society could lead no further, while the mere sequence of time was artificial and the sequence of thought was chaos, he turned at last to the sequence of force; and thus it happened that after ten years...
Página 142 - It appears difficult to make out a stronger case of infringement of the foreign enlistment act, which, if not enforced on this occasion, is little better than a dead letter.
Página 387 - I should (said he) Bestow this jewel also on my creature, He would adore my gifts instead of me, And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature : So both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, But keep them with repining restlessness : Let him be rich and weary, that at least, If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast.
Página 18 - The bearing of the two seasons on the education of Henry Adams was no fancy; it was the most decisive force he ever knew; it ran through life, and made the division between its perplexing, warring, irreconcilable problems, irreducible opposites, with growing emphasis to the last year of study. From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double.
Página 20 - From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics, and economy...
Página 209 - Neither he nor any one else knew enough to verify them; in his ignorance of mathematics, he was particularly helpless; but this never stood in his way. The ideas were new and seemed to lead somewhere — to some great generalization which would finish one's clamor to be educated. That a beginner should understand them all, or believe them all, no one could expect, still less exact. Henry Adams was Darwinist because it was easier than not, for his ignorance exceeded belief, ' and one must know something...
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Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society James W. Carey Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
The Handbook of Social Psychology: Special fields and applications Gardner Lindzey,Elliot Aronson Vista de fragmentos - 1985 |