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The British Critic - Softcover

F. And C. Rivington

 
9780461701517: The British Critic

Synopsis

The British Critic. The October 1826 issue presents a gallery of scholarly reviews spanning theology, history, travel, literature, and science. It includes a detailed examination of John, Bishop of Bristol’s The Ecclesiastical History of the Second and Third Centuries, illustrated from the Writings of Tertullian, noting both its utility and limitations as a history of the ante-Nicene church. The number also surveys Memoirs of Madame de Genlis, Godwin’s History of the Commonwealth of England, and the controversy over primitive sacrifice (Davison and Molesworth). Other pieces discuss Major Cartwright’s Life and Correspondence, Parry’s Third Voyage, Harris’s Natural History of the Bible, Holman’s Travels in Russia, and Travels in Italy, with the Oxford-Cambridge observational essays of Gautier and the Catholic-episcopal inquiries on Leighton. For India, Malcolm’s Political History and Lushington’s institutional histories are reviewed, alongside Coleridge and Leighton’s philosophical essays. The collection embodies the period’s critical method: reverence for learning balanced with rigorous critique, and a persistent effort to connect contemporary publication to enduring religious, historical, and intellectual questions.

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