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Everything Connects: In Conference with Richard H. Popkin : ...

Everything Connects: In Conference with Richard H. Popkin : ...

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Richard H. Popkin has already been celebrated in two Festschriften as one of the century's greatest historians of philosophy.This latest book, whose editors were among those who prepared the first two volumes, centers on Popkin's crucial ...
The Third Force in Seventeenth Century Thought

The Third Force in Seventeenth Century Thought

Richard Henry Popkin

This volume contains more than twenty essays in the history of modern philosophy and history of religion by R.H. Popkin. Several of the essays have not been published before.
The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle

The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle

Richard H. Popkin

This is a thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Richard Popkin's classic The History of Scepticism, first published in 1960, revised in 1979, and since translated into numerous foreign languages.
The High Road to Pyrrhonism

The High Road to Pyrrhonism

Richard H. Popkin

In this sequel to his classic study The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes, Popkin examines the important role played by the revival and reformulation of classical scepticism in eighteenth-century philosophy.
Scepticism in the Enlightenment

Scepticism in the Enlightenment

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Richard H. Popkin Pacific Palisades, California April 1997 Bibliographic Details 1 . RichardH. Popkin, “Scepticism in the Enlightenment”, first published in Studiesin Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, XXVI, 1963, and subsequently ...
Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the New York State ...

Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the New York State ...

New York State Pharmaceutical Association

Popkin, New York, C. E. Zawadski, Buffalo, Jonas Kress, New York, J. F. O'Brien, Rochester, Samuel S. Dworkin, Chairman, New York. Mr. Popkin then read the recommendations of the Committee. RECOMMENDATIONS By the Committee on  ...
Historical and Critical Dictionary: Selections

Historical and Critical Dictionary: Selections

Pierre Bayle

Richard Popkin s meticulous translation--the most complete since the eighteenth century--contains selections from thirty-nine articles, as well as from Bayle s four Clarifications.
Philosophy: Made Simple

Philosophy: Made Simple

Richard H. Popkin

This book discusses the developments in philosophy. Organized into seven chapters, this edition begins with an overview of the usage of philosophy in the interpretation or evaluation of what is important or meaningful in life.
Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence ...

Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence ...

Richard Henry Lee

Richard Henry Lee. CHAPTER III. The repeal of the stamp act having restored harmony between the mother country and the colonies, particularly the southern colonies, nothing occurred, during the short administration of Lord Rockingham, ...
Corks and Curls

Corks and Curls

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I 01 < tn a. u i- tn 5 O IT DR. RICHARD HENRY WHITEHEAD Richard Henry Whitehead RICHARD HENRY WHITEHEAD.
The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza

The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza

Richard H. Popkin

"I had read the book before in the shorter Harper Torchbook edition but read it again right through--and found it as interesting and exciting as before. I regard it as one of the seminal books in the history of ideas.
The Second Oswald

The Second Oswald

Richard H. Popkin

THE SECOND OSWALD has been called "the first plausible and significant argumentation on the Kennedy assassination." It takes into account the books by Edward J. Epstein, Mark Lane and Harold Weisberg. Too much was attempted too quickly.
Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and ...

Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and ...

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John Christian Laursen, Gianni Paganini. 10 11 12 13 14 15 7 See Richard Popkin, The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes (Assen: Van Gorcum, 1960; second edition, New York: Humanities Press, 1964); The History of ...
Philosophy of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Philosophy of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Richard H. Popkin

Part of the Readings in the History of Philosophy series, this volume features writings by the most important philosophers of the era: Martin Luther, Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Amerigo Vespucci, and more, ...
Richard Middleton, the Man and His Work

Richard Middleton, the Man and His Work

Henry Savage

Richard Middleton . . . Frontispiece Camera Portrait by E. O. Hoppé. Facing page Richard Middleton at the Age of 7 . . 10 Richard Middleton in Fancy Dress . . 28 A Bohemian Gathering . . . . 36 Sketch by Herbert Garland. Richard Middleton at ...
The Alumni Bulletin

The Alumni Bulletin

University of Virginia

RICHARD HENRY WHITEHEAD— AN APPRECIATION.* Bv EDWIN A. ALDERMAN, President of the i'niversity of Virginia. A certain grand simplicity marked the mind, the character, and the personality of Richard Henry Whitehead. He was a ...
The Arden Shakespeare Miscellany

The Arden Shakespeare Miscellany

Jane Armstrong

Jane Armstrong. Lady Anne (Richard III) Midto late1590s Queen Isabel (Richard II) Constance (King John) Late 1599, early1600s Princess Katherine (Henry V) 1608–14 Queen Katherine(Henry VIII) Anne Boleyn (Henry VIII) ...
The Anatomical Record

The Anatomical Record

Charles Russell Bardeen

RICHARD HENRY WHITEHEAD Professor Richard Henry Whitehead, Dean of the Medical School and Professor of Anatomy at the University of Virginia, died at his home in Charlottesville on the morning of February sixth after a brief illness ...
The University of Virginia Record

The University of Virginia Record

University of Virginia

... for a minimum period equal to the number of years of medical education during which the recipient held such State Scholarship. The Richard Henry Whitehead Scholarships, founded by an anonymous donor in memory of Dr. Richard Henry ...
List of Flag Officers and Other Commissioned Officers

List of Flag Officers and Other Commissioned Officers

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Harvey Charles Bernhard Harvey John Harvey Thomas . Harvey Henry Harvey Edward . Harvey Henry Wise . Harvey Gìllmore Harvey Henry John . Harvey Robert Beazley . Harward Richard Harward John Richard Haskoll William . Hast Philip ...
The Little Lady of Lagunitas

The Little Lady of Lagunitas

Richard Henry Savage

The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance was originally published in 1892. Richard Henry Savage (1846-1903) was a soldier, engineer, diplomat, lawyer, novelist, civic leader and war hero.
Henry Plantagenet

Henry Plantagenet

Richard Barber

A study of Henry's character and of his considerable achievements as ruler.
Lancaster And York: The Wars of the Roses

Lancaster And York: The Wars of the Roses

Alison Weir

At the centre of the book stands Henry VI, the pious king whose mental instability led to political chaos, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York and Henry's rival, and most important of all, Margaret of Anjou, Henry's wife who took up her arms ...
ACCOUNTS AND PAPERS, EIGHTEEN VOLUMES

ACCOUNTS AND PAPERS, EIGHTEEN VOLUMES

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Horace Townsend [in holy orders. ... Henry Green Barry Richard Neville Parker Meade Hobson Richard Townsend Samuel Townsend, esqrs. ... Henry Baldwin Jonas Morris Townsend Chambre Corker Phineas Bury George Massey, esqrs.
Unrecognised by the World at Large: A biography of Dr Henry ...

Unrecognised by the World at Large: A biography of Dr Henry ...

Alastair Robson

It was probably a logical move for the Committee to appoint Dr Herbert Richard Octavius Sankey, whom Henry Parsey had approached personally in 1882 to join him as Deputy Superintendent. But Herbert Sankey's father, Dr William Henry ...
The Plays of Shakespeare: A Thematic Guide

The Plays of Shakespeare: A Thematic Guide

Victor L. Cahn

... and fate, 68; and Hamlet, 312-13; and Henry V, 281, 282; and King Lear, 68, 209; and Richard II, 36; and romances, 103 Katherine (Henry V), 282 Katherine ( Henry VIII), 137 Katherine (The Taming of the Shrew): and appearance vs. reality,  ...
The Academy

The Academy

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Richard Watson Dixon, M.A., Pembroke. 1884. " The Sea of Galilee." Alfred john Church, M.A., Lincoln. 1896. “The Life of Saint Augustine." Henry Charles Beeching, M.A., Balliol. Charles Henry Pearson, M.A., William Alexander, M.A., Henry ...
Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia

Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia

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RICHARD HENRY WHITEHEAD AND THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. By Theodore Hough, Professor of Physiology, University of Virginia. Richard Henry Whitehead first knew the University of Virginia when, in 1886, he matriculated as a ...
All Clever Men, Who Make Their Way: Critical Discourse in ...

All Clever Men, Who Make Their Way: Critical Discourse in ...

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Critical Discourse in the Old South Michael O''Brien. 12. Richard Henry Nisbet (|J) "American Authorship and Nathaniel J Hawthorne"1 This essay is an example of an intelligent piece by an obscure amateur. It was merely signed, upon its appearance in 1853, by an "R.H.N, of Macon, Ga." Scurrying through census data , local history, and genealogical studies uncovers that this probably signified Richard Henry Nisbet, a young physician. Almost nothing is known of him, save that he was ...

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