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The orange seller's legacy Nell Gwyn's lowly origins have left their mark on her aristocratic descendants, finds Frances Wilson
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IN MARK TWAIN's Huckleberry Finn, Huck gives Jim a history lesson
as they float down the Mississippi: "My, you ought to have seen old
Henry the Eight when he was in bloom,'' he tells the runaway slave,
"He used to marry a new wife every day, and chop off her head next
morning... 'Fetch up Nell Gwyn,' he says. They fetch her up. Next
morning, 'Chop off her head!' And they chop it off.'' Such is the
myth of Nell Gwyn, orange seller, comic actress, mistress of Charles
II and the original people's princess: her name is synonymous with
the topsy-turvy world of post-medieval court life.
Charles ...
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Is there an American mind?(Books, Arts & Manners)(Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism )
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...mindlessness, and it would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Jackson...quartet of great Harvardians--Perry Miller, Samuel Eliot Morison, Vernon Louis Parrington, and Ralph Barton Perry. The Harvard Narrative proceeds...
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Can parents make a comeback?
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...anything. The Harvard philosopher Ralph Barton Perry once made note of this evolution...Movement." According to Professor Perry, the institution of the school...elders. "The idea was," wrote Perry, "that the infant was a vegetable...
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The pragmatic American: William James and our homegrown way of thought.(William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine
; ...640 pages. $30. In 1935, William James's pupil Ralph Barton Perry published The Thought and Character of William James...Recent biographers have largely taken their bearings from Perry and have been content to add some corroborative or revisionist...
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A Historian's Own History.
Magazine article from: The New Leader
; ...giving him a B). And he wrote his senior thesis under Perry Miller, described then and today as the best historical...spent his last night of bachelorhood in the company of Ralph Barton Perry, "the friend and biographer of William James and a...
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He accepted-and contested-the universe.(BOOKS)(William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Cross Currents
; ...his sprightliness, humor, and intensity--has insured a steady flow of good books about him, beginning with Ralph Barton Perry's two-volume Thought and Character of William James (1935) and continuing through Louis Menand's The Metaphysical...
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ALMANAC
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
; ...feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history." - Ralph Barton Perry, American author and educator (1876-1957). Copyright 2003 by Telegraph-Herald, All rights Reserved.
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Almanac
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
; ...feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history." - Ralph Barton Perry, American author and educator (1876-1957). Copyright 2005 by Telegraph Herald, All rights Reserved.
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Today in History - March 2
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history." _ Ralph Barton Perry, American author and educator (1876-1957). Copyright 2006, AP News All Rights Reserved
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Science & the promise of democracy in America.
Magazine article from: Daedalus
; ...explain how benevolence, by itself, could transform a complex industrial society. The "major problem of life," as Ralph Barton Perry put it, was to foster simultaneously "sentiments" and "modes of organization" by which "human suffering may...
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letters.(Letter to the Editor)
Magazine article from: The Hastings Center Report
; ...time: that of assigning value on the basis of whether some individuals value something. It was the philosopher Ralph Barton Perry in the 1920s who argued that "x has value if x is valued by someone." It was a bad argument then, and it is a...
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