John Woolman's Journal - Couverture souple

Woolman, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1236706471 ISBN 13 : 9781236706478

Editeur : Rarebooksclub.com, 2013

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

From the days of Charles Lamb to those of Dr. Eliot of Harvard, the unique charm and worth of the Journal of John Woolman have been signalled by a thinker of distinction here and there, and the book, if not widely known, has quietly found its way to many hearts and been reprinted in sundry editions. The more formal works, however, in which this gentle and audacious eighteenth-century Quaker-preacher spoke out his whole careful mind have been for the most part neglected. These works are sometimes prosy, always indifferent to style in their unflinching quest for "pure wisdom."

The present edition, while making no claim to critical completeness, presents the main accessible body of Woolman's writings. Here is a well of purest water, "dug deep," to use the Quaker phrase. The mere limpidity of the water will be joy enough for some: others gazing into it may feel that they see down to the proverbial Truth—the very origin of things, the foundations of the moral universe.

A studious moderation of utterance is the first quality to make itself felt in Woolman's works. To casual or jaded readers who crave the word-embroidery, the heightened note, of the romanticist in style, the result may seem colourless. Here is a lack of adjectives, an entire absence of emphasis, a systematic habit of under-statement that, in the climax of a paragraph or the crisis of an emotion, seems at times almost ludicrous. Yet to the reader of severer taste, this very absence of emphasis, so quaintly sober, so sensitive in its unfaltering reticence, becomes the choicest grace of Woolman's style. As is the style, so is the man. Woolman "studied to be quiet," and his steady self-discipline was rewarded by a scrupulous yet instinctive control over the finest shades of verity in speech and life.

CONTENTS

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The Testimony of Friends in Yorkshire

A Testimony of the Monthly-Meeting of Friends

A Journal of the Life and Travels of John Woolman

The Last Epistle and Other Writings

Considerations on the True Harmony of Mankind

An Epistle to the Quarterly and Monthly-Meetings of Friends

Remarks on Sundry Subjects

Some Expressions of John Woolman in his Last Illness

Biographie de l'auteur

John Woolman (October 19, 1720 – October 7, 1772) was a Quaker preacher, traveling throughout the American colonies, advocating against conscription, military taxation, and particularly slavery.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rarebooksclub.com
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1236706471
• ISBN 13: 9781236706478
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 82
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible