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30 de abr. de 2024 · Florence Boos, “William Morris, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, and the Arthurian Poetry of the 1850's,” William Morris Archive, accessed April 30, 2024, ...
Hace 3 días · The regular export of grain by the colonial government continued; during the famine, the viceroy, Lord Robert Bulwer-Lytton, oversaw the export to England of a record 6.4 million hundredweight (320,000 tons) of wheat, which made the region more vulnerable.
- 1876–1878
- British India
- 5.6–9.6 million
3 de may. de 2024 · The English words “The pen is mightier than the sword” were first written by novelist and playwright Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839 in his historical play Cardinal Richelieu. Richelieu, chief minister to King Louis XIII, discovers a plot to kill him, but as a priest he is unable to take up arms against his enemies.
Hace 1 día · Never get a reputation for a small perfection, if you are trying for fame in a loftier area; the world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiæ, seldom have their minds occupied with great things. There are, it is true, exceptions;…
1 de may. de 2024 · "Bulwer‐Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton" published on by Oxford University Press. son of General Bulwer, who added his mother's surname to his own when he inherited Knebworth in 1843. Educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he embarked on a career in politics as a keen Reform MP for St Ives in ...
Hace 4 días · Knebworth House is a country house, located in Knebworth. It has been the home of the Lytton family since 1490, when Thomas Bourchier sold the reversion of the manor to Sir Robert Lytton. Knebworth House was originally a red-brick Late Gothic manor house, built round a central court as an open square.
Hace 1 día · Aristotle and utopia may seem an odd combination. Anthologies of utopian texts do not contain passages from Aristotle’s writings. He also typically does not feature in histories of utopia. Nonetheless, a close reading of the Politics reveals that Aristotle had an extensive and rather distinctive interest in the enterprise of imagining utopias or ideal cities. The peculiarity of his ...
