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Notes of me : the autobiography of Roger North / edited by Peter Millard.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, [(c)2000.]Description: 1 online resource (xix, 353 pages) : illustrations, portraitContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442677968
  • 1442677961
  • 1282037226
  • 9781282037229
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  • DA437.87
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PLATES -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NORTH STUDIES -- INTRODUCTION -- Notes of Me -- Roger North's Table of Contents -- Conduct in Childhood -- To the University -- A Few Transient Observations of My Self -- Practicall Diversions -- The Burning of the Temple -- Architecture, Perspective, Mathematics, and Light -- As to Musick -- Entrance to Law -- Steward to the See of Canterbury -- Maturity in the Profession of Law -- Corporall Afflictions and Paines -- The Plott -- High upon the Rising Ground -- Member for Dunwich -- Executership of Sir Peter Lely -- NOTES TO THE EDITION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: Roger North was an English writer, lawyer, and polymath. In this autobiography, he wanders the intellectual, political, and cultural fields of Restoration England, mapping the state of his country and the state of his selfhood. By describing the multifarious currents affecting his life, North (1653-1734) makes lively forays into the worlds of natural philosophy, Christian stoicism, Cartesian science, architecture, music, education, and James II's treatment of the Protestant courtiers, while recounting his upbringing in an impoverished noble family, his education at Cambridge, and his career as a successful lawyer. Modern readers will find his sympathetic account of witch trials particularly intriguing. This document, fascinating as a part of the history of self-awareness as well as the history of the period from a Tory, anti-Newtonian, high-church perspective, has, until now, only been available in a corrupted nineteenth-century publication. Peter Millard's edition contains full annotations that provide historical context and include references to North's other works. The introduction elucidates the current scholarly interest in North's precocious development of a more integrated theory of the psycho-physical nature of human cognition, and reveals the autobiography as the key necessary to understanding North's ideas.
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Roger North was an English writer, lawyer, and polymath. In this autobiography, he wanders the intellectual, political, and cultural fields of Restoration England, mapping the state of his country and the state of his selfhood. By describing the multifarious currents affecting his life, North (1653-1734) makes lively forays into the worlds of natural philosophy, Christian stoicism, Cartesian science, architecture, music, education, and James II's treatment of the Protestant courtiers, while recounting his upbringing in an impoverished noble family, his education at Cambridge, and his career as a successful lawyer. Modern readers will find his sympathetic account of witch trials particularly intriguing. This document, fascinating as a part of the history of self-awareness as well as the history of the period from a Tory, anti-Newtonian, high-church perspective, has, until now, only been available in a corrupted nineteenth-century publication. Peter Millard's edition contains full annotations that provide historical context and include references to North's other works. The introduction elucidates the current scholarly interest in North's precocious development of a more integrated theory of the psycho-physical nature of human cognition, and reveals the autobiography as the key necessary to understanding North's ideas.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PLATES -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NORTH STUDIES -- INTRODUCTION -- Notes of Me -- Roger North's Table of Contents -- Conduct in Childhood -- To the University -- A Few Transient Observations of My Self -- Practicall Diversions -- The Burning of the Temple -- Architecture, Perspective, Mathematics, and Light -- As to Musick -- Entrance to Law -- Steward to the See of Canterbury -- Maturity in the Profession of Law -- Corporall Afflictions and Paines -- The Plott -- High upon the Rising Ground -- Member for Dunwich -- Executership of Sir Peter Lely -- NOTES TO THE EDITION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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