[PDF] Original Gospel Hymns And Poems eBook

Author : Christopher N. Phillips
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 27,80 MB
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1421425939

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Understanding the culture of living with hymnbooks offers new insight into the histories of poetry, literacy, and religious devotion. It stands barely three inches high, a small brick of a book. The pages are skewed a bit, and evidence of a small handprint remains on the worn, cheap leather covers that don’t quite close. The book bears the marks of considerable use. But why—and for whom—was it made? Christopher N. Phillips’s The Hymnal is the first study to reconstruct the practices of reading and using hymnals, which were virtually everywhere in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Isaac Watts invented a small, words-only hymnal at the dawn of the eighteenth century. For the next two hundred years, such hymnals were their owners’ constant companions at home, school, church, and in between. They were children's first books, slaves’ treasured heirlooms, and sources of devotional reading for much of the English-speaking world. Hymnals helped many people learn to memorize poetry and to read; they provided space to record family memories, pass notes in church, and carry everything from railroad tickets to holy cards to business letters. In communities as diverse as African Methodists, Reform Jews, Presbyterians, Methodists, Roman Catholics, and Unitarians, hymnals were integral to religious and literate life. An extended historical treatment of the hymn as a read text and media form, rather than a source used solely for singing, this book traces the lives people lived with hymnals, from obscure schoolchildren to Emily Dickinson. Readers will discover a wealth of connections between reading, education, poetry, and religion in Phillips’s lively accounts of hymnals and their readers.

Author : James Relly
Publisher : Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 20,77 MB
Release : 2018-04-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781379383345

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library W020025 List of subscribers, [8] p. at end. Burlington [N.J.]: Re-printed by Isaac Collins, in Market-Street, M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]. [2], iv, [1], 4-236, [8] p.; 8°

Author : James Grant
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 39,46 MB
Release : 2018-03-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780365238720

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Excerpt from Original Hymns and Poems: Written by a Private Christian, for His Own Use; And Published at the Earnest Desire of Friends The exact place and year in which mr. Grant was born has not been ascertained; but it is probably in Edinburgh, at the beginning of the last century; where after finishing such education as was suited to his rank and circumstances, be was apprenticed to an ironmonger. This trade he afterwards successfully prosecuted on his own account, carrying it on in a shop situated in a place which, in those days, was well known as the West Bow of Edinburgh and there he resided during the greater part of his life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.