The Marvellous in Fielding's NovelsUniversity Press of America, 1981 - 235 pages The first full length work to explore in depth Fielding's concept of wonder and the marvellous. Argues that Fielding defended the classical Christian ideas of wonder) wonder as the beginning of Philosophy) in an age that reduced wonder to vulgar astonishment at the grotesque, the old, and the curious (what Fielding calls 'the monstrous'). |
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... God who works most secretly in all things . -- Aquinas " " God makes himself known as a revealing God in the works , both ... God's intervention in history . A number of well - known scholarly works all comment on how the rise of the new ...
... God who works most secretly in all things . -- Aquinas " " God makes himself known as a revealing God in the works , both ... God's intervention in history . A number of well - known scholarly works all comment on how the rise of the new ...
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... God's absolute , arbitrary command , not as the misuse of his own free will or the conse- quence of his own imprudence . Exaggerating God's powerful hand in his own history , Crusoe dimin- ishes man's actions and choices and resigns him ...
... God's absolute , arbitrary command , not as the misuse of his own free will or the conse- quence of his own imprudence . Exaggerating God's powerful hand in his own history , Crusoe dimin- ishes man's actions and choices and resigns him ...
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... God's plan : for as we know not future events so neither can we tell to what purpose any accident tends ; · · for as we know not to what purpose any event is ultimately directed ; so neither can we affirm from what cause it originally ...
... God's plan : for as we know not future events so neither can we tell to what purpose any accident tends ; · · for as we know not to what purpose any event is ultimately directed ; so neither can we affirm from what cause it originally ...
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ART AS THE ABILITY TO CONCEAL | 1 |
NATURE AND FORTUNE AS INTELLI | 55 |
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