10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAMMONISH»
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mammonish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Work of the Sun: Literature, Science, and Economy, 1760-1860
Work, never so Mammonish, mean,is in communication with Nature.”41 But the
naturalistic exaltation of work, if it doesn't run back quite to John Calvin, was at
least forty years old.Throughout the Romantic era, I have argued, the language of
...
2
On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History
as they felt themselves to be; a little band of Christian Bro'thers, who had drawn
the sword against a great black devouring world not Christian, but Mammonish,
Devilish,— they cried to God in their straits, in their extreme need, not 'to forsake ...
3
The British Critic and Quarterly Theological Review
It is no insignificant proof of the Mammonish spirit of this age that it has so long
tolerated such an abuse, while it has vehemently resented a similar omission
when adopted by some clergymen to mark (as best they can) their sense of the ...
The pervasive role of mammonish greed in the media is a theme of Minter's
Reagan Wallpaper, in which repeated television screens with a freeze frame of
the President being shot are juxtaposed with stenciled details of George
Washington's ...
Robert Paul Metzger,
1989
Of course, we cannot doubt that, within the confines of the United States, there
are many virtuous, many self-denying, and many altogether superior to the mere
mammonish idolatry of gold. But like national countenance', taken not from a few
...
6
Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in
a man that actually and earnestly works : in Idleness alone is there perpetual
despair. Work, never so Mammonish, mean, is in communication with Nature ; the
...
William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone,
1843
7
The Marriage of Contraries: Bernard Shaw's Middle Plays
These three levels are comparable to the hell, earth, and heaven of Man and
Superman, and Ellie's journey — her pilgrim's progress — is from the romantic
hell of Hector to the Mammonish earth of Mangan to the heaven of Captain Shot-
over, ...
8
Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology
To have ruled and fought not in a Mammonish but in a Godlike spirit; to have had
the hearts of the people bless me, as a true ruler and captain of my people; to
have felt my own heart bless me, and that God above instead of Mammon below
...
Work, never so Mammonish, mean, is in communication with Nature ; the real
desire to get Work done will itself lead one more and more to truth, to Nature's
appointments and regulations, which are truth. The latest Gospel in this world is,
Know ...
10
Tough Questions: Talking Straight With Your Kids About the ...
... much of it though there be in the world; and as thoroughgoing a contempt ...
forthe unfeelingness which Mammonish superiority too often produces."29 The
miners' leader Edward Rymer located the origin of his commitment to trade
unionism ...
Sheila Kitzinger, Ceclia Kitzinger,
1991
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MAMMONISH»
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Anderson: Why do we love our sports teams?
And even his eye-popping resources couldn't compete with the mammonish wealth of Manchester City, Roman Abramovich's cash at Chelsea ... «Independent Community Newspaper, Aug 13»