10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRETERNATURALISM»
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preternaturalism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
preternaturalism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Civilization in the United States: First and Last ...
It deals, indeed, with personages and words which have an indestructible and
inexhaustible truth and salutariness ; but it is rooted and grounded in
preternaturalism, it can receive those personages and those words only on
conditions of ...
3. enigmaticalness, mysteriousness, inscrutability, inscrutableness, inexplicability
, unexplainableness; su- pernaturalism, preternaturalism, otherworldliness;
mysticism, spiritualism, occultness. myth, n. 1. legend, tale, tradition, old wives'
tale, ...
Jerome Irving Rodale, 1978
It deals, indeed, with personages and words which have an indestructible and
inexhaustible truth and salutariness; but it is rooted and grounded in
preternaturalism, it can receive those personages and those words only on
conditions of ...
4
Five uncollected essays
It deals, indeed, with personages and words which have an indestructible and
inexhaustible truth and salutari- ness ; but it is rooted and grounded in
preternaturalism, it can receive those personages and those words only on
conditions of ...
Matthew Arnold, Kenneth Allott, 1953
There is at the same time a number of persons, forming a sort of under-current in
society, who are believers in all kinds of preternaturalism. These persons exhibit
every degree of midsummer madness, from the cold ague-fit of moping ...
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, 1835
6
Shakspeare and His Times
... by unhalloWed curiosity, and an eager irreligious desire of invading the secrets
of another world, and so far gives credence. to the imputations which have
stained the memory of its-author; for this play breathes not a poetic
preternaturalism, ...
7
Teaching and Understanding Pneumatology & Spiritual Gifts
... a theory dealing with the nature of the universe, and epistemology; the theory
of the nature and grounds of knowledge) in society, Ayn Rand terms metaphysics
as the “absolute” based on “human facts,” not superstition or preternaturalism.
8
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Collected poetry
But though it wanted only a touch to tip you into preternaturalism about these
things, these things really were only natural things. They were not only natural,
they were almost unnaturally simple. I sup- pose there never was quite so simple
a ...
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1986
9
James Anthony Froude: An Intellectual Biography of a ...
The preternaturalism which Tieck had conceived ofas meta— phor had become
for too many limited imaginations an end in itself. Likewise, Goethe's great drama
had been similarly misunderstood, its audacity too strong for timid English minds
...
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G. K. Chesterton's Collection [ 5 Books ]:
That's where you all split; it'snaturalto believe in the supernatural. It never feels
natural to accept only natural things. Butthough it wantedonly atouch totipyou into
preternaturalism about these things,these things reallywere only natural things.
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRETERNATURALISM»
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'Lost Angel' (1943)/ 'Our Vines Have Tender Grapes' (1945)
Her general preternaturalism made her effectively emotional when required to burst into racking sobs or deliver a tear-stained restraint. «PopMatters, Mar 14»
