English Philosophical Styles: Six Studies (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The John Bright Scholarship was founded (mainly out of the surplus of the subscriptions to the Rochdale statue of the late Mr. Bright) for the encouragement of the study of English Literature in the Victoria University. It is awarded biennially for a book or essay on some subject directly connected with the study of English Litera ture, and its value is £100. The candidates must be persons who have obtained the Degree of ba. In the University, and have not completed more than two years from the date of the examination qualifying them for the ba. Degree. They must also have attended at least one year's full course of lectures on English Literature in a College of the University. A number of alternative subjects are set for candidates to select from. The other conditions of the Scholarship can be seen in the Victoria University Calendar (1899, p.

The Scholarship in 1897 was awarded to an Essay by the present writer on English Philosophical Styles, and the Essay was recommended by the Adjudicators to the University for publication. The substance of it appears here under the original title, restricted by the phrase, Six Studies. The writer found it impossible to exhaust the subject included under the original comprehensive title. It was thought better, therefore, to select so many of the names in English Philosophical literature as could be dealt with in the form of studies within a space about equal to that filled by the Prize Essay. This has meant omitting several writers of great importance - Butler, Hamilton, Mr. Herbert Spencer - who were considered at some length in the original Essay; and remarks on minor writers have been excluded. The need of the Introduction, which was taken up largely with a consideration of the scope of the subject, has been obviated by limiting the title. Some recasting has been necessary, in order to adapt the writing to the form of independent sections but the original lent itself to this treatment. The extracts are almost entirely the same, and much of the composition is as it was.

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