A sincere and teachable heart : : self-denying virtue in British intellectual life, 1736-1859 / / by Richard Bellon.

• Superior document: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions, Volume 14
• VerfasserIn: Bellon, Richard (Historian),
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; Volume 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (285 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In A Sincere and Teachable Heart: Self-Denying Virtue in British Intellectual Life, 1736-1859 , Richard Bellon demonstrates that respectability and authority in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain were not grounded foremost in ideas or specialist skills but in the self-denying virtues of pati...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction
• Common Things to Speak of: The Meaning of Patience and Humility in the Nineteenth-Century British Imagination
• From Virtue to Duty: The Victorian Application of Patience and Humility to Social and Intellectual Life
• Character and Morality in Eighteenth-Century British Thought
• The Utility of Virtue
• Patience, Utility and Revolution
• Oxford and the Age of Reform
• The Oxford Movement: Faith and Obedience in a Tumultuous and Shifting World
• Faith and Reason in Newman’s University Sermons
• The Hampden Affair: Divergent Paths out of a Spiritual Wilderness
• Thomas Arnold Confronts the “Oxford Malignants”
• The Tamworth Letters: Virtue and Science
• Tract 90 and the Trial of Patience in the Church of England
• Bibliography
• Index.