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John Freeth and his Circle or Birmingham Men of the Last Century - members of the Birmingham Book Club pictured in 1792 by John Eckstein.. The Birmingham Book Club, known to its opponents during the 1790s as the Jacobin Club due to its political radicalism, [1] and at times also as the Twelve Apostles, [2] was a book club and debating society based in Birmingham, England from the 18th to the ...
The Heads of Proposals was a set of propositions intended to be a basis for a constitutional settlement after King Charles I was defeated in the First English Civil War. [1] The authorship of the Proposals has been the subject of scholarly debate, although it has been suggested that it was drafted in the summer of 1647 by Commissary-General ...
Book sales club, a subscription-based method of selling and purchasing books Text publication society, also known as a book club, a subscription-based learned society dedicated to the publication and sale of scholarly editions of texts; Book club may also refer to: Book Club, a 2018 American comedy film; Book Club: The Next Chapter, the 2023 sequel
The Syllabus does not explain why each particular proposition is wrong, but cites the earlier document considering each subject. The Syllabus is divided into ten sections on the following topics: pantheism, naturalism, and absolute rationalism, #1–7; moderate rationalism, #8–14; indifferentism and latitudinarianism, #15–18
On 1 June 1642 [1] the English Lords and Commons approved a list of proposals known as the Nineteen Propositions, sent to King Charles I of England, who was in York at the time. [2] In these demands, the Long Parliament sought a larger share of power in the governance of the kingdom.
The Condemnation of 1210 was issued by the provincial synod of Sens, which included the Bishop of Paris as a member (at the time Pierre II de la Chapelle []). [3] The writings of a number of medieval scholars were condemned, apparently for pantheism, and it was further stated that: "Neither the books of Aristotle on natural philosophy or their commentaries are to be read at Paris in public or ...
It is often simply called a book club, a term that may cause confusion with a book sales club. Other terms include reading group , book group , and book discussion group . Book discussion clubs may meet in private homes, libraries , bookstores , online forums, pubs, and cafés, or restaurants, sometimes over meals or drinks.
His father, Alexander Pym (1547–1585), was a member of the minor gentry, from Brymore, Somerset. He was a successful lawyer in London, where John was born in 1584. Alexander died seven months later and his mother, Philippa Colles (died 1620), married a wealthy Cornish landowner, Sir Antho