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A Citizen of the World is a 1940 Australian radio play by Catherine Shepherd about Oliver Goldsmith. It was one of her most notable works. [1] [2] The play was an entrant in the 1940 Australian Radio Play Competition. [3] [4] Leslie Rees said it "illustrated the difficulty of writing one’s best when a bread-and-butter living has to be earned ...
In 1760 Goldsmith began to publish a series of letters in the Public Ledger under the title The Citizen of the World which brought him fame. [8] Purportedly written by a Chinese traveller in England by the name of Lien Chi, they used this fictional outsider's perspective to comment ironically and at times moralistically on British society and ...
The Bee was a short-lived British literary magazine started by Oliver Goldsmith on 6 October 1759. [1] In it he published "Citizen of the World" and many of his best essays. The last edition of the magazine was published on 24 November 1759. [1]
This was a subject that Goldsmith had addressed in his earlier poem The Traveller; or a Prospect of Society (1764), which also condemned the corrupting influence of extreme wealth. Goldsmith also set out his ideas about rural depopulation in an essay entitled "The Revolution in Low Life", published in Lloyd's Evening Post in 1762.
[8] [9] It was the first of Goldsmith's books to feature his name on the title-page. [10] Goldsmith received only £21 for The Traveller, but the publisher must have made a good deal more, since a second edition appeared in March 1765, a fourth in August 1765 (only eight months after the first), and a ninth before Goldsmith's death in 1774. The ...
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Thanks to the bravery and wisdom of our forefathers, America set itself apart as a country dedicated to a new concept of citizenship. The U.S. Constitution enshrined our national duty to promote ...
The concept of global citizenship first emerged in the 4th Century BCE among the Greek Cynics, who coined the term “cosmopolitan” – meaning citizen of the world.The Stoics later elaborated on the concept, and contemporary philosophers and political theorists have further developed it in the concept of cosmopolitanism, which proposes that all individuals belong to a single moral community.