Frothingham: 11 books

3 works of Octavius Brooks Frothingham American clergyman and author (1822-1895) This ebook presents a collection of 3 works of Octavius Brooks Frothingham. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: Recollections and Impressions, 1822-1890 The Cradle of the Christ Transcendentalism in New England

Reflections, thoughts, and images to enrich everyday living. Be stirred by meaningfulness in your day-to-day life. Envision a new awareness of gifts of nature. Treat others with kindness and a smile. Let this be the start to being simply inspired. This book began by a walk on the beach and...

As the battle of Jutland was the only major naval engagement of the First World War, both of the belligerent powers have made claim to the plaudits for winning the battle. The experts and officers of the Royal Navy have argued back and forth with their opponents on the German side. It is refreshing...

Published in 1873, The Religion of Humanity takes a scientific approach to the study of theology. Evolving from Transcendentalism to Hegelianism to what Frothingham calls Rationalism, this radical 19th century view of religion was greatly influenced by Darwin’s theories of evolution.  

The original purpose of this little volume was to indicate the place of the New Testament in the literature of the Hebrew people, to show in fact how it is comprehended in the scope of that literature. The plan has been widened to satisfy the demands of a larger class of readers, and to record more...

My father was, as I have said elsewhere, a clergyman in Boston, Massachusetts, a Unitarian minister to the First Church, standing in a long line of men, of whom the earliest was severely orthodox, while he abhorred orthodoxy. Yet he was ordained without hesitation, was more than acceptable to the best...

Transcendentalism was an important intellectual movement in America, influencing ideas and institutions, swaying politicians, inspiring philanthropists, and creating reformers. Frothingham’s history of transcendentalism relates how it shaped the country’s national mind and impacted its intellectual and moral character.

A description of the lost and recovered city of Priene as the ruins were excavated at the end of the 19th century.

According to Greek mythology, Laocoon was a Trojan priest who, along with his two sons, offended the gods. As punishment, the three were strangled by sea serpents. The discovery in 1506 of an ancient Greek sculpture showing the three figures in their death agony not only gave rise to renewed interest...

George Ripley (1802-1880) was a leading intellectual of his time. This 1882 biography by a fellow Unitarian minister follows him from his ministry, thorough the founding of the Utopian community of Brook Farm in Massachusetts, to his career as a journalist and national arbiter of taste during the Gilded Age.

There are few modern poems of any country so perfect in their kind as the “Hermann and Dorothea” of Goethe. In clearness of characterization, in unity of tone, in the adjustment of background and foreground, in the conduct of the narrative, it conforms admirably to the strict canons of art; yet it...