Bowen, Francis 1811-1890

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville ( Book )
109 editions published between 1862 and 2002 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,360 libraries worldwide
Shares impressions of America's politics and culture.

American political economy; including strictures on the management of the currency and the finances since 1861, with a chart showing the fluctuations in the price of gold by Francis Bowen ( Book )
18 editions published between 1870 and 2005 in English and held by 388 libraries worldwide

The principles of political economy applied to the condition, the resources, and the institutions of the American people by Francis Bowen ( Book )
35 editions published between 1856 and 2000 in English and held by 386 libraries worldwide
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Documents of the constitution of England and America, from Magna Charta to the federal Constitution of 1789 by Francis Bowen ( Book )
10 editions published between 1854 and 1993 in English and held by 347 libraries worldwide

A treatise on logic or, The laws of pure thought; comprising both the Aristotelic and Hamiltonian analyses of logical forms, and some chapters of applied logic by Francis Bowen ( Book )
30 editions published between 1864 and 2000 in English and held by 340 libraries worldwide

Modern philosophy, from Descartes to Schopenhauer and Hartmann by Francis Bowen ( Book )
25 editions published between 1877 and 1906 in English and held by 274 libraries worldwide

Critical essays on a few subjects connected with the history and present condition of speculative philosophy by Francis Bowen ( Book )
11 editions published between 1842 and 1949 in English and held by 258 libraries worldwide

Lowell lectures, on the application of metaphysical and ethical science to the evidence of religion delivered before the Lowell Institution in Boston, in the winters of 1848-49 by Francis Bowen ( Book )
9 editions published between 1849 and 1978 in English and held by 209 libraries worldwide
"These lectures were given under the auspices of the Lowell Institute of Boston, MA in 1848-1849. In this series of lectures Bowen endeavours to show that the fundamental doctrines of religion rest upon the same basis that supports all science, and that they cannot be denied without also rejecting familiar truths that are adopted almost unconsciously, and upon which the conduct of life and the regulation of our ordinary concerns. Bowen argues that the time seems to have arrived for a more practical and immediate verification than the world has ever witnessed of the great truth, that the civilization that is not based upon Christianity is big with the elements of its own destruction." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved).

Gleanings from a literary life, 1838-1880 by Francis Bowen ( Book )
8 editions published between 1880 and 1978 in English and Undetermined and held by 175 libraries worldwide
"The contents of this volume have been gleaned from a wide field. They have been selected from a much larger number of miscellaneous papers, and are here brought together as having some unity of purpose, devoted as they are to the exposition and defence of doctrines which seem to me of priceless interest and importance. They were not meant to set forth novel opinions, or any mode of thought or system of belief here first propounded, but to guard and inculcate some of the old and familiar truths which are the best portion of the heritage which we have received from former generations. They express the earnest and persistent convictions of the writer upon topics of great moment, which still so far occupy the minds of all thoughtful persons as to appear foremost among what may be called the burning questions of the day. Literature is not in its highest vocation when it is cultivated merely for its own sake, but only when used as a means of promoting other and nobler ends than those of a purely literary character"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

The metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton, collected, arranged, and abridged, for the use of colleges and private students by William Hamilton ( Book )
17 editions published between 1861 and 1877 in English and held by 173 libraries worldwide
"It is unfortunate that Sir William Hamilton did not undertake fully to digest his metaphysical opinions into system, and to publish them as one orderly and connected whole. He had a system, for he was eminently a methodical and self-consistent thinker; but it was built up piecemeal, and so given to the world, at various times, in successive articles in the Edinburgh Review; in copious notes, appendices, and other additions to these articles when they were republished as a volume of "Discussions," and again, when these "Discussions" passed to a second edition. I have endeavored, in the present volume, to prepare a text-book which should contain, in his own language, the substance of all that he has written upon the subject. For this purpose, the "Lectures on Metaphysics" have been taken as the basis of the work; and I have freely abridged them by striking out the repetitions and redundancies in which they abound, and omitting also, in great part, the load of citations and references that they contain, as these are of inferior interest except to a student of the history of philosophy, or as marks of the stupendous erudition of the author. The space acquired by these abridgments has enabled me to interweave into the book, in their appropriate place and connection, all those portions of the "Discussions," and of the Notes and Dissertations supplementary to Reid, which seemed necessary either to elucidate and confirm the text, or to supplement it with the later and more fully expressed opinions of the author"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).