![]() ![]() A REGAL SET OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE GREAT ENGLISH POET AND WRITER TO INCLUDE THE FAMOUS ENGRAVINGS FROM RICHARD WESTALL. Folio (41 x 30 cm), very finely bound in exceptional full contemporary bindings of crushed red morocco, French in style with fine gilt rolled borders within gilt ruled frames on all covers, each frame with corners formed with central gilt circular devices, the spines with flat gilt ruled bands creating compartments decorated with small gilt central star burst tools, one compartment lettered in gilt, a second with gilt volume numbers and additional gilt lettering at the bottom of the spines, gilt tooled edges to the covers and gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. With 32 fine large plates, being the 28 plates by Richard Westall and 4 portraits of John Milton. Chauvet, who for many years resided at Kensington in London. First edition of this Boydell issue, the first edition with the plates by Richard Westall, and a magnificent presentation copy, given by Lord Lansdowne, the first Marquis of Landsdowne to the French diplomat, M. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In the second edition in 1860, just a few months after the first – Darwin made two tweaks in terms of religion. “There is grandeur in this view of life…whilst this planet has gone cycling…from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” The most controversial part was that the last sentence of the summary of his piece, which did not include such a creator anywhere: This was the motive for the enormous criticism from different religious sectors as it did away with the idea of a creator’s involvement in this process. Thus, he also clearly positioned himself against the possibility that the species were independently created. In the first edition of On the Origin of Species, Darwin explained how the different species of living organisms were created through natural selection from a common ancestor (1). Do his responses to the critiques remain valid today? THE RELIGIOUS ISSUE In the sixth and final edition in 1872, he touched up certain parts and concepts that had been called into question. In response to these objections, Darwin edited his work on at least five occasions. ![]() In 1859, Charles Darwin published his culminating work On the Origin of Species, which immediately received many different objections and critiques from various angles – both scientific and religious as well as political and sociological, among others. ![]() ![]() ![]() John Smith, Shrinking Violet (Salu Digby) (1st Appearance, Legion Applicant), Lightning Lad (Garth Ranzz), Zor-El (Flashback), George Washington, Lenora Lemaris, Gizmak-Ral, Cosmic Boy (Rokk Krinn), Lenora Lemaris (1st Appearnce, Lori's Kid Sister, in Love with Jerro), Batman (Bruce Wayne), John F. ![]() ![]() ![]() Is the definitive book for our time: essential to the Sufi way of thinking is that books and teachings are for a time and a stage in culture, and must be superseded. ![]() This was remarkable for a book at such an angle to our materialist western ideas. Had a preface by Robert Graves, and attracted attention from some distinguished people, among them Ted Hughes and Geoffrey Grigson. For one thing he was a friend, and often an adviser, of scientists. (1964) - he challenged some pretty stereotyped ideas about what a mystic should be. He was a Sufi exemplar and teacher, that is to say, a mystic, but right from the first of his books where he began to describe the Sufi outlook. It is not easy to sum up the life of as multifaceted a man as Idries Shah, who died last winter, and particularly not his literary achievements which covered such a range of subjects and disciplines, amounting to a kind of map of Sufi living, learning and thinking. ![]() The Sufis and Idries Shah The Sufis and Idries Shah ![]() |