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Name: Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
Variant Name: Shaftesbury, 1st Earl of, Ashley, 1st Baron
Birth Date: February 26, 1621
Death Date: February 15, 1683
Place of Birth: London, England
Place of Death: Naples, Italy
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: politician, philosopher

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Biography of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Baron Ashley and 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1621-1683), was one of the most controversial and powerful English politicians of the Restoration period. Anthony Ashley Cooper was born to wealth and comfort. In his early political...


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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (July 22, 1621–January 21, 1683), known as Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 2nd Baronet, from 1631 to 1661 and as The Lord Ashley from 1661 to 1672, was a prominent English politician of the Interregnum and...


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Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
Shaftesbury's Art of "Soliloquy" in Mansfield Park.(Conference Papers)(Earl of Shaftesbury Cooper Anthony Ashley)
01/01/2002: 5,003 words, approx. 17 pages
IN HIS TANTALIZING LITTLE ESSAY "Jane Austen and the Moralists," philosopher Gilbert Ryle suggested Jane Austen's novels have much in common with the eighteenth-century moral and aesthetic philosophy of the Third Earl of Shaftesbury (276-91). Ryle himself did not follow up on this insight;...
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Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
Shaftesbury's just measure of irony. (third earl of Shaftesbury)
06/22/1993: 9,279 words, approx. 31 pages
The Restoration satirist Shaftesbury's works are humorous and do not contain the biting wit of his contemporaries such as Jonathan Swift. He is also a moralist, who conveys philosophical thoughts similar to the classical writer Horace. Shaftesbury does not directly scorn or censure the...
 


 

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