From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Anthology I Book

	Acknowledgements	ix
	Introduction	xi
Part I	Death of the Old Regime?	1
	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni	3
	Memoirs of Lorenzo da Ponte	3
	Don Giovanni synopsis	5
	Faith and death in the late Enlightenment	17
	Of the Immortality of the Soul	17
	Of Suicide	24
	extracts from Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar	33
	The priest's journey	33
	A sensing self	36
	God and His properties	37
	Our position in the universe and in society	40
	How we should live	44
	Revealed religion and the model of Jesus	49
	Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man	60
	The French Revolution	70
	What is the Third Estate?, 1789	70
	Gustav III of Sweden on the fall of the Bastille, 1789	76
	Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 1789	77
	Decree on the Abolition of the Nobility, 19 June 1790	79
	Edmund Burke on the French Revolution, 1790	80
	Marquis de la Queuille protesting against the oath to the constitution, 1790	82
	Jean-Paul Marat on 'a general insurrection and popular executions', 1790	83
	Emperor Leopold II of Austria on the French Revolution, 1791	83
	Emperor Leopold II of Austria and King Frederick-William II of Prussia, The Declaration of Pillnitz, 1791	84
	Hebert on Louis XVI after the flight to Varennes, 1791	85
	Hebert calls for the execution of Louis XVI, 1792	86
	Decree on the Death Penalty, 1792	87
	France Calls on the People of Belgium to Revolt, 1792	89
	Decree on the Levee en masse, 23 August 1793	90
	Robespierre on revolutionary government, June 1793	91
	What is a sans-culotte?, 1793	92
	The Law of Suspects, 1793	93
	Letter to her son before execution, 2 November 1793	94
	Letter addressed to posterity before execution, 27 December 1793	95
	Robespierre on 'the principles of revolutionary government', 1793	96
	Robespierre on revolutionary virtue, justice and terror, 1794	98
	The 'Marseillaise', 1792	100
Part II	The Napoleonic phenomenon	101
	Documentary extracts on Napoleon	103
	Richard Whately on Napoleon, 1819	104
	Napoleon on historical truth, 1816	105
	Napoleon on political opposition, 1803	106
	Napoleon on press censorship, 1805	107
	Napoleon's Imperial Catechism, 1806	107
	Napoleon on suppression of anti-French sentiment in Prussia, 1807	108
	Napoleon on his principles of government in the French empire, 1807	109
	Napoleon on an attempt to assassinate him, 1809	110
	General Rapp on the attempt to assassinate Napoleon, 1809	111
	Fouche on theatre censorship in Germany, 1811	112
	Fouche on Napoleon before his Russian campaign, 1812	113
	Napoleon on reprisals in Germany, 1813	114
	Napoleon on his achievements, 1816	114
	Napoleon on his achievements, 1817	115
	Napoleon on his plans for Europe, 1816	116
	Napoleon on his fate, 1816	117
	Mme de Stael on Napoleon, 1818	118
	Documents relating to a painting competition, 1807	122
	Director of the Musee Napoleon, letter for the benefit of the competitors	123
	Descriptive account for the competition of 1807, intended for the artists	124
Part III	Slavery, religion and reform	127
	Slave writings	129
	Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery, 1787	129
	Extract 1	129
	Extract 2	142
	Extract 3	150
	Extract 4	157
	Truth Self-Supported, 1802	168
	Extract 5	168
	from issues of The Axe Laid to the Root, 1817	170
	Extract 6	170
	Defence Against Blasphemy, 1820	184
	Extract 7	184
	The Horrors of Slavery, 1824	191
	Extract 8	191
	The History of Mary Prince, 1831	203
	Extract 9	203
	John Newton, William Cowper and others: the Olney Hymns in context	229
	Eighteenth-century hymns	229
	'The spacious firmament on high'	229
	'When I survey the won'drous Cross'	230
	'And can it be'	231
	Extracts from the Olney Hymns	232
	Preface	232
	Extracts from Book I, On Select Passages of Scripture	235
	Hymn 3	235
	Hymn 7	235
	Hymn 28	237
	Hymn 41	238
	Hymn 46	239
	Hymn 52	240
	Hymn 53	241
	Hymn 55	242
	Hymn 57	243
	Hymn 60	244
	Hymn 65	245
	Hymn 79	246
	Hymn 85	246
	Hymn 103	247
	Extracts from Book II, On Occasional Subjects	248
	Hymn 3	248
	Hymn 26	249
	Hymn 32	250
	Hymn 36	251
	Hymn 40	252
	Hymn 43	253
	Hymn 44	254
	Hymn 55	255
	Hymn 62	255
	Hymn 63	256
	Hymn 69	257
	Hymn 85	258
	Extracts from Book III, On the Rise, Progress, Changes and Comforts of the Spiritual Life	259
	Hymn 1	259
	Hymn 15	260
	Hymn 17	261
	Hymn 48	262
	Hymn 68	263
	Hymn 81	263
	Hymn 83	264
	Early nineteenth-century hymns	265
	Psalm 104 'O worship the King'	265
	'From Greenland's icy mountains'	266
	Psalm 72 'Hail to the Lord's anointed'	267
	William Wilberforce	270
	Extracts from Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians ... Contrasted with Real Christianity, 1797	270
	Extracts from A Letter on the Abolition of the Salve Trade; addressed to the Freeholders and Other Inhabitants of Yorkshire, 1807	292
	Extracts from An Appeal to the Religion, Justice and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the British Empire, in Behalf of the Negro Slaves in the West Indies, 1823	295
	Index	303