Lord Acton

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Acton as a Professor

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Works by Lord Acton Subject Area: History

Source: Acton's Lectures on Modern History, ed. John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence (London: Macmillan, 1906).

INTRODUCTION. LORD ACTON AS PROFESSOR

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Acton as an Historian of Freedom

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Source: From Acton's The History of Freedom and Other Essays, ed. John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence (London: Macmillan, 1907).

Introduction by Figgis and Vere…
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Acton on Machiavelli

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Works by Lord Acton, Political Theory

Source: An essay in Lord Acton's The History of Freedom and Other Essays, ed. John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence (London: Macmillan, 1907).

VII. INTRODUCTION…
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Acton on Moral Judgements in History

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Lord Acton Subject Area: History

Source: John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton, Historical Essays and Studies, by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, edited by John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence…

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Acton’s Education

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Works by Mises and Lord Acton

Source: An essay in Toward Liberty: Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday, September 29, 1971, vol. 2, ed. F.A. Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Leonrad R.…

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Acton’s Ideas as revealed by his Correspondence

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Lord Acton Subject Area: History

Source: John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton, Selections from the Correspondence of the First Lord Acton, edited with and Introduction by John Neville Figgis and Renald Vere…

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Acton’s Inaugural Lecture on History

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Source: Acton's Lectures on Modern History, ed. John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence (London: Macmillan, 1906).

INAUGURAL LECTURE ON THE STUDY OF HISTORY*…
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Acton, The History of Freedom in Antiquity

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Source: From Acton's The History of Freedom and Other Essays, ed. John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence (London: Macmillan, 1907).

I. THE HISTORY OF FREEDOM IN…
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Acton, The History of Freedom in Christianity

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Source: From Acton's The History of Freedom and Other Essays, ed. John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence (London: Macmillan, 1907).

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Acton-Creighton Correspondence (1887)

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Lord Acton (1832-1902)

Source: Add. Mss. 6871.

Copyright: The text is in the public domain.

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Acton: A Biographical Memoir

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Source: INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR to John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton, Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone, with an Introductory Memoir by…

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