History
epub |eng | 2010-05-14 | Author:Plutarch

ON GOD’S SLOWNESS TO PUNISH [548A] [1] Once our Epicurus1 had finished speaking, Quietus,2 he [B] didn’t give anyone a chance to respond, but since we happened to be at ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:David Womersley [Gibbon, Edward]

[Chapters XLII-XLIX] In these chapters Gibbon’s widening vision encompasses a series of nations on the empire’s eastern and northern frontiers, while at the same time underlining grievous depopulation at the ...
( Category: Historiography April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-11 | Author:Pausanias

[7] When the Phigalians heard the oracle that was brought to them, they honoured Demeter more than they ever had before, and they persuaded Onatas son of Mikon of Aigina, ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Plato & Plato

He struck his chest, and his heart he scolded thus: 94e “Bear up, my heart! Much worse you have endured.”125 Do you think Homer composed these lines in the belief ...
( Category: Philosophers April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-14 | Author:Medieval Writings on Secular Women (Penguin Classics) [Retail]

62. A Wife Defends the Property Rights of herself and her Husband, Barcelona, 17 October 987 This document is written against the background of the aftermath of Al-Mansur’s sacking of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Bede

Chapter 30: During a plague the East Saxons lapse into idolatry, but are quickly recalled from their errors by Bishop Jaruman [a.d. 665] At the same time, the kings Sighere ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-02 | Author:Andrew Louth

The Martyrdom of Polycarp From the colony of God’s Church1 at SMYRNA, To the colony of God’s Church at PHILOMELIUM,2 and to all colonies of the Holy Catholic Church everywhere. ...
( Category: History April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Thomas Malory

Chapter 2 How Sir Launcelot and Sir Gawain were wroth because Sir Kay mocked Beaumains, and of a damosel which desired a knight to fight for a lady Thereat was ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

The Entrance into Mexico Early next day we left Iztapalapa with a large escort of these great Caciques, and followed the causeway, which is eight yards wide and goes so ...
( Category: Military April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Thomas Aquinas

17. Definitions of Soul. On Aristotle’s De anima, 2, 1–3(1268) It was while he was still teaching at Santa Sabina in Rome that Thomas Aquinas wrote his commentary on Aristotle’s ...
( Category: Renaissance April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-04-18 | Author:Sei Shonagon

The woman he gazes at in secret is bending forward, so that her hair falls away from her head and hangs perhaps six inches before her face. It glows there ...
( Category: Asia April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-30 | Author:Geza Vermes [Vermes, Geza]

HYMN 19 (FORMERLY 15) [I thank Thee, O Lord] … XVIII (formerly X) … and nothing exists except by Thy will; none can consider [Thy deep secrets] or contemplate Thy ...
( Category: Dead Sea Scrolls April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-18 | Author:Michael Bird [Michael J. Bird]

The rumour that the magazine was on fire and that a second explosion was imminent spread rapidly and resulted in a further wave of terror and panic throughout the city. ...
( Category: Disaster Relief April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David Lochbaum [Lochbaum, David]

On the opening day of the school year on April 6, 2011, a first-grader puts on her hat during an elementary school enrollment ceremony in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture. Despite the ...
( Category: Environmental Science April 19,2020 )