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Dialogues and Letters (Penguin Classics) by Seneca
azw3 |eng | 2005-02-23 | Author:Seneca

On the Shortness of Life [Our time is so precious we must be sure to make the best use of it] [1] Most human beings, Paulinus,1 complain about the meanness ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
Fragments (Penguin Classics) by Heraclitus
azw3 |eng | 2003-10-27 | Author:Heraclitus

FRAGMENTS The Collected Wisdom of HERACLITUS 1 The Word proves those first hearing it as numb to understanding as the ones who have not heard. Yet all things follow from ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 19,2020 )
Timaeus and Critias (Penguin Classics) by Plato
azw3 |eng | 2008-08-27 | Author:Plato

23. The process of transformation further explained. The main bulk of each body tends to collect in a particular region. From all we have so far said about the four ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 19,2020 )
The Nibelungenlied (Classics) by Unknown
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-08-25 | Author:Unknown

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO How Dancwart slew Bloedelin BLOEDELIN’s stalwarts were all in readiness and they set out with a thousand hauberks and came to where Dancwart sat at table with the ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology April 19,2020 )
Illuminating History by Bernard Bailyn
epub |eng | 2020-03-06 | Author:Bernard Bailyn

Two buildings in the Ephrata Cloister, Saron, the sisters’ dormitory (1743) and Sall, the meetinghouse (1741), and a cell for the solitaries. Especially elusive but to Beissel profoundly important were ...
( Category: Historiography April 19,2020 )
Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Venerable Bede the
azw3 |eng | 2003-06-25 | Author:Venerable, Bede the [Venerable, Bede the]

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: Christianity April 19,2020 )
The Conquest of New Spain (Classics) by Bernal Díaz
azw3 |eng | 2003-06-25 | Author:Bernal Díaz

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: Europe April 19,2020 )
Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) by Aquinas Thomas
azw3 |eng | 1998-06-24 | Author:Aquinas, Thomas [Aquinas, Thomas]

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 )
The Age of Bede (Penguin Classics) by Bede
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-08-04 | Author:Bede

CHAPTER 35 Wilfrid encourages his brethren WILFRID, God’s beloved, addressed his comrades thus: ‘Keep in mind and recall to the brethren those days of old, how we read in the ...
( Category: Saints April 19,2020 )
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers (Classics) by Psellus Michael
azw3 |eng | 1979-09-26 | Author:Psellus, Michael [Psellus, Michael]

THE EMPEROR’S PERSONAL APPEARANCE It was a marvel of beauty that Nature brought into being in the person of this man, so justly proportioned, so harmoniously fashioned, that there was ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State April 19,2020 )
City of God (Penguin Classics) by Augustine
azw3 |eng | 2003-11-26 | Author:Augustine

( Category: Saints April 19,2020 )
The Book of Margery Kempe (Classics) by Kempe Margery
azw3 |eng | 2005-07-27 | Author:Kempe, Margery [Kempe, Margery]

Chapter 65 Our Lord Jesus Christ said to this creature, ‘Daughter, you shall well see when you are in heaven with me that no man is damned unless he is ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
The History of the Franks (Classics) by Gregory Of Tours
azw3 |eng | 1974-11-27 | Author:Gregory Of Tours

BOOK VIII HERE BEGIN THE CHAPTER-HEADINGS OF BOOK VIII 1. The visit made by King Guntram to Orleans. 2. How the bishops were presented to him and how he had ...
( Category: France April 19,2020 )
Medieval Writings on Secular Women (Penguin Classics) by Various Authors
azw3 |eng | 2011-03-30 | Author:Various Authors

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: Essays & Correspondence April 19,2020 )
The Analects (Penguin Classics) by Confucius
azw3 |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Confucius

11.23 When Confucius found his life under threat in Kuang, Yan Hui fell behind. [Later, when they reunited,] Confucius said, “I thought you were dead.” Yan Hui replied, “With you, ...
( Category: Confucianism April 19,2020 )

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