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The Last Days of Socrates by Plato & Plato
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 )
Selected Writings by Thomas Aquinas
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 )
Murder Trials by Cicero
mobi |eng | 2005-10-05 | Author:Cicero

It is pointed out, in an effort to refute me, that Publius Septimius Scaevola, when his penalty was being assessed after conviction on another totally unrelated charge,1 received a severer ...
( Category: Rome April 19,2020 )
The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics) by Plato
azw3 |eng | 2010-10-27 | Author: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 )
Plays and Fragments (Classics) by Menander
azw3 |eng | 2004-07-28 | Author:Menander

ACT ONE SCENE: a street in Corinth. There are two houses, one belonging to Myrrhine, the other to Polemon. Pataikos’s house may have been shown, but it is nowhere necessary ...
( Category: Playwriting 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 )
How Tell a Story and Other Essays by Mark Twain
epub |eng | 2016-03-16 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

#xa0; #xa0; Leading a Book Club So you want to lead a book club discussion or you want some questions to make you ponder the deeper meaning of this book. ...
( Category: Essays April 16,2020 )
The Prince of Minor Writers by Max Beerbohm
epub |eng | 2015-05-17 | Author:Max Beerbohm

DIMINUENDO In the year of grace 1890, and in the beautiful autumn of that year, I was a freshman at Oxford. I remember how my tutor asked me what lectures ...
( Category: European April 14,2020 )
Had I Known: Collected Essays by Barbara Ehrenreich
epub |eng | 2020-03-24 | Author:Barbara Ehrenreich [Ehrenreich, Barbara]

The question for feminists is: Is this new man what we wanted? Just a few years ago, feminists were, on the whole, disposed to welcome any change in a direction ...
( Category: Essays April 13,2020 )
About Face by Unknown
epub |eng | 2019-03-02 | Author:Unknown

WHAT AMOUNT OF SCREEN TIME IS APPROPRIATE? WHAT AMOUNT IS TOO MUCH? More often than not, troubled parents and loved ones reach out for professional help when alarmed by the ...
( Category: Essays April 13,2020 )
0399588248 (N) by Calvin Trillin
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2016-06-28 | Author:Calvin Trillin

“Well, you do the best you can,” the judge replied. The backers of Lee Otis Johnson maintain that, unlike someone caught with a hundred pounds of marijuana or convicted of ...
( Category: Satire April 13,2020 )
Final Draft by David Carr
epub |eng | | Author:David Carr

Oral Exam july 16, 1999 AFTER HE BOUGHT the Washington Post at auction in 1933, Eugene Meyer penned a set of principles for his new paper. Numbers 3 and 4 ...
( Category: Anthologies April 9,2020 )
Had I Known by Barbara Ehrenreich
epub |eng | 2020-02-04 | Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

The question for feminists is: Is this new man what we wanted? Just a few years ago, feminists were, on the whole, disposed to welcome any change in a direction ...
( Category: Essays April 7,2020 )
The Great English Short-Story Writers by Various
epub |eng | 2012-06-22 | Author:Various

A STORY OF SEVEN DEVILS[1] [Footnote 1: From Amos Kilbright and Other Stories. 1888.] Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902) The negro church which stood in the pine woods near the little ...
( Category: Essays April 6,2020 )
Dreaming of Elsewhere by Esi Edugyan
epub |eng | | Author:Esi Edugyan [Henry Kreisel Lecture Series]

II This brings me to the kind of belonging with which I have been most concerned recently, that of citizenship. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a citizen as, “an inhabitant, ...
( Category: Canadian April 5,2020 )

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