Essays
epub |eng | 2012-04-02 | Author:Donna Leon [Leon, Donna]

The Truth Is What You Choose It to Be ANY FOREIGNER WHO lives in Italy long enough (ten minutes will suffice) will come upon the word dietrologia. Roughly translated, this ...
( Category: Essays March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:John McPhee

Encounters with the Archdruid The designer’s logo for this volume shows three delta triangles perched on a line above a fulcrum of one triangle: . That equation starkly depicts McPhee’s ...
( Category: Essays March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-22 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

‘Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?’ ‘Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, ...
( Category: Social Policy March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-11 | Author:Jacques Ranciere

( Category: Essays March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-20 | Author:John Stephen Vaughan

CHAPTER VI. THE POPE'S ORDINARY AUTHORITY. 1. When the Holy Father speaks ex cathedrâ, and defines any doctrine concerning Faith or Morals, we are bound to receive his teaching with ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-13 | Author:Walter Pater [Walter Pater]

from THE DOCTRINE OF PLATO, PART I. The Theory of Ideas […] Of course we are not naturally formed to love, or be interested in, or attracted towards, the abstract ...
( Category: Essays March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lillian Ross

* * * The following morning, the door of the Hemingway suite was opened for me by Patrick, a shy young man of medium height, with large eyes and a ...
( Category: Authors March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-17 | Author:William Morris [Morris, William]

For art, if it has to die, has worn itself out, and its aim will be a thing forgotten; and its aim was to make work happy and rest fruitful. ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-12 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Stefan Zweig]

The hour is late, after midnight. The 25th of April, so exciting a day for Strasbourg with the declaration of war, is over, and it is really the 26th of ...
( Category: Essays March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-01 | Author:Goldsmith, Joel S. [Goldsmith, Joel S.]

ENTER THE SILENCE SILENCE IS POWER . Silence is the healing activity in individual consciousness. Silence is the creative Principle of all existence. In this Silence, you become receptive to ...
( Category: Essays March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Blauner

* * * Jonah * * * Jonah.1 [1] Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, [2] Arise, go to Nineveh, that great ...
( Category: Essays March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-14 | Author:Srinath Perur [Perur, Srinath]

We walk through a maze of narrow lanes in a residential area, an activity akin to some sort of urban spelunking. The paths are barely wide enough for a person ...
( Category: Essays March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:G.K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G.K.]

XXII. The Orthodox Barber Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it ...
( Category: European March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Stone

* * * Off the convention floor there were a few swell parties. One was thrown at the Fairmont Hotel by the National Rifle Association, a luncheon with free booze. ...
( Category: Essays March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-15 | Author:George Eliot [Eliot, George]

The very practical views of the peasants with regard to the demands of the people were in amusing contrast with the abstract theorizing of the educated townsmen. The peasant continually ...
( Category: Victorian March 12,2020 )