Essays
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 | 2010-08-15 | 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 | 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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )