Monatsarchive: Oktober 2017

Familiar Studies of Men and Books

Familiar Studies of Men and Books – Robert Louis Stevenson

Of the nine essays collected in this volume, seven had appeared in the ‘Cornhill Magazine.’ The whole set range in date from 1874 to 1881, and thus belong to the period of Stevenson’s life during which the papers in Virginibus Puerisque were written. The ‘ familiar studies ‘ are Victor Hugo’s Romances, Some Aspects Of Robert Burns, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Yoshido Torajiro, François Villon, Charles of Orleans, Samuel Pepys, and John Knox and Women. In arranging them for republication R. L. S. prefaced them by some notes of self-criticism, in which he is at much pains to show where, as he thought, he had accorded less than full Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Fables

Fables – Robert Louis Stevenson

In this volume of Stevenson constantly deals with this elusive but mysterious element in human thought; but he holds it in close contact with the soundest kind of good sense. The little imaginary dialogue or story may carry us entirely out of the real world, but is certain in the end to leave us face to face with some fundamental truth of life or with some frequent comment on men or affairs. The book is small and the fables are but a fragment of the work as originally designed, but nothing could be more characteristic of the man.

Fables

Fables

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Fables.

ISBN: 9783849676292.

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The Ebb-Tide

The Ebb-Tide – Robert Louis Stevenson

In 1890, the year after first reaching Samoa but before he had properly settled there, Stevenson and his stepson planned and began what they intended to be a huge novel, a black, ugly, trampling, violent story, full of strange scenes and striking characters. It took them until 1893 to finish the story. It seems to be that Stevenson realized he had taken his spade too deep in the black depths of human nature. His metier had mostly been the dark primitive passions of the race, but not even the conception of pure evil in Mr. Hyde is more repulsive than the trio of villainy in The Ebb Tide, where it is heightened against the Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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A Child’s Garden of Verses

A Child’s Garden of Verses – Robert Louis Stevenson

In “A Child’s Garden of Verses” all sorts of curious child’s thoughts, quaint ideas and humor are jumbled in together and jostle one another on the pages bubbling over with mirth and sunny expression. Yet we can scarcely read a line without perceiving under all this the warmth and depth of heart of the man, Stevenson. If we call to mind what he says in one of his essays, that the true mark of the romancist is ” to satisfy the nameless longings of the reader and to obey the ideal laws of the day dream,” then the farther we read the more we are struck by his wealth of sympathy. Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Treatise on the Laws

Treatise on the Laws – Cicero

As a companion work to the Republic, Cicero wrote the ‘Treatise on the Laws’, De Legibus, which was almost certainly not published in Cicero’s lifetime, and possibly had not received the last touches when he died. There are three books extant, with gaps in them; but a fifth book is quoted. While the Republic describes the ideal state, the Laws discusses its statutes, so that the later work sometimes repeats the thought of the former. Thus the first book of the Laws lays as a foundation for the whole treatment of laws the thesis that all law is derived from God, through our inborn sense of justice; and this is also the subject of Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Treatise on the Commonwealth

Treatise on the Commonwealth – Cicero

Cicero’s comprehensive treatise on the Commonwealth known as De Republica is a work whose direct and practical purpose was to arouse Roman citizens to the dangers which then threatened destruction to the liberties of their country. In appealing to his countrymen “to rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things,” the inspired patriot did not hesitate to promise that all patriotic and philanthropic statesmen should not only be rewarded on earth by the approval of their own consciences and the applause of all good citizens, but by immortal glory in a realm beyond the grave.

Treatise on the Commonwealth

Treatise on the Commonwealth

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Treatise on the Commonwealth.

ISBN: 9783849676254.

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The Orations Volume 4

The Orations Volume 4 – Cicero

Cicero is considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists. His works rank among the most influential in European culture, and today still constitute one of the most important bodies of primary material for the writing and revision of Roman history. This is volume four out of four with his brilliant orations.

The Orations Volume 4

The Orations Volume 4

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The Orations Volume 4.

ISBN: 9783849676247.

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Biography of Cicero (from Wikipedia):

Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman politician and lawyer, who served as consul in the year 63 BC. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Orations Volume 3

The Orations Volume 3 – Cicero

Cicero is considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists. His works rank among the most influential in European culture, and today still constitute one of the most important bodies of primary material for the writing and revision of Roman history. This is volume three out of four with his brilliant orations.

The Orations Volume 3

The Orations Volume 3

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The Orations Volume 3.

ISBN: 9783849676230.

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Biography of Cicero (from Wikipedia):

Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman politician and lawyer, who served as consul in the year 63 BC. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Orations Volume 2

The Orations Volume 2 – Cicero

Cicero is considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists. His works rank among the most influential in European culture, and today still constitute one of the most important bodies of primary material for the writing and revision of Roman history. This is volume two out of four with his brilliant orations.

The Orations Volume 2

The Orations Volume 2

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The Orations Volume 2.

ISBN: 9783849676223.

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Biography of Cicero (from Wikipedia):

Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman politician and lawyer, who served as consul in the year 63 BC. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Orations Volume 1

The Orations Volume 1 – Cicero

Cicero is considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists. His works rank among the most influential in European culture, and today still constitute one of the most important bodies of primary material for the writing and revision of Roman history. This is volume one out of four with his brilliant orations.

The Orations Volume 1

The Orations Volume 1

Format: Paperback.

The Orations Volume 1.

ISBN: 9783849676216.

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Biography of Cicero (from Wikipedia):

Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman politician and lawyer, who served as consul in the year 63 BC. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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