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The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Volume 4, Correspondence and Papers 1782 – 1786
The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Volume 4, Correspondence and Papers 1782 – 1786 – Paul Leicester Ford, Thomas Jefferson The political theories and usages originated or adopted by Thomas Jefferson have shown such persistence and permanence in their value to our people and government as to demonstrate a far deeper and broader principle underlying them […]
Manual of a Christian Knight
Manual of a Christian Knight – Desiderius Erasmus We get some sense of things which were moving deeply in Erasmus‘ life from his „Manual of a Christian Knight.“ We find here a characteristic criticism of religious forms taking the place of religious substance. We find a tremendous emphasis upon the intelligence which in no way […]
The Praise of Folly
The Praise of Folly – Desiderius Erasmus Erasmus reached England after a stay in Italy early in the summer of 1510. Soon afterwards, in Thomas More’s house at Bucklersbury, he rapidly wrote his famous satire, the Encomium Moriae, or „Praise of Folly,“ in which Folly celebrates her own praises as the great source of human […]
The Complaint of Peace
The Complaint of Peace – Desiderius Erasmus Desiderius Erasmus was a very human man. A humanist, who was no more humane than the rest of the wits and cynics of his time, there was in him a plenty of human weaknesses and uglinesses. Nevertheless he does strike occasionally a note that is genuinely human, universally […]
The Colloquies, Volume 2
The Colloquies, Volume 2 – Desiderius Erasmus Erasmus‘ services to a new way of learning took various forms. He wrote school-books, bringing out his view that boys were kept too long over grammar, and ought to begin reading some good author as soon as possible. His own „Colloquies“ were meant partly as models of colloquial […]
The Colloquies, Volume 1
The Colloquies, Volume 1 – Desiderius Erasmus Erasmus‘ services to a new way of learning took various forms. He wrote school-books, bringing out his view that boys were kept too long over grammar, and ought to begin reading some good author as soon as possible. His own „Colloquies“ were meant partly as models of colloquial […]
The Works of Epictetus
The Works of Epictetus Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher who taught that philosophy is a way of life and not just a theoretical discipline. To Epictetus, all external events are beyond our control; we should accept calmly and dispassionately whatever happens. However, individuals are responsible for their own actions, which they can examine and […]
De Monarchia
De Monarchia – Dante Alighieri The treatise ‚De monarchia‘, in three books, originally written in Latin, here in an English translation, contains the mature statement of Dante’s political ideas. In it he propounds the theory that the supremacy of the emperor is derived from the supremacy of the Roman people over the world, which was […]
The Debates in the several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Vol. 5
The Debates in the several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Vol. 5 – Jonathan Elliot The five volumes furnish a collection of the Debates and Proceedings which took place in the different states, on the adoption of the Federal Constitution, as submitted by the General Convention, on the 17th of September, […]
The Debates in the several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Vol. 4
The Debates in the several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Vol. 4 – Jonathan Elliot The five volumes furnish a collection of the Debates and Proceedings which took place in the different states, on the adoption of the Federal Constitution, as submitted by the General Convention, on the 17th of September, […]