Author: Andrew Fuller
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Category : Theology, Doctrinal
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Dialogues, Letters and Essays on Various Subjects
Author: Andrew Fuller
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Category : Theology, Doctrinal
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Theology, Doctrinal
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Dialogues and Letters
Author: Seneca
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141914548
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks among the most eloquent and influential masters of Latin prose. This selection explores his thoughts on philosophy and the trials of life. In the Consolation to Helvia he strives to offer solace to his mother, following his exile in AD 41, while On the Shortness of Life and On Tranquillity of Mind are lucid and compelling explorations of Stoic thought. Witty and self-critical, the Letters - written to his young friend Lucilius - explore Seneca's struggle to acquire philosophical wisdom. A fascinating insight into one of the greatest minds of Ancient Rome, these works inspired writers and thinkers including Montaigne, Rousseau, and Bacon, and continue to intrigue and enlighten.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141914548
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks among the most eloquent and influential masters of Latin prose. This selection explores his thoughts on philosophy and the trials of life. In the Consolation to Helvia he strives to offer solace to his mother, following his exile in AD 41, while On the Shortness of Life and On Tranquillity of Mind are lucid and compelling explorations of Stoic thought. Witty and self-critical, the Letters - written to his young friend Lucilius - explore Seneca's struggle to acquire philosophical wisdom. A fascinating insight into one of the greatest minds of Ancient Rome, these works inspired writers and thinkers including Montaigne, Rousseau, and Bacon, and continue to intrigue and enlighten.
Dialogues and Essays
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199552401
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Stoic philosopher and tutor to the young emperor Nero, Seneca wrote moral essays - exercises in practical philosophy - on how to live in a troubled world. Strikingly applicable today, his thoughts on happiness and other subjects are here combined in a clear, modern translation with an introduction on Seneca's life and philosophy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199552401
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Stoic philosopher and tutor to the young emperor Nero, Seneca wrote moral essays - exercises in practical philosophy - on how to live in a troubled world. Strikingly applicable today, his thoughts on happiness and other subjects are here combined in a clear, modern translation with an introduction on Seneca's life and philosophy.
The Works of Joseph Addison: Dialogues on medals. Travels. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Discourse on ancient and modern learning. Of the Christian religion. Letters. Political writings
Author: Joseph Addison
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Dialogues on medals. Travels. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Discourse on ancient and modern learning. Of the Christian religion. Letters. Political writings
Author: Joseph Addison
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Why I Write
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: Renard Press Ltd
ISBN: 1913724263
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Publisher: Renard Press Ltd
ISBN: 1913724263
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Correspondence. An essay on German literature. A moral dialogue, for the use of the young nobility. Eulogium on Voltaire
Author: Frederick II (King of Prussia)
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Category : Prussia (Germany)
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Publisher:
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Category : Prussia (Germany)
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The Works of Jonathan Swift, Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published: Miscellaneous essays
Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Works. Containing additional letters, tracts, and poems not hitherto published
Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers
Author: Anne C. McDermott
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135187022X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
The eighteenth century is renowned for the publication of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language, which reference sources still call the first English dictionary. This collection demonstrates the inaccuracy of that claim, but its tenacity in the public mind testifies to how decisively Johnson formed our sense of what a dictionary is. The essays and articles in this volume examine the already flourishing tradition of English lexicography from which Johnson drew, as represented by Kersey, Bailey, and Martin, as well as the flourishing contemporary trade in encyclopedic, technical, pronunciation, and bilingual lexicons.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135187022X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
The eighteenth century is renowned for the publication of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language, which reference sources still call the first English dictionary. This collection demonstrates the inaccuracy of that claim, but its tenacity in the public mind testifies to how decisively Johnson formed our sense of what a dictionary is. The essays and articles in this volume examine the already flourishing tradition of English lexicography from which Johnson drew, as represented by Kersey, Bailey, and Martin, as well as the flourishing contemporary trade in encyclopedic, technical, pronunciation, and bilingual lexicons.