Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141939184
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre programmes, visiting cards, draft manuscripts and even bills ... Goethe was probably the last true ‘Renaissance Man’. Although employed as a Privy Councillor at the Duke of Weimar’s court, where he helped oversee major mining, road-building and irrigation projects, he also painted, directed plays, carried out research in anatomy, botany and optics – and still found time to produce masterpieces in every literary genre. His fourteen hundred Maxims and Reflections reveal some of his deepest thought on art, ethics, literature and natural science, but also his immediate reactions to books, chance encounters or his administrative work. Although variable in quality, the vast majority have a freshness and immediacy which vividly conjure up Goethe the man. They make an ideal introduction to one of the greatest of European writers.
Maxims and Reflections
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141939184
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre programmes, visiting cards, draft manuscripts and even bills ... Goethe was probably the last true ‘Renaissance Man’. Although employed as a Privy Councillor at the Duke of Weimar’s court, where he helped oversee major mining, road-building and irrigation projects, he also painted, directed plays, carried out research in anatomy, botany and optics – and still found time to produce masterpieces in every literary genre. His fourteen hundred Maxims and Reflections reveal some of his deepest thought on art, ethics, literature and natural science, but also his immediate reactions to books, chance encounters or his administrative work. Although variable in quality, the vast majority have a freshness and immediacy which vividly conjure up Goethe the man. They make an ideal introduction to one of the greatest of European writers.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141939184
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre programmes, visiting cards, draft manuscripts and even bills ... Goethe was probably the last true ‘Renaissance Man’. Although employed as a Privy Councillor at the Duke of Weimar’s court, where he helped oversee major mining, road-building and irrigation projects, he also painted, directed plays, carried out research in anatomy, botany and optics – and still found time to produce masterpieces in every literary genre. His fourteen hundred Maxims and Reflections reveal some of his deepest thought on art, ethics, literature and natural science, but also his immediate reactions to books, chance encounters or his administrative work. Although variable in quality, the vast majority have a freshness and immediacy which vividly conjure up Goethe the man. They make an ideal introduction to one of the greatest of European writers.
Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
Author: Howard Tayler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945120039
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Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN: 9781945120039
Category :
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Pages :
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Maxims of La Rochefoucauld
Author: François duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Category : Maxims
Languages : fr
Pages : 228
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Category : Maxims
Languages : fr
Pages : 228
Book Description
Maxims of Life and Business
Author: John Wanamaker
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Category : Business ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
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Category : Business ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Bible Illustrations: Consisting of Apophthegms, Maxims, Proverbs ... Anecdotes, Etc., Selected ... Arranged and Grouped Under Appropriate Scripture Passages. By Rev. James Lee. Subscribers'edition. [With the Text.]
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Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Collected Maxims and Other Reflections
Author: Fran^cois de La Rochefoucauld
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199540004
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
This is the fullest collection of La Rochefoucauld's writings ever published in English, and includes the first complete translation of the Miscellaneous Reflections. A table of alternative maxim numbers and an index of topics help the reader to locate any maxim quickly.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199540004
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
This is the fullest collection of La Rochefoucauld's writings ever published in English, and includes the first complete translation of the Miscellaneous Reflections. A table of alternative maxim numbers and an index of topics help the reader to locate any maxim quickly.
Napoleon's Maxims of War
Author: Napoleon I (Emperor of the French)
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Planet Mercenary Role-Playing Game
Author: Howard Tayler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945120046
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN: 9781945120046
Category :
Languages : en
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Baltimore and Ohio Magazine
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Mansfield's Book of Manly Men
Author: Stephen Mansfield
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 1595553746
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Witty, compelling, and shrewd, Mansfield’s Book of Manly Men is about resurrecting your inborn, timeless, essential, masculine self. The Western world is in a crisis of discarded honor, dubious integrity, and faux manliness. It is time to recover what we have lost. Stephen Mansfield shows us the way. Working with timeless maxims and stirring examples of manhood from ages past, Mansfield issues a trumpet call of manliness fit for our times. In Mansfield’s Book of Manly Men, you’ll see that: This book is about doing. It is about action. It is about knowing the deeds that comprise manhood and doing those deeds. Habits have to be formed, and actions have to be aligned with the grace received. “My goal in this book is simple,” Mansfield says. “I want to identify what a genuine man does?the virtues, the habits, the disciplines, the duties, the actions of true manhood?and then call men to do it.”
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 1595553746
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Witty, compelling, and shrewd, Mansfield’s Book of Manly Men is about resurrecting your inborn, timeless, essential, masculine self. The Western world is in a crisis of discarded honor, dubious integrity, and faux manliness. It is time to recover what we have lost. Stephen Mansfield shows us the way. Working with timeless maxims and stirring examples of manhood from ages past, Mansfield issues a trumpet call of manliness fit for our times. In Mansfield’s Book of Manly Men, you’ll see that: This book is about doing. It is about action. It is about knowing the deeds that comprise manhood and doing those deeds. Habits have to be formed, and actions have to be aligned with the grace received. “My goal in this book is simple,” Mansfield says. “I want to identify what a genuine man does?the virtues, the habits, the disciplines, the duties, the actions of true manhood?and then call men to do it.”