Author: Angelo Poliziano
Publisher: I Tatti Renaissance Library
ISBN: 9780674244962
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the Miscellanies, the great Italian Renaissance scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano penned two sets of mini-essays focused on lexical or textual problems. He solves these with his characteristic deep learning and brash criticism. The two volumes presented here are the first translation of both collection into any modern language
Miscellanies
Author: Angelo Poliziano
Publisher: I Tatti Renaissance Library
ISBN: 9780674244962
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the Miscellanies, the great Italian Renaissance scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano penned two sets of mini-essays focused on lexical or textual problems. He solves these with his characteristic deep learning and brash criticism. The two volumes presented here are the first translation of both collection into any modern language
Publisher: I Tatti Renaissance Library
ISBN: 9780674244962
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the Miscellanies, the great Italian Renaissance scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano penned two sets of mini-essays focused on lexical or textual problems. He solves these with his characteristic deep learning and brash criticism. The two volumes presented here are the first translation of both collection into any modern language
My Miscellanies
Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher: London : [s.n.
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher: London : [s.n.
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Schott's Quintessential Miscellany
Author: Ben Schott
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK
ISBN: 9781408815779
Category : Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Introducing the all-new, indispensable collection of necessary trivia, uncommon knowledge, and vital irrelevance from Schott--the inventor of the Miscellany genre.
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK
ISBN: 9781408815779
Category : Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Introducing the all-new, indispensable collection of necessary trivia, uncommon knowledge, and vital irrelevance from Schott--the inventor of the Miscellany genre.
The Miscellanies
Author: Jonathan Edwards
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Throughout his adult life Jonathan Edwards kept a series of personal theological notebooks on a wide variety of miscellaneous subjects. This volume includes the notebook entries written during the eventful and tumultuous years 1740-1751, when Edwards was plagued by a series of bitter controversies with his Northampton congregation that culminated in his dismissal. This was also the period during which he witnessed, documented, and pondered the surprising revivals of the Great Awakening, as well as their precipitous decline.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Throughout his adult life Jonathan Edwards kept a series of personal theological notebooks on a wide variety of miscellaneous subjects. This volume includes the notebook entries written during the eventful and tumultuous years 1740-1751, when Edwards was plagued by a series of bitter controversies with his Northampton congregation that culminated in his dismissal. This was also the period during which he witnessed, documented, and pondered the surprising revivals of the Great Awakening, as well as their precipitous decline.
Schott's Original Miscellany
Author: Ben Schott
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
ISBN: 9781582343495
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Impossible to read at one sitting, but utterly unputdownable, Schott's Original Miscellany is a unique collection of fabulous trivia. What other book boasts an index that includes shoelace lengths, sign language, and the seven deadly sins; dueling and dwarves; the hair color of Miss America and the Hampton Court maze? Where else can you find, packed onto one page, the names of golf strokes, a history of the Hat Tax, cricketing dismissals, nouns of assemblage, an unofficial motto of the US Postal Service, and the flag of Guadeloupe? Where else but Schott's Original Miscellany will you stumble across John Lennon's cat, the supplier of bagpipes to the Queen, the labors of Hercules, and the brutal methods of murder encountered by Miss Marple? A book like no other, Schott's Original Miscellany is entertaining, informative, unpredictable, and utterly addictive.
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
ISBN: 9781582343495
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Impossible to read at one sitting, but utterly unputdownable, Schott's Original Miscellany is a unique collection of fabulous trivia. What other book boasts an index that includes shoelace lengths, sign language, and the seven deadly sins; dueling and dwarves; the hair color of Miss America and the Hampton Court maze? Where else can you find, packed onto one page, the names of golf strokes, a history of the Hat Tax, cricketing dismissals, nouns of assemblage, an unofficial motto of the US Postal Service, and the flag of Guadeloupe? Where else but Schott's Original Miscellany will you stumble across John Lennon's cat, the supplier of bagpipes to the Queen, the labors of Hercules, and the brutal methods of murder encountered by Miss Marple? A book like no other, Schott's Original Miscellany is entertaining, informative, unpredictable, and utterly addictive.
Miscellanies (Stromata)
Author: Clement of Alexandria
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781612034430
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Stromata was the third in the trilogy of Clement of Alexandria and continues with the individual cases of conduct began in Paedagogus. Protrepticus, the first in the trilogy, deals with the religious basis of Christian morality and lays a foundation in the knowledge of divine truth. Paedagogus, the second and Stromata, third with the individual cases of conduct. As with Epictetus, true virtue shows itself with him in its external evidences by a natural, simple, and moderate way of living. Titus Flavius Clemens, known as Clement of Alexandria, was a Christian theologian who taught at the Catechetical School of Alexandria. A convert to Christianity, he was an educated man who was familiar with classical Greek philosophy and literature. Clement was influenced by Hellenistic philosophy to a greater extent than any other Christian thinker of his time, and in particular by Plato and the Stoics.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781612034430
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Stromata was the third in the trilogy of Clement of Alexandria and continues with the individual cases of conduct began in Paedagogus. Protrepticus, the first in the trilogy, deals with the religious basis of Christian morality and lays a foundation in the knowledge of divine truth. Paedagogus, the second and Stromata, third with the individual cases of conduct. As with Epictetus, true virtue shows itself with him in its external evidences by a natural, simple, and moderate way of living. Titus Flavius Clemens, known as Clement of Alexandria, was a Christian theologian who taught at the Catechetical School of Alexandria. A convert to Christianity, he was an educated man who was familiar with classical Greek philosophy and literature. Clement was influenced by Hellenistic philosophy to a greater extent than any other Christian thinker of his time, and in particular by Plato and the Stoics.
Miscellanies
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Sylvae
Author: John Dryden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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The Writings of Clement of Alexandria
Author: Saint Clement (of Alexandria)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The Works ...
Author: Jonathan Edwards
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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