Author: The Elder Pliny
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781372146084
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 716

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Author: The Elder Pliny
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN: 9780344601583
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Steve Roud
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141941626
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1004

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Are black cats lucky or unlucky? What should you do when you hear the first cuckoo? Since when have people believed that it's unlucky to shoot an albatross? Why does breaking a mirror lead to misfortune? This fascinating collection answers these and many other questions about the world of superstitions and forms an endlessly browsable guide to a subject that continues to obsess and intrigue.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1180

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Author: Moshe Blidstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019879195X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303

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This study examines how early Christian writers drew on ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions to develop their own ideas about purity, purification, defilement, and disgust.

Author: Edward Jayne
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0761869670
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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An Archaeology of Disbelief traces the origin of secular philosophy to pre-Socratic Greek philosophers who proposed a physical universe without supernatural intervention. Some mentioned the Homeric gods, but others did not. Atomists and Sophists identified themselves as agnostics if not outright atheists, and in reaction Plato featured transcendent spiritual authority. However, Aristotle offered a physical cosmology justified by evidence from a variety of scientific fields. He also revisited many pre-Socratic assumptions by proposing that existence consists of mass in motion without temporal or spatial boundaries. In many ways his analysis anticipated Newton’s concept of gravity, Darwin’s concept of evolution, and Einstein’s concept of relativity. Aristotle’s follower Strato invented scientific experimentation. He also inspired the pursuit of science and advocated the rejection of all beliefs unconfirmed by science. Carneades in turn distorted Aristotelian logic to ridicule the god concept, and Lucretius proposed a grand secular cosmology in his epic De Rerum Natura. In the two dialogues, Academica and De Natura Deorum, Cicero provided a useful retrospective assessment of this entire movement. The Roman Empire and advent of Christianity effectively terminated Greek philosophy except for Platonism reinvented as stoicism. Widespread destruction of libraries eliminated most early secular texts, and the Inquisition played a major role in preventing secular inquiry. Aquinas later justified Aristotle in light of Christian doctrine, and secularism’s revival was postponed until the seventeenth century’s paradoxical reaction against his interpretation of Aristotle. Today it nevertheless remains possible to trace western civilization’s remarkable secular achievement to its initial breakthrough in ancient Greece. The purpose of this book is accordingly to trace the origin and development of its secular thought through close examination of texts that still exist today in light of Aristotle’s writings.

Author: Saint Augustine
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 10232

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e-artnow presents to you this unique collection of fundamental religious works presenting the theology, philosophy and spirituality of Christianity:_x000D_ The Philosophy of Religion:_x000D_ The Confessions of St. Augustine (Saint Augustine)_x000D_ On the Incarnation (Athanasius of Alexandria)_x000D_ On the Soul and the Resurrection (Gregory of Nyssa)_x000D_ On the Holy Spirit (Basil the Great)_x000D_ Pastoral Care (Pope Gregory I)_x000D_ An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (John of Damascus)_x000D_ Summa Theologica (Saint Thomas Aquinas)_x000D_ The Imitation of Christ (Thomas à Kempis)_x000D_ A Treatise on Christian Liberty (Martin Luther)_x000D_ The Interior Castle (St. Teresa of Ávila)_x000D_ The Practice of the Presence of God (Brother Lawrence)_x000D_ The Age of Reason (Thomas Paine)_x000D_ The Natural History of Religion (David Hume)_x000D_ Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (David Hume)_x000D_ The Religious Affections (Jonathan Edwards)_x000D_ The Essence of Christianity (Ludwig Feuerbach)_x000D_ Beyond Good and Evil (Friedrich Nietzsche)_x000D_ All of Grace (Charles Spurgeon)_x000D_ Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness (Andrew Murray)_x000D_ Orthodoxy (G. K. Chesterton)_x000D_ The Everlasting Man (G. K. Chesterton)_x000D_ The Sovereignty of God (Arthur Pink)_x000D_ The Kingdom of God Is Within You (Leo Tolstoy)_x000D_ Three Essays on Religion (John Stuart Mill)_x000D_ The Spirituality of a Man:_x000D_ The Conduct of Life (Ralph Waldo Emerson)_x000D_ Lessons in Truth (Emilie Cady)_x000D_ As a Man Thinketh (James Allen)_x000D_ Thoughts are Things (Prentice Mulford)_x000D_ The Game of Life and How to Play It (Florence Scovel Shinn)_x000D_ A New Christ (Wallace D. Wattles)_x000D_ The Swamp Angel (Prentice Mulford)_x000D_

Author: R. Knowles
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403913641
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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Argument was the basis of Renaissance education; both rhetoric and dialectic permeated early modern humanist culture, including drama. This study approaches Shakespeare's history plays by analyzing the use of argument in the plays and examining the importance of argument in Renaissance culture. Knowles shows how analysis of arguments of speech and action take us to the core of the plays, in which Shakespeare interrogates the nature of political morality and truth as grounded in the history of what men do and say.

Author: James Riddick Partington
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801859540
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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For nearly 600 years, from battles of the early 14th century to the dropping of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, firearms derived from gunpowder and other chemicals defined the frightful extent of war. In this classic work, first published in 1960, distinguished historian James Riddick Partington provides a worldwide survey of the evolution of incendiary devices, Greek fire, and gunpowder. 21 illustrations.

Author: John Lemprière
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2356

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"A Classical Dictionary" by John Lemprière. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.