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...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...s Shawn) felt an empathy as deep as the gods; and the reconstructed walls of ancient buildings that he could see into and imagine long deceased empero... ...like a Chinamen who had sucked up too much sun. After the revelation he had listened to him repeatedly talk about wishing that he had been born a wom... ... "Raindrops keep falling on my head" and other lugubrious folk melodies. He listened. He cried on her white blanket as if she had banished him foreve... ...lves on his lap while above the couch was a television showing a drama of an ancient Korean period linked with reverberating melancholic Buddhist melo... ... an old man in ancient garb. At the age of four she could not recognize the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus sculpted into the cloud or a cloud shaped o... ...other non-Parmenidetian activity that was paradise to the masses and vile to philosophers and contemplatives would have caused her to grab the nearest... ...his time. You have a body and garments that I would ascribe as being Ancient Greek and godessesque. So, what is it?" "So haughty and so cold. And I...

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...The following treatise on Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism has been prepared to supply a need much felt in the English language by students of Greek philosophy. For while other schools of Greek philosophy have been exhaustively and critically discussed by English sch...

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...The Historical Relations Of Sextus Empiricus-Introductory paragraph.—The name of Sextus Empiricus. His profession.—The time when he lived.—The place of his birth.—The seat of the Sceptical School while Sextus was at its head.—The character of the wri...

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... SEXTUS EMPIRICUS AND GREEK SCEPTICISM A Thesis accepted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Bern Switzerland, November... ...ty of Bern Switzerland, November 1897 BY MARY MILLS PATRICK PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE, CONSTANTINOPLE TURKEY This Thesis is accomp... ...STANTINOPLE TURKEY This Thesis is accompanied by a Translation from the Greek of the First Book of the "Pyrrhonic Sketches" by Sextus Empiricus... ...LEXANDRA STREET PREFACE The following treatise on Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism has been prepared to supply a need much felt in the Eng... ...ven by both Fabricius and Bekker. References to Diogenes Laertius and other ancient works have been carefully verified. The principal modern authors... ...e that he was not named Empiricus for that reason. There is one instance in ancient writings where Empiricus is known as a simple proper name. [1] ... ...ury B.C. [6] The Basilides referred to by Sextus may be one mentioned in a list of twenty Stoics, in a fragment of Diogenes Laertius, recently publ... ... direction of thought, is demonstrated by its formulated teachings, and the list given by Diogenes Laertius of its principal leaders, [1] and by ref... ...rected agai nst the sciences in general, and the other against the dogmatic philosophers. The six books composing the first of these are written res...

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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............................................................................................................................................. 6 THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE ...................................................................................................................................... 9 THE LETTERS OF MONTAIGNE .....................................................

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to di...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................................

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...nd that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife t... ...hree days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every pers... ...t nine years of my life atone for an instant. . . ” She dropped her eyes and listened, expecting what he would say, as it were beseeching him in some ... ...an express how much I am to blame! But, Dolly, forgive me!” She sat down. He listened to her hard, heavy breathing, and he was unutterably sorry for h... ...the cause of failure of crops, of the adherence of cer tain tribes to their ancient beliefs, etc.—questions which, but for the convenient interventio... ... to study all the classics and theologians and tragedians and historians and philosophers, and, you know, all the intellectual work that came in his w... ...low outfield lying bathed in the slanting sunshine, and beyond it the distant ancient forest flecked with yellow and melting into the 534 Anna Karenina... ...ead thoroughly Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer, the philosophers who gave a non materialistic explanation of life. Their idea... ...afterwards, on reading a Catholic writer’s history of the church, and then a Greek orthodox writer’s history of the church, and seeing that the two ch...

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...ederick C. Ahrens and Abdel Ross Wentz INTRODUCTION The primary importance of this treatise for the present-day reader of Luther lies in its courage... ... for the present-day reader of Luther lies in its courageous interpretation of the sacraments. But it is important also for its place in Luther’s pro... ...ion in both kinds and other weighty subjects: here I must take pains lest I listen in vain to these “eminent teachers” 8 of mine. A certain Italian... ...ee magpies are addressing me, the first in good Latin, the second in better Greek, the third in purest Hebrew. ... ... friendly and an unfriendly spirit? A fine fellow, indeed, as you know! But listen to our distinguished distinguisher of “kinds,” 17 to whom the dec... ...ic Encyclopedia (15 vols.), IV, 650. 19 Anaxagoras (circa 500–428 B.C.), a Greek philosopher, was accused of atheism by his contemporaries because o... ...s. Maurice Bévenot, S. J. (Westminster, Maryland, 1957), p. 31. (Vol. 25 of Ancient Christian Writers.) 50 infanti, a child under the age of seven ... ...romises of God from the beginning of the world; indeed, whatever value those ancient promises possessed was altogether derived from this new promise ... ...e is unable to prove it, and yet is most certain of having it. For as among philosophers no one judges the general concepts, but all are judged by th...

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...Excerpt: Good Comedies are such rare productions, that notwithstanding the wealth of our literature in the Comic element, it would not occupy us long to run over the English list. If they are brought to the test I shall propose, very reputable Comedies will be found unworthy of their station, like the ladi...

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........................... 23 THE WILD ROSE AND THE SNOWDROP ............................................................................. 24 THE DEATH OF WINTER .......................................................................................................... 25 SONG .......................................................................................................

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...ew hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implement...

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...wn as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itse... ... history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English cou... ...t of a Lady which she currently alluded; they bore upon minor points of that ancient order, but for Mrs. Touchett they amply justified non residence. S... ...he discipline of the nursery was delightfully vague and the oppor tunity of listening to the conversation of one’s elders (which with Isabel was a hi... ...he became aware of a step very different from her own intellectual pace; she listened a little and perceived that some one was mov ing in the library... ...is mother’s door (at a quarter to seven) with a good deal of eagerness. Even philosophers have their preferences, and it must be admitted that of his ... ...y is the finest thing in nature.” It’s finer than the finest work of art—than a Greek bas relief, than a great Titian, than a Gothic cathedral. It’s very... ...would happen. Suddenly I receive a Titian, by the post, to hang on my wall—a Greek bas relief to stick over my chimney piece. The key of a beautiful e... ... thatched and timbered, past ale houses latticed and sanded, past patches of ancient common and glimpses of empty parks, between hedgerows made thick ...

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................................................. 68 LECTURE IV. THE HERO AS PRIEST. LUTHER; REFORMATION: KNOX; PURITANISM. 99 LECTURE V.THE HERO AS MAN OF LETTERS. JOHNSON, ROUSSEAU, BURNS. ........ 131 LECTURE VI.THE HERO AS KING. CROMWELL, NAPOLEON: MODERN REVOLUTIONISM............................................................................................................

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...From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity; yet, however obstinately I endeavored with my...

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...Contents The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater ...4 THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE.....................

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...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS .....................................................................................................................

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...Contents PHILOSOPHY OF FURNITURE .................................................................................................................................. 6 A TALE OF JERUSALEM ..............................................................

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