Philosophy
Kriton
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Plato
Kriton by Platon (428/427 v. Chr. – 348/347 v. Chr.). Übersetzung durch Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768-1834) von 1818.Der …
Essays
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …
A Divine Cordial
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Thomas Watson
This book is an exposition of Romans 8:28: "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the c…
The New Organon
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Francis Bacon
The Novum Organum is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon published in 1620. The title translates as "new instrument". This is a …
Sophistical Elenchi
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Aristotle
The Sophistical Elenchi is the sixth of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument").…
Fables de La Fontaine
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Jean de la Fontaine
En mettant en scène les animaux, Jean de La Fontaine met en lumière les travers, les fourberies, l'orgueil, l'envie, les d&eac…
Lesser Hippias
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Plato
This work may not be by Plato, or his entirely, but Jowett has offered his sublime translation, and seems to lean towards including it in th…
Lectures on Landscape
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John Ruskin
A series of lectures on landscape painting delivered at Oxford in 1871, by artist, critic, and social commentator, John Ruskin.
On the Popular Judgment
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Immanuel Kant
This tripartite essay – published variously as “On the Popular Judgment” (J. Richardson trans.), “On the Old Saw” (E.B. Ashton trans.), or “…
The New Testament
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Twentieth Century New Testament
Published in 1904, The Twentieth Century New Testament is considered the first translation of the Bible into modern English. It was produced…
Fables de La Fontaine
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Jean de la Fontaine
Voici le douzième et dernier livre des fables de Jean de La Fontaine. Il est, avec le livre huitième, le plus volumineux, comp…
History of Philosophy
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William Turner
The History of Philosophy is the exposition of philosophical opinions and of systems and schools of philosophy. It includes the study of the…
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz
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Anonymoustranslated Bye. Foxcroft, Anonymoustranslated By E. Foxcroft, William James McGlothlin and Anonymoustranslated By E. Foxcroft
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz was edited in 1616 in Strasbourg (annexed by France in 1681). It is the third of the original …
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
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David Hume
David Hume, an eminent Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist, explores the nature and foundation of Morals in this book, which was w…
Zanoni
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Zanoni, a timeless Rosicrucian brother, cannot fall in love without losing his power of immortality; but he does fall in love with Viola Pis…
A Year Amongst the Persians
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Edward Granville Browne
Edward Granville Browne, born in Stouts Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire, England, was a British orientalist who published numerous articles and …
Quiet Talks about Jesus
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S. D. Gordon
So far as I can find out, I have no theory about Jesus to make these talks fit into. I have tried to find out for myself what the old Book o…
Herland
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society comprised entirel…
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World
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Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield
Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, was at one time Ambassador to the Hague, negotiated the second Treaty of Vienna, was a founding gover…
Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy
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John Stuart Mill
This is Mill’s first work on economics. It foreshadows his Political Economy which was the standard Anglo-American Economics textbook of the…