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Roman Stoicism
by E. Vernon ArnoldThis book is the outcome of a course of lectures delivered by me in successive years to Latin Honours students in accordance with the regulations of the University of Wales. It is therefore primarily intended for the assistance of classical students; but it may perhaps appeal in its present form to a somewhat wider circle.At the time that the book ..
An Almond for a Parrot - Being a reply to Martin Mar-Prelate
by John PetheramNash was of St. John’s College, Cambridge, and took his degree of B.A. in 1585. He is supposed to have quitted the university in some disgrace about 1586, but of the cause we are entirely ignorant. The anonymous author of a tract called “Polymanteia,” printed in 1595, thus alludes to it: “Cambridge, make thy two children friends; thou hast been unk..
Christmas Chat
by AnonymousChristmas Chat or, Observations on the late change at court, on the different characters of the ins and outs; and on the present state of publick affairs. A DIALOGUE Spoke at the Country Seat of one of the New Ministry, in the late Holy Days, the Day before his Re-election; BETWEEN Mr. Broadbottom, Mr. Overall, Mr. Roseband, Sir John Probeum, Mr. S..
Philosophumena, Volume I
by Antipope HippolytusThe story of the discovery of the book here translated so resembles a romance as to appear like a flower in the dry and dusty field of patristic lore. A short treatise called Philosophumena, or “Philosophizings,” had long been known, four early copies of it being in existence in the Papal and other libraries of Rome, Florence and Turin. The supersc..
The Astral World—Higher Occult Powers
by Joel TiffanyThe relations of man to his God have occupied the first minds of every age, but without rendering those relations so understandable to the mass of mankind as to be admitted as true. It has been evident to many, although not to all, that some minds so engaged have been inspired to write beyond the current knowledge of their day, indeed to foretell t..
Is Tomorrow Hitler's?
by H. R. KnickerbockerThere is no such thing as winning a fight without passion. France went to war apologetically; France fought the war without music, and so France lost. Britain went to war apologetically, but Britain had the inestimable advantage of being bombed, and today for the first time in 100 years Britain is angry and is fighting as she has never fought befor..
Child Life and Sex Hygiene - A Remarkable Message
by Otterbein O. SmithSending this little book out into the world is like sending out one of my children, for as they came from my heart, so has it. My heart has ached for my children as it has been necessary for them to go out and meet the buffetings of an unsympathetic world and so aches it for this little fledgling. But still I have a hope that the world will not be ..
The History of Philosophy in Islam
by T. J. de BoerThe following is the first attempt which has been made, since the appearance of Munk’s excellent sketch, to present in connected form a History of Philosophy in Islam. This work of mine may therefore be regarded as a fresh initiation,—not a completion of such a task. I could not know of all that had been done by others, in the way of preliminary st..