Complete Works of Plutarch -- Volume 3: Essays and MiscellaniesPlutarch
The twelve-volume Concord edition of Emerson’s Complete Works features over 3,000 voluminous footnotes painstakingly compiled by his son. Bibliographic Record Contents PrefaceBiographical Sketch BOSTON AND NEW YORK: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., 1904 ...
Little is known for certain about the life of Aesop (c.6 20-564 BC), though details of his life are scattered throughout the works of ancient Greek writers including Aristophanes, Xenophon, Aristotle and Herodotus, who give grounds for thinking that he was a slave, and Plutarch, who ...
And ’tis said amongst other things upon this subject, that, as the must fermenting in a vessel, works up to the top whatever it has in the bottom, so wine, in those who have drunk beyond measure, vents the most inward secrets: “Tu sapientum Curas et arcanum jocoso Consilium retegis...
for these works of art are not yet consecrated in their reading; but the poet sees them fall within the great Order not less than the beehive, or the spider's geometrical web. Nature adopts them very fast into her vital circles, and the gliding train of cars she loves like her own. ...
I have to reluctantly agree with you on this, for democracy works in fair weather, but people ran away from it when deep tensions accumulated in the past. Just like free markets, democracy requires constant gardening and the western electorates seem to have given up on that–on the free ...
It has ever been the task of one race of philosophers to demolish the works of their predecessors, and elevate more splendid fantasies in their stead, which in their turn are demolished and replaced by the air-castles of a succeeding generation. Thus it would seem that knowledge and genius,...
The Complete Works Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by PlutarchWilliam Shakespeare