Sacred Writings

Sacred Writings
Author: Charles W Eliot
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2014-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781497896284

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1910 Edition.

Sacred Writings I

Sacred Writings I
Author: Charles W. Eliot
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1616401648

Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf. Volume XLIV is the first of two volumes to feature sacred writings from around the globe, those not merely essential to believers but enjoyed by secular readers as great works of literature. Included here: [ the Sayings of Confucius, the wisdom of the 5th century BC philosopher whose teachings suffuse Chinese culture to this day [ from Hebrew tradition, the Books of Job, Psalms, and Ecclesiastes, which form the core of the Old Testament [ from Christian mythology, the Book of Luke and Acts.

Sacred Writings

Sacred Writings
Author: Charles W Eliot
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2014-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781498102452

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1910 Edition.

The History of England from the Accession of James II (Vol. 1-5)

The History of England from the Accession of James II (Vol. 1-5)
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 2264
Release: 2023-11-14
Genre: History
ISBN:

The History of England from the Accession of James II is the five-volume work by Lord Macaulay. It covers the 17-year period from 1685 to 1702, encompassing the reign of James II, the Glorious Revolution, the coregency of William III and Mary II, and up to William III's death. Macaulay's approach to writing the History was innovative for his period. He consciously fused the picturesque, dramatic style of classical historians such as Thucydides and Tacitus with the learned and factual approach of his 18th-century precursors such as Hume, following the plan laid out in his own 1828 "Essay on History".The History is famous for its brilliant ringing prose and for its confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of British history. According to this view, England threw off superstition, autocracy and confusion to create a balanced constitution and a forward-looking culture combined with freedom of belief and expression.

The Political Works of Thomas Hobbes (4 Books in One Edition)

The Political Works of Thomas Hobbes (4 Books in One Edition)
Author: Thomas Hobbes
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 1319
Release: 2023-11-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

The political Works, written by Thomas Hobbes, described his views on how humans could thrive in harmony while avoiding the perils and fear of societal conflict. His experience during a time of upheaval in England influenced his thoughts, which he captured in The Elements of Law , De Cive (On the Citizen), Behemoth, or The Long Parliament and his most famous work, Leviathan. Leviathan, published in 1651, concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory. Written during the English Civil War (1642–1651), Leviathan argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes wrote that civil war and situations identified with a state of nature and the famous motto Bellum omnium contra omnes ("the war of all against all") could only be averted by strong central government. De Cive ('On the citizen') was Hobbes's first published book of political philosophy. Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher who is considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy.