Impressions of Theophrastus Such
Author | : George Eliot |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2018-09-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3734054915 |
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Author | : George Eliot |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2018-09-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3734054915 |
Reproduction of the original: Impressions of Theophrastus Such by George Eliot
Author | : George Eliot |
Publisher | : Jazzybee Verlag |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3849650561 |
Wherever Mrs. Eliot places her touch, she leaves the impression of the profound insight, the serene wisdom, the fine observation, and the subtle humor which so graciously signalize her nature. The short essays in this book are stamped with all of the writer's peculiarities of thought and style, and are witty, suggestive, and delightful. The book is studded with fine thoughts and fine expressions. It is the peculiar characteristic of George Eliot's observations—and one exemplified in this her last work perhaps more than in any previous one—that she always puts in the best language thoughts which appear to have been in the reader's mind often before. In these pages they are crystallized.
Author | : George Eliot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1839 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jean de La Bruyère |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Characters and characteristics |
ISBN | : |
These writings provide a unique view of the height of 17th-century French culture.
Author | : E. R. Caley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2015-12-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780814253144 |
The publication of "Theophrastus on Stones" is without question an important event for scholars and students interested in the history of pure and applied science. By common consent one of the greatest of the Greek philosophers and naturalists, Theophrastus is still a highly significant figure in the development of mineralogy and other scientific and technological areas, yet no modern annotated translation of his treatise "On Stones" has hitherto been available. It has been more than two hundred years since the first English translation by John Hill appeared. French and German translations have been published within the last fifty years as parts of other works, but they contain neither text nor commentary. This book, which includes the original text, an English translation, and a commentary, gives the reader-with or without a knowledge of Greek-an invaluable interpretation of the technical aspects of the treatise and the rationale of the processes described in it. It will have a wide appeal not merely for the classical scholar but for a larger public whose interests lie in such scientific fields as chemistry, archaeology, mineralogy, and geology. Earle R. Caley and John F. C. Richards have brought to completion a book which is a distinguished addition to scientific and classical literature. Earle Radcliffe Caley, a native of Ohio, received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Ohio State. From 1928 to 1942 he taught at Princeton University. On several occasions he served as a chemist for the excavation of the Agora at Athens, Greece. Since 1946 he has been on the faculty of Ohio State's Department of Chemistry. Professor Caley has written on various applications of chemistry to archaeology. For certain articles in this special field, he received the Lewis Prize of the American Philosophical Society in 1940 and a citation from the American Classical League in 1954. John Francis Chatterton Richards, author of various publications on classical literature, was graduated B.A. at Oxford in 1921 and M.A. in 1927. He began teaching at Dartmouth College in 1927. From 1930 to 1936 he was Instructor and Tutor at Harvard University, from which he received the A.M. and Ph.D. degrees. He has taught classics at the University of Rochester, and, since 1939, has been in the Department of Classics at Columbia University.
Author | : Sonia Pertsinidis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2018-05-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351997815 |
This book presents an introduction to the Characters, a collection of thirty amusing descriptions of character types who lived in Athens in the fourth century BCE. The author of the work, Theophrastus, was Aristotle's colleague, his immediate successor and head of his philosophical school for thirty-five years. Pertsinidis' lively, original and scholarly monograph introduces Theophrastus as a Greek philosopher. It also outlines the remarkable influence of the Characters as a literary work and provides a detailed discussion of the work's purpose and its connection with comedy, ethics and rhetoric.