De Legibus, Marcus Tullius Cicero (50BC)
Book 1 A: Therefore, in this spare time, as you say, why do you not explain to us these very things themselves and write about …
Book 1 A: Therefore, in this spare time, as you say, why do you not explain to us these very things themselves and write about …
Petrarch: Yes, that is my view also; in the meanwhile, however, have you not forgotten my first question? S. Augustine: What was it? Petrarch: Concerning what keeps …
THE PRINCIPIA. THE AUTHOR’S PREFACE Since the ancients (as we are told by Pappus), made great account of the science of mechanics in the investigation of natural …
I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us …
I WAS almost going to talk this lecture and not write and read it because all the lectures that I have written and read in …
THE IDEA OF TRANSCENDENTAL PHILOSOPHY bear the character of an inward necessity, must be independent of experience, — clear and certain by themselves. They are …
TO THE DISCERNING READER Several years ago there was published in Rome a salutary edict which, in order to obviaie the dangerous tendencies of our present …
FIRST DAY INTERLOCUTORS: SALVIATI, SAGREDO AND SIMPLICIO Salv. The constant activity which you Venetians display in your famous arsenal suggests to the studious mind a large field for …
Translated by Robert Latta 1. The Monad, of which we shall here speak, is nothing but a simple substance, which enters into compounds. By ‘simple’ is …
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