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The Complete Essays

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Verkaufsrang

48378

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

25.02.1993

Herausgeber

Screech M. A. + weitere

Verlag

KNV Besorgung

Seitenzahl

1360

Maße (L/B/H)

19,6/12,9/6,5 cm

Gewicht

906 g

Farbe

Anthrazit / Kaffee

Übersetzt von

Screech M. A. + weitere

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-14-044604-3

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Verkaufsrang

48378

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

25.02.1993

Herausgeber

Verlag

KNV Besorgung

Seitenzahl

1360

Maße (L/B/H)

19,6/12,9/6,5 cm

Gewicht

906 g

Farbe

Anthrazit / Kaffee

Übersetzt von

  • Screech M. A.
  • Screech

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-14-044604-3

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: The Complete Essays
  • The Complete EssaysIntroduction
    Note on the Text
    The Annotations
    Note on the Translation
    Explanation of the Symbols
    Appendices
    To the Reader
    Book I
    1. We reach the same end by discrepant means
    2. On sadness
    3. Our emotions get carried away beyond us
    4. How the soul discharges its emotions against false objects when lacking real ones
    5. Whether the governor of a besieged fortress should go out and parley
    6. The hour of parleying is dangerous
    7. That our deeds are judged by the intention
    8. On idleness
    9. On liars
    10. On a ready or hesitant delivery
    11. On prognostications
    12. On constancy
    13. Ceremonial at the meeting of kings
    14. That the taste of good and evil things depends in large part on the opinion we have of them
    15. One is punished for stubbornly defending a fort without good reason
    16. On punishing cowardice
    17. The doings of certain ambassadors
    18. On fear
    19. That we should not be deemed happy till after our death
    20. To philosophize is to learn how to die
    21. On the power of the imagination
    22. One man's profit is another man's loss
    23. On habit: and on never easily changing a traditional law
    24. Same design: differing outcomes
    25. On schoolmasters' learning
    26. On educating children
    27. That it is madness to judge the true and the false from our own capacities
    28. On affectionate relationships
    29. Nine and twenty sonnets of Estienne de La Boëtie
    30. On moderation
    31. On the Cannibals
    32. Judgements on God's ordinances must be embarked upon with prudence
    33. On fleeing from pleasures at the cost of one's life
    34. Fortune is often found in Reason's train
    35. Something lacking in our civil administrations
    36. On the custom of wearing clothing
    37. On Cato the Younger
    38. How we weep and laugh at the same thing
    39. On solitude
    40. Reflections upon Cicero
    41. On not sharing one's fame
    42. On the inequality there is between us
    43. On sumptuary laws
    44. On sleep
    45. On the Battle of Dreux
    46. On names
    47. On the uncertainty of our judgement
    48. On war-horses
    49. On ancient customs
    50. On Democritus and Heraclitus
    51. On the vanity of words
    52. On the frugality of the Ancients
    53. On one of Caesar's sayings
    54. On vain cunning devices
    55. On smells
    56. On prayer
    57. On the length of life

    Book II
    1. On the inconstancy of our actions
    2. On drunkenness
    3. A custom of the Isle of Cea
    4. "Work can wait till tomorrow"
    5. On conscience
    6. On practice
    7. On rewards for honour
    8. On the affection of fathers for their children
    9. On the armour of the Parthians
    10. On books
    11. On cruelty
    12. An apology for Raymond Sebond
    13. On judging someone else's death
    14. How our mind tangles itself up
    15. That difficulty increases desire
    16. On glory
    17. On presumption
    18. On giving the lie
    19. On freedom of conscience
    20. We can savour nothing pure
    21. Against indolence
    22. On riding "in post"
    23. On bad means to a good end
    24. On the greatness of Rome
    25. On not pretending to be ill
    26. On thumbs
    27. On cowardice, the mother of cruelty
    28. There is a season for everything
    29. On virtue
    30. On a monster-child
    31. On anger
    32. In defence of Seneca and Plutarch
    33. The tale of Spurina
    34. Observations on Julius Caesar's methods of waging war
    35. On three good wives
    36. On the most excellent of men
    37. On the resemblance of children to their fathers

    Book III
    1. On the useful and the honourable
    2. On repenting
    3. On three kinds of social intercourse
    4. On diversion
    5. On some lines of Virgil
    6. On coaches
    7. On high rank as a disadvantage
    8. On the art of conversation
    9. On vanity
    10. On restraining your will
    11. On the lame
    12. On physiognomy
    13. On experience

    Index