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Ralph Parlette\r\nis kept busy year after year lecturing, because his lectures deal with\r\nuniversal human experience.\r\n\n\r\n\"What is written here is not the way I would write it, were I writing a\r\nbook,\" says Ralph Parlette. \"It is the way I say it. The lecture took\r\nthis unconscious colloquial form before audiences. An audience makes a\r\nlecture, if the lecture survives. I wish I could shake the hand of\r\nevery person who has sat in my audiences. And I wish I could tell the\r\nlecture committees of America how I appreciate the vast amount of\r\naltruistic work they have done in bringing the audiences of America\r\ntogether. For lecture audiences are not drawn together, they are pushed\r\ntogether.\"\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 455 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Parlette, Ralph Albert \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Mar 1, 1996 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Parlette, Ralph Albert,1870-1930 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43211132272797,"sku":"gb-455-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/455_0dada321-644b-4a85-8804-ae2547734388.jpg?v=1671248139"},{"product_id":"ethics-part-1-gb-919","title":"Ethics — Part 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEthics — Part 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eII.  A thing is called 'finite after its kind' when it can be\r\nlimited by another thing of the same nature; for instance, a body\r\nis called finite because we always conceive another greater body.\r\nSo, also, a thought is limited by another thought, but a body is\r\nnot limited by thought, nor a thought by body.\nIII.  By 'substance' I mean that which is in itself, and is\r\nconceived through itself:  in other words, that of which a\r\nconception can be formed independently of any other conception.\n\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt;ExplanationI say absolutely infinite, not infinite after\r\nits kind:  for, of a thing infinite only after its kind, infinite\r\nattributes may be denied; but that which is absolutely infinite,\r\ncontains in its essence whatever expresses reality, and involves\r\nno negation.\nVII.  That thing is called 'free,' which exists solely by the\r\nnecessity of its own nature, and of which the action is\r\ndetermined by itself alone.  On the other hand, that thing is\r\nnecessary, or rather constrained, which is determined by\r\nsomething external to itself to a fixed and definite method of\r\nexistence or action.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 919 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Spinoza, Benedictus de \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: May 1, 1997 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Elwes, R. H. M. 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By 'body' I mean a mode which expresses in a\r\ncertain determinate manner the essence  of God, in so far as he\r\nis considered as an extended thing.  (See Pt. i., Prop. xxv.\r\nCor.)\nII.  I consider as belonging to the essence of a thing that,\r\nwhich being given, the thing is  necessarily given also, and,\r\nwhich being removed, the thing is necessarily removed also;  in\r\nother words, that without which the thing, and which itself\r\nwithout the thing, can neither  be nor be conceived.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 920 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Spinoza, Benedictus de \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: May 1, 1997 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Elwes, R. H. M. 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Their first\r\nmeetings were held in the room of a cottage in which one of the\r\nmembers lived; and, as others shortly joined them, the place soon\r\nbecame inconveniently filled. When summer set in, they\r\nadjourned to the cottage garden outside; and the classes were\r\nthen held in the open air, round a little boarded hut used as a\r\ngarden-house, in which those who officiated as teachers set the\r\nsums, and gave forth the lessons of the evening. When the\r\nweather was fine, the youths might be seen, until a late hour,\r\nhanging round the door of the hut like a cluster of bees; but\r\nsometimes a sudden shower of rain would dash the sums from their\r\nslates, and disperse them for the evening unsatisfied.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 935 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Smiles, Samuel \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jun 1, 1997 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Smiles, Samuel,1812-1904 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43211204952221,"sku":"gb-935-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/935_5b56d112-d621-4739-9d7a-d058546b42da.jpg?v=1671249104"},{"product_id":"ethics-part-3-gb-948","title":"Ethics — Part 3","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEthics — Part 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost writers on the emotions and on human conduct seem\r\nto be treating rather of matters outside nature than of natural\r\nphenomena following nature's general laws.  They appear to\r\nconceive man to be situated in nature as a kingdom within a\r\nkingdom:  for they believe that he disturbs rather than follows\r\nnature's order, that he has absolute control over his actions,\r\nand that he is determined solely by himself.  They attribute\r\nhuman infirmities and fickleness, not to the power of nature\r\nin general, but to some mysterious flaw in the nature of man,\r\nwhich accordingly they bemoan, deride, despise, or, as\r\nusually happens, abuse:  he, who succeeds in hitting off\r\nthe weakness of the human mind more eloquently or more\r\nacutely than his fellows, is looked upon as a seer.  Still there\r\nhas been no lack of very excellent men (to whose toil and\r\nindustry I confess myself much indebted), who have written\r\nmany noteworthy things concerning the right way of life,\r\nand have given much sage advice to mankind.  But no one,\r\nso far as I know, has defined the nature and strength of the\r\nemotions, and the power of the mind against them for their\r\nrestraint.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 948 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Spinoza, Benedictus de \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jun 1, 1997 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Elwes, R. H. M. (Robert Harvey Monro), 1853- \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Spinoza, Benedictus de,1632-1677 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43211208589469,"sku":"gb-948-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/948_c520caca-548f-4251-a21a-5e435fc6adb5.jpg?v=1671249131"},{"product_id":"ethics-part-4-gb-971","title":"Ethics — Part 4","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEthics — Part 4\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuman infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage:\r\nfor, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but\r\nlies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled,\r\nwhile seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.\r\nWhy this is so, and what is good or evil in the emotions, I propose to\r\nshow in this part of my treatise. But, before I begin, it would be well\r\nto make a few prefatory observations on perfection and imperfection,\r\ngood and evil.\nWhen a man has purposed to make a given thing, and has brought it\r\nto perfection, his work will be pronounced perfect, not only by\r\nhimself, but by everyone who rightly knows, or thinks that he knows,\r\nthe intention and aim of its author. For instance, suppose anyone sees a\r\nwork (which I assume to be not yet completed), and knows that the aim\r\nof the author of that work is to build a house, he will call the work\r\nimperfect; he will, on the other hand, call it perfect, as soon as he\r\nsees that it is carried through to the end, which its author had purposed\r\nfor it. But if a man sees a work, the like whereof he has never seen\r\nbefore, and if he knows not the intention of the artificer, he plainly\r\ncannot know, whether that work be perfect or imperfect. Such seems to\r\nbe the primary meaning of these terms.\nBut, after men began to form general ideas, to think out types of\r\nhouses, buildings, towers, \u0026amp;c., and to prefer certain types to others,\r\nit came about, that each man called perfect that which he saw agree\r\nwith the general idea he had formed of the thing in question, and called\r\nimperfect that which he saw agree less with his own preconceived type,\r\neven though it had evidently been completed in accordance with the idea\r\nof its artificer.  This seems to be the only reason for calling natural\r\nphenomena, which, indeed, are not made with human hands, perfect or\r\nimperfect: for men are wont to form general ideas of things natural, no\r\nless than of things artificial, and such ideas they hold as types,\r\nbelieving that Nature (who they think does nothing without an object)\r\nhas them in view, and has set them as types before herself. Therefore,\r\nwhen they behold something in Nature, which does not wholly conform to\r\nthe preconceived type which they have formed of the thing in question,\r\nthey say that Nature has fallen short or has blundered, and has left\r\nher work incomplete. Thus we see that men are wont to style natural\r\nphenomena perfect or imperfect rather from their own prejudices, than\r\nfrom true knowledge of what they pronounce upon.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 971 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Spinoza, Benedictus de \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jul 1, 1997 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Elwes, R. H. M. 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I shall therefore treat therein of the\r\npower of the reason, showing how far the reason can control the emotions,\r\nand what is the nature of Mental Freedom or Blessedness; we shall then be\r\nable to see, how much more powerful the wise man is than the ignorant.\r\nIt is no part of my design to point out the method and means whereby the\r\nunderstanding may be perfected, nor to show the skill whereby the body may\r\nbe so tended, as to be capable of the due performance of its functions. The\r\nlatter question lies in the province of Medicine, the former in the province\r\nof Logic. Here, therefore, I repeat, I shall treat only of the power of the\r\nmind, or of reason; and I shall mainly show the extent and nature of its\r\ndominion over the emotions, for their control and moderation. That we do\r\nnot possess absolute dominion over them, I have already shown. Yet the\r\nStoics have thought, that the emotions depended absolutely on our will, and\r\nthat we could absolutely govern them. But these philosophers were compelled,\r\nby the protest of experience, not from their own principles, to confess,\r\nthat no slight practice and zeal is needed to control and moderate them:\r\nand this someone endeavoured to illustrate by the example (if I remember\r\nrightly) of two dogs, the one a house-dog and the other a hunting-dog. For\r\nby long training it could be brought about, that the house-dog should become\r\naccustomed to hunt, and the hunting-dog to cease from running after hares.\r\nTo this opinion Descartes not a little inclines. For he maintained, that the\r\nsoul or mind is specially united to a particular part of the brain, namely,\r\nto that part called the pineal gland, by the aid of which the mind is\r\nenabled to feel all the movements which are set going in the body, and also\r\nexternal objects, and which the mind by a simple act of volition can put in\r\nmotion in various ways. He asserted, that this gland is so suspended in the\r\nmidst of the brain, that it could be moved by the slightest motion of the\r\nanimal spirits: further, that this gland is suspended in the midst of the\r\nbrain in as many different manners, as the animal spirits can impinge\r\nthereon; and, again, that as many different marks are impressed on the said\r\ngland, as there are different external objects which impel the animal\r\nspirits towards it; whence it follows, that if the will of the soul suspends\r\nthe gland in a position, wherein it has already been suspended once before\r\nby the animal spirits driven in one way or another, the gland in its turn\r\nreacts on the said spirits, driving and determining them to the condition\r\nwherein they were, when repulsed before by a similar position of the gland.\r\nHe further asserted, that every act of mental volition is united in nature\r\nto a certain given motion of the gland. For instance, whenever anyone\r\ndesires to look at a remote object, the act of volition causes the pupil of\r\nthe eye to dilate, whereas, if the person in question had only thought of\r\nthe dilatation of the pupil, the mere wish to dilate it would not have\r\nbrought about the result, inasmuch as the motion of the gland, which serves\r\nto impel the animal spirits towards the optic nerve in a way which would\r\ndilate or contract the pupil, is not associated in nature with the wish to\r\ndilate or contract the pupil, but with the wish to look at remote or very\r\nnear objects. Lastly, he maintained that, although every motion of the\r\naforesaid gland seems to have been united by nature to one particular\r\nthought out of the whole number of our thoughts from the very beginning of\r\nour life, yet it can nevertheless become through habituation associated with\r\nother thoughts; this he endeavours to prove in the Passions de l'ame, I. 50.\r\nHe thence concludes, that there is no soul so weak, that it cannot, under\r\nproper direction, acquire absolute power over its passions. For passions as\r\ndefined by him are \"perceptions, or feelings, or disturbances of the soul,\r\nwhich are referred to the soul as species, and which (mark the expression)\r\nare produced, preserved, and strengthened through some movement of the\r\nspirits.\" (Passion del l'ame,I.27.) But, seeing that we can join any motion\r\nof the gland, or consequently of the spirits, to any volition, the\r\ndetermination of the will depends entirely on our own powers; if, therefore,\r\nwe determine our will with sure and firm decisions in the direction to which\r\nwe wish our actions to tend, and associate the motions of the passions which\r\nwe wish to acquire with the said decisions, we shall acquire an absolute\r\ndominion over our passions. Such is the doctrine of this illustrious\r\nphilosopher (in so far as I gather it from his own words); it is one\r\nwhich, had it been less ingenious, I could hardly believe to have proceeded\r\nfrom so great a man. Indeed, I am lost in wonder, that a philosopher, who\r\nhad stoutly asserted, that he would draw no conclusions which do not follow\r\nfrom self-evident premisses, and would affirm nothing which he did not\r\nclearly and distinctly perceive, and who had so often taken to task the\r\nscholastics for wishing to explain obscurities through occult qualities,\r\ncould maintain a hypothesis, beside which occult qualities are commonplace.\r\nWhat does he understand, I ask, by the union of the mind and the body? What\r\nclear and distinct conception has he got of thought in most intimate union\r\nwith a certain particle of extended matter? Truly I should like him to\r\nexplain this union through its proximate cause. What clear and distinct\r\nconception has he got of thought in most intimate union with a certain\r\nparticle of extended matter? What clear and distinct conception has he got\r\nof thought in most intimate union with a certain particle of extended\r\nmatter? But he had so distinct a conception of mind being distinct from\r\nbody, that he could not assign any particular cause of the union between the\r\ntwo, or of the mind itself, but was obliged to have recourse to the cause of\r\nthe whole universe, that is to God. Further, I should much like to know,\r\nwhat degree of motion the mind can impart to this pineal gland, and with\r\nwhat force can it hold it suspended? For I am in ignorance, whether this\r\ngland can be agitated more slowly or more quickly by the mind than by the\r\nanimal spirits, and whether the motions of the passions, which we have\r\nclosely united with firm decisions, cannot be again disjoined therefrom by\r\nphysical causes; in which case it would follow that, although the mind\r\nfirmly intended to face a given danger, and had united to this decision the\r\nmotions of boldness, yet at the sight of the danger the gland might become\r\nsuspended in a way, which would preclude the mind thinking of anything\r\nexcept running away. In truth, as there is no common standard of volition\r\nand motion, so is there no comparison possible between the powers of the\r\nmind and the power or strength of the body; consequently the strength of one\r\ncannot in any wise be determined by the strength of the other. We may also\r\nadd, that there is no gland discoverable in the midst of the brain, so\r\nplaced that it can thus easily be set in motion in so many ways, and also\r\nthat all the nerves are not prolonged so far as the cavities of the brain.\r\nLastly, I omit all the assertions which he makes concerning the will and its\r\nfreedom, inasmuch as I have abundantly proved that his premisses are false.\r\nTherefore, since the power of the mind, as I have shown above, is defined by\r\nthe understanding only, we shall determine solely by the knowledge of the\r\nmind the remedies against the emotions, which I believe all have had\r\nexperience of, but do not accurately observe or distinctly see, and from the\r\nsame basis we shall deduce all those conclusions, which have regard to the\r\nmind's blessedness.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 975 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Spinoza, Benedictus de \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jul 1, 1997 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Elwes, R. H. M. (Robert Harvey Monro), 1853- \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Spinoza, Benedictus de,1632-1677 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43211211112605,"sku":"gb-975-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/975_56df2765-9fac-47b8-8849-a0bbbd219199.jpg?v=1671249188"},{"product_id":"charmides-gb-1580","title":"Charmides","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharmides\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n      The subject of the Charmides is Temperance or (Greek), a peculiarly Greek\n      notion, which may also be rendered Moderation (Compare Cic. Tusc.\n      '(Greek), quam soleo equidem tum temperantiam, tum moderationem appellare,\n      nonnunquam etiam modestiam.'), Modesty, Discretion, Wisdom, without\n      completely exhausting by all these terms the various associations of the\n      word. It may be described as 'mens sana in corpore sano,' the harmony or\n      due proportion of the higher and lower elements of human nature which\n      'makes a man his own master,' according to the definition of the Republic.\n      In the accompanying translation the word has been rendered in different\n      places either Temperance or Wisdom, as the connection seemed to require:\n      for in the philosophy of Plato (Greek) still retains an intellectual\n      element (as Socrates is also said to have identified (Greek) with (Greek):\n      Xen. Mem.) and is not yet relegated to the sphere of moral virtue, as in\n      the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle.\n    \n\n      The beautiful youth, Charmides, who is also the most temperate of human\n      beings, is asked by Socrates, 'What is Temperance?' He answers\n      characteristically, (1) 'Quietness.' 'But Temperance is a fine and noble\n      thing; and quietness in many or most cases is not so fine a thing as\n      quickness.' He tries again and says (2) that temperance is modesty. But\n      this again is set aside by a sophistical application of Homer: for\n      temperance is good as well as noble, and Homer has declared that 'modesty\n      is not good for a needy man.' (3) Once more Charmides makes the attempt.\n      This time he gives a definition which he has heard, and of which Socrates\n      conjectures that Critias must be the author: 'Temperance is doing one's\n      own business.' But the artisan who makes another man's shoes may be\n      temperate, and yet he is not doing his own business; and temperance\n      defined thus would be opposed to the division of labour which exists in\n      every temperate or well-ordered state. How is this riddle to be explained?\n    \n\n      Critias, who takes the place of Charmides, distinguishes in his answer\n      between 'making' and 'doing,' and with the help of a misapplied quotation\n      from Hesiod assigns to the words 'doing' and 'work' an exclusively good\n      sense: Temperance is doing one's own business;(4) is doing good.\n    \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 1580 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Plato, 427? BCE-347? BCE \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Dec 1, 1998 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Plato, 427? BCE-347? BCE \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212177440925,"sku":"gb-1580-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/1580_54460ed9-aaf9-43df-9e6e-27791a688ea0.jpg?v=1671251228"},{"product_id":"meno-gb-1643","title":"Meno","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMeno\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n      This Dialogue begins abruptly with a question of Meno, who asks, 'whether\n      virtue can be taught.' Socrates replies that he does not as yet know what\n      virtue is, and has never known anyone who did. 'Then he cannot have met\n      Gorgias when he was at Athens.' Yes, Socrates had met him, but he has a\n      bad memory, and has forgotten what Gorgias said. Will Meno tell him his\n      own notion, which is probably not very different from that of Gorgias? 'O\n      yesnothing easier: there is the virtue of a man, of a woman, of an\n      old man, and of a child; there is a virtue of every age and state of life,\n      all of which may be easily described.'\n    \n\n      Socrates reminds Meno that this is only an enumeration of the virtues and\n      not a definition of the notion which is common to them all. In a second\n      attempt Meno defines virtue to be 'the power of command.' But to this,\n      again, exceptions are taken. For there must be a virtue of those who obey,\n      as well as of those who command; and the power of command must be justly\n      or not unjustly exercised. Meno is very ready to admit that justice is\n      virtue: 'Would you say virtue or a virtue, for there are other virtues,\n      such as courage, temperance, and the like; just as round is a figure, and\n      black and white are colours, and yet there are other figures and other\n      colours. Let Meno take the examples of figure and colour, and try to\n      define them.' Meno confesses his inability, and after a process of\n      interrogation, in which Socrates explains to him the nature of a 'simile\n      in multis,' Socrates himself defines figure as 'the accompaniment of\n      colour.' But some one may object that he does not know the meaning of the\n      word 'colour;' and if he is a candid friend, and not a mere disputant,\n      Socrates is willing to furnish him with a simpler and more philosophical\n      definition, into which no disputed word is allowed to intrude: 'Figure is\n      the limit of form.' Meno imperiously insists that he must still have a\n      definition of colour. Some raillery follows; and at length Socrates is\n      induced to reply, 'that colour is the effluence of form, sensible, and in\n      due proportion to the sight.' This definition is exactly suited to the\n      taste of Meno, who welcomes the familiar language of Gorgias and\n      Empedocles. Socrates is of opinion that the more abstract or dialectical\n      definition of figure is far better.\n    \n\n      Now that Meno has been made to understand the nature of a general\n      definition, he answers in the spirit of a Greek gentleman, and in the\n      words of a poet, 'that virtue is to delight in things honourable, and to\n      have the power of getting them.' This is a nearer approximation than he\n      has yet made to a complete definition, and, regarded as a piece of\n      proverbial or popular morality, is not far from the truth. But the\n      objection is urged, 'that the honourable is the good,' and as every one\n      equally desires the good, the point of the definition is contained in the\n      words, 'the power of getting them.' 'And they must be got justly or with\n      justice.' The definition will then stand thus: 'Virtue is the power of\n      getting good with justice.' But justice is a part of virtue, and therefore\n      virtue is the getting of good with a part of virtue. The definition\n      repeats the word defined.\n    \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 1643 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Plato, 427? BCE-347? BCE \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Feb 1, 1999 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Plato, 427? BCE-347? BCE \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212181799069,"sku":"gb-1643-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/1643_cba1389d-d88d-4e82-b190-a598e0239293.jpg?v=1671251369"},{"product_id":"gorgias-gb-1672","title":"Gorgias","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGorgias\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nIn several of the dialogues of Plato, doubts have arisen among his interpreters\r\nas to which of the various subjects discussed in them is the main thesis. The\r\nspeakers have the freedom of conversation; no severe rules of art restrict\r\nthem, and sometimes we are inclined to think, with one of the dramatis personae\r\nin the Theaetetus, that the digressions have the greater interest. Yet in the\r\nmost irregular of the dialogues there is also a certain natural growth or\r\nunity; the beginning is not forgotten at the end, and numerous allusions and\r\nreferences are interspersed, which form the loose connecting links of the\r\nwhole. We must not neglect this unity, but neither must we attempt to confine\r\nthe Platonic dialogue on the Procrustean bed of a single idea. (Compare\r\nIntroduction to the Phaedrus.)\r\n\n\r\nTwo tendencies seem to have beset the interpreters of Plato in this matter.\r\nFirst, they have endeavoured to hang the dialogues upon one another by the\r\nslightest threads; and have thus been led to opposite and contradictory\r\nassertions respecting their order and sequence. The mantle of Schleiermacher\r\nhas descended upon his successors, who have applied his method with the most\r\nvarious results. The value and use of the method has been hardly, if at all,\r\nexamined either by him or them. Secondly, they have extended almost\r\nindefinitely the scope of each separate dialogue; in this way they think that\r\nthey have escaped all difficulties, not seeing that what they have gained in\r\ngenerality they have lost in truth and distinctness. Metaphysical conceptions\r\neasily pass into one another; and the simpler notions of antiquity, which we\r\ncan only realize by an effort, imperceptibly blend with the more familiar\r\ntheories of modern philosophers. An eye for proportion is needed (his own art\r\nof measuring) in the study of Plato, as well as of other great artists. We may\r\nhardly admit that the moral antithesis of good and pleasure, or the\r\nintellectual antithesis of knowledge and opinion, being and appearance, are\r\nnever far off in a Platonic discussion. But because they are in the background,\r\nwe should not bring them into the foreground, or expect to discern them equally\r\nin all the dialogues.\r\n\n\r\nThere may be some advantage in drawing out a little the main outlines of the\r\nbuilding; but the use of this is limited, and may be easily exaggerated. We may\r\ngive Plato too much system, and alter the natural form and connection of his\r\nthoughts. Under the idea that his dialogues are finished works of art, we may\r\nfind a reason for everything, and lose the highest characteristic of art, which\r\nis simplicity. Most great works receive a new light from a new and original\r\nmind. But whether these new lights are true or only suggestive, will depend on\r\ntheir agreement with the spirit of Plato, and the amount of direct evidence\r\nwhich can be urged in support of them. When a theory is running away with us,\r\ncriticism does a friendly office in counselling moderation, and recalling us to\r\nthe indications of the text.\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 1672 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Plato, 427? BCE-347? BCE \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Mar 1, 1999 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Plato, 427? BCE-347? 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A more\r\nserious stricture has, however, been offerednot in the press, but by\r\nsundry obviously sincere correspondentsand I must deal with it.  A\r\nreference to page 43 will show that I anticipated and feared this\r\ndisapprobation.  The sentence against which protests have been made is\r\nas follows:\"In the majority of instances he [the typical man] does\r\nnot precisely feel a passion for his business; at best he does not\r\ndislike it.  He begins his business functions with some reluctance, as\r\nlate as he can, and he ends them with joy, as early as he can. And his\r\nengines, while he is engaged in his business, are seldom at their full\r\n'h.p.'\"\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 2274 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Bennett, Arnold \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Aug 1, 2000 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Bennett, Arnold,1867-1931 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212243828893,"sku":"gb-2274-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/2274_58bcabe7-676b-4ce9-9f95-f1891b7dc850.jpg?v=1671252883"},{"product_id":"character-gb-2541","title":"Character","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharacter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n      Character is one of the greatest motive powers in the world. In its\n      noblest embodiments, it exemplifies human nature in its highest forms, for\n      it exhibits man at his best.\n    \n\n      Men of genuine excellence, in every station of lifemen of industry,\n      of integrity, of high principle, of sterling honesty of purposecommand\n      the spontaneous homage of mankind. It is natural to believe in such men,\n      to have confidence in them, and to imitate them. All that is good in the\n      world is upheld by them, and without their presence in it the world would\n      not be worth living in.\n    \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 2541 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Smiles, Samuel \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Mar 1, 2001 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Smiles, Samuel,1812-1904 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212263293085,"sku":"gb-2541-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/2541_f0ccd2ac-dd18-4762-b8e7-4e121be3c67a.jpg?v=1671253587"},{"product_id":"meditations-gb-2680","title":"Meditations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMeditations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nMARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS was born on April 26, A.D. 121. His real name was M.\r\nAnnius Verus, and he was sprung of a noble family which claimed descent from\r\nNuma, second King of Rome. Thus the most religious of emperors came of the\r\nblood of the most pious of early kings. His father, Annius Verus, had held high\r\noffice in Rome, and his grandfather, of the same name, had been thrice Consul.\r\nBoth his parents died young, but Marcus held them in loving remembrance. On his\r\nfather's death Marcus was adopted by his grandfather, the consular Annius\r\nVerus, and there was deep love between these two. On the very first page of his\r\nbook Marcus gratefully declares how of his grandfather he had learned to be\r\ngentle and meek, and to refrain from all anger and passion. The Emperor Hadrian\r\ndivined the fine character of the lad, whom he used to call not Verus but\r\nVerissimus, more Truthful than his own name. He advanced Marcus to equestrian\r\nrank when six years of age, and at the age of eight made him a member of the\r\nancient Salian priesthood. The boy's aunt, Annia Galeria Faustina, was married\r\nto Antoninus Pius, afterwards emperor. Hence it came about that Antoninus,\r\nhaving no son, adopted Marcus, changing his name to that which he is known by,\r\nand betrothed him to his daughter Faustina. His education was conducted with\r\nall care. The ablest teachers were engaged for him, and he was trained in the\r\nstrict doctrine of the Stoic philosophy, which was his great delight. He was\r\ntaught to dress plainly and to live simply, to avoid all softness and luxury.\r\nHis body was trained to hardihood by wrestling, hunting, and outdoor games; and\r\nthough his constitution was weak, he showed great personal courage to encounter\r\nthe fiercest boars. At the same time he was kept from the extravagancies of his\r\nday. The great excitement in Rome was the strife of the Factions, as they were\r\ncalled, in the circus. The racing drivers used to adopt one of four\r\ncoloursred, blue, white, or greenand their partisans showed an\r\neagerness in supporting them which nothing could surpass. Riot and corruption\r\nwent in the train of the racing chariots; and from all these things Marcus held\r\nseverely aloof.\r\n\n\r\nIn 140 Marcus was raised to the consulship, and in 145 his betrothal was\r\nconsummated by marriage. Two years later Faustina brought him a daughter; and\r\nsoon after the tribunate and other imperial honours were conferred upon him.\r\n\n\r\nAntoninus Pius died in 161, and Marcus assumed the imperial state. He at once\r\nassociated with himself L. Ceionius Commodus, whom Antoninus had adopted as a\r\nyounger son at the same time with Marcus, giving him the name of Lucius\r\nAurelius Verus. Henceforth the two are colleagues in the empire, the junior\r\nbeing trained as it were to succeed. No sooner was Marcus settled upon the\r\nthrone than wars broke out on all sides. In the east, Vologeses III. of Parthia\r\nbegan a long-meditated revolt by destroying a whole Roman Legion and invading\r\nSyria (162). Verus was sent off in hot haste to quell this rising; and he\r\nfulfilled his trust by plunging into drunkenness and debauchery, while the war\r\nwas left to his officers. Soon after Marcus had to face a more serious danger\r\nat home in the coalition of several powerful tribes on the northern frontier.\r\nChief among those were the Marcomanni or Marchmen, the Quadi (mentioned in this\r\nbook), the Sarmatians, the Catti, the Jazyges. In Rome itself there was\r\npestilence and starvation, the one brought from the east by Verus's legions,\r\nthe other caused by floods which had destroyed vast quantities of grain. After\r\nall had been done possible to allay famine and to supply pressing\r\nneedsMarcus being forced even to sell the imperial jewels to find\r\nmoneyboth emperors set forth to a struggle which was to continue more or\r\nless during the rest of Marcus's reign. During these wars, in 169, Verus died.\r\nWe have no means of following the campaigns in detail; but thus much is\r\ncertain, that in the end the Romans succeeded in crushing the barbarian tribes,\r\nand effecting a settlement which made the empire more secure. Marcus was\r\nhimself commander-in-chief, and victory was due no less to his own ability than\r\nto his wisdom in choice of lieutenants, shown conspicuously in the case of\r\nPertinax. There were several important battles fought in these campaigns; and\r\none of them has become celebrated for the legend of the Thundering Legion. In a\r\nbattle against the Quadi in 174, the day seemed to be going in favour of the\r\nfoe, when on a sudden arose a great storm of thunder and rain the lightning\r\nstruck the barbarians with terror, and they turned to rout. In later days this\r\nstorm was said to have been sent in answer to the prayers of a legion which\r\ncontained many Christians, and the name Thundering Legion should be given to it\r\non this account. The title of Thundering Legion is known at an earlier date, so\r\nthis part of the story at least cannot be true; but the aid of the storm is\r\nacknowledged by one of the scenes carved on Antonine's Column at Rome, which\r\ncommemorates these wars.\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 2680 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jun 1, 2001 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome,121-180 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212272926877,"sku":"gb-2680-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/2680_b70d2461-40aa-4adf-8b03-2095a0dfcde7.jpg?v=1671253942"},{"product_id":"evolution-and-ethics-and-other-essays-gb-2940","title":"Evolution and Ethics, and Other Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvolution and Ethics, and Other Essays\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n      The letters which are here collected together were published in the\r\n      \"Times\" in the course of the months of December, 1890, and January, 1891.\r\n    \n\r\n      The circumstances which led me to write the first letter are sufficiently\r\n      set forth in its opening sentences; and the materials on which I based my\r\n      criticisms of Mr. Booth's scheme, in this and in the second letter, were\r\n      wholly derived from Mr. Booth's book. I had some reason to know, however,\r\n      that when anybody allows his sense of duty so far to prevail over his\r\n      sense of the blessedness of peace as to write a letter to the \"Times,\" on\r\n      any subject of public interest, his reflections, before he has done with\r\n      the business, will be very like 189\n\n\n those of Johnny Gilpin, \"who\r\n      little thought, when he set out, of running such a rig.\" Such undoubtedly\r\n      are mine when I contemplate these twelve documents, and call to mind the\r\n      distinct addition to the revenue of the Post Office which must have\r\n      accrued from the mass of letters and pamphlets which have been delivered\r\n      at my door; to say nothing of the unexpected light upon my character,\r\n      motives, and doctrines, which has been thrown by some of the \"Times'\"\r\n      correspondents, and by no end of comments elsewhere.\r\n    \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 2940 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Huxley, Thomas Henry \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Nov 1, 2001 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Huxley, Thomas Henry,1825-1895 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212292227229,"sku":"gb-2940-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/2940_aa28a704-4f7d-4a5e-86b5-bf71bd317e7e.jpg?v=1671254612"},{"product_id":"human-nature-and-other-sermons-gb-3150","title":"Human Nature, and Other Sermons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHuman Nature, and Other Sermons\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph Butler was born in 1692, youngest of eight children of \na linendraper at Wantage, in Berkshire. His father was a \nPresbyterian, and after education at the Wantage Free Grammar \nSchool Joseph Butler was sent to be educated for the Presbyterian\nministry in a training academy at Gloucester, which was \nafterwards removed to Tewkesbury. There he had a friend and\ncomrade, Secker, who afterwards became Archbishop of \nCanterbury. Butler and Secker inquired actively, and there \nwas foreshadowing of his future in the fact that in 1713, at the \nage of twenty-one, Butler was engaged in anonymous discussion \nwith Samuel Clarke upon his book on the  priori \ndemonstration of the Divine Existence and Attributes.\nWhen the time drew near for call to the ministry, Butler, like\nhis friend Secker, had reasoned himself into accordance with the \nteaching of the Church of England. Butlers father \ndid not oppose his strong desire to enter the Church, and he was \nentered in 1714 at Oriel College, Oxford. At college a \nstrong friendship was established between Butler and a \nfellow-student, Edward Talbot, whose father was a Bishop, \nformerly of Oxford and Salisbury, then of Durham. Through \nTalbots influence Butler obtained in 1718 the office of \nPreacher in the Rolls Chapel, which he held for the next eight \nyears. In 1722 Talbot died, and on his death-bed urged his \nfather on behalf of his friend Butler. The Bishop \naccordingly presented Joseph Butler to the living of \nHoughton-le-Spring. But it was found that costs of \ndilapidations were beyond his means at Houghton, and Butler had a\ndangerous regard for building works. He was preferred two \nyears afterwards to the living of Stanhope, which then became \nvacant, and which yielded a substantial income. Butler \nsought nothing for himself, his simplicity of character, real \nworth, and rare intellectual power, secured him friends, and the \nlove of two of themTalbot first, and afterwards Secker, \nwho made his own way in the Church, and became strong enough to \nput his friend as well as himself in the way of worldly \nadvancement, secured for Butler all the patronage he had, until \nthe Queen also became his active friend.\nJoseph Butler was seven years at Stanhope, quietly devoted to \nhis parish duties, preaching, studying, and writing his \nAnalogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the \nConstitution and Course of Nature. In 1727, while \nstill at Stanhope, he was appointed to a stall in Durham \nCathedral. Secker, having become chaplain to the Queen, \nencouraged her in admiration of Butlers sermons. He \ntold her that the author was not dead, but buried, and secured \nher active interest in his behalf. From Talbot, who had \nbecome Lord Chancellor, Secker had no difficulty in obtaining for\nButler a chaplaincy which exempted him from the necessity of \nresidence at Stanhope. Butler, in accepting it, stipulated \nfor permission to live and work in his parish for six months in \nevery year. Next he was made chaplain to the King, and \nRector of St. Jamess, upon which he gave up \nStanhope. In 1736 Queen Caroline appointed him her Clerk of\nthe Closet, an office which gave Butler the duty of attendance \nupon her for two hours every evening. In that year he \npublished his Analogy, of which the purpose was to \nmeet, on its own ground, the scepticism of his day. The \nQueen died in 1737, and, in accordance with the strong desire \nexpressed in her last days, in 1738 Butler was made a \nBishop. But his Bishopric was Bristol, worth only \n300 or 400 a year. The King added the Deanery\nof St. Pauls, when that became vacant in 1740, and in \n1750, towards the close of his life, Joseph Butler was translated\nto the Bishopric of Durham. He died in 1752.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 3150 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Butler, Joseph \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Mar 1, 2002 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Morley, Henry, 1822-1894 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Butler, Joseph,1692-1752 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212329877661,"sku":"gb-3150-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/3150_15526410-3ef9-4af1-9fcb-fadcd1d2274f.jpg?v=1671255173"},{"product_id":"letters-to-his-son-1746-47-gb-3351","title":"Letters to His Son, 1746-47","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLetters to His Son, 1746-47\r - On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe proud Lord Chesterfield would have turned in his grave had he known\r\nthat he was to go down to posterity as a teacher and preacher of the\r\ngospel of not grace, but\"the graces, the graces, the graces.\" Natural\r\ngifts, social status, open opportunities, and his ambition, all conspired\r\nto destine him for high statesmanship. If anything was lacking in his\r\nqualifications, he had the pluck and good sense to work hard and\r\npersistently until the deficiency was made up. Something remained\r\nlacking, and not all his consummate mastery of arts could conceal that\r\nconspicuous want,the want of heart.\nTeacher and preacher he assuredly is, and long will be, yet no thanks are\r\nhis due from a posterity of the common people whom he so sublimely\r\ndespised. His pious mission was not to raise the level of the multitude,\r\nbut to lift a single individual upon a pedestal so high that his lowly\r\norigin should not betray itself. That individual was his, Lord\r\nChesterfield's, illegitimate son, whose inferior blood should be given\r\nthe true blue hue by concentrating upon him all the externals of\r\naristocratic education.\nNever had pupil so devoted, persistent, lavish, and brilliant a guide,\r\nphilosopher, and friend, for the parental relation was shrewdly merged in\r\nthese. Never were devotion and uphill struggle against doubts of success\r\nmore bitterly repaid. Philip Stanhope was born in 1732, when his father\r\nwas thirty-eight. He absorbed readily enough the solids of the ideal\r\neducation supplied him, but, by perversity of fate, he cared not a fig\r\nfor \"the graces, the graces, the graces,\" which his father so wisely\r\ndeemed by far the superior qualities to be cultivated by the budding\r\ncourtier and statesman. A few years of minor services to his country were\r\nrendered, though Chesterfield was breaking his substitute for a heart\r\nbecause his son could not or would not play the superfine gentlemanon\r\nthe paternal model, and then came the news of his death, when only\r\nthirty-six. What was a still greater shock to the lordly father, now\r\ndeaf, gouty, fretful, and at outs with the world, his informant reported\r\nthat she had been secretly married for several years to Young Hopeful,\r\nand was left penniless with two boys. Lord Chesterfield was above all\r\nthings a practical philosopher, as hard and as exquisitely rounded and\r\npolished as a granite column. He accepted the vanishing of his lifelong\r\ndream with the admirable stolidity of a fatalist, and in those last days\r\nof his radically artificial life he disclosed a welcome tenderness, a\r\ntouch of the divine, none the less so for being common duty, shown in the\r\nfew brief letters to his son's widow and to \"our boys.\" This, and his\r\nenviable gift of being able to view the downs as well as the ups of life\r\nin the consoling humorous light, must modify the sterner judgment so\r\neasily passed upon his characteristic inculcation, if not practice, of\r\nheartlessness.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 3351 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Dec 1, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212346785949,"sku":"gb-3351-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/3351_094d0164-4db9-4bc1-ae92-a8555f7b6a73.jpg?v=1671255685"},{"product_id":"letters-to-his-son-1748-gb-3352","title":"Letters to His Son, 1748","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLetters to His Son, 1748\r - On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e               LETTERS TO HIS SON\r\n                    1748\nDEAR BOY: I am edified with the allotment of your time at Leipsig; which\r\nis so well employed from morning till night, that a fool would say you\r\nhad none left for yourself; whereas, I am sure you have sense enough to\r\nknow, that such a right use of your time is having it all to yourself;\r\nnay, it is even more, for it is laying it out to immense interest, which,\r\nin a very few years, will amount to a prodigious capital.\nThough twelve of your fourteen 'Commensaux' may not be the liveliest\r\npeople in the world, and may want (as I easily conceive that they do) 'le\r\nton de la bonne campagnie, et les graces', which I wish you, yet pray\r\ntake care not to express any contempt, or throw out any ridicule; which I\r\ncan assure you, is not more contrary to good manners than to good sense:\r\nbut endeavor rather to get all the good you can out of them; and\r\nsomething or other is to be got out of everybody. They will, at least,\r\nimprove you in the German language; and, as they come from different\r\ncountries, you may put them upon subjects, concerning which they must\r\nnecessarily be able to give you some useful informations, let them be\r\never so dull or disagreeable in general: they will know something, at\r\nleast, of the laws, customs, government, and considerable families of\r\ntheir respective countries; all which are better known than not, and\r\nconsequently worth inquiring into. There is hardly any body good for\r\nevery thing, and there is scarcely any body who is absolutely good for\r\nnothing. A good chemist will extract some spirit or other out of every\r\nsubstance; and a man of parts will, by his dexterity and management,\r\nelicit something worth knowing out of every being he converses with.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 3352 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Dec 1, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212346818717,"sku":"gb-3352-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/3352_f607718a-f445-4dfb-89b1-c9642e224f16.jpg?v=1671255688"},{"product_id":"letters-to-his-son-1749-gb-3353","title":"Letters to His Son, 1749","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLetters to His Son, 1749\r - On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e              LETTERS TO HIS SON\r\n                    1749\nDEAR BOY: I have received your letter of the 31st December, N. S. Your\r\nthanks for my present, as you call it, exceed the value of the present;\r\nbut the use, which you assure me that you will make of it, is the thanks\r\nwhich I desire to receive. Due attention to the inside of books, and due\r\ncontempt for the outside, is the proper relation between a man of sense\r\nand his books.\nNow that you are going a little more into the world; I will take this\r\noccasion to explain my intentions as to your future expenses, that you\r\nmay know what you have to expect from me, and make your plan accordingly.\r\nI shall neither deny nor grudge you any money, that may be necessary for\r\neither your improvement or your pleasures: I mean the pleasures of a\r\nrational being. Under the head of improvement, I mean the best books, and\r\nthe best masters, cost what they will; I also mean all the expense of\r\nlodgings, coach, dress; servants, etc., which, according to the several\r\nplaces where you may be, shall be respectively necessary to enable you to\r\nkeep the best company. Under the head of rational pleasures, I\r\ncomprehend, first, proper charities, to real and compassionate objects of\r\nit; secondly, proper presents to those to whom you are obliged, or whom\r\nyou desire to oblige; thirdly, a conformity of expense to that of the\r\ncompany which you keep; as in public spectacles; your share of little\r\nentertainments; a few pistoles at games of mere commerce; and other\r\nincidental calls of good company. The only two articles which I will\r\nnever supply, are the profusion of low riot, and the idle lavishness of\r\nnegligence and laziness. A fool squanders away, without credit or\r\nadvantage to himself, more than a man of sense spends with both. The\r\nlatter employs his money as he does his time, and never spends a shilling\r\nof the one, nor a minute of the other, but in something that is either\r\nuseful or rationally pleasing to himself or others. The former buys\r\nwhatever he does not want, and does not pay for what he does want. He\r\ncannot withstand the charms of a toyshop; snuff-boxes, watches, heads of\r\ncanes, etc., are his destruction. His servants and tradesmen conspire\r\nwith his own indolence to cheat him; and, in a very little time, he is\r\nastonished, in the midst of all the ridiculous superfluities, to find\r\nhimself in want of all the real comforts and necessaries of life. Without\r\ncare and method, the largest fortune will not, and with them, almost the\r\nsmallest will, supply all necessary expenses. As far as you can possibly,\r\npay ready money for everything you buy and avoid bills. Pay that money,\r\ntoo, yourself, and not through the hands of any servant, who always\r\neither stipulates poundage, or requires a present for his good word, as\r\nthey call it. Where you must have bills (as for meat and drink, clothes,\r\netc.), pay them regularly every month, and with your own hand. Never,\r\nfrom a mistaken economy, buy a thing you do not want, because it is\r\ncheap; or from a silly pride, because it is dear. Keep an account in a\r\nbook of all that you receive, and of all that you pay; for no man who\r\nknows what he receives and what he pays ever runs out. I do not mean that\r\nyou should keep an account of the shillings and half-crowns which you may\r\nspend in chair-hire, operas, etc.: they are unworthy of the time, and of\r\nthe ink that they would consume; leave such minutia to dull, penny-wise\r\nfellows; but remember, in economy, as well as in every other part of\r\nlife, to have the proper attention to proper objects, and the proper\r\ncontempt for little ones. A strong mind sees things in their true\r\nproportions; a weak one views them through a magnifying medium, which,\r\nlike the microscope, makes an elephant of a flea: magnifies all little\r\nobjects, but cannot receive great ones. I have known many a man pass for\r\na miser, by saving a penny and wrangling for twopence, who was undoing\r\nhimself at the same time by living above his income, and not attending to\r\nessential articles which were above his 'portee'. The sure characteristic\r\nof a sound and strong mind, is to find in everything those certain\r\nbounds, 'quos ultra citrave nequit consistere rectum'. These boundaries\r\nare marked out by a very fine line, which only good sense and attention\r\ncan discover; it is much too fine for vulgar eyes. In manners, this line\r\nis good-breeding; beyond it, is troublesome ceremony; short of it, is\r\nunbecoming negligence and inattention. In morals, it divides ostentatious\r\npuritanism from criminal relaxation; in religion, superstition from\r\nimpiety: and, in short, every virtue from its kindred vice or weakness. I\r\nthink you have sense enough to discover the line; keep it always in your\r\neye, and learn to walk upon it; rest upon Mr. Harte, and he will poise\r\nyou till you are able to go alone. By the way, there are fewer people who\r\nwalk well upon that line, than upon the slack rope; and therefore a good\r\nperformer shines so much the more.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 3353 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Dec 1, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212346884253,"sku":"gb-3353-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/3353_85c5d501-be82-44ed-900f-ecae7ce95998.jpg?v=1671255690"},{"product_id":"letters-to-his-son-1750-gb-3354","title":"Letters to His Son, 1750","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLetters to His Son, 1750\r - On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDEAR BOY: I have seldom or never written to you upon the subject of\r\nreligion and morality; your own reason, I am persuaded, has given you\r\ntrue notions of both; they speak best for themselves; but if they wanted\r\nassistance, you have Mr. Harte at hand, both for precept and example; to\r\nyour own reason, therefore, and to Mr. Harte, shall I refer you for the\r\nreality of both, and confine myself in this letter to the decency, the\r\nutility, and the necessity of scrupulously preserving the appearances of\r\nboth. 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Whenever, therefore, you\r\nhappen to be in company with those pretended 'Esprits forts', or with\r\nthoughtless libertines, who laugh at all religion to show their wit, or\r\ndisclaim it, to complete their riot, let no word or look of yours\r\nintimate the least approbation; on the contrary, let a silent gravity\r\nexpress your dislike: but enter not into the subject and decline such\r\nunprofitable and indecent controversies. Depend upon this truth, that\r\nevery man is the worse looked upon, and the less trusted for being\r\nthought to have no religion; in spite of all the pompous and specious\r\nepithets he may assume, of 'Esprit fort', freethinker, or moral\r\nphilosopher; and a wise atheist (if such a thing there is) would, for his\r\nown interest and character in this world, pretend to some religion.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 3354 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Dec 1, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212346949789,"sku":"gb-3354-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/3354_b667103d-c82c-46c2-b716-59d5f2dac0e3.jpg?v=1671255693"},{"product_id":"letters-to-his-son-1751-gb-3355","title":"Letters to His Son, 1751","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLetters to His Son, 1751\r - On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e              LETTERS TO HIS SON\r\n                     1751\nMY DEAR FRIEND: By your letter of the 5th, N. S., I find that your\r\n'debut' at Paris has been a good one; you are entered into good company,\r\nand I dare say you will, not sink into bad. Frequent the houses where you\r\nhave been once invited, and have none of that shyness which makes most of\r\nyour countrymen strangers, where they might be intimate and domestic if\r\nthey pleased. Wherever you have a general invitation to sup when you\r\nplease, profit of it, with decency, and go every now and then. Lord\r\nAlbemarle will, I am sure, be extremely kind to you, but his house is\r\nonly a dinner house; and, as I am informed, frequented by no French\r\npeople. Should he happen to employ you in his bureau, which I much doubt,\r\nyou must write a better hand than your common one, or you will get no\r\ncredit by your manuscripts; for your hand is at present an illiberal one;\r\nit is neither a hand of business nor of a gentleman, but the hand of a\r\nschool-boy writing his exercise, which he hopes will never be read.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 3355 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Aug 1, 2002 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212347015325,"sku":"gb-3355-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/3355_07f6b117-ca79-4a35-ad56-43519078a07f.jpg?v=1671255695"},{"product_id":"letters-to-his-son-1752-gb-3356","title":"Letters to His Son, 1752","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLetters to His Son, 1752\r - On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e              LETTERS TO HIS SON\r\n                    1752\nMY DEAR FRIEND: Laziness of mind, or inattention, are as great enemies to\r\nknowledge as incapacity; for, in truth, what difference is there between\r\na man who will not, and a man who cannot be informed? This difference\r\nonly, that the former is justly to be blamed, the latter to be pitied.\r\nAnd yet how many there are, very capable of receiving knowledge, who from\r\nlaziness, inattention, and incuriousness, will not so much as ask for it,\r\nmuch less take the least pains to acquire it!\nOur young English travelers generally distinguish themselves by a\r\nvoluntary privation of all that useful knowledge for which they are sent\r\nabroad; and yet, at that age, the most useful knowledge is the most easy\r\nto be acquired; conversation being the book, and the best book in which\r\nit is contained. The drudgery of dry grammatical learning is over, and\r\nthe fruits of it are mixed with, and adorned by, the flowers of\r\nconversation. How many of our young men have been a year at Rome, and as\r\nlong at Paris, without knowing the meaning and institution of the\r\nConclave in the former, and of the parliament in the latter? and this\r\nmerely for want of asking the first people they met with in those several\r\nplaces, who could at least have given them some general notions of those\r\nmatters.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 3356 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Dec 1, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212347113629,"sku":"gb-3356-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/3356_7424d3e5-e7b0-4d6d-9164-3bd11ad2f22f.jpg?v=1671255697"},{"product_id":"letters-to-his-son-1753-54-gb-3357","title":"Letters to His Son, 1753-54","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLetters to His Son, 1753-54\r - On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e               LETTERS TO HIS SON\r\n                   1753-54\nMY DEAR FRIEND: It is now above a fortnight since I have received a\r\nletter from you. I hope, however, that you are well, but engrossed by the\r\nbusiness of Lord Albemarle's 'bureau' in the mornings, and by business of\r\na genteeler nature in the evenings; for I willingly give up my own\r\nsatisfaction to your improvement, either in business or manners.\nHere have been lately imported from Paris two gentlemen, who, I find,\r\nwere much acquainted with you there Comte Zinzendorf, and Monsieur\r\nClairant the Academician. The former is a very pretty man, well-bred, and\r\nwith a great deal of useful knowledge; for those two things are very\r\nconsistent. I examined him about you, thinking him a competent judge. He\r\ntold me, 'que vous parliez l'Allemand comme un Allemand; que vous saviez\r\nle droit public de l'empire parfaitement bien; que vous aviez le gout\r\nsur, et des connoissances fort etendues'. I told him that I knew all this\r\nvery well; but that I wanted to know whether you had l'air, les manieres,\r\nles attentions, en fin le brillant d'un honnete homme': his answer was,\r\n'Mais oui en verite, c'est fort bien'. This, you see, is but cold in\r\ncomparison of what I do wish, and of what you ought to wish. Your friend\r\nClairant interposed, and said, 'Mais je vous assure qu'il est fort poli';\r\nto which I answered, 'Je le crois bien, vis-a-vis des Lapons vos amis; je\r\nvous recuse pour juge, jusqu'a ce que vous ayez ete delaponne, au moins\r\ndix ans, parmi les honnetes gens'. These testimonies in your favor are\r\nsuch as perhaps you are satisfied with, and think sufficient; but I am\r\nnot; they are only the cold depositions of disinterested and unconcerned\r\nwitnesses, upon a strict examination. When, upon a trial, a man calls\r\nwitnesses to his character, and that those witnesses only say that they\r\nnever heard, nor do not know any ill of him, it intimates at best a\r\nneutral and insignificant, though innocent character. Now I want, and you\r\nought to endeavor, that 'les agremens, les graces, les attentions', etc.,\r\nshould be a distinguishing part of your character, and specified of you\r\nby people unasked. I wish to hear people say of you, 'Ah qu'il est\r\naimable! Quelles manieres, quelles graces, quel art de Claire'! Nature,\r\nthank God, has given you all the powers necessary; and if she has not\r\nyet, I hope in God she will give you the will of exerting them.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 3357 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Dec 1, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212347146397,"sku":"gb-3357-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/3357_6f49eb87-dc49-45f2-ae99-be36948ab39a.jpg?v=1671255700"},{"product_id":"letters-to-his-son-1756-58-gb-3358","title":"Letters to His Son, 1756-58","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLetters to His Son, 1756-58\r - On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e              LETTERS TO HIS SON\r\n                  1756-58\nMY DEAR FRIEND: I received yours yesterday morning together with the\r\nPrussian, papers, which I have read with great attention. If courts could\r\nblush, those of Vienna and Dresden ought, to have their falsehoods so\r\npublicly, and so undeniably exposed. The former will, I presume, next\r\nyear, employ an hundred thousand men, to answer the accusation; and if\r\nthe Empress of the two Russias is pleased to argue in the same cogent\r\nmanner, their logic will be too strong for all the King of Prussia's\r\nrhetoric. I well remember the treaty so often referred to in those\r\npieces, between the two Empresses, in 1746. The King was strongly pressed\r\nby the Empress Queen to accede to it. Wassenaer communicated it to me for\r\nthat purpose. I asked him if there were no secret articles; suspecting\r\nthat there were some, because the ostensible treaty was a mere harmless,\r\ndefensive one. He assured me that there were none. Upon which I told him,\r\nthat as the King had already defensive alliances with those two\r\nEmpresses, I did not see of what use his accession to this treaty, if\r\nmerely a defensive one, could be, either to himself or the other\r\ncontracting parties; but that, however, if it was only desired as an\r\nindication of the King's good will, I would give him an act by which his\r\nMajesty should accede to that treaty, as far, but no further, as at\r\npresent he stood engaged to the respective Empresses by the defensive\r\nalliances subsisting with each. This offer by no means satisfied him;\r\nwhich was a plain proof of the secret articles now brought to light, and\r\ninto which the court of Vienna hoped to draw us. I told Wassenaer so, and\r\nafter that I heard no more of his invitation.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 3358 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Dec 1, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212347211933,"sku":"gb-3358-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/3358_bfe0157c-a62e-4c30-9309-5366d672a281.jpg?v=1671255703"},{"product_id":"letters-to-his-son-1759-65-gb-3359","title":"Letters to His Son, 1759-65","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLetters to His Son, 1759-65\r - On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e              LETTERS TO HIS SON\r\n                  1759-65\nI have now before me your last letter of the 21st December, which I am\r\nglad to find is a bill of health: but, however, do not presume too much\r\nupon it, but obey and honor your physician, \"that thy days may be long in\r\nthe land.\"\nSince my last, I have heard nothing more concerning the ribband; but I\r\ntake it for granted it will be disposed of soon. 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I hardly remember so severe a win ter; it has occasioned many\r\nillnesses here. I am sure it pinched my crazy carcass so much that, about\r\nthree weeks ago, I was obliged to be let blood twice in four days, which\r\nI found afterward was very necessary, by the relief it gave to my head\r\nand to the rheumatic pains in my limbs; and from the execrable kind of\r\nblood which I lost.\nPerhaps you expect from me a particular account of the present state of\r\naffairs here; but if you do you will be disappointed; for no man living\r\n(and I still less than anyone) knows what it is; it varies, not only\r\ndaily, but hourly.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 3360 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Dec 1, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212347310237,"sku":"gb-3360-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/3360_b7fdec85-6d8b-46c4-900f-8b5cac3c36a2.jpg?v=1671255708"},{"product_id":"letters-to-his-son-complete-gb-3361","title":"Letters to His Son, Complete","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLetters to His Son, Complete\r - On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n      The proud Lord Chesterfield would have turned in his grave had he known\r\n      that he was to go down to posterity as a teacher and preacher of the\r\n      gospel of not grace, butthe graces, the graces, the graces.\r\n       Natural gifts, social status, open opportunities, and his ambition, all\r\n      conspired to destine him for high statesmanship. If anything was lacking\r\n      in his qualifications, he had the pluck and good sense to work hard and\r\n      persistently until the deficiency was made up. Something remained lacking,\r\n      and not all his consummate mastery of arts could conceal that conspicuous\r\n      want,the want of heart.\r\n    \n\r\n      Teacher and preacher he assuredly is, and long will be, yet no thanks are\r\n      his due from a posterity of the common people whom he so sublimely\r\n      despised. His pious mission was not to raise the level of the multitude,\r\n      but to lift a single individual upon a pedestal so high that his lowly\r\n      origin should not betray itself. 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A few years of minor services to his country were rendered,\r\n      though Chesterfield was breaking his substitute for a heart because his\r\n      son could not or would not play the superfine gentlemanon the\r\n      paternal model, and then came the news of his death, when only thirty-six.\r\n      What was a still greater shock to the lordly father, now deaf, gouty,\r\n      fretful, and at outs with the world, his informant reported that she had\r\n      been secretly married for several years to Young Hopeful, and was left\r\n      penniless with two boys. Lord Chesterfield was above all things a\r\n      practical philosopher, as hard and as exquisitely rounded and polished as\r\n      a granite column. He accepted the vanishing of his lifelong dream with the\r\n      admirable stolidity of a fatalist, and in those last days of his radically\r\n      artificial life he disclosed a welcome tenderness, a touch of the divine,\r\n      none the less so for being common duty, shown in the few brief letters to\r\n      his sons widow and to our boys. This, and his enviable gift of being\r\n      able to view the downs as well as the ups of life in the consoling\r\n      humorous light, must modify the sterner judgment so easily passed upon his\r\n      characteristic inculcation, if not practice, of heartlessness.\r\n    \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 3361 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Oct 12, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212347375773,"sku":"gb-3361-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/3361_9d3dc671-21ab-41b7-88a2-95d06d2f1cd2.jpg?v=1671255710"},{"product_id":"ethica-ordine-geometrico-demonstrata-gb-3800","title":"Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEthics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nII.  A thing is called finite after its kind, when it can be\r\nlimited by another thing of the same nature; for instance, a\r\nbody is called finite because we always conceive another greater\r\nbody.  So, also, a thought is limited by another thought, but a\r\nbody is not limited by thought, nor a thought by body.\r\n\n\r\nExplanationI say absolutely infinite, not infinite after its\r\nkind: for, of a thing infinite only after its kind, infinite\r\nattributes may be denied; but that which is absolutely infinite,\r\ncontains in its essence whatever expresses reality, and involves\r\nno negation.\r\n\n\r\nVII.  That thing is called free, which exists solely by the\r\nnecessity of its own nature, and of which the action is\r\ndetermined by itself alone.  On the other hand, that thing is\r\nnecessary, or rather constrained, which is determined by\r\nsomething external to itself to a fixed and definite method of\r\nexistence or action.\r\n\n\r\nExplanationExistence of this kind is conceived as an eternal\r\ntruth, like the essence of a thing, and, therefore, cannot be\r\nexplained by means of continuance or time, though continuance may\r\nbe conceived without a beginning or end.\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 3800 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Spinoza, Benedictus de \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Feb 1, 2003 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Elwes, R. 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We were all, we found,\n      extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings\n      and in our ideas of right and wrong. And yet we reckoned ourselves people\n      of the educated class and some of us talk and lecture and write with\n      considerable confidence. We thought it would be of very great interest to\n      ourselves and each other if we made some sort of frank mutual confession.\n      We arranged to hold a series of meetings in which first one and then\n      another explained the faith, so far as he understood it, that was in him.\n      We astonished ourselves and our hearers by the irregular and fragmentary\n      nature of the creeds we produced, clotted at one point, inconsecutive at\n      another, inconsistent and unconvincing to a quite unexpected degree. It\n      would not be difficult to caricature one of those meetings; the lecturer\n      floundering about with an air of exquisite illumination, the audience\n      attentive with an expression of thwarted edification upon its various\n      brows. For my own part I grew so interested in planning my lecture and in\n      joining up point and point, that my notes soon outran the possibilities of\n      the hour or so of meeting for which I was preparing them. The meeting got\n      only a few fragments of what I had to say, and made what it could of them.\n      And after that was over I let myself loose from limits of time and length\n      altogether and have expanded these memoranda into a book.\n    \n\n      It is as it stands now the frank confession of what one man of the early\n      Twentieth Century has found in life and himself, a confession just as\n      frank as the limitations of his character permit; it is his metaphysics,\n      his religion, his moral standards, his uncertainties and the expedients\n      with which he has met them. On every one of these departments and aspects\n      I writehow shall I put it?as an amateur. In every section of\n      my subject there are men not only of far greater intellectual power and\n      energy than I, but who have devoted their whole lives to the sustained\n      analysis of this or that among the questions I discuss, and there is a\n      literature so enormous in the aggregate that only a specialist scholar\n      could hope to know it. I have not been unmindful of these professors and\n      this literature; I have taken such opportunities as I have found, to test\n      my propositions by them. But I feel that such apology as one makes for\n      amateurishness in this field has a lesser quality of self-condemnation\n      than if one were dealing with narrower, more defined and fact-laden\n      matters. There is more excuse for one here than for the amateur maker of\n      chemical theories, or the man who evolves a system of surgery in his\n      leisure. These things, chemistry, surgery and so forth, we may take on the\n      reputation of an expert, but our own fundamental beliefs, our rules of\n      conduct, we must all make for ourselves. We may listen and read, but the\n      views of others we cannot take on credit; we must rethink them and make\n      them our own. And we cannot do without fundamental beliefs, explicit or\n      implicit. The bulk of men are obliged to be amateur philosophers,all\n      men indeed who are not specialized students of philosophical subjects,even\n      if their philosophical enterprise goes no further than prompt recognition\n      of and submission to Authority.\n    \n\n      And it is not only the claim of the specialist that I would repudiate.\n      People are too apt to suppose that in order to discuss morals a man must\n      have exceptional moral gifts. I would dispute that naive supposition. I am\n      an ingenuous enquirer with, I think, some capacity for religious feeling,\n      but neither a prophet nor a saint. On the whole I should be inclined to\n      classify myself as a bad man rather than a good; not indeed as any sort of\n      picturesque scoundrel or non-moral expert, but as a person frequently\n      irritable, ungenerous and forgetful, and intermittently and in small but\n      definite ways bad. One thing I claim, I have got my beliefs and theories\n      out of my life and not fitted them to its circumstances. As often as not I\n      have learnt good by the method of difference; by the taste of the\n      alternative. I tell this faith I hold as I hold it and I sketch out the\n      principles by which I am generally trying to direct my life at the present\n      time, because it interests me to do so and I think it may interest a\n      certain number of similarly constituted people. I am not teaching. How far\n      I succeed or fail in that private and personal attempt to behave well, has\n      nothing to do with the matter of this book. That is another story, a\n      reserved and private affair. I offer simply intellectual experiences and\n      ideas.\n    \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 4225 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jul 1, 2003 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Wells, H. G. 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Yet several writers who have honoured the Author's\r\nPhilosophy with answers, have taken care to direct all their batteries\r\nagainst that juvenile work, which the author never acknowledged, and\r\nhave affected to triumph in any advantages, which, they imagined, they\r\nhad obtained over it: A practice very contrary to all rules of candour\r\nand fair-dealing, and a strong instance of those polemical artifices\r\nwhich a bigotted zeal thinks itself authorized to employ. 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Is there not ground for\n      suspecting that all philosophers, in so far as they have been dogmatists,\n      have failed to understand womenthat the terrible seriousness and\n      clumsy importunity with which they have usually paid their addresses to\n      Truth, have been unskilled and unseemly methods for winning a woman?\n      Certainly she has never allowed herself to be won; and at present every\n      kind of dogma stands with sad and discouraged mienIF, indeed, it\n      stands at all! For there are scoffers who maintain that it has fallen,\n      that all dogma lies on the groundnay more, that it is at its last\n      gasp. 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The\n      philosophy of the dogmatists, it is to be hoped, was only a promise for\n      thousands of years afterwards, as was astrology in still earlier times, in\n      the service of which probably more labour, gold, acuteness, and patience\n      have been spent than on any actual science hitherto: we owe to it, and to\n      its \"super-terrestrial\" pretensions in Asia and Egypt, the grand style of\n      architecture. It seems that in order to inscribe themselves upon the heart\n      of humanity with everlasting claims, all great things have first to wander\n      about the earth as enormous and awe-inspiring caricatures: dogmatic\n      philosophy has been a caricature of this kindfor instance, the\n      Vedanta doctrine in Asia, and Platonism in Europe. Let us not be\n      ungrateful to it, although it must certainly be confessed that the worst,\n      the most tiresome, and the most dangerous of errors hitherto has been a\n      dogmatist errornamely, Plato's invention of Pure Spirit and the\n      Good in Itself. But now when it has been surmounted, when Europe, rid of\n      this nightmare, can again draw breath freely and at least enjoy a\n      healthiersleep, we, WHOSE DUTY IS WAKEFULNESS ITSELF, are the heirs\n      of all the strength which the struggle against this error has fostered. It\n      amounted to the very inversion of truth, and the denial of the PERSPECTIVEthe\n      fundamental conditionof life, to speak of Spirit and the Good as\n      Plato spoke of them; indeed one might ask, as a physician: \"How did such a\n      malady attack that finest product of antiquity, Plato? Had the wicked\n      Socrates really corrupted him? Was Socrates after all a corrupter of\n      youths, and deserved his hemlock?\" But the struggle against Plato, orto\n      speak plainer, and for the \"people\"the struggle against the\n      ecclesiastical oppression of millenniums of Christianity (FOR CHRISTIANITY\n      IS PLATONISM FOR THE \"PEOPLE\"), produced in Europe a magnificent tension\n      of soul, such as had not existed anywhere previously; with such a tensely\n      strained bow one can now aim at the furthest goals. As a matter of fact,\n      the European feels this tension as a state of distress, and twice attempts\n      have been made in grand style to unbend the bow: once by means of\n      Jesuitism, and the second time by means of democratic enlightenmentwhich,\n      with the aid of liberty of the press and newspaper-reading, might, in\n      fact, bring it about that the spirit would not so easily find itself in\n      \"distress\"! (The Germans invented gunpowderall credit to them! but\n      they again made things squarethey invented printing.) But we, who\n      are neither Jesuits, nor democrats, nor even sufficiently Germans, we GOOD\n      EUROPEANS, and free, VERY free spiritswe have it still, all the\n      distress of spirit and all the tension of its bow! And perhaps also the\n      arrow, the duty, and, who knows? THE GOAL TO AIM AT....\n    \n\n      Sils Maria Upper Engadine, JUNE, 1885.\n    \n\n \n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 4363 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Aug 1, 2003 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Zimmern, Helen, 1846-1934 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,1844-1900 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212415074461,"sku":"gb-4363-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/4363_cf5b015c-173e-4180-8b3f-1bee9f15a440.jpg?v=1671277897"},{"product_id":"the-ethics-of-the-dust-gb-4701","title":"The Ethics of the Dust","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Ethics of the Dust\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n      The following lectures were really given, in substance, at a girls' school\r\n      (far in the country); which, in the course of various experiments on the\r\n      possibility of introducing some better practice of drawing into the modern\r\n      scheme of female education, I visited frequently enough to enable the\r\n      children to regard me as a friend. The Lectures always fell more or less\r\n      into the form of fragmentary answers to questions; and they are allowed to\r\n      retain that form, as, on the whole, likely to be more interesting than the\r\n      symmetries of a continuous treatise. Many children (for the school was\r\n      large) took part, at different times, in the conversations; but I have\r\n      endeavored, without confusedly multiplying the number of imaginary\r\n      speakers, to represent, as far as I could, the general tone of comment and\r\n      inquiry among young people.\r\n    \n\r\n      [Footnote: I do not mean, in saying \"imaginary,\" that I have not permitted\r\n      to myself, in several instances, the affectionate discourtesy of some\r\n      reminiscence of personal character; for which I must hope to be forgiven\r\n      by my old pupils and their friends, as I could not otherwise have written\r\n      the book at all. But only two sentences in all the dialogues, and the\r\n      anecdote of \"Dotty,\" are literally \"historical.\"]\r\n    \n\r\n      It will be at once seen that these Lectures were not intended for an\r\n      introduction to mineralogy. Their purpose was merely to awaken in the\r\n      minds of young girls, who were ready to work earnestly and systematically,\r\n      a vital interest in the subject of their study. 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Es hiess allerdings die Wahrheit auf den Kopf\r\nstellen und das Perspektivische, die Grundbedingung alles Lebens,\r\nselber verleugnen, so vom Geiste und vom Guten zu reden, wie Plato\r\ngethan hat; ja man darf, als Arzt, fragen: \"woher eine solche\r\nKrankheit am schnsten Gewchse des Alterthums, an Plato? hat ihn doch\r\nder bse Sokrates verdorben? wre Sokrates doch der Verderber der\r\nJugend gewesen? und htte seinen Schlierling verdient?\" - Aber der\r\nKampf gegen Plato, oder, um es verstndlicher und fr's \"Volk\"\r\nzu sagen, der Kampf gegen den christlich-kirchlichen Druck von\r\nJahrtausenden - denn Christenthum ist Platonismus fr's \"Volk\" - hat\r\nin Europa eine prachtvolle Spannung des Geistes geschaffen, wie sie\r\nauf Erden noch nicht da war: mit einem so gespannten Bogen kann man\r\nnunmehr nach den fernsten Zielen schiessen. Freilich, der europische\r\nMensch empfindet diese Spannung als Nothstand; und es ist schon zwei\r\nMal im grossen Stile versucht worden, den Bogen abzuspannen, einmal\r\ndurch den Jesuitismus, zum zweiten Mal durch die demokratische\r\nAufklrung: - als welche mit Hlfe der Pressfreiheit und des\r\nZeitunglesens es in der That erreichen drfte, dass der Geist sich\r\nselbst nicht mehr so leicht als \"Noth\" empfindet! (Die Deutschen haben\r\ndas Pulver erfunden - alle Achtung! aber sie haben es wieder quitt\r\ngemacht - sie erfanden die Presse.) Aber wir, die wir weder Jesuiten,\r\nnoch Demokraten, noch selbst Deutsche genug sind, wir guten Europer\r\nund freien, sehr freien Geister - wir haben sie noch, die ganze Noth\r\ndes Geistes und die ganze Spannung seines Bogens! Und vielleicht auch\r\nden Pfeil, die Aufgabe, wer weiss? das Ziel..\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 7204 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jan 1, 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: German \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,1844-1900 \/ eBook \/ German","offer_id":43215405482141,"sku":"gb-7204-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/7204.jpg?v=1671286762"},{"product_id":"quotes-and-images-from-chesterfield-s-letters-to-his-son-gb-7539","title":"Quotes and Images from Chesterfield's Letters to His Son","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuotes and Images from Chesterfield's Letters to His Son\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n      If you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select\r\n      a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then open the\r\n      eBook below and paste the phrase into your computer's find or search\r\n      operation.\r\n    \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 7539 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Aug 29, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Widger, David, 1932- \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43215440150685,"sku":"gb-7539-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/7539.jpg?v=1671288159"},{"product_id":"an-enquiry-into-an-origin-of-honour-and-the-usefulness-of-christianity-in-war-gb-7819","title":"An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour and the Usefulness of Christianity in War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI take it for granted, that a Christian is not bound to believe any\r\nThing to have been of Divine Institution, that has not been declared\r\nto be such in Holy Writ. Yet great Offence has been taken at an Essay,\r\nin the First Part of the Fable of the Bees, call'd An Enquiry into the\r\nOrigin of Moral Virtue; notwithstanding the great Caution it is wrote\r\nwith. Since then, it is thought Criminal to surmise, that even Heathen\r\nVirtue was of Human Invention, and the Reader, in the following\r\nDialogues, will find me to persist in the Opinion, that it was; I beg\r\nhis Patience to peruse what I have to say for my self on this Head,\r\nwhich is all I shall trouble him with here.\nThe Word Morality is either synonimous with Virtue, or signifies that\r\nPart of Philosophy, which treats of it, and teaches the Regulation of\r\nManners; and by the Words Moral Virtue, I mean the same Thing which I\r\nbelieve Every body else does. I am likewise fully persuaded that to\r\ngovern our selves according to the Dictates of Reason, is far better\r\nthan to indulge the Passions without Stop or Controul, and\r\nconsequently that Virtue is more beneficial than Vice, not only for\r\nthe Peace and real Happiness of Society in general, but likewise for\r\nthe Temporal Felicity of every individual Member of it, abstract from\r\nthee Consideration of a future State, I am moreover convinced, that\r\nall wise Men ever were and ever will be of this Opinion; and I shall\r\nnever oppose Any body, who shall be pleased to call this an Eternal\r\nTruth.\nHaving allow'd and own'd thus much, I beg Leave to make a short\r\nGrammatical Reflection on the Sounds or Letters we make use of to\r\nexpress this rational Management of ourselves: For tho' the Truth of\r\nits Excellency is Eternal, the Words Moral Virtue themselves are not\r\nso, any more than Speech or Man himself. 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Perhaps I am unwise in\r\npublishing a second part. The first was so kindly received that I am\r\nrunning a risk in attempting to add to it.\nIn the preface, however, to the first part I have expressed the hope that\r\nthe thoughts and quotations in which I have found most comfort and\r\ndelight, might be of use to others also.\nIn this my most sanguine hopes have been more than realized. Not only has\r\nthe book passed through thirteen editions in less than two years, but the\r\nmany letters which I have received have been most gratifying.\nTwo criticisms have been repeated by several of those who have done me the\r\nhonor of noticing my previous volume. It has been said in the first place\r\nthat my life has been exceptionally bright and full, and that I cannot\r\ntherefore judge for others. Nor do I attempt to do so. I do not forget, I\r\nhope I am not ungrateful for, all that has been bestowed on me. 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Moreover, I have had,who\r\nhas not,my own sorrows.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 7952 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Lubbock, John \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Apr 1, 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Lubbock, John \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43215479210141,"sku":"gb-7952-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/7952.jpg?v=1671289733"},{"product_id":"moral-philosophy-ethics-deontology-and-natural-law-gb-8103","title":"Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Deontology and Natural Law","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMoral Philosophy: Ethics, Deontology and Natural Law\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fifteen years this Manual has enjoyed all the popularity that its\r\nauthor could desire. With that popularity the author is the last\r\nperson to wish to interfere. Therefore, not to throw previous copies\r\nout of use, this edition makes no alteration either in the pagination\r\nor the text already printed. At the same time the author might well be\r\nargued to have lapsed into strange supineness and indifference to\r\nmoral science, if in fifteen years he had learnt nothing new, and\r\nfound nothing in his work which he wished to improve. Whoever will be\r\nat the expense of purchasing my Political and Moral Essays\r\n(Benziger, 1902, 6s.) will find in the first essay on the Origin and\r\nExtent of Civil Authority an advantageous substitute for the chapter\r\non the State in this work. The essay is a dissertation written for the\r\ndegree of B. Sc. in the University of Oxford; and represents, I hope,\r\ntolerably well the best contemporary teaching on the subject.\nIf the present work had to be rewritten, I should make a triple\r\ndivision of Moral Philosophy, into Ethics, Deontology (the science of\r\n[Greek: to deon], i.e., of what ought to be done), and Natural Law.\r\nFor if \"the principal business of Ethics is to determine what moral\r\nobligation is\" (p. 2), then the classical work on the subject, the\r\nNicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, is as the play of Hamlet with the\r\ncharacter of Hamlet left out: for in that work there is no analysis of\r\nmoral obligation, no attempt to \"fix the comprehension of the idea I\r\nought\" (ib.). The system there exposed is a system of Eudaemonism,\r\nnot of Deontology. It is not a treatise on Duty, but on Happiness: it\r\ntells us what Happiness, or rational well-being, is, and what conduct\r\nis conducive to rational well-being. 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The author of the Magna Moralia well says (I. i. 13): \"No\r\nscience or faculty ever argues the goodness of the end which it\r\nproposes to itself: it belongs to some other faculty to consider that.\r\nNeither the physician says that health is a good thing, nor the\r\nbuilder that a house is a good thing: but the one announces that he\r\nproduces health and how he produces it, and the builder in like manner\r\na house.\" The professor of Ethics indeed, from the very nature of his\r\nsubject-matter, says in pointing out happiness that it is the rational\r\nsovereign good of man: but to any one unmoved by that demonstration\r\nEthics can have no more to say. 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