...e University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first published in 1603. In 'The World's Classic... ...al material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The Univer... ...rating of Expenses XLIV. Of Sleeping XLV. Of the Battell of Dreux XLVI. Of Names XLVII. Of the uncertaintie of our Judgement XLVIII. Of Steeds, called... ...e same effect. Edward the black Prince of Wales (who so long governed our Country of Guienne, a man whose conditions and fortune were accompanied wi... ...s cause of his death, which was, that he would never consent to yeeld his Country into the hands of a cruell tyrant, menacing him with an imminent p... ...labria, who foretold all the Popes that should ensue, together with their names and shapes: And that of Leo the Emperor, who fore-spake all the Empe... ... doth all such like stuffe. For his prefaces, definitions, divisions, and Etymologies consume the greatest part of his works; whatsoever quick, witti... ...ittle busines I have managed betweene our Princes, amid the divisions and subdivisions which at this day so teare and turmoile us, I have curiously ...

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...They have a secret, unperceived and delicate beauty; he had neede of a cleere, farreseeing and true-discerning sight that should rightly discover this secret light. Is not ingenuity (according to us) cosin germaine unto sottishnesse, and a quality of reproach? Socrates maketh his soule ...

... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...re fully equal to his task. He began with the physical ge- ography of this country, and examined the characteristics of 6 Democracy in America the pe... ...y to a peculiar people, or that it would be impracticable in any different country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the Amer... ...er must necessarily believeme upon my word. I could frequently have quoted names which are either known to him, or which deserve to be so, in proof of... ...es believed in the existence of a better world, and adored under different names, God, the creator of the universe. Their notions on the great intelle... ...pression they happen to want. If they have sometimes re- course to learned etymologies, vanity will induce them to search at the roots of the dead lan... ...ave been formed which are called nations; and amidst these nations further subdivisions have assumed the names of classes or castes. Each of these ass...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential t...

... Sophist by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is f... ... sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...union of kinds with kinds, and not merely one Being or Good having different names, or sev eral isolated ideas or classes incapable of com munion, w... ...peared; for the term ‘Sophist’ would hardly have been applied to the greater names, such as Plotinus, and would have been more often used of a profess... ...lato ist or the Statesman can be caught in this way. But these divisions and subdivisions were favourite logical exercises of the age in which he live... ...hist – Plato ing the words—’I should like to ask our Eleatic friend what his countrymen think of them; do they regard them as one, or three?’ The Stra... .... For is he less a Sophist when, in stead of exporting his wares to another country , he stays at home, and retails goods, which he not only buys of ... ...the Hegelian use of lan guage as mechanical and technical. Hegel is fond of etymologies and often seems to trifle with words. He gives etymologies wh... ...GER: And the Sophist was flitting before us in the acquisitive class, in the subdivisions of hunting, contests, merchandize, and the like. THEAETETUS:...