Found 3,858 results for "Early works to 1700"
Πολιτικά (Politiká)
by Aristotle
EVERY STATE is a community of some kind, and every community is established with a view to some good; for mankind always...
De rerum natura
by Titus Lucretius Carus
Mother of Aeneas and his race, delight of men and gods, life-giving Venus, it is your doing that under the wheeling cons...
Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
1. From* my grandfather Venus:* the lesson of noble character and even temper.
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...
Lives
by Plutarch
IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Macbeth was first produced at a time of radical theatrical change in England.
πολιτεία
by Πλάτων
The first chapter consists of a typical early Platonic dialogue: it was possibly originally written separately from the ...
De la démocratie en Amérique
by Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont
AFTER the birth of a human being, his early years are obscurely spent in the toils or pleasures of childhood.
Ars Amatoria
by Ovid
Si hi ha algú d'aquest poble que no conegui l'art d'estimar, que llegeixi aquest poema i, instruït per la seva lectura, ...
The history of the great plague in London in the year 1665
by Daniel Defoe
IT was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard, in ordinary discourse, th...
Two Treatises on Government
by John Locke, Ian Shapiro
1. That Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood, or by positive donation from God, any such authority over h...
Γοργίας
by Πλάτων
Callicles: Socrates, it's smart to be late for a fight, but not for a feast.
The Poetical Works of John Dryden
by John Dryden, John Dryden
As there is music uninform'd by art
Emile or Education
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Barbara Foxley
EVERYTHING is good as it leaves the hands of the Author of things; everything degenerates in the hands of man.
Grace abounding to the chief of sinners
by John Bunyan
IN THIS MY RELATION of the merciful working of God upon my soul, it will not be amiss, if, in the first place, I do in a...
