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Monday, February 27, 2023

Ignoring One's Own Instructions

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Petrarca, Petrarch's Letters to Classical Authors , tr. Mario Emilio Cosenza (Chicago, 1910), 1, Letter to M. T. Cicero, pp. 3-4 (with t...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

From Slaves, To Freedmen, To Dethroners

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William Edward Lecky, History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne , vol. I. (New York: 3rd edt., 1897), ch. 2, The Pagan Empire,...

To Love And Hate With Mouth And Heart

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Theognis, The Maxims of Theognis , in: Rev. J. Banks,  The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis (Bohn's Classical Library, 1879), ...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Carlylian Image Of The Politician Seeking Popularity

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Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets , No. V., Stump-Orator, May 1, 1850: Such a soul, though to the eye he still keeps tumbling about in th...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Literary Petrifactions

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William Carew Hazlitt, The Confessions of a Collector , (London, 1897), ch. I., Confessions of a Collector, pp. 2-3: We hear of the Fratres ...

Photius On Lucian

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La Rue van Hook, The Literary Criticism in the Bibliotheca of Photius , (in:  Classical Philology Journal, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Apr., 1909)), II.,...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

The Poets Of The Anthologia Palatina

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John Addington Symonds, Studies on the Greek Poets , vol. II., (New York: 1880), ch. XXI., The Anthology, pp. 281-2: If we might compare the...
Friday, February 17, 2023

Foreign And Civil Wars

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William Edward Lecky, History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne , vol. I., (New York: 3rd edt., 1897), ch. 2, The Pagan Empire...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

A Most Soulless Type

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H. J. Rose, The Core of Mythology , in: Greece and Rome Journal, vol. I., No. 3, May 1932, p. 129: And these stories [of mythology] should b...
Wednesday, February 8, 2023

A Look Of Communion

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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Edward Allwill's Collection of Letters , iv., Sylli to Clerdon, March 8, p. 394. In: Main Philosophical Writi...
Friday, February 3, 2023

Frequent, Habitual Reading

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Frederic Harrison, The Choice of Books and Other Literary Pieces (London: MacMillan and Co., 1886), pp. 78-9: Now poetry and the highest ki...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

The Unchanging Human Heart

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Emil Ludwig, Gifts of Life: A Retrospect , (Little, Brown, and Company, 1931) edt. Ethel Colburn Mayne, Preface, v.: The lesson of all memoi...
Sunday, January 29, 2023

Limits Of Language Before Nature And Before Geniuses

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William White,  Life of Emanuel Swedenborg , (Philadelphia, 1866), Intro. (writ by B. F. Barrett), pp. 7-8: It is difficult to paint in lang...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

Wisdom And The Prime Of Life

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Philo Alexandrinus, Every Good Man Is Free (Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit), In: vol. IX. of Philo's works, (Loeb Classical Library, 1985)...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

That Friendship Is indispensable

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Cicero, Lælius   De Amicitia , 23 (tr. William Armistead Falconer): Nay, even if anyone were of a nature so savage and fierce as to shun and...
Monday, January 23, 2023

The New Gospel

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All-Too-Human , pt. 1, ch. 2, §107, tr. Helen Zimmern: . . . To recognise all this may be deeply painful, but co...
Friday, January 20, 2023

New Discoveries

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W. Byrd Powell,  The Natural History of the Human Temperaments , (Cincinnati, 1856), Preface, p. vii.: It is well known that all new discove...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

Regarding Our Predecessors

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A. E. Housman, The Confines of Criticism (Cambridge: University Press, 1969), pp. 44-45: I spoke just now of servility shown towards the li...
Friday, January 13, 2023

Regarding Love's Place In Life

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S. S. Knight, Human Life, 1910, ch, vii., Love, pp. 156-8: It is owing to the fact that we cannot enjoy anything to the fullest extent alone...
Wednesday, January 11, 2023

The Judgment of Enlightened Peoples

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments From the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra , tr. Paul S. Loeb and David F. Tinsley, Spring 1884, §...