Emerson on Plutarch’s Morals
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: Philaletheians UK
Published: 2023-04-10
Total Pages: 15
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Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: Philaletheians UK
Published: 2023-04-10
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Plutarch
Publisher: anboco
Published: 2016-09-07
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 3736414102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlutarch, who was born at Chæronea in Bœotia, probably about A.D. 50, and was a contemporary of Tacitus and Pliny, has written two works still extant, the well-known Lives, and the less-known Moralia. The Lives have often been translated, and have always been a popular work. Great indeed was their power at the period of the French Revolution. The Moralia, on the other hand, consisting of various Essays on various subjects (only twenty-six of which are directly ethical, though they have given their name to the Moralia), are declared by Mr. Paley "to be practically almost unknown to most persons in Britain, even to those who call themselves scholars."1 Habent etiam sua fata libelli. In older days the Moralia were more valued. Montaigne, who was a great lover of Plutarch, and who observes in one passage of his Essays that "Plutarch and Seneca were the only two books of solid learning he seriously settled himself to read," quotes as much from the Moralia as from the Lives. And in the seventeenth century I cannot but think the Moralia were largely read at our Universities, at least at the University of Cambridge. For, not to mention the wonderful way in which the famous Jeremy Taylor has taken the cream of "Conjugal Precepts" in his Sermon called "The Marriage Ring," or the large and copious use viiihe has made in his "Holy Living" of three other Essays in this volume, namely, those "On Curiosity," "On Restraining Anger," and "On Contentedness of Mind," proving conclusively what a storehouse he found the Moralia, we have evidence that that most delightful poet, Robert Herrick, read the Moralia, too, when at Cambridge, so that one cannot but think it was a work read in the University course generally in those days. For in a letter to his uncle written from Cambridge, asking for books or money for books, he makes the following remark: "How kind Arcisilaus the philosopher was unto Apelles the painter, Plutark in his Morals will tell you."...
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Published: 1881
Total Pages: 416
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 318
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Published: 1861
Total Pages: 200
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Published: 1871
Total Pages: 976
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Published: 1871
Total Pages: 970
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Author: Rebecca Kingston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-09-29
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 1009243489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the reception of Plutarch in early modern French and English political thought, with a focus on the theme of public service.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1939
Total Pages: 660
ISBN-13: 9780231068703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKV. 1. 1813-1835 -- v. 2. 1836-1841 -- v. 3. 1842-1847 -- v. 4. 1848-1855 -- v. 5. 1856-1867 -- v. 6. 1868-1881 -- v. 7. 1807-1844 -- v. 8. 1845-1859. -- v. 9. 1860-1869. -- v. 10. 1870-1881, and an index of proper names for volumes seven to ten.
Author: Plutarch
Publisher: Philaletheians UK
Published: 2018-03-04
Total Pages: 34
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