The Wisdom of the Ancients
The Wisdom of the Ancients

Author: Sir Francis Bacon

Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag

Published: 1691

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 3849691845

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Bacon published this interesting little work in 1609. It contains thirty-one fables abounding with a union of deep thought and poetic beauty. In most fables he explains the common but erroneous supposition that knowledge and the conformity of the will, knowing and acting, are convertible terms.

The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations
The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations

Author: Jon R. Stone

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 1135881103

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The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations completes our enormously successful and award-winning Latin for the Illiterati series of volumes, rounding off the trilogy with a comprehensive treasury of classic Latin quotations, mottoes, proverbs, and maxims collected from the worlds of philosophy, rhetoric, politics, science, religion, literature, drama, poetics, and war.Distinguished by the combination of user-friendliness and comprehensiveness, this book will provide students, scholars, and general readers with an eminently browsable resource that is as useful as it is enjoyable.