The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I
Lodge
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That the Soul Discharges Her Passions upon False Objects Where True Ones Are Wanting.
that Men Are Not to Judge of Our Happiness Till After Death.
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- ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINESample
- IMPERIAL POWER FOR GOOD AND BAD MEN[1]
- ANICIUS BOETHIUS
- THE HIGHEST HAPPINESS[2]
- FOOTNOTES:
- ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
- A DEFINITION OF HAPPINESS[3]
- FOOTNOTES:
- THOMAS À KEMPIS
- OF ETERNAL LIFE AND OF STRIVING FOR IT[4]
- FOOTNOTES:
- GEOFFREY DE VILLE-HARDOUIN
- THE SACK OF CONSTANTINOPLE[5] (1204)
- JEAN DE JOINVILLE
- GREEK FIRE IN BATTLE[7]
- FOOTNOTES:
- AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE
- JEAN FROISSART
- THE BATTLE OF CRÉCY[8] (1346)
- FOOTNOTES:
- PHILIPPE DE COMINES
- OF THE CHARACTER OF LOUIS XI[9]
- FOOTNOTES:
- MARGUERITE D'ANGOULÊME
- OF HUSBANDS WHO ARE UNFAITHFUL[10]
- FRANÇOIS RABELAIS
- I GARGANTUA IN HIS CHILDHOOD[12]
- II GARGANTUA'S EDUCATION[14]
- III OF THE FOUNDING OF AN IDEAL ABBEY[15]
- JOHN CALVIN
- OF FREEDOM FOR THE WILL[16]
- FOOTNOTES:
- JOACHIM DU BELLAY
- WHY OLD FRENCH WAS NOT AS RICH AS GREEK AND LATIN[17]
- FOOTNOTES:
- MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
- I A WORD TO HIS READERS[19]
- FOOTNOTES:
- II OF SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE[20]
- III OF HIS OWN LIBRARY[21]
- IV THAT THE SOUL DISCHARGES HER PASSIONS UPON FALSE OBJECTS WHERE TRUE ONES ARE WANTING.[22]
- V THAT MEN ARE NOT TO JUDGE OF OUR HAPPINESS TILL AFTER DEATH[23]
- RENÉ DESCARTES
- OF MATERIAL THINGS AND OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD[25]
- DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
- A SELECTION FROM THE "MAXIMS"[26]
- FOOTNOTES:
- BLAISE PASCAL
- OF THE PREVALENCE OF SELF-LOVE[29]
- FOOTNOTES:
- MADAME DE SÉVIGNÉ
- I GREAT NEWS FROM PARIS[30]
- FOOTNOTES:
- II AN IMPOSING FUNERAL DESCRIBED[31]
- I IN THE SERVICE OF DR. SANGRADO[32]
- FOOTNOTES:
- II AS AN ARCHBISHOP'S FAVORITE[33]
- DUC DE SAINT-SIMON
- I THE DEATH OF THE DAUPHIN[34]
- II THE PUBLIC WATCHING THE KING AND MADAME[35]
- FOOTNOTES:
- BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
- I OF THE CAUSES WHICH DESTROYED ROME[38]
- FOOTNOTES:
- II OF THE RELATION OF LAWS TO DIFFERENT HUMAN BEINGS[39]
- I OF BACON'S GREATNESS[40]
- FOOTNOTES:
- II ENGLAND'S REGARD FOR MEN OF LETTERS[41]
- FOOTNOTES:
- JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
- I OF CHRIST AND SOCRATES
- II OF THE MANAGEMENT OF CHILDREN[46]
- FOOTNOTES:
- MADAME DE STAËL
- OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE[47]
- VISCOUNT DE CHATEAUBRIAND
- IN AN AMERICAN FOREST[48]
- FOOTNOTES:
- FRANÇOIS GUIZOT
- SHAKESPEARE AS AN EXAMPLE OF CIVILIZATION[49]
- ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
- OF MIRABEAU'S ORIGIN AND PLACE IN HISTORY[51]
- LOUIS ADOLPHE THIERS
- THE BURNING OF MOSCOW[52]
- FOOTNOTES:
- HONORÉ DE BALZAC
- I THE DEATH OF PÉRE GORIOT[54]
- II BIROTTEAU'S EARLY MARRIED LIFE[55]
- RICHELIEU'S WAY WITH HIS MASTER[56]
- FOOTNOTES:
- VICTOR HUGO
- THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO[57]
- II THE BEGINNINGS AND EXPANSIONS OF PARIS[58]
- ALEXANDRE DUMAS
- THE SHOULDER, THE BELT, AND THE HANDKERCHIEF[59]
- GEORGE SAND
- LÉLIA AND THE POET[60]