United States or Yemen ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Addison. Texts: Works, in Bohn's British Classics; Selections, in Athenaeum Press, etc. Criticism: Essays, by Macaulay; by Thackeray. Steele. Criticism: Essays by Thackeray; by Dobson, in Eighteenth Century Vignettes. Johnson. Texts: Works, edited by Walesby, 11 vols. Criticism: G.B. Hill's Dr.
Jamblichus's "Life of Pythagoras" works more directly on the will than the others; since Pythagoras was eminently a practical person, the founder of a school of ascetics and socialists, a planter of colonies, and nowise a man of abstract studies alone. The respectable and sometimes excellent translations of Bohn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse.
The village, also, where he was murdered, was made a offering for the dead, that the spot, which had witnessed his fall, might ever after minister aid to his soul, William of Malmesbury, B, ii. e. 7, Bohn's Edition. vi A. D. 556 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. vii Wulfstan, and the See of Dorchester.
The doctrine that all History is contemporary History has been best set forth by Benedetto Croce, of Naples, from whose works several expressions have here been borrowed, with a profound acknowledgement of indebtedness to him. Translation in Bohn's Library. Marvin, The Living Past. Clarendon Press. Adamson, The Development of Greek Philosophy. W. Blackwood. Macmillan.
This I think right to mention, because many reports are circulated among the English concerning these vessels." William of Malmesbury, English Chronicle, Bohn's Edition, pp. iii See "First Chronicle of Aescendune." iv Chronology of Father Cuthbert.
He turned out, as became a budding poet, weird screeds from Ovid, Virgil, and Horace Bohn's cribs were simple to his tangled stuff and Merishall beamed wreathed smiles upon him, and told him he was "catching the spirit of the original."
My father had succeeded in presenting my ambition as the height of absurdity and presumption, and with something of the despair of a shipwrecked mariner my eyes rested on the green expanses of those book-backs, Bohn's Standard Library! Nor did it occur to him or to me that one might be great in literature without having read so much as a gritty page of them....
His mind was a peculiar amalgam of imagination and matter-of-fact, seeing strongly and clearly what he did see, but little conscious, apparently, of what lay outside his purview. Lives by Chalmers , H. Morley , T. Wright , and others; shorter works by Lamb, Hazlitt, L. Stephens, and Prof. Minto, Bohn's British Classics, etc. Dramatist and miscellaneous writer, was b. in London.
Then the king sent to the army, and directed it to be made known to them that he would that there should be a truce between them, and that tribute should be paid, and food given them. And then all that they accepted, and then were they victualled from throughout the English nation." Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Bohn's Edition. xiii This is copied almost verbatim from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
I have not seen the book. Ascribed to Mrs. Haywood in the advertisements of her additional Works, 1727. The B.M. copy, catalogued under "Ariel," contains only a fragment of 24 pages. Miss M.P. Conant, The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth Century , passim. The "key" is almost the sole contribution to Mrs. Haywood's bibliography in Bohn's Lowndes.
Word Of The Day