Download or read book The Worth of Ancient Literature to the Modern World Classic Reprint written by James Bryce and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Worth of Ancient Literature to the Modern World Hat the study Of the Greek and Latin languages should be now disparaged need cause no surprise, for a' reaction against the undue predominance they enjoyed in education a century ago was long overdue. What is remarkable is that the disposition to disparage them and exalt another Class of subjects has laid hold of certain sections of the population which were not wont to interest themselves in educational matters, but used to take submissively whatever instruction was given them. It is a remarkable fact; but_ though remarkable, it is not hard to explain. The most striking feature in the economic Changes of the last eighty years has been the immense development Of industrial production by the application thereto Of discoveries in the sphere Of natural science. Employment has been provided for an enormous mimber Of workers, and enormous fortunes have been accumulated by those employers who had the foresight or the luck to embark capital in the new forms of manufacture. Thus there has been created in the popular mind an association, now pretty deeply rooted, between the knowledge Of applied science and material prosperity. It is this association of ideas, rather than any pride in the achievements of the human intellect by the unveiling Of the secrets of Nature and the setting of her forces at work in the ser vice of man, that has made a knowledge of physical science seem so supremely important to large Classes that never before thought about education or tried to estimate the respective value of the various studies needed to train the intelligence and form the Character. TO put the point in the crudest way, the average man sees, This paper originally appeared in the Fortnightly Review, April, 1917, and is reprinted with the courteous permission of its author and of the editor of the Fortnightly Review. Or thinks he sees, that the difiusion of a knowledge of languages, literature, and history does not seem to promise an increase Of riches either to the nation or to the persons who possess that knowl edge, while he does see, or thinks he sees, that from a knowledge of mechanics or chemistry or electricity such an increase may be expected both to the community and to the persons engaged in the industries dependent on those sciences. This average man ac cordingly concludes that the former or the literary kinds of knowl edge have, both for the individual and for the community, far less value than have the latter, i.e., the scientific. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Worth of Ancient Literature to the Modern World written by James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library of the World s Best Literature Ancient and Modern Vol 46 Classic Reprint written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-10 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 46 The attempt to give in the Library not only a great variety and an immense mass of good reading, but a full story as well of fam ous authors and of notable books, has resulted in a comprehensive and wonderfully entertaining history OF human culture, to the study of which the largest school ever gathered under one standard are already devoting themselves. The publication, in fact, is epoch-making, not only in the variety, quality, and immense amount of its entertainment for readers, but in its educational value for every class Of students, and its use in aid of all varieties of work depending upon knowledge. The Library approves itself to impartial interest as a universal text-book, adequately representing the intellectual, moral, and Spirit ual treasures of the human race, and not less as a mint of wealth for every need Of workers for human welfare or seekers of culture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book New Studies of a Great Inheritance written by Robert Seymour Conway and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New Studies of a Great Inheritance: Being Lectures on the Modern Worth of Some Ancient Writers The lectures contained in this volume, though they range over several subjects, are connected by a purpose which was present in them all. They were designed to represent, as far as the conditions of a popular lecture allowed, some of the elements in the work of the great ancient writers, especially those of Rome, which make their study of permanent value; and in particular to indicate as clearly as possible how much in the ethical framework of modern society may be traced directly to their teaching. Among the authors here studied the poet Vergil' has the chief place. Through and from his poetry the main current of gracco-roman influence has passed -to the mediaeval and modern world. Yet for this very reason the lectures devoted to Vergil are by no means concerned with him alone. Indeed, one of their objects has been to correct the natural, but unfortunate, habit of reading what he wrote as if it had no relation to the times in which it was written and to the work of his predecessors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book English Literature and the Classics Classic Reprint written by G. S. Gordon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English Literature and the Classics This book is a collection of nine lectures delivered in Oxford at the invitation of the Board of English Studies in the winter of 1911 - 12. They were addressed primarily to members of the English School, but in effect to all students of modern literature in the University who cared to hear, from students of ancient literature, something of what the Classics mean in the history of letters. The story of the Ancients and Modems is a story, happily, without conclusion, which has its sequel and its public in every generation. These lectures, here and there expanded, but printed, for the most part, as they were given, are now offered as an instal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Library of the World s Best Literature Ancient and Modern Vol 23 of 31 Classic Reprint written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-20 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 23 of 31 Dogberry - You have: I knew it would be your answer. Well, for your favor, sir, why, give God thanks, and make no boast of it; and for your writing and reading, let that appear when there is no need of such vanity. You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch; therefore, bear you the lantern. This is your charge. You shall comprehend all vagrom men: you are to bid any man stand, in the prince's name. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book What the War Teaches about Education written by Ernest Carroll Moore and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literature Ancient and Modern written by Samuel G. Goodrich and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Literature, Ancient and Modern: With Specimens Literature, in its widest sense, embraces the learn ing of mankind, as imbodied in books. It grows out of the art of composition, in the forms of prose and verse, adopted by authors. Narration and argument are usually written in prose: metre, and the regular succession of long and short syllables, with or without rhyme, are the usual forms of poetry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Classical Studies written by Barnas Sears and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Classical Studies: Essays on Ancient Literature and Art Ancient Literature But the Greek and Roman classics stand at the beginning and at the source of European culture. Nothing can displace them. Homer is the fountain-head of all European poetry and art. There he stands, venerable with nearly thirty centuries, touching his heroic harp to strains of unsurpassed, nay, unapproachable excellence and grandeur. All the features of a great heroic age, -the chivalry of the classical world, - from which European civilization dates, and political and domestic order take their rise, - stand forth in living reality, in his immortal pictures. There he stands, radiant with the beams of the early Grecian morning, as jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain Who is to drive him from his station there! And how, then, is Homer to pass from the memory and the hearts of men? Impossible. It is not a question to be decided by a few petty and short-sighted utilitarian views. Homer's reign is firmly established over the literary world, and if any nation should ever become so barbarous as to banish him from their schools, the penalty and disgrace would be their own. The language of Homer, as a picturesque, melodious, and enchanting instrument of thought, has never been surpassed. Now these great ancients have been, time out of mind, the teachers of the civilized world. They form a common bond, which unites the cultivated minds Of all nations and ages together. He who cuts himself off from the classics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Light from the Ancient East written by Adolf Deissmann and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library of the World s Best Literature Ancient and Modern Vol 16 Classic Reprint written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 First Love and Parting Memoirs of Carlo Goldoni') The Origin of Masks in the Italian Comedy (same) Purists and Pedantry (same) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Library of the World s Best Literature Ancient and Modern Vol 3 of 31 Classic Reprint written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 3 of 31 When the great historic events of the time took place, and over threw all existing conditions, this inner restlessness drove him to and fro without purpose or will. One day he was enthusiastic over Voss's idyls, the next he was carried away by Robespierre's wildest speeches. One year he adopted Kant's Christian name Immanuel in' transport over his works, the next he called the great philosopher an empty nut, and moreover hard to crack. The romanticism in Denmark as well as in Germany reduced him to a state Of utter confusion; but in spite of this he continued a child of the Old order, which was already doomed. And with all his unrest and discord he remained nevertheless the champion Of form, the poet of the graces, as he has been called. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Lectures on the History of Literature written by Friedrich Schlegel and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lectures on the History of Literature: Ancient and Modern IN the following discourses, it is my design to give a general view of the development and of the spirit of litera 2ture among the most illustrious nations of ancient as well as of modern times; but my principal object is to represent' literature as it has exerted its influence on, the affairs of active life, on the fate of nations, and on the progressive character of ages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Library of the World s Best Literature Vol 13 of 46 written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Library of the World's Best Literature, Vol. 13 of 46: Ancient and Modern After four years' travel in Europe the Dutts returned to India to resume their student life, and-toru began to learn Sanskrit. She Showed great aptitude for the French language and a strong liking for the French character, and she made a special study of French romantic poetry. Her essays on Leconte de Lisle and Josephin Sou lary, and a series of English translations of poetry, were the fruit of her labor. The translations, including specimens from Beranger, The ophile Gautier, Francois Coppee, sully-prud'homme, and other popu lar 'writers, were collected in 1876 under the title (a Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields.' A few copies found their way into Europe, and both French and English reviewers recognized the value of the har vest of this clear-sighted gleaner. One critic called these poems, in which Toru so faithfully reproduced the spirit of one alien tongue in the forms of another, transmutations rather than translations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Ancient Literature of America Classic Reprint written by John Campbell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ancient Literature of America The anthropologist or student of man, may investigate him as he would any other Object of natural history, classifying him with tail-less apes and erect bears, noting the form of his skull, the angle of his face, the colour of his skin, and the texture of his hair. To such a biologist man is an animal and nothing more. Another enters the field of sociology, viewing the intelligent animal in his relations with his fellows and with nature at large. Here a thousand interesting features present themselves, in domestic and tribal organization, marriage and funeral ceremonies, rites and superstitions, manners and customs, house building, domestication of animals, the chase and war, husbandry, the manufacture of canoes, pottery, and implements of many kinds. A third, calling himself a phil Ologist, discovers that the animal talks, although Mr. Garner. Who has been making special studies in Africa, in his recent book called The Speech of Monkeys, contends that language is not peculiar to human beings. There is one way of communicating thought which uncivilized man shares with the brute, and this has been very fully illustrated by the late Colonel Garrick Mallery in his treatise on Sign and Gesture Language. Mr. Garner has perhaps succeeded in detecting something approaching to articulation in the cries of apes, but, until he can formulate a monkey grammar, the soul of speech will be wanting in his system. Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme spoke prose without knowing it, and wild tribes. Of men are ignorantly guilty Of grammar, and, what is more strange, Of good grammar. An English child is reported as answering an intimation that her mother wanted her, with the words, Her aint callin' me us don't belongto she, in spite of the board schools. Such a thing would be next to impossible in the case of an American Indian child, who unconsciously uses most correct speech, and in narration employs a style elevated and ornate. The occurrence of ungrammatical sentences in the language of a native almost invariably marks him as a foreigner who has acquired it late in life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Classical Literature written by Richard Jenkyns and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G.W. Bowersock, The New York Review of Books “There is scarcely anything on which he does not offer an original aperçu, sometimes illuminating, sometimes simply provocative, but always worth reading... Jenkyns's view of ancient literature is Olympian.” The writings of the Greeks and Romans form the bedrock of Western culture. Inventing the molds for histories, tragedies, and philosophies, while pioneering radical new forms of epic and poetry, the Greeks and Romans created the literary world we still inhabit today. Writing with verve and insight, distinguished classicist Richard Jenkyns explores a thousand years of classical civilization, carrying readers from the depths of the Greek dark ages through the glittering heights of Rome's empire. Jenkyns begins with Homer and the birth of epic poetry before exploring the hypnotic poetry of Pindar, Sappho, and others from the Greek dark ages. Later, in Athens's classical age, Jenkyns shows the radical nature of Sophocles's choice to portray Ajax as a psychologically wounded warrior, how Aeschylus developed tragedy, and how Herodotus, in “inventing history,” brought to narrative an epic and tragic quality. We meet the strikingly modern figure of Virgil, struggling to mirror epic art in an age of empire, and experience the love poems of Catullus, who imbued verse with obsessive passion as never before. Even St. Paul and other early Christian writers are artfully grounded here in their classical literary context. A dynamic and comprehensive introduction to Greek and Roman literature, Jenkyns's Classical Literature is essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the classics—and the extraordinary origins of Western culture. Library Journal, STARRED review “[R]ich, witty, perceptive, and brief... One of the best introductions available to the general reader.” Christopher B. Krebs (author of A Most Dangerous Book), The Wall Street Journal "[A]ccessible and enjoyable... few scholars are better positioned to embark on such a journey than Mr. Jenkyns.
Download or read book Ancient Greece written by H. B. Cotterill and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ancient Greece: A Sketch of Its Art, Literature and Philosophy Viewed in Connexion With Its External History From Earliest Times to the Age of Alexander the Great The letters b.c. (but not a.d.) have been generally omitted, as unnecessary in a book on Ancient Greece. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
