Download or read book Discourses on Livy written by Niccolò Machiavelli and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-03-25 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machiavelli saw history in general as a way to learn useful lessons from the past for the present, and also as a type of analysis which could be built upon, as long as each generation did not forget the works of the past. In "Discourses on Livy" Machiavelli discusses what can be learned from roman period and many other eras as well, including the politics of his lifetime. This is a work of political history and philosophy written in the early 16th. The title identifies the work's subject as the first ten books of Livy's Ab urbe condita, which relate the expansion of Rome through the end of the Third Samnite War in 293 BC. Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer. He has often been called the father of modern political science. He was for many years a senior official in the Florentine Republic, with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs. He served as a secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power.He wrote his most well-known work The Prince in 1513, having been exiled from city affairs.

Download or read book The Discourses of Epictetus written by Epictetus and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Discourses of Epictetus Epictetus - The books did not have a formal title in ancient times. Although Simplicius called them Diatribai other writers gave them titles such as Dialexis , and Homiliai . The modern name comes from the titles given in the earliest medieval manuscript: "Arrian's Diatribai of Epictetus" . The Greek word Diatribai literally means "informal talks".As to the date, it is generally agreed that the Discourses were composed sometime in the years around 108 AD. Epictetus himself refers to the coins of Trajan, which shows he was teaching during that reign. Arrian was suffect consul in around 130, and since forty-two was the standard age for that position, he would have been at the right age of around twenty in 108. Furthermore the "commissioner" of the "free cities" to whom Discourse iii. 7 is addressed is thought to be the same man Pliny the Younger addresses his Letter viii. 24a letter which has been dated to around 108.

Download or read book Discourses I Viii written by Sir Joshua Reynolds and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ...country. Such too are the capital subjects of Scripture history, which, beside their general notoriety, become venerable by their connection with our religion. As it is required that the subject selected should be'a general one, R is no less necessary that H should be kept unembarrassed with whatever may any way serve to divide the attention of the spectator. Whenever a story is related, every man forms a picture in his mind of the action and expression of the persons employed. The power of representing this mental picture on canvass is what we call invention in a painter. And as in the conception of this ideal picture, the mind does not enter into the minute peculiarities of the dress, furniture, or scene of action; so when the painter comes to represent it, he contrives those little necessary concomitant circumstances in such a manner, that they shall strike the spectator no more than they did himself in his first conception of the Mary. I am very ready to allow, that some circumstances of minuteness and particularity frequently tend to give an air of truth to a piece, and to interest the spectator in an extraordinary manner. Such circumstances therefore cannot wholly be rejected: but if there be any thing in the art which requires peculiar nicety of discernment, it is the disposition of these minute circumstantial parts; which, according to the judgment employed in the choice, become so useful to truth, or so injurious to gran deur. vOL. 1. F However, the usual and most dangerous error is on the side of minuteness; and therefore I think caution most necessary where most have failed. The general idea constitutes real excellence. All smaller things, however perfect in their way, are to be sacrificed without mercy to the greater....

Download or read book Short Discourses to be Read in Families written by William Jay and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius written by Niccolò Machiavelli and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1883 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Discourses I VIII written by Sir Joshua Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Discourses upon the divine covenants or An enquiry into the origin and progress of religion natural and revealed written by James Hingeston and published by . This book was released on 1771 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Discourses on several subjects and occasions The fifth edition written by George HORNE (Bishop of Norwich.) and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Discourses on Passages Selected from the Book of the Acts of the Apostles written by Henry Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Life Truths Being Discourses on Christian Doctrine and Duty written by William Mackergo Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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