Compiled by William Coleman the first editor of the New York Evening Post, this book includes items that trace a path leading to the death o…
Volume III of this History of the Papacy opens with the Council of Basel in revolt against Pope Eugenius IV, who doggedly defends papal auto…
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously wrote that in the state of nature "the life of man" was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, a…
Ouvrage collectif sous la direction d'Ernest Lavisse et Alfred Rambaud. Le quatrième volume de la série raconte l'époqu…
The Life of Frederick William Von Steuben: Major General in the Revolutionary Army - tells the story of Baron Steuben, who had been an offic…
Is it possible to break through the awful barrier—to glimpse through the Night-Curtain that screens and shrouds us from the Phantom-World?—i…
A book on the practice of mannerly behaviour at Court, originally written in Italian but translated into English for the Elizabethan court. …
A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…
Pascal is of the small number of those [men] in whom the man infinitely transcends his actions. The writings of Pascal are the finest that F…
Several late pamphlets composed with much art and ability have painted the claims and conduct of the North Americans; and thereby, have not …
A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…
Following the plan of his previous volume of Great Authors, the writer has here endeavoured to weave into more or less story form a few of t…
