Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
‹
›
- Browse Category
We Begin at the EndLearn More - Choice Picks
- Top 100 Free Books
- Blog
- Recently Added
- Submit your eBook
By immanuel kant
29 Nov, 2018
Excerpt.........The very children are acquainted with the storie of Croesus to this purpose: who being taken by Cyrus, and by him condemned to die, upon the point of his execution, cried out aloud: "Oh Solon, Solon!" which words of his, being reporte
... Read more
Excerpt.........The very children are acquainted with the storie of Croesus to this purpose: who being taken by Cyrus, and by him condemned to die, upon the point of his execution, cried out aloud: "Oh Solon, Solon!" which words of his, being reported to Cyrus, who inquiring what he meant by them, told him, hee now at his owne cost verified the advertisement Solon had before times given him; which was, that no man, what cheerefull and blandishing countenance soever fortune shewed them, may rightly deeme himselfe happie, till such time as he have passed the last day of his life, by reason of the uncertaintie and vicissitude of humane things, which by a very light motive, and slight occasion, are often changed from one to another cleane contrary state and degree. And therefore Agesilaus answered one that counted the King of Persia happy, because being very young, he had gotten the garland of so mightie and great a dominion: "yea but said he, Priam at the same age was not unhappy." Of the Kings of Macedon that succeeded Alexander the Great, some were afterward seene to become Joyners and Scriveners at Rome: and of Tyrants of Sicilie, Schoolemasters at Corinth. One that had conquered halfe the world, and been Emperour over so many, Armies, became an humble and miserable suter to the raskally officers of a king of AEgypte: At so high a rate did that great Pompey purchase the irkesome prolonging of his life but for five or six moneths. Less
- File size
- Print pages
- Publisher
- Language
- ISBN
- 365.183 KB
- 398
- Public Domain Books
- English
- 978-1514184042
Author
Related Books
Alcibiades II:
According to Plato:
Emile: Or, Concerning Education Extracts:
Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies: With a View to Their Ultimate Emancipation and on the ... Of the Latter Measure (Classic Reprint):
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln (Volume 7):
Under the Prophet in Utah: The National Menace of a Political Priestcraft:
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 6:
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Volume 2:
The Woman and the Right to Vote:
The Analysis of Mind:
Essays in Rebellion:
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Vol-IV:
Native Life in South Africa: Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion:
The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 2: 1843-1858:
The New Freedom a Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People:
Writings of Thomas Paine - Volume 2: The Rights of Man:
.jpeg){kind=logo}
Anarchism And Other Essays:
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion:
.jpg){kind=logo}
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln (Volume 5):
Bolshevism: The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy:
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 3: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates:
The Critique of Practical Reason:
Creative Evolution:
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 1: 1832-1843:
The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform:
Join us and get access to all your favourite books
It’s free
