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RABELAIS, VOLTAIRE, HUGO, MONTAIGNE
RABELAIS, VOLTAIRE, HUGO, MONTAIGNE

 

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THE BEST

of the

World's Classics

RESTRICTED TO PROSE

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HENRY CABOT LODGE

Editor-in-Chief

FRANCIS W. HALSEY

Associate Editor

 

With an Introduction, Biographical and
Explanatory Notes, etc.

IN TEN VOLUMES

 

Vol. VII

CONTINENTAL EUROPE—I

 

 

 

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

NEW YORK AND LONDON

 

 

 

Copyright, 1909, by

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY


The Best of the World's Classics

VOL. VII

CONTINENTAL EUROPE—I


CONTENTS

Vol. VII—Continental Europe—I

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EARLY CONTINENTAL WRITERS
354—1380
St. Aurelius Augustine—(Born in Numidia, Africa, in 354; died in 430.)
Imperial Power for Good and Bad Men.
(From Book IV, Chapter III, of "De Civitate Dei")3
Anicius Boethius—(Born about 475, died about 524.)
The Highest Happiness.
(From "The Consolations of Philosophy." Translated by Alfred the Great)6
St. Thomas Aquinas—(Born near Aquino, Italy, probably in 1225; died in 1274.)
A Definition of Happiness.
(From the "Ethics")12
Thomas à Kempis—(Born in Rhenish Prussia about 1380, died in the Netherlands in 1471.)
Of Eternal Life and of Striving for It.
(From "The Imitation of Christ")...

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