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This little book takes on a big subject, offering enduring guidelines from the Greek philosopher Epicurus for achieving lasting happiness. Based on a new translation of Epicurus to Menoecceus and complete with original Greek text, the work expounds upon basic philosophical inquiries--concerning pleasure, longevity, death, and desire--that are as relevant today as they were in ancient Greece. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1908Original Publisher: Chatto and WindusSubjects: GardensGardeningArchitecture / LandscapeGardening / GeneralGardening / EssaysGardening / Garden DesignGardening / LandscapeGardening / Regional / GeneralNotes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: MISCELLANIES,By Sir Thomas BrowneOBSERVATIONS UPON SEVERAL PLANTS MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE Sia,1 -- Though many ordinary heads run smoothly over the Scripture, yet I must acknowledge it is one of the hardest books I have met with ; and therefore well deserveth those numerous comments, expositions, and annotations, which make up a good part of our libraries.However, so affected I am therewith, that I wish there had been more of it, and a larger volume of that divine piece, which leaveth such welcome impressions, and somewhat more, in the readers, than the words and sense after it. At least, who would not be glad that many things barely hinted were at large delivered in it ? The particulars of the dispute between the doctors and our Saviour could not but be welcome to those who have every word in honour which proceedeth from his mouth, or was otherwise delivered by him; and so1 " Most of these letters were written to Sir Nicholas Bacon." -- Evelyn's note.would be glad to be assured, what he wrote with his finger on the ground : but especially to have a particular of that instructing narration or discourse which he made unto the disciples after his resurrection, where 'tis said : "And beginning at Moses, and all the prophets, he expounded unto them, in all the Scriptures, the things concerning himself."But, to on. it theological obscurities, you must needs observe that most scien... ... Read more

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To Epicurus
Mr. Sedwick - I believe - must have been among the first to point out the similarities between the teachings of the ancient Greeks and the greatest minds of the East.

In this little book, Mr.Sedwick offers a modern(1933) interpretation of Epicurus. I bow to his effort. ... Read more

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This is a collection of lessons on the art of leading a happy life from the Greek philosopher Epicurus. The book includes his letter "The Happy Life". ... Read more

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An Eye Opener for living with Eyes Open
Let me say at the outset that Epicurus is hard to understand because we have only fragments of his work.

Epicurus is important to people living in the third millenium because he realized, asmost of us do, that traditional religion is not very believable.

In his time the Hellenistic and Romanworld was about to fall into a morass of Eastern religions, spiritualism,and superstition familiar tothird millenium peopleliving amid Tibetan and Zen Buddhism, Wicca, and New Age.

Epicurus has two huge virtues that make him worth reading even now.

He is ferociously smart for one. Some of his insightsabout physical phenomena millenia before the invention of real scientificinstrumentsare astonishing.

The other is that he is unrelentingly honest and rigorous. His premise isthat we only know what we can find out from our senses and our reason. This is immensely liberating from all the causistry,tradition, authority, and sentiment of both culture and counter-culture.

To the ultimate rationalization for religion,"Well, it is a comfort for the simple." he responds, "Truthand honesty are better than comfort."Hedismissed death as nothing, and proved his point by showing legendarycourage in facing his own. ... Read more

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THIS 22 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Source Book in Ancient Philosophy, by Charles M. Bakewell. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766101479. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more