

Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XI
Letter XV I APPROACH continually nearer to the end to which I lead you, by a path offering few attractions. Be pleased to follow me a...


Tao Te Ching - Part VII
Chapter 57 Govern a country with upright integrity Deploy the military with surprise tactics Take the world with non-interference How...


Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part X
Letter XIV WE have been brought to the idea of such a correlation between the two impulsions that the action of the one establishes and...


A Defence of Poetry - Part X
The functions of the poetical faculty are twofold: by one it creates new materials of knowledge, and power, and pleasure; by the other it...


Tao Te Ching - Part IV
Chapter 28 Know the masculine, hold to the feminine Be the watercourse of the world Being the watercourse of the world The eternal...


Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part IX
Letter XIII ON a first survey, nothing appears more opposed than these two impulsions; one having for its object change, the other...


A Defence of Poetry - Part IX
Undoubtedly the promoters of utility, in this limited sense, have their appointed office in society. They follow the footsteps of poets,...


Oration on the Dignity of Man - Part VIII
For these reasons, I have not been content to repeat well-worn doctrines, but have proposed for disputation many points of the early...


Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part VIII
Letter XII THIS twofold labour or task, which consists in making the necessary pass into reality in usand in making out of us reality...


Oration on the Dignity of Man - Part VII
In our own day, many scholars, imitating Gorgias of Leontini, have been accustomed to dispute, not nine hundred questions merely, but the...