Word: enchiridion
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Part of his reading was this passage from the Enchiridion, a manual for Roman field soldiers by the philosopher Epictetus: "It is better to die in hunger, exempt from guilt and fear, than to live in affluence and perturbation." It was a lesson Stockdale would draw on repeatedly after parachuting from his crippled A-4 jet and landing in North Viet Nam on Sept...
...central concern, apart from classical learning, was the true meaning of the Christian life. A follower of Christ, Erasmus thought, ought to be a spiritual soldier-a theme he explored in one of his first popular books, a volume that he dedicated hopefully to a sybaritic armaments manufacturer. His Enchiridion Militis Christian! (The Handbook, or "Dagger," of the Christian Soldier) failed to convert the man to a more virtuous life, but it did become a stimulus to Christian liberal reform throughout Europe. It assured the layman that he could be as much a true Christian as any priest-a revolutionary...
Wrong Dog. Slogging through this chaos is exhausting, uphill work, made none the easier by a fallible and somewhat pretentious guide. Carson's book is strewn with such showoff, jawbreaker words as armigerous, pogonologist, acescent, enchiridion, ochlocracy.* He lapses frequently into ungrammatical constructions and even into error. In his hands, the Court of St. James's, to which all ambassadors to Britain pay their respects, loses its possessive case. L'Osservatore della Domenica, a Vatican weekly, is falsely identified as the more familiar Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano. Anyone who dials Socrates Lovinger's number...
...goes to bed around n p.m., and most of the time in between he works. He can get away with expressing unconventional views because he knows orthodox thought in all its historical ramifications as well as the most formidable of his conservative opponents. He was editor of the Enchiridion Symbolorum, the standard compendium of documents expressing the true teachings of Catholicism. He is currently co-editing a massive encyclopedia of theology that will be completed in 1965 or thereabouts...
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