Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...edition of 1878. It is not well to become acquainted with Schopenhauer by means of his briefer essays, before reading the first volume of his "World as Will and Idea," which is by all means the best possible introduction to his thought. Helen Zimmern's "Arthur Schopenhauer" gives a sketch of the Philosopher s life in English, a sketch made valuable chiefly by the quotations from foreign sources inserted in the text. Schopenhauer was born in 1788, and died...
...Sketch of some of Schelling's Views...
Little, Brown and Co. announce Professor Toy's Judalsm and Christianity, a sketch of the Progress of Thought from the Old to the New Testament...
...reading the English Bible as a piece of literature, read it as a collection of stories that form pieces of literature by themselves. Read the song of Deborah (Judges, chap. v.) as an ode,-as a magnificent specimen of English literature. Read the seventh chapter of Proverbs for a sketch of manners...
...McCulloch contributes a biographical sketch of Sir John Davies and a critical enumeration of that writer's poetical works. The article is rather less carefully finished in style and in construction than is usual in this writer's work...