Literary and philosophical essays
Subtitle: French, German and Italian : with introductions and notes
Series: The Five-foot shelf of books : "the Harvard classics" -- v. 32; Harvard classics -- v. 32
Publisher: P.F. Collier
Published: 1910
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; fre; ger; ita
Number of pages: 419
Subjects: Essays
Description: That we should not judge of our happiness until after our death. That to philsophise is to learne how to die. Of the institution and education of children. Of friendship. Of bookes. By Montaigne. -- Montaigne. What is a classic? by C.-A. Sainte-Beuve. --The poetry of the Celtic races, by E. Renan. --The education of the human race, by G.E. Lessing. --Letters upon the aesthetic education of man, by J.C.F. Schiller. --Fundamental principles of the metaphysic of morals. Transition from popular moral philosophy to the metaphysic of morals. by I.Kant. --Byron and Goethe, by G. Mazzini.
Notes: Series title on spine: Harvard classics : the five foot shelf of books.
Table of contents: title: That we should not judge of our happinesse untill after our death ; That to philosophise is to learne how to die ; Of the institution and education of children : to the Ladie Diana of Foix, countesse of Gurson ; Of friendship ; Of bookes / [by Montaigne ; translated by John Florio]; title: Montaigne ; What is a classic? / by Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve ; translated by E. Lee; title: The poetry of the Celtic races / by Ernest Renan ; translated by W.G. Hutchison; title: The education of the human race / by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ; translated by F.W. Robertson; title: Letters upon the æsthetic education of man / by J.C. Friedrich von Schiller; title: Fundamental principles of the metaphysic of morals / by Immanuel Kant ; translated by T.K. Abbott; title: Byron and Goethe / by Giuseppe Mazzini.