Ammianus Marcellinus, Roman History. London: Bohn (1862) Book 30. pp.543-575https://tertullian.org/fathers/ammianus_30_book30.htm
severity a desire of collecting excessive wealth. Pretending not to know that there are some things which, although strictly speaking lawful, still ought not to be done. In this h
Roman history (Bohn translation)
Chapter 60 of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empirehttps://ccel.org/g/gibbon/decline/volume2/chap60.htm
and the timid usurper, collecting a treasure of ten thousand pounds of gold, basely deserted his wife, his people, and his fortune; threw himself into a bark; stole through the Bo
Chapter 60 of 'The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire'; Schism of the Greeks and Latins; State of Constantinople
Chapter 7 of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Gibbonhttp://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/gibbone/rome/volume1/chap7.htm
was employed in collecting from their estates a great number of slaves and peasants, blindly devoted to the commands of their lords, and armed with the rustic weapons of clubs and
Chapter 7 of 'The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire'; Maximin — Civil Wars and Seditions — Philip
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Essay on Burns, by Thomas Carlylehttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/69284/69284-h/69284-h.htm
fire; and not only collecting dates and facts, but making use of them, look beyond the surface and economical form of a man's life, into its substance and spirit?" In pursuit of t
ERBzine 2192: Remembering Danton: News Release, Obituary, Follow-Up Storieshttps://www.erbzine.com/mag21/2192.html
ersonal passion was collecting art, artifacts, historical memorabilia and literary works. His vast and varied eclectic collections included Wurlitzer and Seeburg Jukeboxes, an exte
Stock's `An Account of the Life of George Berkeley, D.D.'https://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/Berkeley/Stock/Life.html
mind in the evening by collecting together a company of philosophical foreigners, who discoursed in an easy and familiar manner with each other, entirely unrestrained by the prese
A Guide to Isaac Asimov's Essayshttp://www.asimovonline.com/oldsite/essay_guide.html
rarity will encourage collecting in the future space's vacuum and microgravity allow new ways to make needed drugs a description of difficulties with interstellar travel diagnosti
Psycopathic satanic SS rogue network Gehlen/Odessa/Stahlhelm/HIAG's plan for world domination - using war to create chaos and attempting tohttp://www.bilderberg.org/nwo2007.htm
the inter-war years: collecting the WWI debts, and creating the conditions for a larger- scale war that would consolidate America's hegemonic role in world affairs. As in WWI, the
Gulliver's Travels and the Wisdom of the Houyhnhnmshttp://theabsolute.net/minefield/gulliver.html
not bear the charge of collecting. Gulliver visits the Island of Magicians, and is able to call-up and speak to the dead, and so clarify points of history. I had the curiosity to
The Decline of the West| Project Gutenberghttps://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/72344/pg72344-images.html
colouring, is the collecting-bent of the Chinese. In China, whoever travels assiduously pursues “old traces” (Ku-tsi) and the untranslatable “Tao,” the basic principle of Chinese
Jeff Duntemann's ContraPositive Diaryhttp://www.duntemann.com/april2002.htm
in New York had been collecting modern art for most of his career as a postal clerk, and now had a collection worth, it was said, many millions of dollars. We followed PBS on a to
SECTION FOUR From the Soul of Artists and Writershttp://nietzsche.holtof.com/Nietzsche_human_all_too_human/sect4_from_the_soul_of_artists.htm
him be inexhaustible in collecting and depicting human types and characters; let him above all tell tales as often as possible, and listen to tales, with a sharp eye and ear for t
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