Catalogue of Good Books: A Collection of Valuable Works in Archæology, History, Biography, Etc.; and Exceptionally Fill Set of the Works of Thomas Taylor, the Platonist1888 - 95 pages |
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Page 2 - Antiqvitie, shewing the auncient fayth in the Church of England touching the sacrament of the body and bloude of the Lord here publikely preached, and also receaued in the Saxons tyme, aboue 600.
Page 86 - On the Nature and Origin of Evil; On Providence; On Nature, Contemplation and The One; and on the Descent of the Soul.
Page 79 - Nicomachus, lamblichus, and Boetius.— Together with some remarkable Particulars respecting Perfect, Amicable, and other Numbers, which are not to be found in the Writings of any ancient or modern Mathematicians. Likewise a ( Specimen of the Manner in which the Pythagoreans philosophized about Numbers...
Page 88 - Sallust on the Gods and the World; and the Pythagoric Sentences of Demophilus, Translated from the Greek; and Five Hymns by Proclus, in the Original Greek, with a Poetical Version. To Which Are Added, Five Hymns by the Translator.
Page 87 - Containing his Four Books on Abstinence from Animal Food; his Treatise on The Homeric Cave of the Nymphs, and his Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures. Translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor. With an Appendix explaining the Allegory of the Wanderings of Ulysses.
Page 86 - Select Works of Plotinus the great restorer of the philosophy of Plato, and extracts from the treatise of Synesius on Providence, translated from the Greek, with an Introduction containing the substance of Porphyry's Life of Plotinus, by T.
Page 67 - Edited by his Son, G. GILBERT SCOTT. With an Introduction by the DEAN OF CHICHESTER, and a Funeral Sermon, preached in Westminster Abbey, by the DEAN OF WESTMINSTER. Also, Portrait on steel from the portrait of the Author by G. RICHMOND, RA I vol., demy 8vo, cloth extra, 1Ss. T)AKER (Lieut. -Gen. Valentine, Pasha). See "War in -*-* Bulgaria.
Page 3 - The Thousand and One Nights: commonly called, in England, " THE ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS." A New Translation from the Arabic, with copious Notes, by EDWARD WILLIAM LANE. Illustrated by many hundred Engravings on Wood, from Original Designs by WM.
Page 22 - Memoirs of Eminent Etonians ; with Notices of the Early History of Eton College. By Sir EDWARD CREASY, Author of "The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World.
Page 84 - The Mystical Initiations ; or, Hymns of Orpheus. Translated from the original Greek ; with a Preliminary Dissertation on the Life and Theology of Orpheus.