Monthly Bookpost, October 2014
What I read last month, with a smattering of Tudor-era history and a lot more from the modern era. This month:Spenser's The Faerie Queene Bacon's On the Advancement of Learning Browne's Religio...
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What I read last month. Some from or about the 15th-16th Century; others from all over the bookshelf...in this edition:Essays (Vol. III), by Michel de MontaigneJerusalem Delivered, by Torquato TassoThe...
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View ArticleMonthly Book Post, December 2014
What I read in December, including some emphasis on the 16th Century and a lot of light holiday reading as well. In this installment:OLDER:The Defense of Poesy, Sir Philip SidneyHolinshed's Chronicles...
View ArticleMonthly Book Post, January 2015
And so a new year of reading begins. As I continue my decade-long foray into the great literature through history, I undertake the 17th Century, bookended a little, from the final years of Queen...
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What I read last month, featuring but not limited to, this year's focus on the Elizabethan era and the 17th Century. In this month's edition:The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, by Garrett Mattingly...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, March 2015
What I read last month. In this edition...Geometry, by Rene Descartes The Harvard Classics "Voyages and Travels" volume Scientific treatises, by Blaise Pascal Hadrian the Seventh, by Frederick...
View ArticleMonthly Book Post, April 2015
What I read this month, with an emphasis on the 17th Century. In this edition: The Ornament of the World, by Maria Rosa Menocal Rules for Direction of the Mind; Principles of Philosophy; The Passions...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, May 2015
What I read last month, with a little less 17th Century than the last few months (I have to come up for air some time). In this edition:Poems, by John Milton The Age of Reason Begins, by Will and...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, June 2015
What I read last month, with some focus on the 17th century and "Great Books". In this edition:The Provincial Letters, by Blaise PascalLeviathan, by Thomas HobbesOptics, by Sir Isaac NewtonThe Nun, by...
View ArticleMonthly Book Post, July 2015
What I read last month. In this edition:Pensees, by Blaise Pascal Areopagitica, by John Milton Lives, by Izaak Walton Leviathan and the air Pump, by Steven Shapin and Simon SchafferThe Progress of...
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What I read last month, with an emphasis on the 17th Century. In this edition:Political Treatise, by Benedict de Spinoza Characters, by Jean de La Bruyere Treatise on Light, by Christian Huygens...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, September 2015
What I read last month, 17th Century and modern. In this edition:Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, by John Milton The Maxims of Francois De La Rochefoucauld...
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What I read last month. In this edition:A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, by Bartolome de las Casas The Diary of Samuel Pepys Ethics, by Benedict De Spinoza Simplicius Simplicissimus,...
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What Passed for Liberalism BacK Then: Two Treatises on Government, and Some Thoughts on Education, by John Locke But the chief matter of property being now not the fruits of the earth, and the beasts...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, December 2015
City of Stairs, by Robert Jackson Bennett You were raised a patriot, to love Saypur and to believe that its virtues must be extended to all the world--but this is not your job. Your job in the Ministry...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, January 2016
For the first half of the decade, I tried to read pretty much All The Things that were fit to come out of Western Civilization from the earliest times until the death of Louis XIV. I was also struck...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, February 2016
Wanton with Sex Noises: Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe By this and some other of my talk, my old tutoress began to understand me about what I meant by being a gentlewoman, and that i understood by it...
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Comforting Lies: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, by David Hume It is my opinion, i own, replied Demea, that each man feels, in a manner, the truth of religion within his own breast, and from a...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, April 2016
The Skeptical Scotsman: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume,...
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