Archives for 2010

Sir Thomas More on Susan Blake

Good Susan Blake in royal estateArrived at last at Heaven’s gate.- His epitaph at her urgent entreaty. Two years later, they broke up and he

by Jack Le MoineImmense volumes have been written to expound our knowledge, and conceal our ignorance, of primitive man.- Will DurantThe

This series has six easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionJulius Caesar is the first writer who gives us an authentic and enlightening account

Today's installment concludes Battle of Pavia,our selection by William Robertson.If you have journeyed through all of the installments of this

Babylon then had thus been taken for the first time.Translated by George C. Macaulay -- our special project presenting the complete Herodotus

No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is left long without proper

Beneath this stone, a lump of clay,Lies Arabella Young,Who on the 21st. of May,Began to hold her tongue.

by Jack Le MoineIt’s difficult to imagine living on a planet where the weather was so cold, that ice sheets covered much of North America,

Charles, however, had already begun to form schemes in his own mind which little suited such external appearances.Continuing Battle of Pavia,our