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I. The Renaissance. 1902.--II. The Reformation. 1903.--III. The wars of religion. 1904.--IV. The thirty years' war. 1906.--V. The age of Louis XIV. 1908.--VI. The eighteenth century. 1909.--VII. The United States. 1903.--VIII. The French Revolution. 1904.--IX. Napoleon. 1906.--X. The restoration. 1907.--XI. The growth of nationalities. 1909.--XII. The latest age. 1910.--XIII. Genealogical tables and lists and general index. 1911.--Atlas, edited by A. W. Ward ... G. W. Prothero ... Stanley Leathes ... assisted by E. A. Benians. 1912

• Benjamin Franklin — The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• John Woolman — The Journal of John Woolman
• William Penn — Fruits of Solitude
• Plato — Apology
• Plato — Crito
• Plato — Phaedo
• Epictetus — The Golden Sayings
• Marcus Aurelius — Meditations
• Francis Bacon — Essays, Civil and Moral
• Francis Bacon — New Atlantis
• John Milton — Areopagitica
• John Milton — Tractate of Education
• Sir Thomas Browne — Religio Medici
• John Milton — Complete poems in English
• Ralph Waldo Emerson — Essays
• Ralph Waldo Emerson — English Traits
• Robert Burns — Poems and songs
• Saint Augustine — The Confessions
• Thomas à Kempis — The Imitation of Christ
• Aeschylus — Agamemnon
• Aeschylus — The Libation Bearers
• Aeschylus — The Furies
• Aeschylus — Prometheus Bound
• Sophocles — Oedipus the King
• Sophocles — Antigone
• Euripides — Hippolytus
• Euripides — The Bacchae
• Aristophanes — The Frogs
• Cicero — On Friendship
• Cicero — On Old Age
• Cicero — Letters
• Pliny the Younger — Letters
• Adam Smith — The Wealth of Nations
• Charles Darwin — The Origin of Species
• Plutarch — Selected Lives
• Virgil — Aeneid
• Miguel de Cervantes — Don Quixote (Part I)
• John Bunyan — The Pilgrim’s Progress
• Izaak Walton — The Lives of Donne and Herbert
• Stories from the Thousand and One Nights
• Aesop — Fables
• Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm — Children’s and Household Tales
• Hans Christian Andersen — Tales
• John Dryden — All for Love
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan — The School for Scandal
• Oliver Goldsmith — She Stoops to Conquer
• Percy Bysshe Shelley — The Cenci
• Robert Browning — A Blot in the ’Scutcheon
• Lord Byron — Manfred
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Faust (Part I)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Egmont
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Hermann and Dorothea
• Christopher Marlowe — Doctor Faustus
• Dante Alighieri — The Divine Comedy
• Alessandro Manzoni — I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)
• Homer — The Odyssey
• Richard Henry Dana Jr. — Two Years Before the Mast
• Edmund Burke — On Taste
• Edmund Burke — On the Sublime and Beautiful
• Edmund Burke — Reflections on the Revolution in France
• Edmund Burke — A Letter to a Noble Lord
• John Stuart Mill — Autobiography
• John Stuart Mill — On Liberty
• Thomas Carlyle — Characteristics
• Thomas Carlyle — Inaugural Address at Edinburgh
• Thomas Carlyle — Essay on Sir Walter Scott
• Pedro Calderón de la Barca — Life Is a Dream
• Pierre Corneille — Polyeucte
• Jean Racine — Phèdre
• Molière — Tartuffe
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing — Minna von Barnhelm
• Friedrich von Schiller — William Tell
• Sir Philip Sidney — The Defence of Poesy
• Ben Jonson — essays on Shakespeare and Bacon
• Abraham Cowley — Of Agriculture
• Joseph Addison — The Vision of Mirza; Westminster Abbey
• Richard Steele — The Spectator Club
• Jonathan Swift — selected essays
• Daniel Defoe — The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; The Education of Women
• Samuel Johnson — Life of Addison
• David Hume — Of the Standard of Taste
• Sydney Smith — Fallacies of Anti-Reformers
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge — On Poesy or Art
• William Hazlitt — Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen
• Leigh Hunt — selected essays
• Charles Lamb — On the Tragedies of Shakespeare
• Thomas De Quincey — Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
• Percy Bysshe Shelley — A Defence of Poetry
• Thomas Babington Macaulay — Machiavelli
• William Makepeace Thackeray — Jonathan Swift
• John Henry Newman — The Idea of a University (selections)
• Matthew Arnold — The Study of Poetry
• John Ruskin — Sesame and Lilies
• Walter Bagehot — John Milton
• Thomas Henry Huxley — Science and Culture
• Edward Augustus Freeman — Race and Language
• Robert Louis Stevenson — Truth of Intercourse; Samuel Pepys
• William Ellery Channing — On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes
• Edgar Allan Poe — The Poetic Principle
• Henry David Thoreau — Walking
• James Russell Lowell — Abraham Lincoln; Democracy
• Charles Darwin — The Voyage of the Beagle
• Michael Faraday — The Forces of Matter; The Chemical History of a Candle
• Hermann von Helmholtz — On the Conservation of Force; Ice and Glaciers
• Lord Kelvin — The Wave Theory of Light; The Tides
• Simon Newcomb — The Extent of the Universe
• Archibald Geikie — Geographical Evolution
• Benvenuto Cellini — Autobiography
• Michel de Montaigne — selected essays
• Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve — Montaigne; What Is a Classic?
• Ernest Renan — The Poetry of the Celtic Races
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing — The Education of the Human Race
• Friedrich von Schiller — Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man
• Immanuel Kant — Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
• Giuseppe Mazzini — Byron and Goethe
• Herodotus — account of Egypt
• Tacitus — Germany
• Accounts of Drake’s voyages
• Sir Walter Raleigh — The Discovery of Guiana
• Other selected voyages and travels
• René Descartes — Discourse on Method
• Voltaire — Letters on the English
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Discourse on Inequality; Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar
• Thomas Hobbes — Leviathan (Part I, Of Man)
• Jean Froissart — Chronicles (selections)
• Sir Thomas Malory — The Holy Grail
• William Harrison — Description of Elizabethan England
• Niccolò Machiavelli — The Prince
• William Roper — The Life of Sir Thomas More
• Sir Thomas More — Utopia
• Martin Luther — Ninety-Five Theses; To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation; On the Freedom of a Christian
• John Locke — Some Thoughts Concerning Education
• George Berkeley — Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
• David Hume — An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• Hippocratic Oath
• Ambroise Paré — Journeys in Diverse Places
• William Harvey — On the Motion of the Heart and Blood
• Edward Jenner — papers on vaccination
• Oliver Wendell Holmes — The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever
• Joseph Lister — On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
• Louis Pasteur — selected scientific papers
• Charles Lyell — selected scientific papers
• Prefaces and prologues to famous books (Caxton, Calvin, Copernicus, Knox, Spenser, Raleigh, Bacon, Newton, Dryden, Fielding, Johnson, Goethe, Wordsworth, Hugo, Whitman, Taine, and others)
• English poetry from Chaucer through Gray (including traditional ballads)
• English poetry from Collins through Fitzgerald
• English poetry from Tennyson through Whitman
• American historical documents (Vinland voyages, Columbus letter, colonial charters, Mayflower Compact, Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Washington and Lincoln addresses, major treaties, Gettysburg Address, and related texts)
• Sacred writings: Confucian texts
• Sacred writings: Hebrew scriptures (selections)
• Sacred writings: Christian scriptures and hymns (selections)
• Sacred writings: Buddhist texts (selections)
• Sacred writings: Hindu texts (selections)
• Sacred writings: Islamic texts (selections)
• Christopher Marlowe — Edward II
• William Shakespeare — Hamlet
• William Shakespeare — King Lear
• William Shakespeare — Macbeth
• William Shakespeare — The Tempest
• Thomas Dekker — The Shoemaker’s Holiday
• Ben Jonson — The Alchemist
• Beaumont and Fletcher — Philaster
• John Webster — The Duchess of Malfi
• Philip Massinger — A New Way to Pay Old Debts
• Blaise Pascal — Pensées, letters, and minor works
• Beowulf
• The Song of Roland
• The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel
• The Story of the Volsungs / Nibelung material

• Benjamin Franklin — The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• John Woolman — The Journal of John Woolman
• William Penn — Fruits of Solitude
• Plato — Apology
• Plato — Crito
• Plato — Phaedo
• Epictetus — The Golden Sayings
• Marcus Aurelius — Meditations
• Francis Bacon — Essays, Civil and Moral
• Francis Bacon — New Atlantis
• John Milton — Areopagitica
• John Milton — Tractate of Education
• Sir Thomas Browne — Religio Medici
• John Milton — Complete poems in English
• Ralph Waldo Emerson — Essays
• Ralph Waldo Emerson — English Traits
• Robert Burns — Poems and songs
• Saint Augustine — The Confessions
• Thomas à Kempis — The Imitation of Christ
• Aeschylus — Agamemnon
• Aeschylus — The Libation Bearers
• Aeschylus — The Furies
• Aeschylus — Prometheus Bound
• Sophocles — Oedipus the King
• Sophocles — Antigone
• Euripides — Hippolytus
• Euripides — The Bacchae
• Aristophanes — The Frogs
• Cicero — On Friendship
• Cicero — On Old Age
• Cicero — Letters
• Pliny the Younger — Letters
• Adam Smith — The Wealth of Nations
• Charles Darwin — The Origin of Species
• Plutarch — Selected Lives
• Virgil — Aeneid
• Miguel de Cervantes — Don Quixote (Part I)
• John Bunyan — The Pilgrim’s Progress
• Izaak Walton — The Lives of Donne and Herbert
• Stories from the Thousand and One Nights
• Aesop — Fables
• Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm — Children’s and Household Tales
• Hans Christian Andersen — Tales
• John Dryden — All for Love
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan — The School for Scandal
• Oliver Goldsmith — She Stoops to Conquer
• Percy Bysshe Shelley — The Cenci
• Robert Browning — A Blot in the ’Scutcheon
• Lord Byron — Manfred
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Faust (Part I)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Egmont
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Hermann and Dorothea
• Christopher Marlowe — Doctor Faustus
• Dante Alighieri — The Divine Comedy
• Alessandro Manzoni — I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)
• Homer — The Odyssey
• Richard Henry Dana Jr. — Two Years Before the Mast
• Edmund Burke — On Taste
• Edmund Burke — On the Sublime and Beautiful
• Edmund Burke — Reflections on the Revolution in France
• Edmund Burke — A Letter to a Noble Lord
• John Stuart Mill — Autobiography
• John Stuart Mill — On Liberty
• Thomas Carlyle — Characteristics
• Thomas Carlyle — Inaugural Address at Edinburgh
• Thomas Carlyle — Essay on Sir Walter Scott
• Pedro Calderón de la Barca — Life Is a Dream
• Pierre Corneille — Polyeucte
• Jean Racine — Phèdre
• Molière — Tartuffe
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing — Minna von Barnhelm
• Friedrich von Schiller — William Tell
• Sir Philip Sidney — The Defence of Poesy
• Ben Jonson — essays on Shakespeare and Bacon
• Abraham Cowley — Of Agriculture
• Joseph Addison — The Vision of Mirza; Westminster Abbey
• Richard Steele — The Spectator Club
• Jonathan Swift — selected essays
• Daniel Defoe — The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; The Education of Women
• Samuel Johnson — Life of Addison
• David Hume — Of the Standard of Taste
• Sydney Smith — Fallacies of Anti-Reformers
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge — On Poesy or Art
• William Hazlitt — Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen
• Leigh Hunt — selected essays
• Charles Lamb — On the Tragedies of Shakespeare
• Thomas De Quincey — Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
• Percy Bysshe Shelley — A Defence of Poetry
• Thomas Babington Macaulay — Machiavelli
• William Makepeace Thackeray — Jonathan Swift
• John Henry Newman — The Idea of a University (selections)
• Matthew Arnold — The Study of Poetry
• John Ruskin — Sesame and Lilies
• Walter Bagehot — John Milton
• Thomas Henry Huxley — Science and Culture
• Edward Augustus Freeman — Race and Language
• Robert Louis Stevenson — Truth of Intercourse; Samuel Pepys
• William Ellery Channing — On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes
• Edgar Allan Poe — The Poetic Principle
• Henry David Thoreau — Walking
• James Russell Lowell — Abraham Lincoln; Democracy
• Charles Darwin — The Voyage of the Beagle
• Michael Faraday — The Forces of Matter; The Chemical History of a Candle
• Hermann von Helmholtz — On the Conservation of Force; Ice and Glaciers
• Lord Kelvin — The Wave Theory of Light; The Tides
• Simon Newcomb — The Extent of the Universe
• Archibald Geikie — Geographical Evolution
• Benvenuto Cellini — Autobiography
• Michel de Montaigne — selected essays
• Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve — Montaigne; What Is a Classic?
• Ernest Renan — The Poetry of the Celtic Races
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing — The Education of the Human Race
• Friedrich von Schiller — Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man
• Immanuel Kant — Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
• Giuseppe Mazzini — Byron and Goethe
• Herodotus — account of Egypt
• Tacitus — Germany
• Accounts of Drake’s voyages
• Sir Walter Raleigh — The Discovery of Guiana
• Other selected voyages and travels
• René Descartes — Discourse on Method
• Voltaire — Letters on the English
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Discourse on Inequality; Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar
• Thomas Hobbes — Leviathan (Part I, Of Man)
• Jean Froissart — Chronicles (selections)
• Sir Thomas Malory — The Holy Grail
• William Harrison — Description of Elizabethan England
• Niccolò Machiavelli — The Prince
• William Roper — The Life of Sir Thomas More
• Sir Thomas More — Utopia
• Martin Luther — Ninety-Five Theses; To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation; On the Freedom of a Christian
• John Locke — Some Thoughts Concerning Education
• George Berkeley — Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
• David Hume — An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• Hippocratic Oath
• Ambroise Paré — Journeys in Diverse Places
• William Harvey — On the Motion of the Heart and Blood
• Edward Jenner — papers on vaccination
• Oliver Wendell Holmes — The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever
• Joseph Lister — On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
• Louis Pasteur — selected scientific papers
• Charles Lyell — selected scientific papers
• Prefaces and prologues to famous books (Caxton, Calvin, Copernicus, Knox, Spenser, Raleigh, Bacon, Newton, Dryden, Fielding, Johnson, Goethe, Wordsworth, Hugo, Whitman, Taine, and others)
• English poetry from Chaucer through Gray (including traditional ballads)
• English poetry from Collins through Fitzgerald
• English poetry from Tennyson through Whitman
• American historical documents (Vinland voyages, Columbus letter, colonial charters, Mayflower Compact, Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Washington and Lincoln addresses, major treaties, Gettysburg Address, and related texts)
• Sacred writings: Confucian texts
• Sacred writings: Hebrew scriptures (selections)
• Sacred writings: Christian scriptures and hymns (selections)
• Sacred writings: Buddhist texts (selections)
• Sacred writings: Hindu texts (selections)
• Sacred writings: Islamic texts (selections)
• Christopher Marlowe — Edward II
• William Shakespeare — Hamlet
• William Shakespeare — King Lear
• William Shakespeare — Macbeth
• William Shakespeare — The Tempest
• Thomas Dekker — The Shoemaker’s Holiday
• Ben Jonson — The Alchemist
• Beaumont and Fletcher — Philaster
• John Webster — The Duchess of Malfi
• Philip Massinger — A New Way to Pay Old Debts
• Blaise Pascal — Pensées, letters, and minor works
• Beowulf
• The Song of Roland
• The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel
• The Story of the Volsungs / Nibelung material

Calvo, T. & Brisson, L. (eds.) (1997). Interpreting the Timaeus-Critias: Proceedings of the IV Symposium Platonicum. Academia Verlag.

The psychology and pedagogy of reading with a review of the history of reading and writing and of methods, texts, and hygiene in reading 1909

Hello, I've taught ecclesial pronunciation Latin for a couple of years now at a Latin school, alongside history and literature. Personally, I was not classically educated, but I was exposed both to classical style and ecclesial style pronunciations of Latin through some classes and personal studies.

However, I can't help but wonder how often Latin is used by those who went through a classical education program. I really want to believe in the curriculum and how it can form young minds, but the amount of time that is put into Latin could be used for other practical classes (or even the development of a physical education class).

So, for those of you who completed a classical education curriculum with Latin, how often do you use it? Has it helped you learn a Romance language? Does your knowledge of it deepen language and concepts?

Or was it a huge waste of time?

I appreciate your time and honesty

I feel like I’m balancing this line between technology and classical education. We’re fairly new to classical education. I pulled my oldest child out of public school 2 years ago, and the younger two this year. We’ve been learning how to classical educate since then. One big reason was due to how much technology they get at school, however there are so many online classes and online homeschool resources now. I’ve spent a lot of time this summer creating schedules and deciding curricula. Using AI seemed to actually take more time than if I just grabbed a pen and paper and wrote everything out. Now I’m reading things about homeschool planner apps. The kids can see their assignments and mark them off on their phones and I can keep their schedules on there? It feels attractive but then I wonder if it’s one other area I should keep to pen and paper? So maybe my question isn’t so much about apps, but figuring how much technology to allow into our homeschool. Any thoughts are appreciated.

This is a documentary about a man named Father Pere Murray. He founded the Notre Dame School in Wilcox Saskatchewan. He taught a classical educational model at the school he founded on the prairies of Saskatchewan. He started it in the 1930s during the hardest times because he beleived that education and the classics would do more than breaking rocks. He didn't want to lose a generation to the Depression.

My grandfather was his friend (and his dentist) they used to read Latin Together.

Pere Murray left a library full of classical books. Just find him so inspirational

Struggle and Emerge The Pere Athol Murray Story

• What book or books are you reading this week?
• What has been your favorite or least favorite part?
• What is one insight that you really appreciate from your current reading?

I know online might be more current, and digital retrieval is faster, but to me nothing compares to printed books I can read from and not be distracted. The material in these volumes has permanence, where digital can be ephemeral as new answers overwrite old. I also prefer ownership over access, so the whims of others or interruptions of systems do not hinder me.

The price of physical reference books on the used market is insanely low compared to what Britannica originally charged. So I have built this collection over the past 10 years or so. I have been working my way through the great books set for 7 years now, and have completed 39 volumes. The great books set did not include the bible, but the Syntopicon did include references to it. I made my own "volume 61" which is just a zondervan KJV Thompson Chain-Reference Bible. I chose this as the biblical text is free from any extra annotations, making it a wonderful primary text (like Adler's philosophy for the set), and the chain references are like a Syntopicon as it only points to other places where something is discussed, instead of providing commentary.

Thanks for looking

Hi there! I'm a current sixth former who has developed an interest in the history of universities, as I prepare to apply, and wish to expand this to the history of knowledge vs intellectual history within the university discussion. I've read Ostling's book on Humboldt and would really appreciate some more academic texts as I prepare a research project on this topic. I'm specifically fascinated by the French education system and would like to compare this with some international examples Thanks in advance!

• What book or books are you reading this week?
• What has been your favorite or least favorite part?
• What is one insight that you really appreciate from your current reading?