SYLLA 138-78 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden LUCIUS Cornelius Sylla was descended of a patrician or noble family...

THEMISTOCLES 445-365 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden THE birth of Themistocles was somewhat too obscure to do him honour...

THESEUS Legendary by Plutarch translated by John Dryden As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect, that beyond this lies nothing but the sandy deserts full of wild beasts, unapproachable bogs, Scythian ice, or a frozen sea, so in this work of mine, in which I have compared the lives of the greatest men with one another, after passing through those periods which probable reasoning can r...

TIBERIUS GRACCHUS 163-133 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden HAVING completed the first two narratives, we now may proceed to take a view of misfortunes, not less remarkable, in the Roman couple, and with the lives of Agis and Cleomenes, compare these of Tiberius and Caius...

TIMOLEON 411?-337 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden IT was for the sake of others that I first commenced writing biographies; but I find myself proceeding and attaching myself to it for my own; the virtues of these great men serving me as a sort of looking-glass, in which I may see how to adjust and adorn my own life...

THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE Translated by Edward Bouverie Pusey BOOK I Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite. And Thee would man praise; man, but a particle of Thy creation; man, that bears about him his mortality, the witness of his sin, the witness that Thou resistest the proud: yet would man praise Thee; he, but a particle of Thy creation...