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Homage to thee, Osiris, Lord of eternity, King of the gods, whose names are manifold, whose transformations are sublime, whose form is hidden in the temples whose Ka is holy, the Governor of Tetut,[FN#l 19] the mighty one of possessions (?)m the shrine, [FN#120] the Lord of praises [FN#1 21] in the…

*This translation is not currently available.* The Instructions of Merikare is a First Intermediate Period Egyptian wisdom text framed as the deathbed counsel of a Herakleopolitan king to his heir. The first complete English translation was John A. Wilson's version in Pritchard's *Ancient Near Eas…

THE STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS, (VOLSUNGA SAGA) WITH EXCERPTS FROM THE POETIC EDDA By Anonymous Originally written in Icelandic (Old Norse) in the thirteenth century A.D., by an unknown hand. However, most of the material is based substantially on previous works, some centuries older. A few of the…

THE STORY OF BURNT NJAL ## Chapter 1 — Of Fiddle Mord 1. OF FIDDLE MORD There was a man named Mord whose surname was Fiddle; he was the son of Sigvat the Red, and he dwelt at the "Vale" in the Rangrivervales. He was a mighty chief, and a great taker up of suits, and so great a lawyer that no j…

REVELATIONS of DIVINE LOVE Recorded by JULIAN, Anchoress at _NORWICH_ ANNO DOMINI 1373 _In lumine tuo videbimus lumen_ A version from the MS.…

## The Attractive Power of God OUR Lord Jesus Christ hath in the Gospel spoken with His own blessed lips these words, which signify, "No man can come to Me unless My Father draw him." In another place He says, "I am in the Father and the Father in Me." Therefore whoever cometh to the Son cometh to…

## The First Mansions CHAPTER I. THIS CHAPTER TREATS OF THE BEAUTY AND DIGNITY OF OUR SOULS AND MAKES A COMPARISON TO EXPLAIN THIS, THE ADVANTAGE OF KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING THIS AND THE FAVOURS GOD GRANTS TO US IS SHOWN, AND HOW PRAYER IS THE GATE OF THE SPIRITUAL CASTLE. 1. Plan of th…

## Chapter 1 [1] Love righteousness, ye that be judges of the earth: think of the Lord with a good (heart,) and in simplicity of heart seek him. [2] For he will be found of them that tempt him not; and sheweth himself unto such as do not distrust him. [3] For froward thoughts separate from God: an…

## Chapter 1 [1] All wisdom cometh from the Lord, and is with him for ever. [2] Who can number the sand of the sea, and the drops of rain, and the days of eternity? [3] Who can find out the height of heaven, and the breadth of the earth, and the deep, and wisdom? [4] Wisdom hath been created befor…

## Life of Sappho SAPPHO, the one great woman poet of the world, who called herself Psappha in her own Aeolic dialect (in fragments 1 and 59), is said to have been at the zenith of her fame about the year 610 B.C. During her lifetime Jeremiah first began to prophesy (628 B.C.), Daniel was carrie…

THE EXTANT ODES OF PINDAR TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH with INTRODUCTION AND SHORT NOTES BY ERNEST MYERS, M.A. _Sometime Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford_ 1904 _First edition printed 1874._ _Reprinted (with corrections) 1884, 1888, 1892, 1895, 1899, 1904_ SON OF THE LIGHTNING, FAIR AND FIE…

CHAPTER IV PARMENIDES OF ELEA ## Life [Sidenote: Life.] 84. Parmenides, son of Pyres, was a citizen of Hyele, Elea, or Velia, a colony founded in Oinotria by refugees from Phokaia in 540-39 B.C.[422] Diogenes tells us that he “flourished” in Ol. LXIX. (504-500 B.C.),…

CHAPTER III HERAKLEITOS OF EPHESOS ## Life of Herakleitos [Sidenote: Life of Herakleitos.] 63. Herakleitos of Ephesos, son of Blyson, is said to have “flourished” in Ol. LXIX. (504/3-501/0 B.C.);[319] that is to say, just in the middle of the reign of Dareios, with whom…

CHAPTER V EMPEDOKLES OF AKRAGAS ## Pluralism [Sidenote: Pluralism.] 97. The belief that all things are one was common to the philosophers we have hitherto studied; but now Parmenides has shown that, if this one thing really _is_, we must give up the idea that it can tak…

THE HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR By Thucydides 431 BC Translated by Richard Crawley With Permission to CONNOP THIRLWALL Historian of Greece This Translation of the Work of His Great Predecessor is Respectfully Inscribed by —The Translator— CONTENTS BOOK I CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPT…

THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS By Herodotus Translated into English by G. C. Macaulay IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME I. {e Herodotou diathesis en apasin epieikes, kai tois men agathois sunedomene, tois de kakois sunalgousa}.—Dion. Halic. {monos 'Erodotos 'Omerikhotatos egeneto}.—Longinus. PREPARER'S NO…

ANABASIS By Xenophon Translation by H. G. Dakyns Dedicated To Rev. B. Jowett, M.A. Master of Balliol College Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates.…

## Introduction INTRODUCTION The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge [Note: Pronounce _Cooley_] is the chief story belonging to the heroic cycle of Ulster, which had its centre in the deeds of the Ulster king, Conchobar Mac Nessa, and his nephew and chief warrior, Cuchulainn Mac Sualtaim. Tradition places the…

## Prologue — The Glory of Kings THE GLORY OF KINGS IN PRAISING GOD THE FATHER, THE SUSTAINER OF THE UNIVERSE, AND HIS SON JESUS CHRIST, THROUGH WHOM EVERYTHING CAME INTO BEING, AND WITHOUT WHOM NOTHING CAME INTO BEING, AND THE HOLY TRIUNE SPIRIT, THE PARACLETE, WHO GOETH FORTH FROM THE FATHER, A…

Kalevala THE EPIC POEM OF FINLAND INTO ENGLISH BY JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD [1888] TO DR. J.D. BUCK, AN ENCOURAGING AND UNSELFISH FRIEND, AND TO HIS AFFECTIONATE FAMILY, THESE PAGES ARE GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED. Contents PREFACE PROEM RUNE I. Birth of Wainamoinen RUNE II. Wainamoinen’s So…