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Brewer's: Caudine Forks

A narrow pass in the mountains near Capua, now called the Valley of Arpaia. It was here that the Roman army, under the consuls T. Veturius Calvinus and Sp. Postumius fell into the hands of…

Brewer's: Clean and Unclean Animals

Pythagoras taught the doctrine of the transmigration of the soul, but that it never entered into those animals which it is lawful to eat. Hence those animals which were lawful food for man…

Brewer's: Idealism

The doctrines taught by Idealists. Subjective idealism, taught by Fechte (2 syl.), supposes the object (say a tree) and the image of it on the mind is all ore. Or rather, that there is no…

Brewer's: Deodand

means something “given to God” (deo-dandum). This was the case when a man met with his death through injuries inflicted by some chattel, as by the fall of a ladder, the toss of a bull, or…

Titus: 1

Titus Chapter 1 1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; 2 In…

Federalist No. 78

No 78 No 80 The Judiciary Department From McLEAN'S Edition, New York. Hamilton To the People of the State of New York: WE PROCEED now to an examination of the…

Federalist No. 47

No 46 No 48 The Particular Structure of the New Government and the Distribution of Power Among Its Different Parts From the New York Packet.Friday, February 1, 1788.Madison…

The Federalist Papers: Federalist No. 78

by AlexanderHamilton, JamesMadison and JohnJayFederalist No. 77Federalist No. 79Federalist No. 78 The Judiciary Department To the People of the State of New York: We proceed now to…

Holy See Department of State Background

U.S. Department of State Background Note Holy See Index: People and History Government and Institutions Foreign Relations U.S.-Holy See Relations PEOPLE AND HISTORYAlmost all of Vatican City's…

Introduction to the First Volume

Introduction to the First VolumeFirst Translation of the UpanishadsDârâ Shukoh, Anquetil Duperron, SchopenhauerTHE ancient Vedic literature, the foundation of the whole literature of India,…