168开奖官方开奖网站查询:First edition, in original boards, of this major Georgian tra🌱nslation for the ancient Roman philosopher and politician's magnum opus — a series of essays on living an ethical life, written in the style of letters to a friend.

• Sold as a set of 2 volumes.
• Lucius Annæus Seneca (Roman).
• Translated by Thomas Morell.
• The epistles of Lucius Annæus Seneca; with large annotations wherein, particularly, the tenets of the antient philosophers are contrasted with the divine precepts of the gospel, with regard to the moral duties of mankind.
• London: printed by W. Woodfall [...] and sold by G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1786.
• Quartos.
• Original blue boards, brown paper spines, manuscript title and stamped volume number to spines, uncut.

🐼"you must live for others if you would live honorably for yourself."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, or Seneca the Younger, was a distinguished intellectual and politician whose career put him at the center of Roman imperial politics of the first century CE. Targeted for assassination by Caligula, exiled for eight years by Claudius, and ultimately ordered to commit suicide by his own student — Nero — Seneca's political life tested his philosophical resolve. Seneca's stoicism was not a philosophy of isolation from temptation, but of steadiness amid challenge. His writings, especially the Epistolae Morales Ad Lucilium translated here, not𒁏 only preserved "Stoic philosophy to posterity but so altered and enhanced it that it became more personal and humane" (Motto, xi).

Seneca's style was pithy and direct, lauded as the best of its generation. Latin lends itself to compactness, to riddles of blunt force, and in Seneca's hands it makes aphorisms that carry the weight of eons. His letters were a model for Enlightenment ꩵessayists from Francis Bacon to Michel de Montaigne. The American Founders, too, avidly read Seneca; for Thomas Jefferson he was "a fine moralist" (Thomas Jefferson), while much of "Washington's political thought and behavior reflected the MORALS of Lucius Annaeus Seneca" (Morrison, 100).