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Filed under: Aphorisms and apothegms Meditations in Wall Street (New York: W. Morrow and Co., 1940), by Henry Stanley Haskins, contrib. by Albert Jay Nock (page images at HathiTrust) Sand and Foam (1926), by Kahlil Gibran (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS) Country Town Sayings: A Collection of Paragraphs from The Atchison Globe (Topeka, KS: Crane and Co., 1911), by E. W. Howe (HTML and page images at Indiana) Mashafa Falâsfâ Tabîbân: Das Buch der Weisen Philosophen Nach dem Aethiopischen Untersucht (in German; Leipzig: Druck von F. A. Brockhaus, 1875), by Carl Heinrich Cornill Arabian Wisdom: Selections and Translations From the Arabic (1913), by John Wortabet (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com) Platitudes in the Making: Precepts and Advices for Gentlefolk (reprint; original published London: D.J. Rider; New York: M. Kennerly, 1911), by Holbrook Jackson (page images (with notes added by a reader) at HathiTrust; US access only) Stil und Form der Aphorismen Lichtenbergs: Ein Baustein zur Geschichte des Deutschen Aphorismus (in German; Keil: W. G. Mühlau, 1912), by Walter A. Berendsohn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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Filed under: Table-talk -- Early works to 1800Filed under: Medicine -- Aphorisms Aphorisms, by Hippocrates, trans. by Francis Adams (HTML at Internet Classics)
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Filed under: Epigrams -- Early works to 1800 Quodlibets, by Robert Hayman (illustrated HTML at mun.ca) Filed under: Epigrams, AmericanFiled under: Epigrams, English Ovid's Elegies, by Ovid, trans. by Christopher Marlowe (HTML at Perseus) Filed under: Epigrams, Greek
Filed under: Epigrams, Greek -- Translations into English The Poems of Meleager of Gadara (London: The Egoist Press, 1920), by Meleager, trans. by Richard Aldington (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) The Minor Poems of Homer: The Battle of the Frogs and Mice; Hymns and Epigrams (with introductions by Coleridge and a Life of Homer spuriously attributed to Herodotus; New York: A. Denham and Co., 1872), by Homer, trans. by Thomas Parnell, George Chapman, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Congreve, Richard Hole, and Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, contrib. by Henry Nelson Coleridge and Pseudo-Herodotus (multiple formats at Internet Archive) Philodemos = Philodemos: His Twenty-Nine Extant Poems, by Philodemus, trans. by George Economou (HTML at Light and Dust) Filed under: Epigrams, Latin (Medieval and modern) Ludvig Holbergs Moralske Tanker (Danish translations and notes on Latin epigrams; Copenhagen: K. Schønberg, 1859), by Ludvig Holberg, ed. by Gotfred Benjamin Rode Filed under: Maxims The Art of Worldly Wisdom, by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, trans. by Joseph Jacobs (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com) Reflections: or, Sentences and Moral Maxims (London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1871), by François La Rochefoucauld, trans. by J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell The Economy of Human Life (this edition attributed to Dodsley, with illustrations "by F. Howard, Harvey, Williams, etc."; London: John van Voorst, 1834), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, illust. by F. Howard (multiple formats at archive.org) The Economy of Human Life, in Two Books (this edition attributed to Dodsley; London: Printed for Shirley, Neely, and Jones, et al., 1809), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, illust. by Frederick Mackenzie, W. M. Craig, and Thomas Uwins (multiple formats at archive.org) The Economy of Human Life: Translated From an Indian Manuscript, Written by An Ancient Bramin (work attributed variously to Dodsley and Chesterfield; London: Printed for T. Tegg, 1811), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (multiple formats at archive.org) The Economy of Human Life, Translated from an Indian Manuscript, Written by an Ancient Bramin; To Which is Prefixed an Account of the Manner in Which the Said Manuscript Was Discovered (work attributed variously to Dodsley and Chesterfield; Philadelphia: Jacob Johnson, 1807), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, illust. by Alexander Anderson (page images at Google) The Wisdom of Life, by Arthur Schopenhauer, ed. by T. Bailey Saunders (Gutenberg text) The Wanderer (1932), by Kahlil Gibran (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS) The Gulistan, by Sa'di (HTML at Internet Classics) The Gulistan, by Sa'di, trans. by James Ross (HTML at Fordham) The Rose Garden of Sa'di (or The Gulistan), by Sa'di, trans. by Edward Rehatsek Filed under: QuotationsFiled under: ToastsMore items available under broader and related terms at left. |