A true chronologie of the times of the Persian monarchie, and after to the destruction of Ierusalem by the Romanes : Wherein by the way briefly is handled the day of Christ his birth: with a declaration of the angel Gabriels message to Daniel in the end of his 9. chap. against the friuolous conceits of Matthew Beroald. Written by Edvvard Liuelie, reader of the holie tongue in Cambridge. by Lively, Edward, 1545?-1605

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The philosopher responds : an intellectual correspondence from the tenth century. by Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, active 10th century, Ibn Miskawayh, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1030

Table of Contents: “…On reasons, causes, time, and place-a question relating to voluntary choiceOn why people seek worldly goods through knowledge but do not seek knowledge through worldly goods-a question relating to voluntary choice; On why people long for the past-a natural question; On why men of knowledge tend to be conceited-an ethical question; On why people are sometimes ashamed and sometimes proud of wrongdoing; on the meaning of shame; On why people claim to have knowledge they lack-a natural question; On why it pleases people when others ascribe good qualities to them-a natural question…”
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