The Convert: Or, Leaves From My Experience. E-book. Formato PDF O. A. Brownson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

I have aimed to tell my story simply, and to keep as clear as possible of all abstruse metaphysical or theological discus sions; yet as I had in some parts the profoundest problems of human life to deal with, and as my own path to the Church led through the field of philosophy, I have not been able wholly to avoid them, and there are parts of the work which will have little interest for those who read only for amusement. I have aimed to write an instructive, not an amusing book.

Xenophon Anabasis: With an English Translation by Carleton L Brownson. E-book. Formato PDF Carleton L. Brownson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Xenophon was an eye-witness of the events which he describes in the Anabasis. He had joined the expedition, not as general or captain or private, 3 but upon the solicitation of his friend Proxenus, who was one of the Greek generals in Cyrus' service. At this time Xenophon was probably somewhat less than thirty years of age. Despite his comparative youth, and despite the fact that he was an Athenian in an army of Peloponnesians,4 he was destined to play the leading part in the famous retreat of the Ten Thousand, a part which he describes with simple directness and unaffected modesty.