Balthasar Gracian The Art Of Worldly Wisdom
Book details
- Title
- Balthasar Gracian The Art Of Worldly Wisdom
- Author
- John Bruno Hare
- Publication year listed
- 1892
- Format
- Public domain eBook
- Reading access
- Free online reader; no registration required
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- View on Archive.org
About this book
Balthasar Gracian The Art Of Worldly Wisdom
Author: Gracián y Morales Baltasar
Year: 1892
Gracián y Morales Baltasar and Joseph Jacobs. 1892. The Art of Worldy Wisdom . London: Macmillan. Joseph Jacobs, Translator John Bruno Hare, Text formatting Mark Cyzyk, eBook programming ################################## A Note On The Text The bulk of the text was taken from the wonderful online version created by John Bruno Hare [1955 - 2010] and posted among his many other texts in the Internet Sacred Texts Archive: http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/aww/. The Internet Sacred Texts Archive version was based on the 1892 translation by Joseph Jacobs, published by MacMillan and Co., Limited, London. An online scan of this edition can be found in the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/artworldlywisdo00jacogoog_Some_changes_I%26#039;ve made for the present version: 1. John Bruno Hare divided his version into individual pages consisting of 50 maxims each. I have tried to stay as close to the print edition as possible, so have collapsed these down into a single EPUB page or "chapter" in the book. The admonition of both Gracian and Hare remains: This book is best read in chunks of 50 maxims. 2. I have taken pains to ensure that note references are bi-directional, i.e., that superscrip