King Alfred's version of the Consolations of Boethius: done into modern English, with an introduction
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- King Alfred's version of the Consolations of Boethius: done into modern English, with an introduction
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King Alfred's version of the Consolations of Boethius: done into modern English, with an introduction
Author: Boethius, -524
Year: 1900
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS BOOK I. Chapters I-VI. First comes the Historical Introduction (chap. i). While Boethius is lying in the dungeon lamenting his hard lot and vanished happiness, there appears to him divine Philosophy, the spirit of Wisdom, who raises him up and bids him look on her. He then recognizes in her his old teacher whom he had known in his happier days. She proceeds to show him that his misfortune arises from his neglect of her precepts, and his trust in the promises of fickle Fortune; and she undertakes to cure him of his melancholy. BOOK II. Chapters VII-XXI. Philosophy tells Boethius that what he once accounted happiness was not really such; that he is not the first to suffer a reverse of fortune ; that worldly joys are deceitful. Fortune changes, and men must also change with her. Boethius owes his misfortune to his desire for worldly happiness. In reply, Boethius confesses his wrong and is in despair. Philosophy then points out that he is not really unhappy, for his sorrows will pass away as his riches have done. He has many blessings left — his noble father-in-law Symmachus, his wife, and his two sons. Let him seek happiness within himself, not outside ; for he doe
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