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Former President of Harvard University Charles W. Eliot wrote in his introduction to the Harvard Classics, "In my opinion, a five-foot shelf would hold books enough to give a liberal education to any one who would read them with devotion, even if he could spare but fifteen minutes a day for reading." Here you are, you can easily listen to his entire 15-minutes-a-day study guide while commuting to and from work (most of us spend far more than 15 minutes a day commuting each day), doing mundane work in the office, washing dishes at home, or doing most of the things day in and day out. It is so easy, so entertaining, and so educational that they can be listened to again and again, until they permeate into our own thinking and into our characters. Perhaps, in one year's time, you will become someone you barely recognize, all for the better. Who knows?
-- Rich E Book
Episodes
Mar 11, 2022
Mar 11, 2022
Mar 11, 2022
21 min
We are paid for our suffering and we pay for our happiness. Every ache, every sorrow receives its recompense here on earth. Emerson gives the basis for this conviction. (Volume 5, Harvard Classics)
Emerson ordained Unitarian minister, March 11, 1829.
Mar 10, 2022
Mar 10, 2022
Mar 10, 2022
7 min
In the days when contact with the theatre meant exile from the best society, Beaumont and Fletcher, men from good families, dared to ally themselves with the stage as playwrights. "Philaster" won them immortal praise. (Volume 47, Harvard Classics)
Mar 9, 2022
Mar 9, 2022
Mar 9, 2022
10 min
Swift regretted the laws against dueling because dueling at least was a good means of ridding the country of bores and fools. His keen eye penetrated social customs and saw the common sense that governed good manners. (Volume 27, Harvard Classics)
Passage of laws against dueling in England, March 9, 1679.
Mar 8, 2022
Mar 8, 2022
Mar 8, 2022
30 min
Anselmo and Lothario were close friends. Anselmo, anxious to learn if his wife were perfect, as he believed her to be, makes an unusual proposal to his old friend. (Volume 14, Harvard Classics)
Mar 7, 2022
Mar 7, 2022
Mar 7, 2022
10 min
Bacon pointed out that a judge's duty was to interpret laws and not to make laws. This single essay of Bacon's is a richly condensed summary of the ethics of law. (Volume 3, Harvard Classics)
Bacon made Keeper of the Great Seal of England, March 7, 1616.