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Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo. Confessions (Latin: Confessiones) is an autobiographical work by Augustine of Hippo, consisting of 13 books written in Latin between AD 397 and 400. [1] The work outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity.
The Confessions is an autobiographical book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In the modern era, it is often published with the title The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in order to distinguish it from Saint Augustine's Confessions. Covering the first fifty-three years of Rousseau's life, up to 1765, it was completed in 1769, but not published ...
The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and the one that won him fame almost overnight". [1] First published anonymously in September and October 1821 in The London Magazine, [2] the Confessions was released in book form in 1822, and again in 1856, in an edition revised by De Quincey.
The story begins in 1913 with the narrator's visit to a friend on the island of Capri in Italy. The friend introduces the narrator to Thomas Wilson, who had come to the island for a holiday sixteen years earlier.
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
Saquon Barkley is a man of the people!. As Barkley, 28, was making his way down the Eagles' Super Bowl victory parade route on Friday, Feb. 14 in Philadelphia, the NFL champion spotted the team ...
Emile, or On Education (French: Émile, ou De l’éducation) is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the "best and most important" of all his writings. [1] Due to a section of the book entitled "Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar", Emile was banned in ...
The Houston Texans had an eventful start to their divisional round game against the Kansas City Chiefs.It's tough to have a total breakdown on a play, a dumb penalty and a shove from a player to ...