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Religion: a dialogue and other essays. / By Arthur Schopenhauer. Selected and translated by T. Bailey Saunders, M.A.
LIBRA - Rare B3118.E5 S34 1895 Frost copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860.
- Standardized Title:
- Parerga und Paralipomena. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion.
- Philosophy.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Penn Provenance:
- Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 140 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Manufacture:
- Perth : Cowan & Co., Limited, Printers.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Swan Sonnenschein & Co. ; New York : Macmillan & Co., 1893.
- Contents:
- Religion: a dialogue
- A few words on Pantheism
- On books and reading
- On physiognomy
- Psychological observations
- The Christian system
- The failure of philosophy
- The metaphysics of fine art.
- Notes:
- "Fourth Edition."
- "As a third edition of this little volume is called for, I have taken the opportunity of adding two more Essays ; the brief dialogue on 'The Failure of Philosophy,' and some observations on 'The Metaphysics of Fine Art' ... The Prefatory Note to be found in the first and second editions of this volume is here omitted. It is now incorporated with the main Preface to the series in 'The Wisdom of Life'."--Note to the Third Edition.
- Contains divisional title pages.
- Local Notes:
- Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.
- Frost Collection copy bound with: Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860. The wisdom of life ; being the first part of Arthur Schopenhauer's Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit. Translated with a preface by T. Bailey Saunders, M.A. Fourth Edition. London : Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Limited, Paternoster Square, 1895.
- Frost Collection rebound with leather spine lettered in gilt and leather corners. Marbled lining papers and edges.
- Frost Collection copy has label of H.H.G. Grattan Discount Bookseller, London.
- OCLC:
- 982010477
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