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Title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)--Continental Europe I

Author: Various

Editor: Henry Cabot Lodge and Francis W. Halsey

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THE BEST
_of the_
WORLD'S CLASSICS

RESTRICTED TO PROSE

HENRY CABOT LODGE
Editor-in-Chief

FRANCIS W. HALSEY
Associate Editor

With an Introduction, Biographical and Explanatory Notes, etc.

In Ten Volumes

Vol. VII

CONTINENTAL EUROPE--I

[Illustration: RABELAIS, VOLTAIRE, HUGO, MONTAIGNE]

Funk & Wagnalls Company
New York and London
Copyright, 1909, by
Funk & Wagnalls Company

The Best of the World's Classics

VOL. VII

CONTINENTAL EUROPE--I

CONTENTS

VOL. VII--CONTINENTAL EUROPE--I

EARLY CONTINENTAL WRITERS

354--1380

ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE--(Born in Numidia, Africa, in 354; died in 430.)

Imperial Power for Good and Bad Men.

(From Book IV, Chapter III, of "De Civitate Dei")

ANICIUS BOETHIUS--(Born about 475, died about 524.)

The Highest Happiness.

(From "The Consolations of Philosophy." Translated by Alfred the
Great)

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS--(Born near Aquino, Italy, probably in 1225; died in
1274.)

A Definition of Happiness.

(From the "Ethics")

THOMAS A KEMPIS--(Born in Rhenish Prussia