In Defence Of The Republic

Cicero

'Why is it my fate that everyone who was an enemy of the Republic at the same time declared war on me?' Cicero (106 - 43BCE) was the most brilliant orator in Classical history. Even one of the men who authorized his assassination, the Emperor Augustus, admitted to his grandson that Cicero was: 'an eloq...

The Portable Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A comprehensive collection of writings by “the most influential writer of the nineteenth century” (Harold Bloom) Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diverse body of work has done more than perhaps any other thinker to shape and define the American mind. Literary giants including Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawtho...