Saksagan
The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse 1
Jesop (6th Century, B.C.?)
Jesop was “not a poet,” says Gilbert Murray, “but the legendary author of a particular type of story.” This type is...
King Rhampsinitus and the Thief 1
Herodotus (484—424 B.C.)
Herodotus, the Father of History, is celebrated as a teller of tales. These he introduced into his History partly for purposes of...
The Bet part 5
“If I have the courage to fulfil my intention,” thought the old man, “the Suspicion will fall on the watchman first of all.”
In the...
The Bet part 6
The banker took the sheet from the table and read:
“Tomorrow at twelve o`clock midnight, I shall obtain my freedom and the right to mix...
The Bet part 4
During the last two years of his confinement the prisoner read an extraordinary amount, quite haphazard. Now he would apply himself to the natural...
The Bet part 3
During the first year of imprisonment, the lawyer, as far as it was possible to judge from his short notes, suffered terribly from loneliness...
The Bet part 2
“If you mean it seriously,” replied the lawyer, “then I bet I`ll stay not five but fifteen.”
“Fifteen! Done!” cried the banker. “Gentlemen, I stake...
John of Damascus part 28
But there is a difference not of principle but of practice between East and West, to which we have already alluded. Especially since Iconoclasm,...
John of Damascus part 27
Epiphanius of Salamis (d. 403) tore down a curtain in a church in Palestine because it had a picture of Christ or a saint....
John of Damascus part 26
Long before the outbreak in the eighth century there were isolated cases of persons who feared the ever-growing cult of images and saw in...
