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The Shoemaker's Holiday is a comedy written by Thomas Dekker in 1599. This charming play provides a vivid portrait of life in Elizabethan England and of the interaction of the social classes. Rowland Lacy falls in love with Rose, the lord mayor of London's daughter. After being thwarted by his relative, an earl, and the lord mayor, Lacy returns to London disguised as a Dutch shoemaker, insinuates himself into the lord mayor?s household, and ultimately wins Rose's hand...

In his treatise on government, The Prince, Machiavelli asserts that calculation is the only skill necessary to gain political power and keep it...

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Descartes meditates on the nature and existence of God, the human soul, and the physical world...

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Discourse on the Method is one of the central texts of philosophy and constitutes the core of the Cartesian system. Often considered the father of modern philosophy, Descartes, whose most well-known quote ?Cogito ergo sum" (I think therefore I am), comes from this text, discusses the foundation of knowledge, the existence of God, and the distinction between mind and body. His approach of using methodical doubt led to the rise of epistemology, one of the three main branches of philosophy...

Luther's address to the German princes encouraged them to adopt a program of reform, including the abolition of tributes to Rome, celibacy of the clergy, and other practices and institutions of the Catholic Church...

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The Meditations consists of twelve books written by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus during the last ten years of his reign. They give an in-depth look into his thoughts and how he governed the vast Roman empire...

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