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The Seven Deadly Sins (Classic Reprint)

Author : Frederick Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331769156
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book The Seven Deadly Sins (Classic Reprint) written by Frederick Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Seven Deadly Sins The business of literature is the presentation of life, all true literature resolves itself into that. No presentation of life is complete without its sins, and every master of literary art has known it, from the poet King of Israel to Robert Browning. The imagination of the Middle Ages, in many ways more virile and expansive than our own, had a strong grasp of this fact, and realised that it is the sense of fault or error that lies at the root of every forward movement, that there is no real progress unless it is accompanied by a sense of sin. Other terms may be used to describe the dynamic power which has moved societies or individuals from lower ideals to higher, but if we get beyond words to things, we see the sense of the defective character, the unrealised ideal, always and everywhere as the moving force. To the Catholic Church, touched as it often has been and not always to its detriment, with pagan mysticism, the problem of evil was associated with a mystical number; and the succeeding pages are an endeavour to trace the various presentations of the Seven Deadly Sins as they have been given by men of powerful imagination, or profound insight, at different periods in our literary history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Seven Deadly Sins

Author : Frederick Rogers
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781377903910
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Seven Deadly Sins written by Frederick Rogers and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-18 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Seven Deadly Sins

Author : REV James Stalker
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781347327999
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book The Seven Deadly Sins written by REV James Stalker and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-12-05 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Seven Deadly Sins

Author : Morgan Dix
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483614550
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book The Seven Deadly Sins written by Morgan Dix and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Seven Deadly Sins: Sermons Preached in Trinity Chapel, New York, During Lent, 1888 O hear ye this, all ye people ponder it with your ears, all ye that dwell in the world. - psalm xlix. I, 2. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins

Author : John Gower
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266231004
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins written by John Gower and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins: Being the Confessio Amantis of John Gower But in all these texts, and especially in Dr. Pauli's, most of the lines are right for those whose previous training has enabled them to read Old English. There is really nothing wanted but a little help to right accentuation to enable any reader, with or with out previous training in Old English, to enjoy the Confessio Amantis. Of course a fallible and mortal editor cannot avoid some slips in the line for line accentuation of a poem of lines. I believe, however, that the reader here has Gower's song more nearly than in any former edition given as he sang it him self, nothing modernised, but rather with a few words carried back to their original form for the recovery of the right rhythm of a line. Gower's poem in this edition is so far from being jagged and unmusical that, I hope, there is not a broken line in it from first to last. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Chaucer and the Seven Deadly Sins (Classic Reprint)

Author : Frederick Tupper Jr.
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333963989
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer and the Seven Deadly Sins (Classic Reprint) written by Frederick Tupper Jr. and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-16 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chaucer and the Seven Deadly Sins Significantly enough both Chaucer and Gower deem Chid ing one of the divisions of Wrath,20 whereas in many medieval catalogues of the Sins, this fault is classed apart from the Deadly Seven as a Sin of the Tongue. Chaucer, however, seems to have recognized the claim of 'chiding to especial treatment, since he had already illustrated the general theme of Wrath in his friar-summoner tales: but more of that in due season. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Theory about Sin

Author : Orby Shipley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330512029
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book A Theory about Sin written by Orby Shipley and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Theory About Sin: In Relation to Some Facts of Daily Life; Lent Lectures on the Seven Deadly Sins "A Theory about Sin" owes its completion to two causes. It had long been entertained by the writer, that the various developments of sin might all be referred for their existence to different forms of selfishness. Many efforts were made by him to reduce to a system the thoughts which either suggested or arose from this conception. These efforts, however, proved unsatisfactory when sufficiently elaborated to become capable of systematic arrangement. Some element in the mental problem was wanting. A winter spent in Florence in 1871-72 gave further opportunity for considering the subject of sin in relation to self. This consideration was assisted by the timely gift from the publisher of a book then lately issued from the press entitled, "A Shadow of Dante." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Sign of the Seven Sins (Classic Reprint)

Author : William Le Queux
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365130338
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Sign of the Seven Sins (Classic Reprint) written by William Le Queux and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Sign of the Seven Sins No; I dare not reveal everything here, lest I may be misjudged. The narrative is, to say the least, a strange one; so amazing, indeed, that had I not been one of the actual persons concerned therein I would never have believed that such things could be. Yet these chapters of an eventful personal his tory, remarkable though they may appear, are nevertheless the truth, a combination of unusual circumstances which will be found startling and curious, idyllic and tragic. Reader, I would con fess all if I dared, but each of us have skeletons in our cupboards, both you and I - for, alas! I am no exception to the general rule among women. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Sermons on the Seven Deadly Sins, Vol. 1

Author : Franz Hunolt
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781440036552
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Sermons on the Seven Deadly Sins, Vol. 1 written by Franz Hunolt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sermons on the Seven Deadly Sins, Vol. 1: And the Different Sins Against God and Our Neighbor Which Flow Therefrom, Adapted to All the Sundays and Holydays of the Year Christians, who force her to help them to a deeper damnation. Preached on the Feast of ss. Peter and Paul. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Seven Deadly Chess Sins

Author : Jonathan Rowson
Publisher : Scotland's Youngest Grandmaste
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seven Deadly Chess Sins written by Jonathan Rowson and published by Scotland's Youngest Grandmaste. This book was released on 2001-01-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A British champion discusses the most common causes of disaster in chess"--Cover.

The Seven Deadly Sins of London

Author : Thomas Decker
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330729182
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book The Seven Deadly Sins of London written by Thomas Decker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Seven Deadly Sins of London: Drawn in Seven Several Coaches, Through the Seven Several Gates of the City; Bringing the Plague With Them The tract now reprinted marks a half-way stage, in subject as well as in date, between The Wonderfull Yeare 1603 and the most famous of Dekker's prose pieces, The Guls H om booke. The descriptions of the Plague in The Wonderfull Yeare have a command of anecdote which can hardly be expected at a distance from the event; there are ghastly things to be found in The Seven Deadly Sinnes, but they are not so thick-coming and absorbing, and their interest is one among many. The Guls Homebooke, on the other hand, has the sole object of ridiculing the extravagances of the man about town and the life of public places in I609, and the task is joyously performed, with an unrivalled wealth of detail, In The Seven Deadly Sinnes Dekker had other game in View. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Sermons on the Seven Deadly Sins, and the Different Sins Against God and Our Neighbor Which Flow Therefrom, Vol. 2

Author : Francis Hunolt
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260283177
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Sermons on the Seven Deadly Sins, and the Different Sins Against God and Our Neighbor Which Flow Therefrom, Vol. 2 written by Francis Hunolt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-04 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sermons on the Seven Deadly Sins, and the Different Sins Against God and Our Neighbor Which Flow Therefrom, Vol. 2: Adapted to All the Sundays and Holydays of the Year Sic habet ingratos quasi ignotos; ubi sunt, inquirit Dominus. 9 Vias enim obstruit gratim. Et ubi fuerit illa. Jam gratia accessum non invenit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Seven Cardinal Sins, Vol. 4 of 5

Author : Eugene Sue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781333028701
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book The Seven Cardinal Sins, Vol. 4 of 5 written by Eugene Sue and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Seven Cardinal Sins, Vol. 4 of 5: Avarice, Anger One fine morning in the month Of May, 18 a young girl about eighteen years Of age, who was clad in working dress, and whose charming though melancholy face wore that peculiar pallor which seems to be a sort of sinister re ection of poverty, was walking thought fully down the Charnier des Innocents. Several times she paused as if in doubt in front Of as many scriveners' booths, but either because the proprietors seemed too young or too unprepossessing in appearance or too busy, she went slowly on again. Seeing, in the doorway of the last booth, an Old man with a face as good and kind as it was venerable, the young girl did not hesitate to enter the modest little establishment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

The Seven Cardinal Sins

Author : Eugene Sue
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364469989
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (699 download)

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Download or read book The Seven Cardinal Sins written by Eugene Sue and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Seven Cardinal Sins: Indolence Envy IN the year 1828 any tourist who was on his way from Blois to the little town of Pont Brillant to visit - as travellers seldom fail to do - the famous castle of that name, the magnificent feudal abode of the Marquises Pont Brillant, would have been obliged to pass a farm house standing near the edge of the road, about two miles from the chateau. If this lonely dwelling attracted the attention of the traveller, he would have been almost certain to have regarded it with mingled melancholy and disgust as one of the too numerous Specimens of hideous rural archi tecture in France, even when these habitations belong to persons possessed of a competence. This establishment consisted of a large barn and storehouse, with two long wings in the rear. The interior of the sort of parallelo gram thus formed served as a courtyard, and was filled with piles of manure rotting in pools of stagnant water, for cow, horse, and sheep stables all opened into this enclosure, where all sorts of domestic animals, from poultry to hogs, were scratching and rooting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Doctor of Thessaly

Author : Anne Zouroudi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408821273
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Doctor of Thessaly written by Anne Zouroudi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ENVY, REVENGE AND RETRIBUTION IN THE THRILLING NEW INSTALMENT OF THE MYSTERIES OF THE GREEK DETECTIVE SERIES My first question must be, why do you want no investigation? If some malicious person has robbed you - as you believe - of your precious sight, why do you not want that person caught, tried and punished for their crime? A jilted bride weeps on an empty beach, a local doctor is attacked in an isolated churchyard - trouble has come at a bad time to Morfi, just as the backwater village is making headlines with a visit from a government minister. Fortunately, where there's trouble there's Hermes Diaktoros, the mysterious fat man whose tennis shoes are always pristine and whose methods are always unorthodox. Hermes must solve a brutal crime, thwart the petty machinations of the town's ex-mayor and pour oil on the troubled waters of a sisters' relationship - but how can he solve a mystery that not even the victim wants to be solved'...

The Seven Deadly Sins

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047429451
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Seven Deadly Sins written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-03-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a selection of essays undertaken by participants in an NEH Summer Seminar in 2004 on the topic of the seven deadly sins, viewed individually and as a whole, as part of the Begriffsgeschichte of the Middle Ages and beyond in which concepts are constructed within the cultural milieus in which they function. The essays in the first part study the political and social ethics of medieval communities. In the second part, the institutional imperatives within the Church of formulating and teaching about the capital vices are the focus of research. In the final section, the contributions deal with ways in which secular artists and authors (in particular, Dante) contribute to the cultural construction of the vices. Contributors include: Dwight D. Allman, Bridget K. Balint, V. S. Benfell III, Dallas G. Denery II, Laura D. Gelfand, Susan E. Hill, Holly Johnson, Hilaire Kallendorf, John Kitchen, Rhonda L. McDaniel, Richard Newhauser, Thomas Parisi, and Derrick G. Pitard.

Lust

Author : Simon Blackburn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195347544
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Lust written by Simon Blackburn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-12 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lust, says Simon Blackburn, is furtive, headlong, always sizing up opportunities. It is a trail of clothing in the hallway, the trashy cousin of love. But be that as it may, the aim of this delightful book is to rescue lust "from the denunciations of old men of the deserts, to deliver it from the pallid and envious confessor and the stocks and pillories of the Puritans, to drag it from the category of sin to that of virtue." Blackburn, author of such popular philosophy books as Think and Being Good, here offers a sharp-edged probe into the heart of lust, blending together insight from some of the world's greatest thinkers on sex, human nature, and our common cultural foibles. Blackburn takes a wide ranging, historical approach, discussing lust as viewed by Aristophanes and Plato, lust in the light of the Stoic mistrust of emotion, and the Christian fear of the flesh that catapulted lust to the level of deadly sin. He describes how philosophical pessimists like Schopenhauer and Sartre contributed to our thinking about lust and explores the false starts in understanding lust represented by Freud, Kinsey, and modern "evolutionary psychology." But most important, Blackburn reminds us that lust is also life-affirming, invigorating, fun. He points to the work of David Hume (Blackburn's favorite philosopher) who saw lust not only as a sensual delight but also "a joy of the mind." Written by one of the most eminent living philosophers, attractively illustrated and colorfully packaged, Lust is a book that anyone would lust over.