Voices In Time Scandal 1664 | Paris Secret Sinning Is No Sin at All Molière on the glory of not getting caught.More
Voices In Time Youth 1688 | France Little Monsters Idleness, indolence, and laziness, vices so natural to children, disappear as soon as they begin to play.More
Voices In Time Family 1625 | London Hostage Situation Francis Bacon compares marriage with the single life.More
Voices In Time Disaster 1666 | London Annus Horribilis Edward Hyde looks at what’s left after the fire.More
Voices In Time Ways of Learning 1644 | London Misspent Youth John Milton repairs the ruins of education.More
Voices In Time Foreigners c. 1640 | Wendake In One of Dante’s Rings John Boyden sizes up the spiritual differences between Jesuits and natives.More
Voices In Time Discovery 1666 | Blazing World Seeing Is Believing Margaret Cavendish delights in artificial delusions.More
Voices In Time Book of Nature c. 1670 | Massachusetts Bay Colony More Heaven than Earth “No winter and no night.”More
Voices In Time Revolutions 1620 | London The Scientific Method Francis Bacon’s inductive reasoning.More
Voices In Time Ways of Learning 1621 | Oxford Homers Without an Achilles Great men have always depended on the kindness of scholars.More
Voices In Time Lines of Work 1621 | Oxford The Devil’s Tools Robert Burton on the disease of idleness.More
Voices In Time Intoxication c. 1628 | Merrymount Lord of Misrule A few unruly Puritans pursue everlasting jollity.More