“…General history of the vast continent and islands of America, commonly call'd the West-Indies, from the first discovery thereof: with the best accounts the people could give of their antiquities…”

Table of Contents: “…""Contents ""; ""PREFACE""; ""THE CHRISTIAN LIFE""; ""Introduction ""; ""Text ""; ""LYING""; ""Introduction ""; ""Text ""; ""AGAINST LYING""; ""Introduction ""; ""Text ""; ""CONTINENCE""; ""Introduction ""; ""Text ""; ""PATIENCE""; ""Introduction ""; ""Text ""; ""THE EXCELLENCE OF WIDOWHOOD""; ""Introduction ""; ""Text ""; ""THE WORK OF MONKS""; ""Introduction ""; ""Text ""; ""THE USEFULNESS OF FASTING""; ""Introduction ""; ""Text ""; ""THE EIGHT QUESTIONS OF DULCITIUS""; ""Introduction ""; ""Text ""; ""INDEX""…”
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Table of Contents: “…Seeking the southern continent --…”

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Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Gridding Europe's navel : Conrad Celtis's Quatuor libri amorum secundum quatuor latera Germanie -- A border studies manifesto : Maciej Miechowita's Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis -- The alpha and the alif : continental ambivalence in Geoffroy Tory's Champ fleury -- Syphilitic borders and continents in flux : Girolamo Fracastoro's Syphilis sive morbus gallicus -- Cartographic curses: Europe and the Ptolemaic poetics of Os Lusíadas (1572) -- Conclusion.…”

Table of Contents: “…Lying. Against lying. Continence. Patience. The excellence of widowhood. …”

Table of Contents: “…List of the God whose names were recited by the deceased to perfect his spirit-soul -- The abode of the blessed -- The gods of the book of the dead -- The principal geographical and mythological places in the book of the dead -- Funeral ceremonies -- The papyrus of ani, its date and continents -- Translation…”

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Table of Contents: “…That the celestial bodies make no impression on our intellects -- That the celestial bodies are not the causes of our acts of will and choice -- That the corporeal effects in things here below do not necessarily result from the celestial bodies -- That the motion of a celestial body is not the cause of our acts of choice by the power of its soul moving us, as some say -- That separate created substances cannot be directly the cause of our acts of choice and will, but only God -- That the movement of the will is caused by God and not only the power of the will -- That human acts of choice and of will are subject to divine providence -- How human events may be traced back to higher causes -- How a person is favored by fortune and how man is assisted by higher causes -- On fate: whether and what it is -- On the certainty of divine providence -- That the immutability of divine providence does not suppress the value of prayer -- That some prayers are not granted by God -- How the disposition of providence has a rational plan -- How God can act apart from the order of His providence, and how not -- That God can work apart from the order implanted in things, by producing effects without proximate causes -- That things which God does apart from the order of nature are not contrary to nature -- On miracles -- That God alone works miracles -- How spiritual substances do certain wonderful things which, however, are not truly miracles -- That the works of magicians are not solely due to the influence of celestial bodies -- Where the performances of the magicians get their efficacy -- That the intellectual substance which provides the efficacy for magic works is not morally good -- That the intellectual substance whose help the arts of magic use is not evil in its own nature -- Arguments whereby it seems to be proved that there can be no sin in demons -- That sin can occur in demons, and in what way -- Answer to the previous arguments -- That rational creatures are subject to divine providence in a special way -- That rational creatures are governed for their own sakes, while others are governed in subordination to them -- That the rational creature is directed by God to his actions not only by an ordering of the species, but also according to what befits the individual -- That laws are divinely given to man -- That the divine law principally orders man toward God -- That the end of divine law is the love of God -- That we are ordered by divine law to the love of neighbor -- That through divine law men are bound to the right faith -- That our mind is directed to God by certain sense objects -- That the cult proper to latria is to be offered to God alone -- That divine law orders man according to reason in regard to corporeal and sensible things -- The reason why simple fornication is a sin according to divine law, and that matrimony is natural -- That matrimony should be indivisible -- That matrimony should be between one man and one woman -- That matrimony should not take place between close relatives -- That not all sexual intercourse is sinful -- That the use of food is not a sin in itself -- How man is ordered by the law of God in regard to his neighbor -- That some human acts are right according to nature and not merely because they are prescribed by law -- On the counsels that are given in divine law -- On the error of the attackers of voluntary poverty -- On the ways of life of those who practice voluntary poverty -- In what way poverty is good -- Answers to the arguments brought forward above against poverty -- Answer to the objections against the different ways of life of those who embrace voluntary poverty -- On the error of those who attack perpetual continence -- Another error concerning perpetual continence -- Against those who attack vows -- That neither meritorious acts nor sins are equal -- That a man's acts are punished or rewarded by God -- On the diversity and order of punishments -- That not all rewards and punishments are equal -- On the punishment due to mortal and venial sin in relation to the ultimate end -- That by mortal sin a man is eternally deprived of his ultimate end -- That sins are punished also by the experience of something painful -- That it is lawful for judges to inflict punishments -- That man needs divine help to attain happiness -- That by the help of divine grace man is not forced toward virtue -- That man cannot merit divine help in advance -- That the aforesaid divine help is called grace, and what sanctifying grace is -- That sanctifying grace causes the love of God in us -- That divine grace causes faith in us -- That divine grace causes hope in us -- On the gifts of gratuitous grace, including a consideration of the divinations of demons -- That man needs the help of grace to persevere in the good -- That he who falls from grace through sin may again be restored through grace -- That man cannot be freed from sin except through grace -- How man is freed from sin -- That it is reasonable to hold a man responsible if he does not turn toward God, even though he cannot do this without grace -- That man in the state of sin, without grace, can not avoid sin -- That God frees some men from sin and leaves others in sin -- That God is not the cause of sin for any person -- On predestination, reprobation, and divine election.…”
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Table of Contents: “…CrueltyDeath ; The Death Penalty; Deceit; Decline; Desire; Despair; Discourse; Disease; Dishonesty; The End Result; Error; Fault; Fear; Flattery; Fraud; Glory; Goals; The Good and Goodness; Greatness of Soul; Growth; Hatred; History; Honesty; Horror; Humility; Imitation; Infamy; Ingratitude; Insolence; Love; The Mind; Miracles; New Ways, New Continents; Old Times; Opportunity; Order and Disorder; Passions and Their Remedies; Patriotism; Peace; Prudence; Punishment; Rebirth (Renaissance); Religion and the Reform of Religions; Saints; Science; Severity; Sin; Stupidity; Suspicion; Virtue.…”
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