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  • In 1851, Schopenhauer published a set of assorted philosophical reflections, entitled Parerga and Paralipomena, and within a couple of years, he began to receive the philosophical recognition for which he had long hoped.

    Arthur Schopenhauer Wicks, Robert 2007

  • The custom of having these "Parerga" was kept up in the succeeding volumes; there was even an entire volume, the "Propylaeum ad tomos Maii", filled with notes of Papebroch on the chronology and history of the popes from St. Peter to Innocent XI.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • In conduct these ends had been attained; but the difficulty of making his Key to all Mythologies unimpeachable weighed like lead upon his mind; and the pamphlets -- or "Parerga" as he called them -- by which he tested his public and deposited small monumental records of his march, were far from having been seen in all their significance.

    Middlemarch 1871

  • In conduct these ends had been attained; but the difficulty of making his Key to all Mythologies unimpeachable weighed like lead upon his mind; and the pamphlets -- or "Parerga" as he called them -- by which he tested his public and deposited small monumental records of his march, were far from having been seen in all their significance.

    Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900) 1871

  • In conduct these ends had been attained; but the difficulty of making his Key to all Mythologies unimpeachable weighed like lead upon his mind; and the pamphlets -- or "Parerga" as he called them -- by which he tested his public and deposited small monumental records of his march, were far from having been seen in all their significance.

    Middlemarch George Eliot 1849

  • Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga und Paralipomena: kleine philosophische Schriften, vol.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga und Paralipomena: kleine philosophische Schriften, vol.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • “The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics,” and ten years later Parerga und Paralipomena the composition of which had engaged his attention for five or six years.

    Essays of Schopenhauer 2004

  • To Dr. Gwinner, on the evening of the 18th September, when he expressed a hope that he might be able to go to Italy, he said that it would be a pity if he died now, as he wished to make several important additions to his Parerga; he spoke about his works and of the warm recognition with which they had been welcomed in the most remote places.

    Essays of Schopenhauer 2004

  • It forms part of a chapter in the Parerga entitled Den Intellekt überhaupt und in jeder Beziehung betreffende Gedanken: Anhang verwandter Stellen.

    The Art of Literature 2004

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