Robert Burns - Collected Poems Of Robert Burns

This a collection of poetry by the famous Scottish poet Robert Burns, who was renowned for his poetic and song writing abilities and is often regarded as one of the pivotal, figures in Scottish literature. Burns wrote many of his works in the Scots dialect which has its origins in the Scottish Lowlands. It is a Germanic language with elements of Dutch thanks to the trade links in Edinburgh. Burns wrote in Scots and he also wrote in English. He is known for having one of the biggest vocabularies of any poet. He swore his allegiance to the Jacobite cause and was a noted Scottish nationalist and is a well quoted figure as well as having penned the song that people all over the world sing at New Year's, the famous song ''Auld Lang Syne''. 

Thomas Hobbes - On The Citizen (De Cive)

Thomas Hobbes' main concepts were that people in the ''State of Nature'', were without law and rowdy and violent. He was himself writing in very violent times also and this needs to be taken into account. His theory is identified by having emphasis on a strong state, and that man in his nature cannot be trusted, and that man is selfish. Hobbes also had a belief in what he calls the ''Self Preservation Theory'', which he believes every person, man and woman is defined by the idea that they do everything and anything to preserve their own life from the consequence of death. De Cive was published by Hobbes when he was aged 54. He had a lot of his work published later on in his life, and he himself lived to a fine age of 91.