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Excerpt from Brief Remarks on English Manners: And an Attempt to Account for Some of Our Most Striking Peculiarities;...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Works and Correspondence, Vol. 2 of 8: The Right Honourable Edmund Burke; A New Edition August...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Sir Thomas More, Vol. 2 of 2: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society Of too many of...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Fool, Vol. 2: Being a Collection of Essays and Epistles, Moral, Political, Humourous, and Entertaining,...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Ordeal of Mark Twain What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life of Gilbert Wakefield, B. A: Late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge TH E malice...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis: Translated Into English Verse He had gone with Bamfylde Moore...  Read More >>

Excerpt from A History of German Literature IN writing this volume, it was my task to compress more than a thousand...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Notes From the 'News' IN all middle-class households, where there are boys, the subject which to-day...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Lost Art of Conversation: Selected Essays IT his volume brings together - and it is Odd they have...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Three Dialogues: Concerning Liberty I begged he would proceed; for that I knew of none more likely...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Manchester Quarterly, Vol. 26: A Journal of Literature and Art Giggleswick, embosomed in greenery...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Round Table Series It may perhaps be well to emphasise the fact here, that there is no attempt...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Intensive Studies in American Literature Every teacher of literature knows how often students come...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Description des Manuscrits Fran ais du Moyen ge de la Biblioth que Royale de Copenhague La biblioth...  Read More >>

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Excerpt from The Projector, Vol. 2 of 3: A Collection of Essays, in the Manner of the Spectator, Originally Published...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Last Scratch an Octogenarian Pen The idea of a Series of Volumes, containing reprints of Essays,...  Read More >>

Excerpt from An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Denmark That there are gaps and errors, I am well aware....  Read More >>

Excerpt from Beacon Lights of History, Vol. 7: Great Women Contrast of Maintenon with Montespan Friendship of the...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Quaker's Reply to the Country Parson's Plea, Against the Quakers Bill for Tythes I will acknowledge...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Lover, Written in Imitation of the Tatler The delineation of a lover, the model as he {conceived...  Read More >>

Excerpt from On Life and Letters Elea has demonstrated that the flying arrow is motionless. One might also prove...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Classical Review, 1915, Vol. 29 I would go further and strike out phiiopatris as a personal name...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 47: For January May, 1828 Aa'r. L - l Poetical Works...  Read More >>