Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 02
Michel de Montaigne Editor
CHAPTER II OF SORROW No man living is more free from this passion than I, who yet neither like it in myself nor admire it in others, and yet generally the world, as a settl
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Michel de Montaigne Editor
CHAPTER II OF SORROW No man living is more free from this passion than I, who yet neither like it in myself nor admire it in others, and yet generally the world, as a settl
Michel de Montaigne
Translated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazlitt
Havelock Ellis
By Havelock Ellis CONTENTS I — INTRODUCTION II — EVOLUTION AND WAR III — WAR AND EUGENICS IV — MORALITY IN WARFARE V — IS W
Robert Louis Stevenson
CONTENTS PAGE On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature 3 The Morality of the Profession of Letters 47 Books which have Influenced Me
Andrew Lang Compiler
PREFACE Of the following essays, five are new, and were written for this volume. They are the paper on Mr. R. L. Stevenson, the “Letter to a Young Journalist,” the study of Mr.
Alice Meynell
CERES’ RUNAWAY One can hardly be dull possessing the pleasant imaginary picture of a Municipality hot in chase of a wild crop—at least while the charming quarry escapes, as it d
Walter Pater
By WALTER HORATIO PATER NOTES BY THE E-TEXT EDITOR: E-text Editor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Electronic Version 1.0 / Date 10-12-01 Reliability: Although I
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I. HISTORY II. SELF-RELIANCE III. COMPENSATION IV. SPIRITUAL LAWS V. LOVE VI. FRIENDSHIP VII. PRUDENCE VIII. HEROISM IX. THE OVER-SOUL X. CIRCLES XI. INTELLECT
Ralph Waldo Emerson
SELECTED AND EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY EDNA H.L. TURPIN, AUTHOR OF "STORIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY," "CLASSIC FABLES," "
Charles Ives
TABLE OF CONTENTS: BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH INTRODUCTORY FOOTNOTE BY CHARLES IVES INTRODUCTION I—PROLOGUE II—EMERSON III—HAWTHORNE IV—"THE ALCOTTS" V
Joseph Addison Editor
INTRODUCTION. The sixty-fourth volume of this Library contains those papers from the Tatler which were especially associated with the imagined character of Isaac Bickerstaff, w
Oscar Wilde
p. viiCONTENTS PAGE THE RISE OF HISTORICAL CRITICISM 1 THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE OF ART 109 HOUSE DECORATION 157 ART AND THE HANDICRAFT
428? BCE-348? BCE Plato
APPENDIX II. The two dialogues which are translated in the second appendix are not mentioned by Aristotle, or by any early authority, and have no claim to be
Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
and David Widger, BOOK VIII. Whither come Wisdom's queen And the snare-weaving Love? EURIP. /Iphig. in Aul./ I. 1310. CHAPTER I. "Notitiam primo
Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
And to be rich is sweet?--EURIP. /Ion./, line 641. * * * 'Tis not to be endured, To yield our trodden path and turn aside, Giving our place to knaves.--/Ibid./, line 648
Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
The glare of noon--the rains and winds of heaven Mar not the calm yet virgin of all care. But ever with sweet joys it buildeth up The airy halls of life.” SOPH. _Trachim_
H. Rider Haggard
DEDICATION Madam, You have graciously conveyed to me the intelligence that during the weary weeks spent far from his home—in alternate hope and fear, in suffering and mor
Samuel Butler
CHAPTER I: UPS AND DOWNS OF FORTUNE—MY FATHER STARTS FOR EREWHON Before telling the story of my father’s second visit to the remarkable country which he discovered now some thirt
Samuel Butler
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION The Author wishes it to be understood that Erewhon is pronounced as a word of three syllables, all short—thus, Ĕ-rĕ-whŏn.
R. D. Blackmore
By R. D. Blackmore 1877 CONTENTS CHAPTER I -- A LOST LANDMARK CHAPTER II -- A PACIFIC SUNSET CHAPTER III -
Edward Bellamy
Preface. Looking Backward was a small book, and I was not able to get into it all I wished to say on the subject. Since it was published what was left out of it has loomed up
Charles Dudley Warner
"EQUALITY" By Charles Dudley Warner In accordance with the advice of Diogenes of Apollonia in the beginning of his treatise on Natural Philosophy—"It appears to me to be wel
Richard Harding Davis
CONTENTS Her First Appearance Van Bibber's Man Servant The Hungry Man was Fed Love Me, Love my Dog Her First Appearance It was at the end of the first
Alexander William Kinglake
CHAPTER I—OVER THE BORDER At Semlin I still was encompassed by the scenes and the sounds of familiar life; the din of a busy world still vexed and cheered me; the unveiled faces