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52 volume ; 21 cm. |
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I. Autobiography of B. Franklin, Journal of J. Woolman, Fruits of solitude -W. Penn.--II. Apology, Phaedo and Crito of Plato, Golden sayings of Epictetus, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.--III. Essays, civil and moral and the New Atlantis by Francis Bacon, Areopagitica and Tractate on Education by John Milton, Religio medici by Sir Thomas Browne.--IV. Complete poems of John Milton.--V. Essays and English traits by R.W. Emerson.--VI. The poems and songs of Robert Burns.--VII. Confessions of St. Augustine, Imitation of Christ by Thomas A Kempis.--VIII. Nine Greek dramas.--IX. Letters and treatises of Cicero and Pliny.--X. Wealth of nations by Adam Smith.--XI. Origin of species by Charles Darwin.--XII. Plutarch's Lives.--XIII. Virgil's Aeneid.--XIV. Don Quixote (first part) by Miguel de Cervantes.--XV. Pilgrim's progress by John Bunyan, Lives of John Donne and George Herbert by Izaak Walton.XVI. Stories from the Thousand and one nights.--XVII. Folk-lore and fable, Aesop, Grimm, Andersen.--XVIII. Modern English drama -Dryden, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Shelley, Browning, Byron.--XIX. Faust, Egmont, et cetera--XX. Divine comedy of Dante Alghieri.--XXI. I promessi sposi (The betrothed) by Alessandro Manzoni.--XXII. Odyssey by Homer.--XXIII. Two years before the mast and twenty-four years after by R. H. Dana, Jr.--XXIV. Edmund Burke on Taste, On the sublime and beautiful reflections on the French Revolution, A letter to a noble lord.--XXV. Autobiography, J.S. Mill.--XXVI. Continental drama -Calderon, Corneille, Racine, Moliere, Lessing, Schiller.--XXVII. English essays from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay.--XXVIII. Essays English and American.--XXIX. Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.--XXX. Scientific papers -Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology.--XXXI. Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini.--XXXII. Literary and philosophical essays, French, German, and Italian.--XXXIII. Voyages and travels ancient and modern.--XXXIV. French and English philosopher, Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes.--XXXV. Chronicle and romance - Froissart, Malory, Holinshed.--XXXVI. Machiavelli. More. Luther.XXXVII. English philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries - Locke, Berkeley, Hume.--XXXVIII. Scientific papers - Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology.--XXXIX. Prefaces and prologues to famous books.--XL. English poetry,Chaucer to Gray.--XLI. English poetry, from Collins to Fitzgerald.--XLII. English poetry, from Tennyson to Whitman.--XLIII. American historical documents 1000-1904.--XLIV. Sacred writings - Confucian, Hebrew, Christian.--XLV. Sacred writings - Christian (part 2), Buddhist, Hindu, Mohammedan.--XLVI. Elizabethan drama - Marlowe, Shakespeare.--XLVII. Elizabethan drama -Dekker, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Webster, Massinger.-- XLVIII. Blaise Pascal.-XLVIX.--Epic and saga.--L. Editor's introduction, reader's guide, index to the first lines of poems, songs and choruses, hymns and psalms, general index, chronological index.--LI. Lectures on the Harvard Classics. |
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Literature.
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Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926.
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Franklin, Benjamin, 1 06-1790.
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.
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Woolman, John, 1772.
Journal of John Woolman.
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Plato.
Apology.
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Epictetus.
Golden sayings of Epictetus.
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Penn, William, 1644-1718,
Fruits of solitude.
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Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 121-180.
Meditations. English.
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Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626,
Essays, civil and moral.
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Milton, John, 1608-1674.
Areopagitica. 1955.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882,
Essays and English traits.
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Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.
Religio medici.
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Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Poems (Kinsley)
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Thomas, à Kempis, 1380-1471.
Imitation of Christ.
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius,
Letters with his treatises on friendship and old age.
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Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations.
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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
On the origin of species.
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Plutarch,
Plutarch's lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alchibiades and Coriolanus, Demosthenes and Cicero, Caesar and Anthony.
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Virgil.
Aeneid.
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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616,
First part of the delightful history of the most ingenius knight Don Quioxote of the Mancha.
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Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.
Pilgrim's progress.
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Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683,
Lives of John Donne and George Herbert.
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Aesop,
Folklore and fable.
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Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863.
Folklore and fable.
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Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859.
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Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875,
Folklore and fable.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832,
Faust, Part I, Egmont, Hermann and Dorothea.
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Manzoni, Allesandro, 1785-1873.
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Homer.
Odyssey.
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Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., 1815-1882,
Two years before the mast.
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Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797,
On taste, on the sublime and beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution, A letter to a noble lord.
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Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873,
Autobiography, essay on liberty.
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Machiavelli, Niccolo, 1469-1527.
Prince.
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More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535.
Utopia.
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Luther, Martin, 1483-1546,
Ninty-five theses, Address to the German nobility concerning Christian liberty.
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Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626,
New Atlantis.
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Milton, John, 1608-1674,
Tractate on education.
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Plato.
Phaedo.
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Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Confessiones. English.
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Divina commedia. English.
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Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893,
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini.
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Plato.
Crito.
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Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Characteristics.
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Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Inaugural address at Edinburgh.
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Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Essay on Scott.
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Scientific papers : physiology, medicine, surgery, geology.
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American historical documents ; 1000-1904.
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