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Essays, Letters & Speeches
Step into a shelf where ideas are weapons, wit is sharpened to a blade, and private letters open hidden doors into history. Here, revolutionaries, skeptics, statesmen, and artists argue over liberty, faith, society, and the self—through thunderous speeches, intimate correspondence, and essays that still spark debate. It’s a collection alive with conviction, controversy, and the electrifying sense that words can change the world.
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Frammenti letterari e filosofici
by da Vinci Leonardo
Baconian Essays
by active 19th century E. W. (Edward Walter) Smithson
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 11 (of 20)
by Charles Sumner
Widger's Quotations from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Editorial Wild Oats
by Mark Twain
Discipline and Other Sermons
by Charles Kingsley
The Education of American Girls
by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett
Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way
by William Pittenger
Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
by Various Authors
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics
by Various Authors
In the Wilderness
by Charles Dudley Warner
Philosophic Nights in Paris Being selections from Promenades Philosophiques
by Remy de Gourmont
Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
Conflict of Northern and Southern Theories of Man and Society Great Speech, Delivered in New York City
by Henry Ward Beecher
De profundis
by Oscar Wilde
A Christmas Sermon
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Destiny of Man, Viewed in the Light of His Origin
by John Fiske
A "Temporary Gentleman" in France
by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
The Shakespeare Myth
by Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
Lettres d'un voyageur
by George Sand
Female Suffrage: A Letter to the Christian Women of America
by Susan Fenimore Cooper
Some Roundabout Papers
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697)
by Samuel Wesley
Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846
by Various Authors
In a Green Shade: A Country Commentary
by Maurice Hewlett
England and the War
by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
The Eagle's Nest Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford, in Lent Term, 1872
by John Ruskin
May-Day, and Other Pieces
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2
by Thomas De Quincey
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
by Thomas De Quincey
The Sea Fogs
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848
by Various Authors
The Smiling Hill-Top, and other California sketches
by Julia M. (Julia Moss) Sloane
The clock that had no hands, and nineteen other essays about advertising
by Herbert Kaufman
Widger's Quotes and Images from L'Abbe Constantin by Ludovic Halévy The French Immortals: Quotes and Images
by Ludovic Halévy
Propos de peintre, deuxième série: Dates Précédé d'une Réponse à la Préface de M. Marcel Proust au De David à Degas
by Jacques-Émile Blanche
Painted Windows
by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln, Including the Lincoln-Douglas Debate
by Abraham Lincoln
Discourses of Keidansky
by Bernard G. Richards
Ethics in Service
by William H. (William Howard) Taft
Unparliamentary papers and other diversions
by Reginald Berkeley
London Impressions: Etchings and Pictures in Photogravure
by Alice Meynell
Our Unitarian Gospel
by Minot J. (Minot Judson) Savage
From the Easy Chair, Volume 3
by George William Curtis
Lettre à l'Empereur Alexandre sur la traite des noirs
by William Wilberforce
The Speeches (In Full) of the Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and William O'Brien, M.P., on Home Rule, Delivered in Parliament, Feb. 16 and 17, 1888.
by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone, William O'Brien
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 578, December 1, 1832
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 552, June 16, 1832
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 274, September 22, 1827
by Various Authors
Notes and Queries, Number 68, February 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850
by Various Authors
Au pays des pardons
by Anatole Le Braz
Etudes sur Aristophane
by Emile Deschanel
Chateaubriand et Madame de Custine: Episodes et correspondance inédite
by Émile Chédieu de Robethon, vicomte de François-René Chateaubriand, marquise de Delphine de Sabran Custine
Al mia fratineto: Letero pri la seksvivo
by Felix Ortt
A Bundle of Letters from over the Sea
by Louise B. Robinson
The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 3
by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell
Lectures on English poets
by James Russell Lowell
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 469, January 1, 1831
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 406, December 26, 1829
by Various Authors
Copy of Letters Sent to Great-Britain by His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, the Hon. Andrew Oliver, and Several Other Persons
by Thomas Hutchinson, Andrew Oliver
Correspondance, 1812-1876 — Tome 2
by George Sand
A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing
by Robert Bridges
Confessions of a Summer Colonist (from Literature and Life)
by William Dean Howells
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 551, June 9, 1832
by Various Authors
The cairn : A gathering of precious stones from many hands
by Lady Sarah Davison Nicolas
The Service
by Henry David Thoreau
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The Voice of Faith in the Valley of Achor: Vol. 1 [of 2] being a series of letters to several friends on religious subjects
by J. (John) Church
Bourdonnements
by Alphonse Karr
Sir Walter Scott: A Lecture at the Sorbonne
by W. P. (William Paton) Ker
The South and the National Government
by William H. (William Howard) Taft
The Mentor: American Novelists, Vol. 1, No. 25
by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Verfall und Triumph, Zweiter Teil: Versuche in Prosa
by Johannes Robert Becher
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 18
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Bom senso e bom gosto : resposta à carta que o sr. Antero de Quental dirigiu ao sr. Antonio Feliciano de Castilho Segunda edição augmentada e seguida de uma carta sabre o mesmo assumpto
by barão de Roussado Manuel Rousaddo
Banquet du 17 janvier 1841
by Andrzej Towianski
A voice from the fire : a sermon occasioned by the public burning of the Bible at Kingstown, by the Redemptorist Fathers, on the 5th of November, 1855
by Robert Wallace
Billy Baxter's Letters
by William J. Kountz
Kalevala katsottuna kaunotieteen kannalta
by Julius Krohn
Tarua ja totta elämästäni 1 : Kirjat I-V
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Muoto- ja muistikuvia I
by Eliel Aspelin-Haapkylä
Egy magános sétáló álmodozásai
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Anarchism and Other Essays
by Emma Goldman
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
by John Hill Burton
Pearls of Thought
by Maturin M. (Maturin Murray) Ballou
Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals
by Louisa May Alcott
Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes
by Peter Abelard, Héloïse
The Conduct of Life
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spare Hours
by John Brown
Mark Twain's Speeches
by Mark Twain
Philosophy and the Social Problem
by Will Durant
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844
by Various Authors
A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Free Press
by Hilaire Belloc