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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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Notes and Queries, Number 48, September 28, 1850
by Various Authors
Platonism in English poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
by John Smith Harrison
Government and Rebellion A Sermon Delivered in the North Broad Street Presbyterian Church, Sunday Morning, April 28, 1861
by E. E. (Ezra Eastman) Adams
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 350, January 3, 1829
by Various Authors
An apology for the study of northern antiquities
by Elizabeth Elstob
Out of Doors—California and Oregon
by J. A. (Jackson Alpheus) Graves
A Letter to the Society for the Suppression of Vice, on Their Malignant Efforts to Prevent a Free Enquiry After Truth and Reason
by Richard Carlile
The Land of Little Rain
by Mary Austin
The negro: the southerner's problem
by Thomas Nelson Page
The historical novel : An essay
by Herbert Butterfield
Everyday Americans
by Henry Seidel Canby
Why not? A book for every woman
by Horatio Robinson Storer
Benjamin Franklin and the First Balloons
by Benjamin Franklin
My Literary Passions
by William Dean Howells
The Duty of American Women to Their Country
by Catharine Esther Beecher
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 584. (Supplement to Vol. 20)
by Various Authors
Letters from the peninsula, 1808-1812
by Sir William Warre
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 365, April 11, 1829
by Various Authors
My Summer with Dr. Singletary Part 2 from Volume V of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
by John Greenleaf Whittier
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Birds and Nature Vol. 11 No. 4 [April 1902] Illustrated by Color Photography
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 488, May 7, 1831
by Various Authors
The White Mr. Longfellow (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
by William Dean Howells
Propos de ville et propos de théâtre
by Henri Murger
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 8, August, 1880
by Various Authors
Briefe Schillers und Goethes an A. W. Schlegel Aus den Jahren 1795 bis 1801, und 1797 bis 1824, nebst einem Briefe Schlegels an Schiller
by Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Art of Story-Telling, with nearly half a hundred stories
by Julia Darrow Cowles
The Glebe 1914/04 (Vol. 2, No. 1): Collects
by Horace Traubel
Spicilège
by Marcel Schwob
The Hero in Man
by George William Russell
Die Moral des Hotels: Tischgespräche
by Paul Vehling
Sermons by the late Rev. Richard de Courcy
by Richard De Courcy
Vinte Annos de Vida Litteraria
by Alberto Pimentel
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 25
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Scenes and Portraits
by Frederic Manning
Where the Sabots Clatter Again
by Katherine Shortall
Is the Morality of Jesus Sound? A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society
by M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) Mangasarian
American Literary Centers (from Literature and Life)
by William Dean Howells
Kontrovers-Predigt über H. Clauren und den Mann im Mond Gehalten vor dem deutschen Publikum in der Herbstmesse 1827
by Wilhelm Hauff
Moderne Probleme
by Eduard von Hartmann
Shakespeare und die Bacon-Mythen
by Kuno Fischer
Cours familier de Littérature - Volume 28
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 50, Vol. I, December 13, 1884
by Various Authors
Le Double Jardin
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Paris tel qu'il est
by Jules Noriac
The Spirit Proper to the Times A Sermon preached in King's Chapel, Boston, Sunday, May 12, 1861
by James Walker
Über die Vulkane im Monde
by Immanuel Kant
Félicité: Étude sur la poésie de Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
by comte de Robert Montesquiou-Fézensac
Notes sur Londres
by Brada
The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; With Notes
by King of England Henry VIII
Pipefuls
by Christopher Morley
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators
by Elbert Hubbard
Wild Animals at Home
by Ernest Thompson Seton
Some Reminiscences of old Victoria
by Edgar Fawcett
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
by Various Authors
All Things Considered
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère
by Jean de La Bruyère
Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States
by Benjamin Harrison
Suspended Judgments: Essays on Books and Sensations
by John Cowper Powys
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III
by John Addington Symonds
The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
by Various Authors
Americanism
by Theodore Roosevelt
La guerre injuste: lettres d'un Espagnol
by Armando Palacio Valdés
Cargoes for Crusoes
by Grant M. (Grant Martin) Overton
古文觀止
by active 1695-1711 Chengquan Wu, active 1678-1695 Dazhi Wu
Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3 I. Prolegomena II. Achæis; or, the Ethnology of the Greek Races
by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone
The women novelists
by R. Brimley (Reginald Brimley) Johnson
The Letters of Robert Burns
by Robert Burns
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler
by Samuel Johnson
Delusion and Dream : an Interpretation in the Light of Psychoanalysis of Gradiva
by Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Jensen
Evolution and Ethics, and Other Essays
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Partial Portraits
by Henry James
The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years
by Elizabeth Atkins
Notes on Life & Letters
by Joseph Conrad
Herzl-Worte
by Theodor Herzl
Novanglus, and Massachusettensis or, Political Essays, Published in the Years 1774 and 1775, on the Principal Points of Controversy, between Great Britain and Her Colonies
by John Adams, Daniel Leonard
Anton Tchekhov, and Other Essays
by Lev Shestov
Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems
by Ben Jonson
Lettres à une inconnue, Tome Deuxième Précédée d'une étude sur P. Mérimée par H. Taine
by Prosper Mérimée
Imaginations and Reveries
by George William Russell
Anima Poetæ
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
by August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches
by Edmund Burke
A Book of Burlesque: Sketches of English Stage Travestie and Parody
by William Davenport Adams
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1
by da Vinci Leonardo
Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. I.
by Plutarch
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 8 (of 8) Discoveries. Edmund Spenser. Poetry and Tradition; and Other Essays. Bibliography
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
An Essay Upon Projects
by Daniel Defoe
Notes on Novelists, with Some Other Notes
by Henry James