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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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The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Immortal Memories
by Clement King Shorter
Tropic Days
by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry
by Walter Pater
If I May
by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 04
by Michel de Montaigne
Angling Sketches
by Andrew Lang
Quotes and Images From The Works of William Dean Howells
by William Dean Howells
Four American Leaders
by Charles William Eliot
Some Causes of the Prevailing Discontent
by Charles Dudley Warner
Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
Remarks of Mr. Calhoun of South Carolina on the bill to prevent the interference of certain federal officers in elections: delivered in the Senate of the United States February 22, 1839
by John C. (John Caldwell) Calhoun
Scientific Essays and Lectures
by Charles Kingsley
The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act An Appeal To The Legislators Of Massachusetts, Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 9
by Lydia Maria Child
The Conflict with Slavery Part 1 from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII
by John Greenleaf Whittier
International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850
by Various Authors
D. E. D. Europaeuksen kirjeitä ja matkakertomuksia
by D. E. D. (David Emanuel Daniel) Europaeus
Kirjoja ja kirjailijoita I
by Veikko Antero Koskenniemi
The Poetics of Aristotle
by Aristotle
Essays — First Series
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau
Mosses from an old manse
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
by Thomas Carlyle
A Message to Garcia Being a Preachment
by Elbert Hubbard
Essays and Lectures
by Oscar Wilde
George Cruikshank's Omnibus
by George Cruikshank
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
by Horace Walpole
The works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A., Vol. 1 (of 6) : Containing all his sermons and tracts, etc.
by George Whitefield
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Europe After 8:15
by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken, George Jean Nathan, Willard Huntington Wright
America To-day, Observations and Reflections
by William Archer
The Silent Isle
by Arthur Christopher Benson
Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes
by J. M. Judy
Idle Ideas in 1905
by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845
by Various Authors
Why we are at war : messages to the Congress, January to April 1917
by Woodrow Wilson
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 14 (of 20)
by Charles Sumner
State of the Union Addresses
by Gerald R. Ford
Skönhet för alla: Fyra uppsatser
by Ellen Key
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847
by Various Authors
Books and Bookmen
by Ian Maclaren
Personal Sketches and Tributes Part 2 from Volume VI of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
by John Greenleaf Whittier
The Red Man's Rebuke
by Simon Pokagon
Oração funebre recitada nas exequias do Illm.^o e Exm.^o Sr. Pedro Alexandrino da Cunha
by António Augusto Teixeira de Vasconcelos
Schen: Studien aus einer chinesischen Weltstadt
by Fritz Secker
The Subjection of Women
by John Stuart Mill
Myths and Marvels of Astronomy
by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor
The Spectator, Volume 2.
by Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele
Excursions
by Henry David Thoreau
The Battle of the Books, and other Short Pieces
by Jonathan Swift
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2
by Isaac Disraeli
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Letters of Ambrose Bierce, With a Memoir by George Sterling
by Ambrose Bierce
Dionysius of Halicarnassus On Literary Composition Being the Greek Text of the De Compositione Verborum
by of Halicarnassus Dionysius
Idling in Italy: Studies of literature and of life
by Joseph Collins
Hours in a Library, Volume 1 New Edition, with Additions
by Leslie Stephen
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 2
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909
by Ambrose Bierce
Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Letters to Dead Authors
by Andrew Lang
Fresh Leaves
by Fanny Fern
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 01
by Michel de Montaigne
The Treasure of the Humble
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society
by George Borrow
Anecdotes about Authors, and Artists
by John Timbs
Actes et Paroles, Volume 1
by Victor Hugo
Daniel Webster for Young Americans Comprising the greatest speeches of the defender of the Constitution
by Daniel Webster
Cambridge Pieces
by Samuel Butler
Selections from Previous Works With Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals, and a Psalm of Montreal
by Samuel Butler
Autels privilégiés
by comte de Robert Montesquiou-Fézensac
Dr. Teodoro Herzl Discorso Commemorativo tenuto in Trieste la sera del 12 Luglio 1904
by Dante A. Lattes
A Belated Guest (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
by William Dean Howells
Minerva oscura Prolegomeni: la costruzione morale del poema di Dante
by Giovanni Pascoli
Commercialism and Journalism
by Hamilton Holt
Beobachtungen über Oesterreichs Aufklärung und Litteratur
by Aloys Blumauer
The Real Question as to Altar Lights Christ's Body Present by Consecration, and Offered in the Sacrament of the Altar: A Letter to the Rev. John W.H. Molyneux
by Edward James Phipps
War and the Weird
by Forbes Phillips, R. Thurston (Robert Thurston) Hopkins
Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England
by John Milton
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
by Michel de Montaigne, Immanuel Kant, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Giuseppe Mazzini, Ernest Renan, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Friedrich Schiller
Man's Place in Nature, and Other Essays
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia.
by R. W. (Richard William) Church, Dante Alighieri
Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters A Selection from His Correspondence with Boccaccio and Other Friends, Designed to Illustrate the Beginnings of the Renaissance
by Francesco Petrarca
Man in the Iron Mask (an Essay)
by Alexandre Dumas
The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II
by Thomas De Quincey
Musicians of to-day
by Romain Rolland
Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
by Edmund Gosse
Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Works
by William Dean Howells
President Wilson's Addresses
by Woodrow Wilson
Hours in a Library, Volume 2 New Edition, with Additions
by Leslie Stephen
Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hunting Sketches
by Anthony Trollope
Among My Books. Second Series
by James Russell Lowell
Historical Lectures and Essays
by Charles Kingsley
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 63, No. 392, June, 1848
by Various Authors
Rizal sa Harap ng Bayan Talumpating Binigkas sa Look ng Bagumbayan
by Pilar J. Lazaro Hipolito
State of the Union Addresses
by William McKinley