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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 Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 6, December 1843
by Various Authors
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Discoveries: A Volume of Essays
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Letters to His Son, 1748 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
by Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Essays on Darwinism
by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
The Champagne Standard
by Mrs. John Lane
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 344 (Supplementary Issue)
by Various Authors
The Inhumanity of Socialism
by Edward F. (Edward Francis) Adams
The Balladists
by John Geddie
Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 132, May 8, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
The trail of the swinging lanterns : a racy, railroading review of transportation matters, methods and men
by John Morison Copeland
The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems
by Various Authors
Fígaro (Artículos selectos)
by Mariano José de Larra
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875
by Various Authors
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430 Volume 17, New Series, March 27, 1852
by Various Authors
The Little Review, August 1915 (Vol. 2, No. 5)
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 535, February 25, 1832
by Various Authors
The southern literary messenger, Vol. I., No. 12, August, 1835
by Various Authors
Souvenirs et correspondance tirés des papiers de Mme Récamier (1/2)
by Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard Récamier
Αι δύο διαθήκαι
by Polyvios Demetrakopoulos
Ignorant Essays
by Richard Dowling
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 3, No. 28, December, 1921 America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy
by Various Authors
Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion
by Francis Greenwood Peabody
This and That and the Other
by Hilaire Belloc
Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
The Critical Game
by John Albert Macy
Letters to His Son, 1752 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
by Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 356, February 14, 1829
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 285, December 1, 1827
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 528, January 7, 1832
by Various Authors
The Pansy Magazine, March 1886
by Various Authors
The Little Nightcap Letters
by Aunt Fanny
Good citizenship
by Grover Cleveland
Minerva e lo scimmione
by Ettore Romagnoli
Clergymen of the Church of England
by Anthony Trollope
A Sermon Preached on the Anniversary of the Boston Female Asylum for Destitute Orphans, September 25, 1835
by Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright
Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 5, November 1847
by Various Authors
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 8, Vol. I, February 23, 1884
by Various Authors
The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 10 (1820)
by Various Authors
Guelfos e Gibelinos: Tentativa critica sobre a actual polemica litteraria
by Eduardo Augusto Vidal
The Slavery Question Speech of Hon. John M. Landrum, of La., Delivered in the House of Representatives, April 27, 1860
by John M. (John Morgan) Landrum
Gwaith Alun
by John Blackwell
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1017, June 24, 1899
by Various Authors
Egalité des hommes et des femmes : A la Reyne
by Marie Le Jars de Gournay
George Borrow : A sermon preached in Norwich Cathedral on July 6, 1913
by H. C. (Henry Charles) Beeching
Sto jisker ethických
by Alexandr Batěk
Bible-Burning the substance of a sermon preached in St. Martin's Church, Birmingham, on Sunday evening, Dec. 10, 1848
by John C. (John Cale) Miller
An Address to the Sisters of St. Peter's Home, Brompton
by Edward Meyrick Goulburn
Pensées d'un mercanti
by Pierre Veber
Kaarlo Bergbomin kirjoitukset 2. Tutkimukset ja arvostelut
by Kaarlo Johan Bergbom
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
by Edward MacDowell
The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
by Various Authors
La copa de Verlaine
by Emilio Carrere
Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886
by Various Authors
The Symbolist Movement in Literature
by Arthur Symons
A Year in Europe
by Walter W. (Walter William) Moore
Masterpieces of the masters of fiction
by William Dudley Foulke
The Art of Being Happy In a Series of Letters from a Father to His Children: with Observations and Comments
by Joseph Droz
The Little Review, January-February 1916 (Vol. 2, No. 10)
by Various Authors
Rudyard Kipling
by John Palmer
Essays on Educational Reformers
by Robert Hebert Quick
A Hero and Some Other Folks
by William A. (William Alfred) Quayle
The Future Belongs to the People
by Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht
The Dixie Book of Days
by Matthew Page Andrews
Mediæval Byways
by L. F. (Louis Francis) Salzman
Graham's Magazine, Vol. XX, No. 6, June 1842
by Various Authors
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
The Cornhill Magazine (Vol. I, No. 3, March 1860)
by Various Authors
A Word to Women
by Mrs. Humphry
Widger's Quotes and Images from Zibeline by Phillipe de Massa The French Immortals: Quotes and Images
by marquis de Philippe Massa
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 273, September 15, 1827
by Various Authors
滄浪詩話
by active 12th century Yu Yan
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 330, September 6, 1828
by Various Authors
Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881
by Catherine Mumford Booth
Stevensoniana Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 363, March 28, 1829
by Various Authors
The Taylor-Trotwood Magazine, Vol. IV, No. 5, February 1907
by Various Authors
The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 02 (1820)
by Various Authors
As ratices da Rattazzi: O pello nacional
by Ramalho Monteiro
Bird Life Glimpses
by Edmund Selous
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 390, September 19, 1829
by Various Authors
Giardino di Ricreatione
by John Florio
The southern literary messenger, Vol. I., No. 2, October, 1834
by Various Authors
Sketches in Duneland
by Earl H. (Earl Howell) Reed
Entre o caffé e o cognac
by Alberto Pimentel
The Peril and the Preservation of the Home Being the William L. Bull Lectures for the Year 1903
by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
Voyage à Montbard
by Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles
The Yale Literary Magazine (Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 9, June 1923)
by Various Authors
Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 109, November 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
The Saturday Magazine, No. 66, July 1833
by Various Authors
The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 26, December 26, 1840
by Various Authors
The Book Collector
by Charles Nodier