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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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Irvin Cobb, His Book: Friendly Tributes upon the Occasion of a Dinner Tendered to Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, April Twenty-Fifth, MCMXV

by Various Authors

Labors in the Vineyard Twelfth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-Day Saints.

by Various Authors

Defensa obligada contra acusaciones gratuitas

by Bernardino Nozaleda

Sämmtliche Werke 8: Briefwechsel II, Hans Küchelgarten Briefwechsel II / Die Beichte des Dichters / Betrachtungen über die Heilige Liturgie / Jugendschriften / Fragmente / Hans Küchelgarten

by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 24, Vol. I, June 14, 1884

Substance of a Sermon on the Bible Society preached at Beccles, October 29th, and at St. Mary's Church Bungay, on Friday, Dec. 1st, 1815

by Francis Cunningham

Trotwood's Monthly, Vol. II, No. 3, June, 1906

by Various Authors

Nagyokról és kicsinyekről

by Károly Eötvös

A letter to the Rev. Charles N. Wodehouse, Canon of Norwich, occasioned by his recent publication, entitled, "What is the meaning of Subscription?" with a few observations on the speech &c. of the Lord Bishop of Norwich, on Subscription

by Charles Campbell

Over literatuur Critisch en didactisch

by M. H. Van Campen

Magyar írók: Irodalmi arcképek és tollrajzok

by Aladár Schöpflin

The Yale Literary Magazine (Vol. I, No. 2, March 1836)

by Various Authors

Emlékbeszédek (2. kötet)

by Pál Gyulai

Pilaesitelmiä

by Heikki Lehmus

I marginalen

by Olaf Homén

The London Mercury, Vol. I, Nos. 1-6, November 1919 to April 1920

by Various Authors

The Oxford Book of American Essays

Benjamin Franklin : Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes

by Benjamin Franklin

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843

by Various Authors

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics

by Various Authors

Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume I)

by Martin Luther

The Collector Essays on Books, Newspapers, Pictures, Inns, Authors, Doctors, Holidays, Actors, Preachers

by Henry T. (Henry Theodore) Tuckerman

The Borzoi 1920 : Being a sort of record of five years' publishing

by Inc. Alfred A. Knopf

The Library and Society: Reprints of Papers and Addresses

The Little Review, September 1914 (Vol. 1, No. 6)

by Various Authors

Letters from Spain

by Joseph Blanco White

Is The Bible Worth Reading, and Other Essays

by L. K. (Lemuel Kelley) Washburn

Diccionario de João Fernandes Lições de lingua portugueza pelos processos novos ao alcance de todas as classes de Portugal e Brazil

by Francisco Gomes de Amorim

Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 6: Harriet Martineau

by John Morley

Analectabiblion, Tome 2 (of 2) ou extraits critiques de divers livres rares, oubliés ou peu connus

by Auguste François Louis Scipion de Grimoard Beauvoir Du Roure

Our Lady Saint Mary

by J. G. H. (Joseph Gayle Hurd) Barry

Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs

by Robert Green Ingersoll

Orígenes de la novela, Tomo I

by Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo

Tom Watson's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 2, April 1905

by Various Authors

Birds and All Nature, Vol. 5, No. 5, May 1899 Illustrated by Color Photography

by Various Authors

In Times Like These

by Nellie L. McClung

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852

by Various Authors

The Witch Doctor and other Rhodesian Studies

by Frank Worthington

The scrap book, Volume 2, No. 2

by Various Authors

Freedom Through Disobedience

by Chitta Ranjan Das

The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 6, December 1837

by Various Authors

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics

by Various Authors

Die doppelköpfige Nymphe Aufsätze über die Literatur und die Gegenwart

by Kasimir Edschmid

Finger Posts on the Way of Life

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

The Fantasy Fan, Volume 2, Number 4, December 1934

by Various Authors

The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 3, September 1843

by Various Authors

Notes and Queries, Number 56, November 23, 1850

by Various Authors

The Pansy Magazine, May 1886

by Various Authors

Notes and Queries, Number 17, February 23, 1850

by Various Authors

Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century

by Caroline Frances Cornwallis

Professor Royce's Libel A Public Appeal for Redress to the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard University

by Francis Ellingwood Abbot

The Bible, King James version, Book 50: Philippians

by Anonymous

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 359, November 13, 1886

by Various Authors

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 28, 1891

by Various Authors

The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 2, August 1843

by Various Authors

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 14, 1891

by Various Authors

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 6, 1892

by Various Authors

The Yale Literary Magazine (Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 3, December 1922)

by Various Authors

Notes and Queries, Number 174, February 26, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

by Various Authors

Three Addresses to Girls at School

by J. M. (James Maurice) Wilson

The Romantic Scottish Ballads: Their Epoch and Authorship

by Robert Chambers

A Jayhawker in Europe

by W. Y. (William Yoast) Morgan

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 388, September 5, 1829

by Various Authors

L'umorismo

by Luigi Pirandello

There is No Harm in Dancing

by W. E. (William Evander) Penn

Sphinx Vespiformis: An Essay

by Edward Newman

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 107, October 20, 1894

by Various Authors

Graham's Magazine, Vol. XIX, No. 1, July 1841

by Various Authors

Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850

by Various Authors

Silver Links A collection of salutatory, valedictory and other addresses delivered at the first five commencements of the female stenographic and typewriting class of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York

Op de Levensreis

by J. A. (Jan Anthony) Cramer, J. H. (Jan Hendrik) Gerretsen, Frank van Gheel-Gildemeester, P. J. Molenaar, J. C. Schuller, Hendrik Anne Constantijn Snethlage, A. J. A. Vermeer, W. L. Welter