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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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Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 3, March 1886
by Various Authors
Elizabeth Montagu, the queen of the bluestockings, Volume 1 (of 2) : Her correspondence from 1720 to 1761
by Mrs. (Elizabeth) Montagu
Continuous Vaudeville
by Will M. (Will Martin) Cressy
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 13, 1892
by Various Authors
Briefe, Aufzeichnungen und Aphorismen. Erster Band
by Franz Marc
Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
Graham's Magazine, Vol. XL, No. 1, January 1852
by Various Authors
Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, March 1885
by Various Authors
Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
About The Holy Bible: A Lecture
by Robert Green Ingersoll
Door duisternis tot licht: Gedachten over en voor het Javaansche volk
by Raden Adjeng Kartini
Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850
by Various Authors
Le chat de misère: Idées et images
by Remy de Gourmont
Graham's Magazine, Vol. XX, No. 3, March 1842
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 264, July 14, 1827
by Various Authors
Poet-Lore: A Quarterly Magazine of Letters. April, May, June, 1900
by Various Authors
The southern literary messenger, Vol. I., No. 3, November, 1834
by Various Authors
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 January 11, 1890
by Various Authors
A discourse concerning ridicule and irony in writing (1729)
by Anthony Collins
Notes and Queries, Number 139, June 26, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams
by Pierre Nicole
Notes and Queries, Number 79, May 3, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
The Fantasy Fan, Volume 1, Number 12, August 1934 The Fan's Own Magazine
by Various Authors
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 108, March 9th 1895
by Various Authors
Eino Leino lyyrikkona
by Juhani Siljo
Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, September 3, 1887
by Various Authors
Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXIV, No. 2, February 1849
by Various Authors
The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866
by William Morley Punshon
Graham's Magazine, Vol. XIX, No. 4, October 1841
by Various Authors
The Unpopular Review, Vol. 2, No. 4, October-December 1914, including Vol. 2 Index
by Various Authors
Graham's Magazine, Vol. XX, No. 4, April 1842
by Various Authors
Liga Patriotica do Norte
by Antero de Quental
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828
by Various Authors
The Bible, King James version, Book 54: 1 Timothy
by Anonymous
On Singing and Music
by Society of Friends
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 327, August 16, 1828
by Various Authors
The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 15, October 10, 1840
by Various Authors
Kunst und Künstler Almanach 1909
by Various Authors
Camilleana Collecção das obras de Camillo Castello Branco
by João Xavier da Mota
The Duty of Submission to Civil Authority, A Sermon Preached in the Parish Church of Bradfield, Berkes, on Sunday, November 28, 1830, on Occasion of the Late Disturbances
by J. F. (John Frewen) Moor
Notes and Queries, Number 202, September 10, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
by Various Authors
Parks for the People Proceedings of a Public Meeting held at Faneuil Hall, June 7, 1876
by Various Authors
The highest aim of the physicist
by Henry Augustus Rowland
Notes sur Laclos et Les Liaisons Dangereuses
by Jacques de Boisjoslin, George Mossé
Bucolic Beatitudes
by MacGregor Jenkins
Reasons for joining the Norfolk & Norwich Protestant Association in a letter to a clerical friend
by William Hull
The Fly Leaf, No. 1, Vol. 1, December 1895 A Pamphlet Periodical of the New—the New Man, New Woman, New Ideas, Whimsies and Things
by Various Authors
Graham's Magazine, Vol. XVIII, No. 6, June 1841
by Various Authors
Kritikai dolgozatok, 1854-1861
by Pál Gyulai
Kurze Aufsätze
by Annette Kolb
Kuinka meistä tuli kirjailijoita: Suomalaisten kirjailijoiden nuoruudenmuistelmia
by Various Authors
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I
by Various Authors
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume II
by Various Authors
陶庵夢憶
by Dai Zhang
The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879
by Various Authors
Nether Lochaber The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West Highlands
by Rev. Alexander Stewart
Ce qu'il faut lire dans sa vie
by Henri Mazel
The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879
by Various Authors
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
American Big-Game Hunting: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club
by Boone and Crockett Club
Animaduersions uppon the annotacions and corrections of some imperfections of impressiones of Chaucer's workes 1865 edition
by Francis Thynne
The religion of Plutarch : A pagan creed of apostolic times
by John Oakesmith
Five Young Men: Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day
by Charles Reynolds Brown
Woman in the golden ages
by Amelia Gere Mason
The southern literary messenger, Vol. I., No. 13, September, 1835
by Various Authors
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, June, 1880
by Various Authors
Notes and Queries, Number 166, January 1, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
The Wings of Icarus: Being the Life of one Emilia Fletcher
by Laurence Alma-Tadema
Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books Paper for the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference, 2004
by Cory Doctorow
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 24, 1891
by Various Authors
Letters from the Holy Land
by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Southerden Thompson) Butler
The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol II. With A Supplement Of Interesting Letters By Distinguished Characters
by Viscount Horatio Nelson Nelson
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 723 November 3, 1877
by Various Authors
The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 1, July 1843
by Various Authors
Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850
by Various Authors
The Little Review, February 1915 (Vol. 1, No. 11)
by Various Authors
The southern literary messenger, Vol. I., No. 11, July, 1835
by Various Authors
Small Talk at Wreyland. Second Series
by Cecil Torr
Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851
by Various Authors
The Taylor-Trotwood Magazine, Vol. IV, No. 4, January 1907
by Various Authors
Independence: Rectorial address delivered at St. Andrews October 10, 1923
by Rudyard Kipling
Vagaries
by Axel Munthe
Ultimatum
by Alvaro de Campos
Holly berries from Dickens
by Charles Dickens
Crónicas imorais
by Albino Forjaz de Sampaio