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Autobiography (Vol. I, Ch. XIII-XIX), by Benvenuto Cellini
Introductory Note: George Berkeley
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (The Second Dialogue), by George Berkeley
Introductory Note: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust (Part I), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
First Charter of Virginia
Introductory Note: The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
The New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon
Introductory Note: Aeschylus
The Libation-Bearers (Part II), by Aeschylus
Introductory Note: William Wordsworth
Poems, by William Wordsworth
Introductory Note: Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (VII), by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Introductory Note: Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan (Ch. II & III), by Thomas Hobbes
Introductory Note: Oliver Goldsmith
She Stoops to Conquer (Act I), by Oliver Goldsmith
Introductory Note: Izaak Walton
The Life of Mr. George Herbert, by Izaak Walton
Introductory Note: Charles Darwin (#2)
The Voyage of the Beagle (Ch. XX), by Charles Darwin
Introductory Note: Robert Browning
Poems, by Robert Browning
The Life of Dr. Donne, by Izaak Walton
Introductory Note: Izaak Walton
I Promessi Sposi (Ch. 31), by Alessandro Manzoni
Introductory Note: Alessandro Manzoni
Introductory Note: The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs
The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs (Ch. 24-27)
Wealth of Nations (Book I, Ch. 1), by Adam Smith
Introductory Note: Robert Louis Stevenson
Truth of Intercourse, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Introductory Note: Æsop’s Fables
Æsop’s Fables, by Æsop
Introductory Note: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Act III), by William Shakespeare
Introductory Note: William Morris
The Defence of Guenevere, by William Morris
The Thousand and One Nights
Introductory Note: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust I (Scene 1), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Introductory Note: Virgil
The Æneid (Book VIII), by Virgil
Introductory Note: Voltaire
Letters on the English (Letters 15 & 16), by Voltaire
Introductory Note: Herodotus
An Account of Egypt (Sec. 9 & 10), by Herodotus
Introductory Note: Philip Massinger
A New Way to Pay Old Debts (Act I), by Philip Massinger
Introductory Note: Ernest Renan
The Poetry of the Celtic Races, by Ernest Renan
Introductory Note: Charles Darwin (#2)
The Voyage of the Beagle (Ch. XX), by Charles Darwin
Introductory Note: Plutarch
Parallel Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans (Cæsar), by Plutarch
Introductory Note: Sir Thomas Malory
The Holy Grail (Book 17, Ch. 10-14), by Sir Thomas Malory
I Promessi Sposi or The Betrothed (Ch. XX), by Alessandro Manzoni
Introductory Note: Alessandro Manzoni
The Second Dialogue, by George Berkeley
Introductory Note: George Berkeley
Compensation, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Introductory Note: Beaumont and Fletcher
Philaster (Act I), by Beaumont and Fletcher
Introductory Note: Jonathan Swift
A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding, by Jonathan Swift
Don Quixote (Vol. I, Part I, Ch. XXXIII), by Miguel de Cervantes
Introductory Note: Francis Bacon
Of Judicature, by Francis Bacon
Introductory Note: Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe
Autobiography (Vol. I, Ch. CVII-CXI), by Benvenuto Cellini
Introductory Note: William Penn
Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims, by William Penn
Introductory Note: The Life of Mr. George Herbert by Izaak Walton
The Life of Mr. George Herbert, by Izaak Walton
Introductory Note: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Two Years before the Mast (Ch. XVI), by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Introductory Note: Sir Richard Steele
The Spectator Club, by Sir Richard Steele
Introductory Note: Michel de Montaigne
Of the Institution and Education of Children, by Michel de Montaigne
Poems, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Introductory Note: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Introductory Note: Victor Hugo
Preface to Cromwell, by Victor Hugo
Introductory Note: Daniel Defoe
The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters, by Daniel Defoe
Introductory Note: John Milton
Poems (L’Allegro and Il Penseroso), by John Milton
Samuel Pepys, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Introductory Note: Robert Louis Stevenson
Ode for General Washington’s Birthday, by Robert Burns
Introductory Note: John Henry Newman
The Idea of a University (Ch.1 What Is a University?), by John Henry Newman
Letters on the English (On the Quakers), by Voltaire
Introductory Note: Buddha
Buddhist Writings
Treaty with Great Britain (1814)