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Halloween, by Robert Burns
Introductory Note: Charles Lyell
Principles of Geology, by Charles Lyell
Introductory Note: John Keats
Poems, by John Keats
Thoughts Concerning Education, by John Locke
Introductory Note: John Locke
Introductory Note: Buddha
Buddhist Writings
Introductory Note: Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Ch. 2), by Benjamin Franklin
Introductory Note: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Machiavelli, by Thomas Babington Macaulay
Introductory Note: Aeschylus
Agamemnon, by Aeschylus
Parallel Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans (Cæsar), by Plutarch
Introductory Note: William Makepeace Thackeray
Jonathan Swift, by William Makepeace Thackeray
On Old Age, by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Introductory Note: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Introductory Note: Homer
The Odyssey (Book V)
Introductory Note: James Henry Leigh Hunt
Essays, by James Henry Leigh Hunt
Introductory Note: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poems, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Introductory Note: Thomas Browne
Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne
Introductory Note: Hippocrates
The Oath and Law of Hippocrates, by Hippocrates
Introductory Note: Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci’s Account of His First Voyage, by Amerigo Vespucci
Introductory Note: Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations (Book IV, Ch. VII), by Adam Smith
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, by Marcus Aurelius
Introductory Note: Marcus Aurelius
Introductory Note: American Historical Documents
The Letter of Columbus on the Discovery of America, by Christopher Columbus
Æneid (Book V, Party I), by Virgil
Introductory Note: Virgil
Don Quixote (the 4th Book), by Miguel de Cervantes
Introductory Note: Miguel de Cervantes
Introductory Note: Sarah Flower Adams
Hymns of the Christian Church
Introductory Note: Henry Fielding
Preface to Joseph Andrews, by Henry Fielding
Introductory Note: John Woolman
The Journal of John Woolman, by John Woolman
Introductory Note: Edmund Burke (#2)
Reflections on the French Revolution, by Edmund Burke
Introductory Note: John Henry Newman
The Idea of a University, by John Henry Newman
Parallel Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans (Demosthenes), by Plutarch
Introductory Note: English Poetry
The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Voyage of the Beagle (Ch. V), by Charles Darwin
Introductory Note: Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince (Ch. 10-12), by Niccolo Machiavelli
Manners, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Introductory Note: Confucius
The Sayings of Confucius, by Confucius
Introductory Note: Louis Pasteur
The Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine and Surgery, by Louis Pasteur
Introductory Note: Blaise Pascal
The Fundamentals of the Christian Religion, by Blaise Pascal
Introductory Note: Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote (Chapter 3), by Miguel de Cervantes
Introductory Note: John Stuart Mill
Autobiography (Ch. VI), by John Stuart Mill
Parallel Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans (Themistocles), by Plutarch
Introductory Note: Michel de Montaigne
That to Philosophise Is to Learne How to Die, by Michel de Montaigne
Introductory Note: Jean Froissart
Chronicles, by Jean Froissart
Introductory Note: Virgil
The Æneid (Book VI), by Virgil
Introductory Note: Mohammed
The Koran (The Chapter of Mary)
Introductory Note: Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote (Part I, Ch. VI), by Miguel de Cervantes
Two Years Before the Mast (Ch. XXXVI), by Richard Henry Dana
Introductory Note: John Greenleaf Whittier
Poems, by John Greenleaf Whittier
Introductory Note: William Harrison
Holinshed’s Chronicles (Ch. XVII), by William Harrison
Introductory Note: George Washington
Washington’s Farewell Address, by George Washington
Introductory Note: Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy (Inferno XXIV), by Dante Alighieri
Introductory Note: John Bunyan
The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan
Introductory Note: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Introductory Note: Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations (Book I, Ch. VIII), by Adam Smith
Introductory Note: Oliver Wendell Holms
Poems, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Introductory Note: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Introductory Note: Hermann Von Helmholtz