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Ice and Glaciers, by Hermann Von Helmholtz
Introductory Note: The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel
The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel
Introductory Note: Thomas Carlyle
Sir Walter Scott, by Thomas Carlyle
Introductory Note: Charles Darwin
The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
Introductory Note: Voltaire
Letters on the English, by Voltaire
Introductory Note: American Historical Documents
Treaty with Great Britain (1783)
Introductory Note: John Dryden
All for Love (Act V), by John Dryden
Introductory Note: William Penn
Some Fruits of Solitude, by William Penn
Introductory Note: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American Scholar, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Introductory Note: Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (Ch. V), by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Parallel Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans (Anthony), by Plutarch
Introductory Note: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust (Part I), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Introductory Note: Robert Burns
Poems, by Robert Burns
Introductory Note: Jean Froissart
The Chronicles of Froissart (The Campaign of Crecy), by Jean Froissart
Introductory Note: Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)
The Tides, by Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)
Introductory Note: Pliny the Younger
Pliny's Letters, by Pliny the Younger
Introductory Note: Edmund Burke
On the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke
Introductory Note: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Two Years Before the Mast (Ch. XV), by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Introductory Note: Saint Augustine
The Confessions of St. Augustine (Book VIII), by Saint Augustine
Introductory Note: John Milton
Paradise Lost (Book IV), by John Milton
Introductory Note: Ambroise Paré
Journeys in Diverse Places, by Ambroise Paré
Introductory Note: Benvenuto Cellini
Autobiography (Ch. XXXIII-XL), by Benvenuto Cellini
Introductory Note: Martin Luther
Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, by Martin Luther
Introductory Note: The Book of Psalms
The Book of Psalms (Psalms 110-118)
Introductory Note: The Song of Roland
The Song of Roland
Introductory Note: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Two Years before the Mast (Ch. V), by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Introductory Note: Robert Southey
Poems, by Robert Southey
Introductory Note: James Russell Lowell
The Courtin’, by James Russell Lowell
Introductory Note: Epictetus
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, by Epictetus
Introductory Note: Edmund Burke (#2)
Reflections on the French Revolution, by Edmund Burke
Introductory Note: Izaak Walton
The Life of Dr. Donne, by Izaak Walton
Introductory Note: Homer
The Odyssey (Book X), by Homer
Introductory Note: Socrates and Plato
Phædo, by Plato
Introductory Note: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Locksley Hall, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Introductory Note: Robert Burns
The Cotter’s Saturday Night, by Robert Burns
Introductory Note: Hans Christian Andersen
The Ugly Duckling, by Hans Christian Andersen
Introductory Note: Virgil
The Æneid (Book II), by Virgil
Introductory Note: William Drummond
Poems, by William Drummond
Introductory Note: John Calvin
Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian Religion, by John Calvin
Introductory Note: Daniel Defoe
The Education of Women, by Daniel Defoe
Introductory Note: Sir Humphrey Gilbert
Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s Voyage to Newfoundland, by Edward Haies
Introductory Note: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stonehenge, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Introductory Note: Abraham Cowley
Of Agriculture, by Abraham Cowley
Introductory Note: Joseph Lister
On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery, by Joseph Lister
Introductory Note: Thomas à Kempis
The Imitation of Christ (Ch. 1-7), by Thomas à Kempis
Introductory Note: Brynhild
Fragments of the Lay of Brynhild
Introductory Note: Charles Darwin (#2)
The Voyage of the Beagle (Ch. XIV), by Charles Robert Darwin
Introductory Note: Francis Bacon
Essays (28: Of Friendship), by Francis Bacon
Introductory Note: Homer
The Odyssey (Book IX), by Homer
Introductory Note: Robert Burns
Poems, by Robert Burns
Introductory Note: John Bunyan
The Pilgrim’s Progress (Ch. 3-4), by John Bunyan