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Egmont (Act I, Scene I), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Jun 04, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Jun 04, 2022 |
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, by William Harvey
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Jun 03, 2022 |
Introductory Note: William Harvey
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Jun 03, 2022 |
Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar, by Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Jun 02, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Jun 02, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Christopher Marlowe
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Jun 02, 2022 |
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe
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Jun 02, 2022 |
Preface to Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
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May 31, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Walt Whitman
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May 31, 2022 |
The Building of the Ship, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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May 30, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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May 30, 2022 |
The Thousand and One Nights (The Barber’s Fifth Brother)
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May 29, 2022 |
Introductory Note: The Thousand and One Nights
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May 29, 2022 |
Poems, by Thomas Moore
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May 28, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Thomas Moore
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May 28, 2022 |
The Education of The Human Race, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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May 27, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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May 27, 2022 |
The Tragedy of King Lear (Act I, Scene I), by William Shakespeare
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May 26, 2022 |
Introductory Note: King Lear by William Shakespeare
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May 26, 2022 |
Heroism, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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May 25, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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May 25, 2022 |
The Wealth of Nations (Book I, Ch. IV), by Adam Smith
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May 24, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Adam Smith
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May 24, 2022 |
Poems, by Thomas Hood
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May 23, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Thomas Hood
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May 23, 2022 |
I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed, Ch. I), by Alessandro Manzoni
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May 22, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Alessandro Manzoni
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May 22, 2022 |
An Essay on Man (Epistle IV), by Alexander Pope
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May 21, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Alexander Pope
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May 21, 2022 |
Sonnets, by William Shakespeare
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May 20, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Shakespeare’s Sonnets
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May 20, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Epictetus
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May 20, 2022 |
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, by Epictetus
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May 20, 2022 |
Little Ida’s Flowers, by Hans Christian Andersen
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May 18, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Hans Christian Andersen
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May 18, 2022 |
The Apology of Socrates, by Plato
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May 17, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Socrates and Plato
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May 17, 2022 |
The Poetry of the Celtic Races (Ch. II), by Ernest Renan
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May 16, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Ernest Renan
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May 16, 2022 |
The Divine Comedy (Inferno XXV-XXVII), by Dante Alighieri
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May 15, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Dante Alighieri
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May 15, 2022 |
An Inquiry Into the Causes and Effects of the Variolæ Vaccinæ, Or Cow-Pox, by Edward Jenner
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May 14, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Edward Jenner
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May 14, 2022 |
The Two Dogs, by Robert Burns
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May 13, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Robert Burns
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May 13, 2022 |
Poems, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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May 12, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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May 12, 2022 |
The Duchess of Malfi (Act IV), by John Webster
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May 11, 2022 |
Introductory Note: John Webster
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May 11, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Sir Walter Raleigh
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May 11, 2022 |
The Discovery of Guiana, by Sir Walter Raleigh
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May 11, 2022 |
Letters upon the Æsthetic Education of Man (Letters 1-7), by J. C. Friedrich von Schiller
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May 09, 2022 |
Introductory Note: J. C. Friedrich von Schiller
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May 09, 2022 |
The School for Scandal (Act IV, Scene III), by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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May 08, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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May 08, 2022 |
Poems, by Robert Browning
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May 07, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Robert Browning
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May 07, 2022 |
Autobiography (Vol. 2, Ch. 73-79), by Benvenuto Cellini
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May 06, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Benvenuto Cellini
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May 06, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Pedro Calderón de la Barca
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May 06, 2022 |
Life Is a Dream (Act I, Scene I), by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
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May 06, 2022 |
Science and Culture, by Thomas Henry Huxley
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May 04, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Thomas Henry Huxley
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May 04, 2022 |
The Prince (Ch. 1-3), by Niccolo Machiavelli
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May 03, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Niccolo Machiavelli
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May 03, 2022 |
Magnetism—Electricity, by Michael Faraday
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May 02, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Michael Faraday
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May 02, 2022 |
Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen, by William Hazlitt
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May 01, 2022 |
Introductory Note: William Hazlitt
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May 01, 2022 |
Washington’s First Inaugural Address, by George Washington
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Apr 30, 2022 |
Introductory Note: American Historical Documents
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Apr 30, 2022 |
Introductory Note: The Thousand and One Nights
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Apr 29, 2022 |
The Thousand and One Nights
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Apr 29, 2022 |
The Book of Ecclesiastes (Ch. 1-5)
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Apr 28, 2022 |
Introductory Note: The Book of Ecclesiastes
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Apr 28, 2022 |
Beauty, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Apr 27, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Apr 27, 2022 |
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Of Miracles), by David Hume
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Apr 26, 2022 |
Introductory Note: David Hume
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Apr 26, 2022 |
Germany, by Tacitus
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Apr 25, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Tacitus
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Apr 25, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Charles Darwin
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Apr 24, 2022 |
The Origin of Species (Ch. III), by Charles Darwin
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Apr 24, 2022 |
The Tragedy of King Lear (Act IV, Scene 6-7), by William Shakespeare
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Apr 23, 2022 |
Introductory Note: The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare
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Apr 23, 2022 |
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals (Sec. I), by Immanuel Kant
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Apr 22, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Immanuel Kant
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Apr 22, 2022 |
Introduction to the History of English Literature, by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine
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Apr 21, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Hippolyte Adolphe Taine
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Apr 21, 2022 |
Poems, by Lord Byron
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Apr 20, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Lord Byron
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Apr 20, 2022 |
Concord Hymn, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Apr 19, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Apr 19, 2022 |
Don Quixote (Vol. 1, Part 1, Ch. 1-2), by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Apr 18, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Miguel de Cervantes
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Apr 18, 2022 |
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Ch. 8), by Benjamin Franklin
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Apr 17, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Benjamin Franklin
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Apr 17, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Dante Alighieri
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Apr 16, 2022 |
The Divine Comedy (Inferno VIII-IX), by Dante Alighieri
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Apr 16, 2022 |
Poems, by Walt Whitman
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Apr 15, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Walt Whitman
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Apr 15, 2022 |
Drake’s Great Armada, by Captain Walter Bigges
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Apr 14, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Drake’s Great Armada
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Apr 14, 2022 |
Autobiography (Vol. I, Ch. XIII-XIX), by Benvenuto Cellini
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Apr 13, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Benvenuto Cellini
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Apr 13, 2022 |
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (The Second Dialogue), by George Berkeley
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Apr 12, 2022 |
Introductory Note: George Berkeley
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Apr 12, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Apr 12, 2022 |
Faust (Part I), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Apr 12, 2022 |
First Charter of Virginia
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Apr 10, 2022 |
Introductory Note: American Historical Documents
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Apr 10, 2022 |
The New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon
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Apr 09, 2022 |
Introductory Note: The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
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Apr 09, 2022 |
The Libation-Bearers (Part II), by Aeschylus
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Apr 08, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Aeschylus
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Apr 08, 2022 |
Poems, by William Wordsworth
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Apr 07, 2022 |
Introductory Note: William Wordsworth
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Apr 07, 2022 |
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (VII), by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Apr 06, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Marcus Aurelius
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Apr 06, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Thomas Hobbes
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Apr 05, 2022 |
Leviathan (Ch. II & III), by Thomas Hobbes
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Apr 05, 2022 |
She Stoops to Conquer (Act I), by Oliver Goldsmith
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Apr 04, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Oliver Goldsmith
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Apr 04, 2022 |
The Life of Mr. George Herbert, by Izaak Walton
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Apr 03, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Izaak Walton
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Apr 03, 2022 |
The Voyage of the Beagle (Ch. XX), by Charles Darwin
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Apr 02, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Charles Darwin (#2)
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Apr 02, 2022 |
Poems, by Robert Browning
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Apr 01, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Robert Browning
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Apr 01, 2022 |
The Life of Dr. Donne, by Izaak Walton
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Mar 31, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Izaak Walton
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Mar 31, 2022 |
I Promessi Sposi (Ch. 31), by Alessandro Manzoni
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Mar 30, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Alessandro Manzoni
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Mar 30, 2022 |
Introductory Note: The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs
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Mar 30, 2022 |
The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs (Ch. 24-27)
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Mar 30, 2022 |
Wealth of Nations (Book I, Ch. 1), by Adam Smith
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Mar 28, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Adam Smith
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Mar 28, 2022 |
Truth of Intercourse, by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Mar 27, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Mar 27, 2022 |
Æsop’s Fables, by Æsop
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Mar 26, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Æsop’s Fables
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Mar 26, 2022 |
The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Act III), by William Shakespeare
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Mar 25, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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Mar 25, 2022 |
Introductory Note: William Morris
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Mar 24, 2022 |
The Defence of Guenevere, by William Morris
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Mar 24, 2022 |
The Thousand and One Nights
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Mar 23, 2022 |
Introductory Note: The Thousand and One Nights
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Mar 23, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Mar 23, 2022 |
Faust I (Scene 1), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Mar 23, 2022 |
The Æneid (Book VIII), by Virgil
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Mar 21, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Virgil
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Mar 21, 2022 |
Letters on the English (Letters 15 & 16), by Voltaire
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Mar 20, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Voltaire
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Mar 20, 2022 |
An Account of Egypt (Sec. 9 & 10), by Herodotus
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Mar 19, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Herodotus
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Mar 19, 2022 |
A New Way to Pay Old Debts (Act I), by Philip Massinger
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Mar 18, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Philip Massinger
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Mar 18, 2022 |
The Poetry of the Celtic Races, by Ernest Renan
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Mar 17, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Ernest Renan
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Mar 17, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Charles Darwin (#2)
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Mar 17, 2022 |
The Voyage of the Beagle (Ch. XX), by Charles Darwin
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Mar 17, 2022 |
Parallel Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans (Cæsar), by Plutarch
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Mar 15, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Plutarch
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Mar 15, 2022 |
The Holy Grail (Book 17, Ch. 10-14), by Sir Thomas Malory
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Mar 14, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Sir Thomas Malory
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Mar 14, 2022 |
I Promessi Sposi or The Betrothed (Ch. XX), by Alessandro Manzoni
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Mar 13, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Alessandro Manzoni
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Mar 13, 2022 |
The Second Dialogue, by George Berkeley
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Mar 12, 2022 |
Introductory Note: George Berkeley
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Mar 12, 2022 |
Compensation, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Mar 11, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Mar 11, 2022 |
Philaster (Act I), by Beaumont and Fletcher
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Mar 10, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Beaumont and Fletcher
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Mar 10, 2022 |
A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding, by Jonathan Swift
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Mar 09, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Jonathan Swift
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Mar 09, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Miguel de Cervantes
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Mar 08, 2022 |
Don Quixote (Vol. I, Part I, Ch. XXXIII), by Miguel de Cervantes
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Mar 08, 2022 |
Of Judicature, by Francis Bacon
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Mar 07, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Francis Bacon
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Mar 07, 2022 |
The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe
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Mar 06, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Edgar Allan Poe
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Mar 06, 2022 |
Autobiography (Vol. I, Ch. CVII-CXI), by Benvenuto Cellini
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Mar 05, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Benvenuto Cellini
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Mar 05, 2022 |
Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims, by William Penn
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Mar 04, 2022 |
Introductory Note: William Penn
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Mar 04, 2022 |
The Life of Mr. George Herbert, by Izaak Walton
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Mar 03, 2022 |
Introductory Note: The Life of Mr. George Herbert by Izaak Walton
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Mar 03, 2022 |
Two Years before the Mast (Ch. XVI), by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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Mar 02, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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Mar 02, 2022 |
The Spectator Club, by Sir Richard Steele
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Mar 01, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Sir Richard Steele
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Mar 01, 2022 |
Of the Institution and Education of Children, by Michel de Montaigne
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Feb 28, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Michel de Montaigne
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Feb 28, 2022 |
Poems, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Feb 27, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Feb 27, 2022 |
Preface to Cromwell, by Victor Hugo
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Feb 26, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Victor Hugo
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Feb 26, 2022 |
The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters, by Daniel Defoe
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Feb 25, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Daniel Defoe
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Feb 25, 2022 |
Poems (L’Allegro and Il Penseroso), by John Milton
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Feb 24, 2022 |
Introductory Note: John Milton
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Feb 24, 2022 |
Samuel Pepys, by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Feb 23, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Feb 23, 2022 |
Ode for General Washington’s Birthday, by Robert Burns
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Feb 22, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Robert Burns
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Feb 22, 2022 |
The Idea of a University (Ch.1 What Is a University?), by John Henry Newman
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Feb 21, 2022 |
Introductory Note: John Henry Newman
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Feb 21, 2022 |
Letters on the English (On the Quakers), by Voltaire
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Feb 20, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Voltaire
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Feb 20, 2022 |
Buddhist Writings
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Feb 19, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Buddha
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Feb 19, 2022 |
Introductory Note: American Historical Documents
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Feb 19, 2022 |
Treaty with Great Britain (1814)
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Feb 19, 2022 |
Tartuffe (Act I), by Molière
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Feb 17, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Molière
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Feb 17, 2022 |
The Origin of Species (Ch. VIII, Instinct), by Charles Darwin
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Feb 16, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Charles Darwin
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Feb 16, 2022 |
All for Love (Act III), by John Dryden
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Feb 15, 2022 |
Introductory Note: John Dryden
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Feb 15, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Blaise Pascal
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Feb 15, 2022 |
Discourse on the Passion of Love, by Blaise Pascal
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Feb 15, 2022 |
Autobiography (Vol. I, Ch. XXXIV-XXXVIII), by Benvenuto Cellini
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Feb 13, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Benvenuto Cellini
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Feb 13, 2022 |
The Gettysburg Address and Other Writings, by Abraham Lincoln
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Feb 12, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Abraham Lincoln
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Feb 12, 2022 |
Discourse on the Method (Part I-II), by René Descartes
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Feb 11, 2022 |
Introductory Note: René Descartes
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Feb 11, 2022 |
Letters on the English (XVIII-XIX), by Voltaire
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Feb 10, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Voltaire
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Feb 10, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Tacitus
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Feb 10, 2022 |
Germany, by Tacitus
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Feb 10, 2022 |
Poems, by Robert Burns
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Feb 08, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Robert Burns
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Feb 08, 2022 |
Letter to Lord Chesterfield, by Samuel Johnson
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Feb 07, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Samuel Johnson
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Feb 07, 2022 |
Edward the Second (Act V), by Christopher Marlowe
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Feb 06, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Christopher Marlowe
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Feb 06, 2022 |
The Thousand and One Nights (The Second Voyage of Es-Sindibad of the Sea)
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Feb 05, 2022 |
Introductory Note: The Thousand and One Nights
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Feb 05, 2022 |
Characteristics, by Thomas Carlyle
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Feb 04, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Thomas Carlyle
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Feb 04, 2022 |
The Alchemist (Act I), by Ben Jonson
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Feb 03, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Ben Jonson
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Feb 03, 2022 |
The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Act I), by William Shakespeare
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Feb 02, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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Feb 02, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Sir Thomas Malory
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Feb 02, 2022 |
The Holy Grail (Book XIII, Ch. VII-XII), by Sir Thomas Malory
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Feb 02, 2022 |
Don Quixote (Part I, Ch. VIII), by Miguel de Cervantes
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Jan 31, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Miguel de Cervantes
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Jan 31, 2022 |
Antigone (Part I), by Sophocles
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Jan 30, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Sophocles
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Jan 30, 2022 |
The Voyage of the Beagle (Ch. X), by Charles Darwin
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Jan 29, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Charles Darwin (#2)
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Jan 29, 2022 |
The Imitation of Christ (Book II, Ch. IV-IX), by Thomas à Kempis
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Jan 28, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Thomas à Kempis
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Jan 28, 2022 |
The Divine Comedy (Purgatory XXX-XXXII), by Dante Alighieri
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Jan 27, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Dante Alighieri
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Jan 27, 2022 |
An Account of Egypt (Section 8 and 9), by Herodotus
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Jan 26, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Herodotus
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Jan 26, 2022 |
Poems (To a Mouse and Tam O’Shanter), by Robert Burns
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Jan 25, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Robert Burns
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Jan 25, 2022 |
The Odyssey (Book XII), by Homer
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Jan 24, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Homer
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Jan 24, 2022 |
The Art of Persuasion, by Blaise Pascal
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Jan 23, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Blaise Pascal
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Jan 23, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Pierre Corneille
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Jan 23, 2022 |
Polyeucte (ACT I), by Pierre Corneille
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Jan 23, 2022 |
The Nightingale, by Hans Christian Andersen
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Jan 21, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Hans Christian Andersen
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Jan 21, 2022 |
The Eve of St. Agnes, by John Keats
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Jan 20, 2022 |
Introductory Note: John Keats
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Jan 20, 2022 |
The Poetic Principle, by Edgar Allan Poe
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Jan 19, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Edgar Allan Poe
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Jan 19, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Aristophanes
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Jan 19, 2022 |
The Frogs, by Aristophanes
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Jan 19, 2022 |
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Ch. 1), by Benjamin Franklin
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Jan 17, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Benjamin Franklin
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Jan 17, 2022 |
Æsop’s Fables, by Æsop
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Jan 16, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Æsop’s Fables
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Jan 16, 2022 |
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, by Omar Khayyam
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Jan 15, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Omar Khayyam
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Jan 15, 2022 |
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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Jan 14, 2022 |
Introductory Note: American Historical Documents
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Jan 14, 2022 |
Discourse on Inequality (Part II), by Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Jan 13, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Jan 13, 2022 |
A Philosophical Inquiry (On Taste), by Edmund Burke
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Jan 12, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Edmund Burke
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Jan 12, 2022 |
The Federalist Papers (No. 1 & 2), by Alexander Hamilton, etc.
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Jan 11, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Alexander Hamilton
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Jan 11, 2022 |
The Bacchæ (Part I), by Euripides
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Jan 10, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Euripides
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Jan 10, 2022 |
Sir Francis Drake Revived
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Jan 09, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Sir Francis Drake
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Jan 09, 2022 |
The Book of Job (Ch. 1-10)
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Jan 08, 2022 |
Introductory Note: The Book of Job
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Jan 08, 2022 |
Introductory Note: The Thousand and One Nights
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Jan 08, 2022 |
The Thousand and One Nights (Introduction)
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Jan 08, 2022 |
The Æneid (Book II), by Virgil
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Jan 06, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Virgil
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Jan 06, 2022 |
Byron and Goethe, by Giuseppe Mazzini
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Jan 05, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Giuseppe Mazzini
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Jan 05, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
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Jan 05, 2022 |
The Fisherman and His Wife, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
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Jan 05, 2022 |
On Friendship (Part I), by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Jan 03, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Jan 03, 2022 |
Poems Written in School and College, by John Milton
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Jan 02, 2022 |
Introductory Note: John Milton
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Jan 02, 2022 |
Introductory Note: Benjamin Franklin
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Jan 02, 2022 |
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Ch. IX), by Benjamin Franklin
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Jan 02, 2022 |
Inaugural Address at Edinburgh University, by Thomas Carlyle
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Dec 31, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Thomas Carlyle
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Dec 31, 2021 |
Two Years before the Mast (Ch. XIII), by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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Dec 30, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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Dec 30, 2021 |
The Odyssey (Book XXII), by Homer
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Dec 29, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Homer
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Dec 29, 2021 |
Drake’s Great Armada, by Captain Walter Bigges
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Dec 28, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Sir Francis Drake
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Dec 28, 2021 |
The Voyage of the Beagle (Ch. XVII), by Charles Darwin
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Dec 27, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Charles Darwin (#2)
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Dec 27, 2021 |
Introductory Note: The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare
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Dec 27, 2021 |
The Tragedy of King Lear, by William Shakespeare
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Dec 27, 2021 |
Introductory Note: The Gospel According to Luke
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Dec 27, 2021 |
The Gospel According to Luke (Ch. II)
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Dec 27, 2021 |
Introductory Note: William Harrison
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Dec 27, 2021 |
Holinshed’s Chronicles (Of the Ancient and Present Estate of the Church of England), by William Harrison
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Dec 27, 2021 |
What Is a Classic? by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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Dec 23, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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Dec 23, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Charles Darwin (#2)
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Dec 22, 2021 |
The Voyage of the Beagle (Ch. XVIII), by Charles Darwin
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Dec 22, 2021 |
The Pilgrim’s Progress (Part II, Ch. 9-10), by John Bunyan
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Dec 21, 2021 |
Introductory Note: John Bunyan
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Dec 21, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Herodotus
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Dec 21, 2021 |
An Account of Egypt, by Herodotus
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Dec 21, 2021 |
Samson Agonistes, by John Milton
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Dec 19, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Samson Agonistes by John Milton
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Dec 19, 2021 |
Introductory Note: John Locke
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Dec 19, 2021 |
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (§162-168), by John Locke
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Dec 19, 2021 |
The Confessions of St. Augustine (Book IX), Saint Augustine
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Dec 17, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Saint Augustine
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Dec 17, 2021 |
A Philosophical Inquiry (Part I), by Edmund Burke
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Dec 16, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Edmund Burke (#3)
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Dec 16, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Homer
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Dec 16, 2021 |
The Odyssey (Book XI), by Homer
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Dec 16, 2021 |
Poems, by Andrew Marvell
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Dec 14, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Andrew Marvell
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Dec 14, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Sir Francis Drake
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Dec 14, 2021 |
Sir Francis Drake‘s Famous Voyage around the World, by Francis Pretty
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Dec 14, 2021 |
Poems, by Robert Browning
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Dec 12, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Robert Browning
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Dec 12, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Plutarch
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Dec 12, 2021 |
Parallel Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans (Alcibiades), by Plutarch
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Dec 12, 2021 |
Autobiography, by Benvenuto Cellini
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Dec 10, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Benvenuto Cellini
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Dec 10, 2021 |
Introductory Note: American Historical Documents
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Dec 10, 2021 |
Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
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Dec 10, 2021 |
Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow, by Thomas De Quincey
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Dec 08, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Thomas De Quincey
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Dec 08, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Plutarch
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Dec 08, 2021 |
Parallel Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans (Cicero), by Plutarch
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Dec 08, 2021 |
Essays, by Joseph Addison
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Dec 06, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Joseph Addison
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Dec 06, 2021 |
Poems, by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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Dec 05, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Christina Georgina Rossetti
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Dec 05, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Virgil
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Dec 05, 2021 |
The Æneid (Book IV), by Virgil
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Dec 05, 2021 |
The Birth of the Buddha
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Dec 03, 2021 |
Introductory Note: The Buddha
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Dec 03, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Sir Thomas Malory
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Dec 03, 2021 |
The Holy Grail (Book XIII), by Sir Thomas Malory
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Dec 03, 2021 |
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (The First Dialogue), by George Berkeley
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Dec 01, 2021 |
Introductory Note: George Berkeley
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Dec 01, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Jonathan Swift
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Dec 01, 2021 |
Hints Towards an Essay on Conversation, by Jonathan Swift
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Dec 01, 2021 |
Introductory Note: David Hume
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Nov 30, 2021 |
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Of the Origin of Ideas), by David Hume
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Nov 30, 2021 |
Songs of Innocence and Experience, by William Blake
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Nov 28, 2021 |
Introductory Note: William Blake
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Nov 28, 2021 |
Utopia (Book II, Part IV), by Sir Thomas More
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Nov 27, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Sir Thomas More
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Nov 27, 2021 |
On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, by Charles Lamb
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Nov 26, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Charles Lamb
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Nov 26, 2021 |
The Shoemaker’s Holiday (Act I & II), by Thomas Dekker
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Nov 25, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Thomas Dekker
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Nov 25, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Charles Darwin
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Nov 25, 2021 |
The Origin of Species (Ch. 1 Variation under Domestication), by Charles Darwin
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Nov 25, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Blaise Pascal
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Nov 25, 2021 |
Thoughts (The Misery Of Man Without God), by Blaise Pascal
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Nov 25, 2021 |
The Æneid (The Passion of the Queen), by Virgil
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Nov 22, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Virgil
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Nov 22, 2021 |
Letters on the English (On Inoculation), by Voltaire
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Nov 21, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Voltaire
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Nov 21, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
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Nov 21, 2021 |
The Valiant Little Tailor, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
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Nov 21, 2021 |
Morte d’Arthur, by Alfred Tennyson
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Nov 19, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Alfred Tennyson
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Nov 19, 2021 |
William Tell (Act III, Scene III), by Friedrich von Schiller
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Nov 18, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Friedrich von Schiller
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Nov 18, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Thomas Carlyle
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Nov 18, 2021 |
Sir Walter Scott, by Thomas Carlyle
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Nov 18, 2021 |
Two Years before the Mast (Ch. XXI), by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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Nov 16, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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Nov 16, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Alessandro Manzoni
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Nov 16, 2021 |
I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed), by Alessandro Manzoni
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Nov 16, 2021 |
Principles of Geology (Uniformity Of Change), by Charles Lyell
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Nov 14, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Charles Lyell
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Nov 14, 2021 |
The Confessions of St. Augustine (Book III), by Saint Augustine
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Nov 13, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Saint Augustine
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Nov 13, 2021 |
Introductory Note: John Milton
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Nov 13, 2021 |
Paradise Lost (Book IX), by John Milton
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Nov 13, 2021 |
Leaves of Grass and Drum-Taps, by Walt Whitman
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Nov 11, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Walt Whitman
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Nov 11, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Oliver Goldsmith
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Nov 11, 2021 |
The Deserted Village, by Oliver Goldsmith
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Nov 11, 2021 |
The Book of Psalms (137-145)
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Nov 09, 2021 |
Introductory Note: the Book of Psalms
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Nov 09, 2021 |
Introductory Note: John Milton
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Nov 09, 2021 |
Paradise Regained, by John Milton
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Nov 09, 2021 |
The Thousand and One Nights
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Nov 07, 2021 |
Introductory Note: The Thousand and One Nights
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Nov 07, 2021 |
The Force of Gravitation, by Michael Faraday
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Nov 06, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Michael Faraday
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Nov 06, 2021 |
The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper
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Nov 05, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Sir Thomas More
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Nov 05, 2021 |
Polyeucte, by Pierre Corneille
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Nov 04, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Pierre Corneille
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Nov 04, 2021 |
Letters (To the Emperor Trajan), by Pliny the Younger
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Nov 03, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Pliny the Younger
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Nov 03, 2021 |
The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Canto III & IV), by Dante Alighieri
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Nov 02, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Dante Alighieri
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Nov 02, 2021 |
Introductory Note: The Tempest by William Shakespeare
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Nov 02, 2021 |
The Tempest, by William Shakespeare
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Nov 02, 2021 |
Halloween, by Robert Burns
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Oct 31, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Robert Burns
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Oct 31, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Charles Lyell
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Oct 30, 2021 |
Principles of Geology, by Charles Lyell
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Oct 30, 2021 |
Introductory Note: John Keats
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Oct 30, 2021 |
Poems, by John Keats
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Oct 30, 2021 |
Thoughts Concerning Education, by John Locke
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Oct 28, 2021 |
Introductory Note: John Locke
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Oct 28, 2021 |
Buddhist Writings
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Oct 27, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Buddha
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Oct 27, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Benjamin Franklin
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Oct 27, 2021 |
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Ch. 2), by Benjamin Franklin
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Oct 27, 2021 |
Machiavelli, by Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Oct 25, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Oct 25, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Aeschylus
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Oct 25, 2021 |
Agamemnon, by Aeschylus
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Oct 25, 2021 |
Parallel Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans (Cæsar), by Plutarch
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Oct 23, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Plutarch
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Oct 23, 2021 |
Introductory Note: William Makepeace Thackeray
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Oct 22, 2021 |
Jonathan Swift, by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Oct 22, 2021 |
On Old Age, by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Oct 21, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Oct 21, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Homer
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Oct 21, 2021 |
The Odyssey (Book V)
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Oct 21, 2021 |
Essays, by James Henry Leigh Hunt
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Oct 19, 2021 |
Introductory Note: James Henry Leigh Hunt
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Oct 19, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Oct 19, 2021 |
Poems, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Oct 19, 2021 |
Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne
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Oct 17, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Thomas Browne
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Oct 17, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Hippocrates
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Oct 17, 2021 |
The Oath and Law of Hippocrates, by Hippocrates
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Oct 17, 2021 |
Amerigo Vespucci’s Account of His First Voyage, by Amerigo Vespucci
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Oct 15, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Amerigo Vespucci
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Oct 15, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Adam Smith
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Oct 15, 2021 |
The Wealth of Nations (Book IV, Ch. VII), by Adam Smith
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Oct 15, 2021 |
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, by Marcus Aurelius
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Oct 13, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Marcus Aurelius
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Oct 13, 2021 |
Introductory Note: American Historical Documents
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Oct 13, 2021 |
The Letter of Columbus on the Discovery of America, by Christopher Columbus
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Oct 13, 2021 |
Æneid (Book V, Party I), by Virgil
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Oct 11, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Virgil
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Oct 11, 2021 |
Don Quixote (the 4th Book), by Miguel de Cervantes
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Oct 10, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Miguel de Cervantes
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Oct 10, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Sarah Flower Adams
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Oct 09, 2021 |
Hymns of the Christian Church
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Oct 09, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Henry Fielding
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Oct 09, 2021 |
Preface to Joseph Andrews, by Henry Fielding
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Oct 09, 2021 |
Introductory Note: John Woolman
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Oct 08, 2021 |
The Journal of John Woolman, by John Woolman
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Oct 08, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Edmund Burke (#2)
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Oct 07, 2021 |
Reflections on the French Revolution, by Edmund Burke
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Oct 07, 2021 |
Introductory Note: John Henry Newman
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Oct 06, 2021 |
The Idea of a University, by John Henry Newman
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Oct 06, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Plutarch
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Oct 05, 2021 |
Parallel Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans (Demosthenes), by Plutarch
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Oct 05, 2021 |
The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Oct 03, 2021 |
Introductory Note: English Poetry
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Oct 03, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Charles Darwin (#2)
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Oct 03, 2021 |
The Voyage of the Beagle (Ch. V), by Charles Darwin
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Oct 03, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Niccolo Machiavelli
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Oct 02, 2021 |
The Prince (Ch. 10-12), by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Oct 02, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Oct 01, 2021 |
Manners, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Oct 01, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Confucius
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Sep 30, 2021 |
The Sayings of Confucius, by Confucius
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Sep 30, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Louis Pasteur
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Sep 29, 2021 |
The Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine and Surgery, by Louis Pasteur
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Sep 29, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Blaise Pascal
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Sep 28, 2021 |
The Fundamentals of the Christian Religion, by Blaise Pascal
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Sep 28, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Miguel de Cervantes
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Sep 27, 2021 |
Don Quixote (Chapter 3), by Miguel de Cervantes
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Sep 27, 2021 |
Introductory Note: John Stuart Mill
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Sep 26, 2021 |
Autobiography (Ch. VI), by John Stuart Mill
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Sep 26, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Plutarch
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Sep 25, 2021 |
Parallel Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans (Themistocles), by Plutarch
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Sep 25, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Michel de Montaigne
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Sep 24, 2021 |
That to Philosophise Is to Learne How to Die, by Michel de Montaigne
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Sep 24, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Jean Froissart
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Sep 23, 2021 |
Chronicles, by Jean Froissart
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Sep 23, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Virgil
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Sep 22, 2021 |
The Æneid (Book VI), by Virgil
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Sep 22, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Mohammed
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Sep 20, 2021 |
The Koran (The Chapter of Mary)
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Sep 20, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Miguel de Cervantes
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Sep 19, 2021 |
Don Quixote (Part I, Ch. VI), by Miguel de Cervantes
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Sep 19, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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Sep 19, 2021 |
Two Years Before the Mast (Ch. XXXVI), by Richard Henry Dana
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Sep 19, 2021 |
Introductory Note: John Greenleaf Whittier
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Sep 18, 2021 |
Poems, by John Greenleaf Whittier
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Sep 18, 2021 |
Introductory Note: William Harrison
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Sep 17, 2021 |
Holinshed’s Chronicles (Ch. XVII), by William Harrison
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Sep 17, 2021 |
Introductory Note: George Washington
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Sep 16, 2021 |
Washington’s Farewell Address, by George Washington
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Sep 16, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Dante Alighieri
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Sep 15, 2021 |
The Divine Comedy (Inferno XXIV), by Dante Alighieri
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Sep 15, 2021 |
Introductory Note: John Bunyan
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Sep 14, 2021 |
The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan
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Sep 14, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Sep 13, 2021 |
Sonnets from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Sep 13, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Adam Smith
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Sep 11, 2021 |
The Wealth of Nations (Book I, Ch. VIII), by Adam Smith
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Sep 11, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Oliver Wendell Holms
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Sep 11, 2021 |
Poems, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Sep 11, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sep 09, 2021 |
Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sep 09, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Hermann Von Helmholtz
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Sep 08, 2021 |
Ice and Glaciers, by Hermann Von Helmholtz
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Sep 08, 2021 |
Introductory Note: The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel
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Sep 08, 2021 |
The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel
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Sep 08, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Thomas Carlyle
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Sep 06, 2021 |
Sir Walter Scott, by Thomas Carlyle
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Sep 06, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Charles Darwin
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Sep 06, 2021 |
The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
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Sep 06, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Voltaire
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Sep 05, 2021 |
Letters on the English, by Voltaire
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Sep 05, 2021 |
Introductory Note: American Historical Documents
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Sep 04, 2021 |
Treaty with Great Britain (1783)
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Sep 04, 2021 |
Introductory Note: John Dryden
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Sep 03, 2021 |
All for Love (Act V), by John Dryden
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Sep 03, 2021 |
Introductory Note: William Penn
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Sep 02, 2021 |
Some Fruits of Solitude, by William Penn
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Sep 02, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sep 01, 2021 |
The American Scholar, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sep 01, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Marcus Aurelius
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Aug 31, 2021 |
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (Ch. V), by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Aug 31, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Plutarch
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Aug 30, 2021 |
Parallel Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans (Anthony), by Plutarch
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Aug 30, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Aug 29, 2021 |
Faust (Part I), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Aug 29, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Robert Burns
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Aug 28, 2021 |
Poems, by Robert Burns
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Aug 28, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Jean Froissart
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Aug 27, 2021 |
The Chronicles of Froissart (The Campaign of Crecy), by Jean Froissart
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Aug 27, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)
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Aug 26, 2021 |
The Tides, by Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)
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Aug 26, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Pliny the Younger
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Aug 25, 2021 |
Pliny's Letters, by Pliny the Younger
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Aug 25, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Edmund Burke
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Aug 24, 2021 |
On the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke
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Aug 24, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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Aug 23, 2021 |
Two Years Before the Mast (Ch. XV), by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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Aug 23, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Saint Augustine
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Aug 22, 2021 |
The Confessions of St. Augustine (Book VIII), by Saint Augustine
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Aug 22, 2021 |
Introductory Note: John Milton
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Aug 21, 2021 |
Paradise Lost (Book IV), by John Milton
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Aug 21, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Ambroise Paré
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Aug 20, 2021 |
Journeys in Diverse Places, by Ambroise Paré
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Aug 20, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Benvenuto Cellini
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Aug 19, 2021 |
Autobiography (Ch. XXXIII-XL), by Benvenuto Cellini
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Aug 19, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Martin Luther
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Aug 18, 2021 |
Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, by Martin Luther
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Aug 18, 2021 |
Introductory Note: The Book of Psalms
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Aug 17, 2021 |
The Book of Psalms (Psalms 110-118)
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Aug 17, 2021 |
Introductory Note: The Song of Roland
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Aug 16, 2021 |
The Song of Roland
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Aug 16, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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Aug 15, 2021 |
Two Years before the Mast (Ch. V), by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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Aug 15, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Robert Southey
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Aug 14, 2021 |
Poems, by Robert Southey
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Aug 14, 2021 |
Introductory Note: James Russell Lowell
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Aug 13, 2021 |
The Courtin’, by James Russell Lowell
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Aug 13, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Epictetus
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Aug 12, 2021 |
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, by Epictetus
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Aug 12, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Edmund Burke (#2)
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Aug 11, 2021 |
Reflections on the French Revolution, by Edmund Burke
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Aug 11, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Izaak Walton
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Aug 10, 2021 |
The Life of Dr. Donne, by Izaak Walton
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Aug 10, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Homer
|
Aug 09, 2021 |
The Odyssey (Book X), by Homer
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Aug 09, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Socrates and Plato
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Aug 08, 2021 |
Phædo, by Plato
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Aug 08, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Aug 07, 2021 |
Locksley Hall, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Aug 07, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Robert Burns
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Aug 06, 2021 |
The Cotter’s Saturday Night, by Robert Burns
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Aug 06, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Hans Christian Andersen
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Aug 05, 2021 |
The Ugly Duckling, by Hans Christian Andersen
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Aug 05, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Virgil
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Aug 04, 2021 |
The Æneid (Book II), by Virgil
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Aug 04, 2021 |
Introductory Note: William Drummond
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Aug 03, 2021 |
Poems, by William Drummond
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Aug 03, 2021 |
Introductory Note: John Calvin
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Aug 02, 2021 |
Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian Religion, by John Calvin
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Aug 02, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Daniel Defoe
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Aug 01, 2021 |
The Education of Women, by Daniel Defoe
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Aug 01, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Sir Humphrey Gilbert
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Jul 31, 2021 |
Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s Voyage to Newfoundland, by Edward Haies
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Jul 31, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Jul 30, 2021 |
Stonehenge, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Jul 30, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Abraham Cowley
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Jul 29, 2021 |
Of Agriculture, by Abraham Cowley
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Jul 29, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Joseph Lister
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Jul 28, 2021 |
On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery, by Joseph Lister
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Jul 28, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Thomas à Kempis
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Jul 27, 2021 |
The Imitation of Christ (Ch. 1-7), by Thomas à Kempis
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Jul 27, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Brynhild
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Jul 26, 2021 |
Fragments of the Lay of Brynhild
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Jul 26, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Charles Darwin (#2)
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Jul 25, 2021 |
The Voyage of the Beagle (Ch. XIV), by Charles Robert Darwin
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Jul 25, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Francis Bacon
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Jul 24, 2021 |
Essays (28: Of Friendship), by Francis Bacon
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Jul 24, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Homer
|
Jul 23, 2021 |
The Odyssey (Book IX), by Homer
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Jul 23, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Robert Burns
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Jul 22, 2021 |
Poems, by Robert Burns
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Jul 22, 2021 |
Introductory Note: John Bunyan
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Jul 21, 2021 |
The Pilgrim’s Progress (Ch. 3-4), by John Bunyan
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Jul 21, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Sir Walter Raleigh
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Jul 20, 2021 |
The Discovery of Guiana, by Sir Walter Raleigh
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Jul 20, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Robert Browning
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Jul 19, 2021 |
A Blot in the ’Scutcheon (Act I), by Robert Browning
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Jul 19, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Jean Racine
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Jul 18, 2021 |
Phædra (Act I), by Jean Racine
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Jul 18, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Mohammed
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Jul 17, 2021 |
The Koran (The Chapter of Mary)
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Jul 17, 2021 |
Introductory Note: William Harrison
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Jul 16, 2021 |
Holinshed’s Chronicles (Chapter VI: Of the Food and Diet of the English)
|
Jul 16, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Edmund Burke (#2)
|
Jul 15, 2021 |
Reflections on the French Revolution (Section 13), by Edmund Burke
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Jul 15, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Plutarch
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Jul 14, 2021 |
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans (Pericles), by Plutarch
|
Jul 14, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Henry David Thoreau
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Jul 13, 2021 |
Walking, by Henry David Thoreau
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Jul 13, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Simon Newcomb
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Jul 12, 2021 |
The Extent of the Universe, by Simon Newcomb
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Jul 12, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Leif Ericsson
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Jul 11, 2021 |
The Voyages to Vinland, by Leif Ericsson
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Jul 11, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Francis Bacon
|
Jul 10, 2021 |
Essays (1-6), by Francis Bacon
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Jul 10, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Percy Bysshe Shelley
|
Jul 09, 2021 |
The Cenci (Act I, Scene III), by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Jul 09, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
|
Jul 08, 2021 |
The School for Scandal (Act I), by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Jul 08, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Sir Thomas More
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Jul 07, 2021 |
Utopia (The First Book), by Sir Thomas More
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Jul 07, 2021 |
Introductory Note: The Thousand and One Nights
|
Jul 05, 2021 |
The Thousand and One Nights (The Story Told by the Tailor)
|
Jul 05, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Thomas Jefferson
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Jul 04, 2021 |
The Declaration of Independence, by Thomas Jefferson
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Jul 04, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Frank Aretas Haskell
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Jul 04, 2021 |
Haskell’s Account of the Battle of Gettysburg, by Frank Aretas Haskell
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Jul 04, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Plutarch
|
Jul 03, 2021 |
Parallel Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans (Cæsar), by Plutarch
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Jul 03, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Charles Darwin
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Jul 02, 2021 |
The Origin of Species (A Historical Sketch), by Charles Darwin
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Jul 02, 2021 |
Introductory Note: John Stuart Mill
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Jul 01, 2021 |
On Liberty (Ch. I), by John Stuart Mill
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Jul 01, 2021 |
Introductory Note: The Tragedy of Macbeth
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Jun 30, 2021 |
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Act III), by William Shakespeare
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Jun 30, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Charles Darwin (#2)
|
Jun 29, 2021 |
The Voyage of the Beagle (Ch. III), by Charles Darwin
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Jun 29, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Francis Bacon
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Jun 28, 2021 |
Essays (Of Envy), Francis Bacon
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Jun 28, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Beowulf
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Jun 27, 2021 |
Beowulf (Sec. XXII-XXIII)
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Jun 27, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Robert Herrick
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Jun 26, 2021 |
Poems, Robert Herrick
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Jun 26, 2021 |
Introductory Note: The Thousand and One Nights
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Jun 25, 2021 |
The Thousand and One Nights (The Story Told by the Christian Broker)
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Jun 25, 2021 |
Introductory Note: John Stuart Mill
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Jun 24, 2021 |
Autobiography (Ch. I), by John Stuart Mill
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Jun 24, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Pliny the Younger
|
Jun 23, 2021 |
Letters of Pliny (LXXXIII: Letter to Sura), by Pliny the Younger
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Jun 23, 2021 |
Introductory Note: John Ruskin
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Jun 22, 2021 |
Sesame and Lilies (Of Kings’ Treasuries), by John Ruskin
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Jun 22, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Charles Darwin (#2)
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Jun 21, 2021 |
The Voyage of the Beagle (Ch. 17 and 18), by Charles Darwin
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Jun 21, 2021 |
Introductory Note: William Harrison
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Jun 20, 2021 |
Holinshed’s Chronicles (Ch. XV), by William Harrison
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Jun 20, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
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Jun 19, 2021 |
Cinderella, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
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Jun 19, 2021 |
Introductory Note: John Eliot
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Jun 18, 2021 |
John Eliot’s Brief Narrative, by John Eliot
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Jun 18, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Lord Byron
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Jun 17, 2021 |
Manfred (Act I Scene II, Act II Scene I), by Lord Byron
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Jun 17, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Jean Froissart
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Jun 16, 2021 |
The Chronicles of Froissart (Wat Tyler’s Rebellion), by Jean Froissart
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Jun 16, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Socrates and Plato
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Jun 15, 2021 |
Crito, by Plato
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Jun 15, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Plutarch
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Jun 14, 2021 |
Parallel Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans (Aristides), by Plutarch
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Jun 14, 2021 |
Introductory Note: The Bhagavad-Gita
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Jun 13, 2021 |
The Bhagavad-Gita (Ch. 1-2)
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Jun 13, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Edmund Spenser
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Jun 12, 2021 |
Epithalamion, by Edmund Spenser
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Jun 12, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Sophocles
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Jun 11, 2021 |
Oedipus the King (Part I), by Sophocles
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Jun 11, 2021 |
Introductory Note: The Book of Psalms
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Jun 10, 2021 |
The Book of Psalms (Psalms 23-31)
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Jun 10, 2021 |
Introductory Note: John Woolman
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Jun 09, 2021 |
The Journal of John Woolman (Ch. XII), by John Woolman
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Jun 09, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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Jun 08, 2021 |
The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Act IV, Scene V), by William Shakespeare
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Jun 08, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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Jun 07, 2021 |
Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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Jun 07, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Adam Smith
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Jun 06, 2021 |
The Wealth of Nations (Book I, Ch. XI), by Adam Smith
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Jun 06, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Jun 05, 2021 |
Egmont (Act I, Scene I), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Jun 05, 2021 |
Introductory Note: William Harvey
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Jun 04, 2021 |
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, by William Harvey
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Jun 04, 2021 |
Introductory Note: Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Jun 03, 2021 |
Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar, by Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Jun 03, 2021 |