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William Thomson Hastings

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Description:Of the cannibals / Michel Eyquem de Montaigne -- A preface to the reader / Roger Ascham -- Of boldness ; Of travel ; Of dispatch / Francis Bacon -- A devilish usurer / Sir Thomas Overbury -- A child ; A good old man / John Earle -- A letter to a friend upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend / Sir Thomas Browne -- Of education / John Milton -- Of modesty / Jeremy Taylor -- The dangers of an honest man in much company / Abraham Cowley -- Preface : fables, ancient and modern / John Dryden -- An academy for women / Daniel Defoe -- A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- Love of glory / Sir Richard Steele -- A superstitious household / Joseph Addison -- Rules for reducing a great empire to a small one / Benjamin Franklin. Preface to Shakespeare / Samuel Johnson -- Beau Tibbs / Oliver Goldsmith -- Forth into the field / Joseph Dennie -- The old benchers of the Inner Temple / Charles Lamb -- On the fear of death / William Hazlitt -- Popular superstitions / Washington Irving -- The affliction of childhood / Thomas De Quincey -- Biography / Thomas Carlyle -- Southey's edition of the Pilgrim's progress / Thomas Babington Macaulay -- What is a university? / John Henry Newman -- Self-reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- On old age / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Ogres / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Solitude / Henry David Thoreau -- At sea / James Russell Lowell -- The two boyhoods / John Ruskin -- Milton / Matthew Arnold -- Tolstoy / William Dean Howells -- Conclusion / Walter Pater. Roman Calleva / William Henry Hudson -- An excursion / Henry James -- Pan's pipes / Robert Louis Stevenson -- A visit to Whittier / Edmund Gosse -- Prue / Alice Meynell -- Initiation / Joseph Conrad -- Leisure while you wait / Samuel McChord Crothers -- The virtuous Victorian / Agnes Repplier -- Montaigne / Maurice Hewlette -- Decadent wit / Paul Elmer More -- About censorship / John Galsworthy -- A little conversation in Herefordshire / Hilaire Belloc -- "A clergymen" / Max Beerbohm -- The free man's worship / Bertrand Russell -- On Mr. McCabe and a divine frivolity / Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- The genealogy of etiquette / Henry Louis Mencken -- Tradition / Stuart Pratt Sherman -- The critics / Philip Guedalla -- On unanswering letters / Christopher Morley.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Essays from Five Centuries. To get started finding Essays from Five Centuries, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 504

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Release: 1929

ISBN: CXImAQAAIAAJ

Description: Of the cannibals / Michel Eyquem de Montaigne -- A preface to the reader / Roger Ascham -- Of boldness ; Of travel ; Of dispatch / Francis Bacon -- A devilish usurer / Sir Thomas Overbury -- A child ; A good old man / John Earle -- A letter to a friend upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend / Sir Thomas Browne -- Of education / John Milton -- Of modesty / Jeremy Taylor -- The dangers of an honest man in much company / Abraham Cowley -- Preface : fables, ancient and modern / John Dryden -- An academy for women / Daniel Defoe -- A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- Love of glory / Sir Richard Steele -- A superstitious household / Joseph Addison -- Rules for reducing a great empire to a small one / Benjamin Franklin. Preface to Shakespeare / Samuel Johnson -- Beau Tibbs / Oliver Goldsmith -- Forth into the field / Joseph Dennie -- The old benchers of the Inner Temple / Charles Lamb -- On the fear of death / William Hazlitt -- Popular superstitions / Washington Irving -- The affliction of childhood / Thomas De Quincey -- Biography / Thomas Carlyle -- Southey's edition of the Pilgrim's progress / Thomas Babington Macaulay -- What is a university? / John Henry Newman -- Self-reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- On old age / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Ogres / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Solitude / Henry David Thoreau -- At sea / James Russell Lowell -- The two boyhoods / John Ruskin -- Milton / Matthew Arnold -- Tolstoy / William Dean Howells -- Conclusion / Walter Pater. Roman Calleva / William Henry Hudson -- An excursion / Henry James -- Pan's pipes / Robert Louis Stevenson -- A visit to Whittier / Edmund Gosse -- Prue / Alice Meynell -- Initiation / Joseph Conrad -- Leisure while you wait / Samuel McChord Crothers -- The virtuous Victorian / Agnes Repplier -- Montaigne / Maurice Hewlette -- Decadent wit / Paul Elmer More -- About censorship / John Galsworthy -- A little conversation in Herefordshire / Hilaire Belloc -- "A clergymen" / Max Beerbohm -- The free man's worship / Bertrand Russell -- On Mr. McCabe and a divine frivolity / Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- The genealogy of etiquette / Henry Louis Mencken -- Tradition / Stuart Pratt Sherman -- The critics / Philip Guedalla -- On unanswering letters / Christopher Morley.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Essays from Five Centuries. To get started finding Essays from Five Centuries, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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