| Description |
xvii, 479 pages : frontispiece, color plates portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The world's great books. Aldine edition
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World's great books (Aldine edition)
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| Contents |
Essays and essayists, by H.K. Johnson.--Of the institution and education of Children, by M.E. de Montaigne.--The defence of poesy, by Sir Philip Sidney.--Areopagitica ... by John Milton.--A discourse, by way of vision, concerning the government of Oliver Cromwell, by Abraham Cowley.--Of rewarding genius in England, by Oliver Goldsmith.--Common sense, by Thomas Paine.--The crisis, by Thomas Paine.--The philosophy of proverbs, by Isaac Disraeli.--A complaint of the decay of beggars, by Charles Lamb.--The convalescent, by Charles Lamb.--Rural funerals, by Washington Irving.--Thomas Ellwood, by J.G. Whittier.--On a certain condescension in foreigners, by J.R. Lowell.--Intellectual health and disease, by Edwin Percy Whipple.--Hindrances to spiritual growth, by John Campbell Shairp.--Sweetness and light, by Matthew Arnold.--A complaint of friends, by Gail Hamilton.--The pageant of summer, by Richard Jefferies.--Child's play, by Robert Louis Stevenson. |
| Subject |
English essays.
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English essays. |
| Added Author |
Johnson, Helen Kendrick, 1844-1917.
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