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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-

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Author

Hastings, William T. 1881-1969.

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin company [c1929]

Published

1929

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction