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Includes 140 Essays By 120 Writers: Classics, Curiosities, Meditations, Diversions, Old Favorites, And Recent Examples. Of Truth ; Of Revenge ; Of Boldness ; Of Innovations ; Of Masques And Triumphs / Sir Francis Bacon -- A Chambermaid ; A Fair And Happy Milkmaid / Sir Thomas Overbury -- An Antiquary ; A Goold Old Man ; A Pot-poet / John Earle -- How The Distempers Of These Times Should Affect Wise Men / Owen Felltham -- On Dreams / Sir Thomas Browne -- Of Anger / Thomas Fuller -- A Degenerate Noble / Samuel Butler -- Of Charity, Of The Love Of God / Jeremy Taylor -- Of Avarice / Abraham Cowley -- Cahucer (from Preface To The Fables) -- Good Manners And Good Breeding ; A Meditation Upon A Broom-stick / Jonathan Swift -- Thoughts In Westminster Abbey ; The Royal Exchange ; Sir Roger In Westminster Abbey ; Sir Roger At Vauxhall / Joseph Addison -- On Recollections Of Childhood / Sir Richard Steele -- Upon Affectation / Lord Chesterfield -- The Levee / Benjamin Franklin -- The Poor And Their Betters / Henry Fielding -- Dignity And Uses Of Biography ; Conversation ; Debtors' Prisons (1) ; Debtors' Prisons (2) / Samuel Johnson -- Of The Dignity Or Meanness Of Human Nature / David Hume -
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- Author
- Gross, John J
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192142139
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Computer Science, Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.26 / 5 (61 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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