Harvard Classics Volume 28--Essays English and American

About this eBook

Editor

Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926

Title

Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American

Credits

Produced by Al Haines

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

American essays

Category

Text

eBook-No.

21962

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21962

Release Date

June 29, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Thomas H. Huxley — THE HARVARD CLASSICS — EDITED BY CHARLES W ELIOT LL D
2. 2.ESSAYS ENGLISH AND AMERICAN — WITH INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS — "DR ELIOT'S FIVE-FOOT SHELF OF BOOKS" — P F COLLIER & SON NEW YORK
3. 3.CONTENTS — INTRODUCTORY NOTE — JONATHAN SWIFT[1] — BY WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY — THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY — BY — JOHN HENRY NEWMAN — INTRODUCTORY NOTE — THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY — I. WHAT IS A UNIVERSITY? — II. SITE OF A UNIVERSITY — III. UNIVERSITY LIFE AT ATHENS — THE STUDY OF POETRY — BY — MATTHEW ARNOLD — INTRODUCTORY NOTE — THE STUDY OF POETRY[1] — Fragment of Homer's Iliad [3] — Fragment of Homer's Iliad [4] — Fragment of Homer's Iliad [5] — SESAME AND LILIES — BY — JOHN RUSKIN — INTRODUCTORY NOTE — SESAME AND LILIES — LECTURE I—SESAME OF KINGS' TREASURIES[1] — SESAME AND LILIES — LECTURE—II—LILIES[1] OF QUEENS' GARDENS. — JOHN MILTON — BY — WALTER BAGEHOT — INTRODUCTORY NOTE — JOHN MILTON[1] — (1859) — SCIENCE AND CULTURE — BY — THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY — INTRODUCTORY NOTE — SCIENCE AND CULTURE[1] — RACE AND LANGUAGE — BY — EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN — INTRODUCTORY NOTE — RACE AND LANGUAGE[1] — TRUTH OF INTERCOURSE — SAMUEL PEPYS — BY — ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON — INTRODUCTORY NOTE — TRUTH OF INTERCOURSE — SAMUEL PEPYS — THE DIARY — A LIBERAL GENIUS — RESPECTABILITY — ON THE ELEVATION OF THE LABORING CLASSES — BY — WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING — INTRODUCTORY NOTE — INTRODUCTORY REMARKS — ON THE ELEVATION OF THE LABORING CLASSES — LECTURE II — THE POETIC PRINCIPLE — BY — EDGAR ALLAN POE — INTRODUCTORY NOTE — THE POETIC PRINCIPLE — WALKING — BY — HENRY DAVID THOREAU — INTRODUCTORY NOTE — WALKING — [1862] — THE OLD MARLBOROUGH ROAD — ABRAHAM LINCOLN — DEMOCRACY — BY — JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL — INTRODUCTORY NOTE — ABRAHAM LINCOLN — 1864-1865 — DEMOCRACY — INAUGURAL ADDRESS ON ASSUMING THE PRESIDENCY OF THE BIRMINGHAM AND MIDLAND INSTITUTE, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, 6 OCTOBER, 1884

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