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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)--Great Britain and Ireland II

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)--Great Britain and Ireland II

by Henry Cabot Lodge

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Editor
Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919
Title
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II
Credits
E-text prepared by Joseph R. Hauser, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Language
English
LoC Class
PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
Subject
Literature -- Collections
Category
Text
eBook-No.
21775
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21775
Release Date
June 8, 2007
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE BEST — of the — World's Classics — RESTRICTED TO PROSE
  2. 2.FRANCIS W. HALSEY — Associate Editor — With an Introduction, Biographical and Explanatory Notes, etc. — IN TEN VOLUMES — Vol. IV — GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND—II — FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY — NEW YORK AND LONDON — FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
  3. 3.The Best of the World's Classics — VOL. IV — GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND—II — 1672-1800
  4. 4.Vol. IV—Great Britain and Ireland—II
  5. 5.1672-1800
  6. 6.SIR RICHARD STEELE
  7. 7.OF COMPANIONS AND FLATTERERS
  8. 8.THE STORY-TELLER AND HIS ART [1]
  9. 9.SIR ROGER AND THE WIDOW [2]
  10. 10.THE COVERLEY FAMILY PORTRAITS [3]
  11. 11.ON CERTAIN SYMPTOMS OF GREATNESS [4]
  12. 12.HOW TO BE HAPPY THO MARRIED [5] — FOOTNOTES:
  13. 13.LORD BOLINGBROKE
  14. 14.OF THE SHORTNESS OF HUMAN LIFE
  15. 15.RULES FOR THE STUDY OF HISTORY [7] — FOOTNOTES:
  16. 16.ALEXANDER POPE
  17. 17.AN ANCIENT ENGLISH COUNTRY SEAT [8]
  18. 18.HIS COMPLIMENTS TO LADY MARY [9]
  19. 19.HOW TO MAKE AN EPIC POEM [11] — FOOTNOTES:
  20. 20.LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU
  21. 21.ON HAPPINESS IN THE MATRIMONIAL STATE [14]
  22. 22.INOCULATION FOR THE SMALLPOX [15] — FOOTNOTES:
  23. 23.LORD CHESTERFIELD
  24. 24.OF GOOD MANNERS, DRESS AND THE WORLD [16]
  25. 25.OF ATTENTIONS TO LADIES [17] — FOOTNOTES:
  26. 26.HENRY FIELDING
  27. 27.TOM THE HERO ENTERS THE STAGE [18]
  28. 28.PARTRIDGE SEES GARRICK AT THE PLAY [19]
  29. 29.MR. ADAMS IN A POLITICAL LIGHT [21] — FOOTNOTES:
  30. 30.SAMUEL JOHNSON
  31. 31.ON PUBLISHING HIS "DICTIONARY" [22]
  32. 32.POPE AND DRYDEN COMPARED [24]
  33. 33.LETTER TO CHESTERFIELD ON THE COMPLETION OF THE "DICTIONARY" [26]
  34. 34.ON THE ADVANTAGES OF LIVING IN A GARRET [27] — FOOTNOTES:
  35. 35.DAVID HUME
  36. 36.THE CHARACTER OF QUEEN ELIZABETH [29]
  37. 37.THE DEFEAT OF THE ARMADA [30]
  38. 38.THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT — FOOTNOTES:
  39. 39.LAURENCE STERNE
  40. 40.THE STARLING IN CAPTIVITY [33]
  41. 41.TO MOULINES WITH MARIA [34]
  42. 42.THE DEATH OF LE FEVRE [35]
  43. 43.PASSAGES FROM THE ROMANCE OF MY UNCLE TOBY AND THE WIDOW [36] — FOOTNOTES:
  44. 44.THOMAS GRAY
  45. 45.WARWICK CASTLE [37]
  46. 46.TO HIS FRIEND MASON ON THE DEATH OF MASON'S MOTHER [38]
  47. 47.ON HIS OWN WRITINGS [39]
  48. 48.HIS FRIENDSHIP FOR BONSTETTEN [41] — FOOTNOTES:
  49. 49.HORACE WALPOLE
  50. 50.HOGARTH [42]
  51. 51.THE WAR IN AMERICA [43]
  52. 52.THE DEATH OF GEORGE II [44] — FOOTNOTES:
  53. 53.GILBERT WHITE
  54. 54.THE CHIMNEY-SWALLOW [45] — FOOTNOTES:
  55. 55.ADAM SMITH
  56. 56.OF AMBITION MISDIRECTED [46]
  57. 57.THE ADVANTAGES OF A DIVISION OF LABOR [47] — FOOTNOTES:
  58. 58.SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
  59. 59.PROFESSIONAL SOLDIERS IN FREE COUNTRIES [48] — FOOTNOTES:
  60. 60.OLIVER GOLDSMITH
  61. 61.THE AMBITIONS OF THE VICAR'S FAMILY [51]
  62. 62.SAGACITY IN INSECTS [52]
  63. 63.A CHINAMAN'S VIEW OF LONDON [53] — FOOTNOTES:
  64. 64.EDMUND BURKE
  65. 65.THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD TASTE [54]
  66. 66.THE LETTER TO A NOBLE LORD [55]
  67. 67.ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON [56]
  68. 68.MARIE ANTOINETTE [57] — FOOTNOTES:
  69. 69.WILLIAM COWPER
  70. 70.OF KEEPING ONE'S SELF EMPLOYED [58]
  71. 71.ON JOHNSON'S TREATMENT OF MILTON [59]
  72. 72.ON THE PUBLICATION OF HIS BOOKS [60] — FOOTNOTES:
  73. 73.EDWARD GIBBON
  74. 74.THE ROMANCE OF HIS YOUTH [64]
  75. 75.THE INCEPTION AND COMPLETION OF HIS "DECLINE AND FALL" [66]
  76. 76.THE FALL OF ZENOBIA [67] — (271 a.d. )
  77. 77.ALARIC'S ENTRY INTO ROME [71] — (410 a.d. )
  78. 78.THE DEATH OF HOSEIN [72]
  79. 79.THE CAUSES OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CITY OF ROME [77] — FOOTNOTES: — END OF VOLUME IV.

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