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Eliot

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Eliot · 39 chapters

Quotes from this book

• No part of a book is so intimate as the Preface.

• "All that is written is written to our doctrine,"

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• Book II.Sample
• Book III.
• DICTES AND SAYINGS OF THE PHILOSOPHERS
• GOLDEN LEGEND.
• CATON (1483)
• AESOP. (1483)
• CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES
• MALORY'S KING ARTHUR. (1485)
• ENEYDOS (1490)
• DEDICATION OF THE INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION
• GENERAL SYLLABUS
• DEDICATION OF THE REVOLUTIONS OF THE HEAVENLY BODIES
• PREFACE TO THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN SCOTLAND
• PREFATORY LETTER TO SIR WALTER RALEIGH ON THE FAERIE QUEENE
• PREFACE TO THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
• PROOEMIUM, EPISTLE DEDICATORY, PREFACE, AND PLAN OF THE INSTAURATIO MAGNA, ETC.
• EPISTLE DEDICATORY
• PREFACE
• PREFACE
• PREFACE TO THE FIRST FOLIO EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS (1623)[A]
• PREFACE TO THE PHILOSOPHIAE NATURALIS PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA
• PREFACE TO FABLES,
• PREFACE TO JOSEPH ANDREWS
• PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY
• TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
• PREFACE TO SHAKESPEARE
• INTRODUCTION TO THE PROPYLÄEN [A]
• PREFACES TO VARIOUS VOLUMES OF POEMS
• PREFACE TO LYRICAL BALLADS
• APPENDIX TO LYRICAL BALLADS
• PREFACE TO POEMS
• ESSAY SUPPLEMENTARY TO PREFACE
• PREFACE TO CROMWELL
• PREFACE TO LEAVES OF GRASS
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• V
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• VII
• VIII