The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II
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- GREAT BRITAIN ANDSample
- OF COMPANIONS AND FLATTERERS
- THE STORY-TELLER AND HIS ART
- SIR ROGER AND THE WIDOW
- THE COVERLEY FAMILY PORTRAITS
- ON CERTAIN SYMPTOMS OF GREATNESS
- HOW TO BE HAPPY THO MARRIED
- LORD BOLINGBROKE
- OF THE SHORTNESS OF HUMAN LIFE
- RULES FOR THE STUDY OF HISTORY
- ALEXANDER POPE
- HIS COMPLIMENTS TO LADY MARY
- HOW TO MAKE AN EPIC POEM
- Preface
- PARTRIDGE SEES GARRICK AT THE PLAY
- SAMUEL JOHNSON
- POPE AND DRYDEN COMPARED
- Chapter
- THE CHARACTER OF QUEEN ELIZABETH
- THE DEFEAT OF THE ARMADA
- THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT
- Preface
- THE STARLING IN CAPTIVITY
- TO MOULINES WITH MARIA
- THE DEATH OF LE FEVRE
- WARWICK CASTLE
- ON HIS OWN WRITINGS
- HIS FRIENDSHIP FOR BONSTETTEN
- Preface
- THE WAR IN AMERICA
- THE DEATH OF GEORGE II
- THE CHIMNEY-SWALLOW
- OF AMBITION MISDIRECTED
- THE ADVANTAGES OF A DIVISION OF LABOR
- PROFESSIONAL SOLDIERS IN FREE COUNTRIES
- THE AMBITIONS OF THE VICAR'S FAMILY
- SAGACITY IN INSECTS
- THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD TASTE
- THE LETTER TO A NOBLE LORD
- ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON
- MARIE ANTOINETTE
- Preface
- OF KEEPING ONE'S SELF EMPLOYED
- ON JOHNSON'S TREATMENT OF MILTON
- ON THE PUBLICATION OF HIS BOOKS
- THE ROMANCE OF HIS YOUTH
- THE FALL OF ZENOBIA
- ALARIC'S ENTRY INTO ROME
- THE DEATH OF HOSEIN
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