The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV
Lodge
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I was very much alone, and I used often to take my daily walk by myself.
From this time my tongue was, as it were, loosened, and I spoke spontaneously and without effort.
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- JOHN HENRY NEWMANSample
- I THE BEGINNINGS OF TRACTARIANISM[1]
- FOOTNOTES:
- II ON HIS SUBMISSION TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH[5]
- FOOTNOTES:
- III OF ATHENS AS A TRUE UNIVERSITY[7]
- FOOTNOTES:
- EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
- THE DESCENT OF VESUVIUS ON POMPEII[10]
- FOOTNOTES:
- LORD BEACONSFIELD
- JERUSALEM BY MOONLIGHT[12]
- CHARLES MERIVALE
- THE PERSONALITY OF AUGUSTUS CÆSAR[13]
- ALEXANDER W. KINGLAKE
- I ON MOCKING AT THE SPHINX[15]
- II THE BEGINNING OF THE CRIMEAN WAR[16]
- CHARLES DARWIN
- I ON VARIATIONS IN MAMMALS, BIRDS AND FISHES[17]
- II THE GENESIS OF A GREAT BOOK[18]
- JOHN BROWN
- RAB AND THE GAME CHICKEN[19]
- WILLIAM M. THACKERAY
- I THE IMPERTURBABLE MARLBOROUGH[20]
- II AT THE BALL BEFORE THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO[21]
- III THE DEATH OF COLONEL NEWCOME[23]
- IV LONDON IN THE TIME OF THE FIRST GEORGE[24]
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHARLES DICKENS
- I SIDNEY CARTON'S DEATH[27]
- II BOB SAWYER'S PARTY[28]
- III DICK SWIVELLER AND THE MARCHIONESS[29]
- IV A HAPPY RETURN OF THE DAY[30]
- CHARLOTTE BRONTE
- OF THE AUTHOR OF "VANITY FAIR"[31]
- JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
- I OF HISTORY AS A SCIENCE[32]
- FOOTNOTES:
- II THE CHARACTER OF HENRY VIII[35]
- III CÆSAR'S MISSION[36]
- JOHN RUSKIN
- I OF THE HISTORY AND SOVEREIGNTY OF VENICE[37]
- II ST. MARK'S AT VENICE[39]
- FOOTNOTES:
- III OF WATER[41]
- FOOTNOTES:
- GEORGE ELIOT
- AT THE HALL FARM[43]
- HERBERT SPENCER
- I THE ORIGIN OF PROFESSIONAL OCCUPATIONS[44]
- FOOTNOTES:
- II SELF-DEPENDENCE AND PATERNALISM[46]
- III THE ORNAMENTAL AND THE USEFUL IN EDUCATION[48]
- FOOTNOTES:
- IV REMINISCENCES OF HIS BOYHOOD[50]
- V A TRIBUTE TO E. L. YOUMANS[51]
- FOOTNOTES:
- VI WHY HE NEVER MARRIED[53]
- HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE
- I THE ISOLATION OF SPAIN[54]
- FOOTNOTES:
- II GEORGE III AND THE ELDER PITT[56]
- MATTHEW ARNOLD
- THE MOTIVE FOR CULTURE[57]
- EDWARD A. FREEMAN
- THE DEATH OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR[58]
- THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
- ON A PIECE OF CHALK[60]
- FREDERIC HARRISON
- THE GREAT BOOKS OF THE WORLD[61]
- JOHN RICHARD GREEN
- GEORGE WASHINGTON[62]
- JOHN MORLEY
- VOLTAIRE AS AN AUTHOR AND AS A MAN OF ACTION[63]
- ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
- I FRANCIS VILLON'S TERRORS[64]
- II THE LANTERN BEARERS[65]