The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II.
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from private notes taken in America then wrote his masterpiece, "Democracy in America,"
Unlimited power is in itself a bad and dangerous thing.
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- ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLESample
- THE TYRANNY OF THE AMERICAN MAJORITY[1]
- ALFRED DE MUSSET
- TITIAN'S SON AFTER A NIGHT AT PLAY[2]
- FOOTNOTES:
- THEOPHILE GAUTIER
- PHARAOH'S ENTRY INTO THEBES[3]
- GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
- YONGEVILLE AND ITS PEOPLE[4]
- JOSEPH ERNEST RENAN
- AN EMPIRE IN ROBUST YOUTH[5]
- FOOTNOTES:
- HIPPOLITE ADOLPHE TAINE
- I THACKERAY AS A SATIRIST[7]
- II WHEN THE KING GOT UP FOR THE DAY[8]
- EMILE ZOLA
- GLIMPSES OF NAPOLEON III IN TIME OF WAR[9]
- ALPHONSE DAUDET
- I A GREAT MAN'S WIDOW[10]
- II MY FIRST DRESS COAT[11]
- GUY DE MAUPASSANT
- MADAME JEANNE'S LAST DAYS[12]
- MARTIN LUTHER
- SOME OF HIS TABLE TALK AND SAYINGS[13]
- GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING
- I POETRY AND PAINTING COMPARED[14]
- II OF SUFFERING HELD IN RESTRAINT[15]
- JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
- I ON FIRST READING SHAKESPEARE[16]
- II THE CORONATION OF JOSEPH II[17]
- FOOTNOTES:
- FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
- I THE BATTLE OF LUTZEN[18] (1632)
- FOOTNOTES:
- II PHILIP II AND THE NETHERLANDS[20]
- AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL
- SHAKESPEARE'S MACBETH[21]
- FOOTNOTES:
- ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT
- AN ESSAY ON MAN[22]
- FOOTNOTES:
- HEINRICH HEINE
- REMINISCENCES OF NAPOLEON[23]
- MARCO POLO
- A DESCRIPTION OF JAPAN[24]
- FOOTNOTES:
- DANTE ALIGHIERI
- I THAT LONG DESCENT MAKES NO MAN NOBLE[26]
- FOOTNOTES:
- II OF BEATRICE AND HER DEATH[27]
- FRANCIS PETRARCH
- OF GOOD AND EVIL FORTUNE[28]
- GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO
- THE PATIENT GRISELDA[29]
- FOOTNOTES:
- NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
- OUGHT PRINCES TO KEEP THEIR PROMISES[30]
- FOOTNOTES:
- BENVENUTO CELLINI
- THE CASTING OF HIS "PERSEUS AND MEDUSA"[31]
- FOOTNOTES:
- GIORGIO VASARI
- OF RAPHAEL AND HIS EARLY DEATH[33]
- FOOTNOTES:
- JACQUES CASANOVA CHEVALIER DE SEINGALT
- HIS INTERVIEW WITH FREDERICK THE GREAT[38]
- DESIDERIUS ERASMUS
- SPECIMENS OF HIS WIT AND WISDOM[39]
- MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
- I THE BEGINNINGS OF DON QUIXOTE'S CAREER[46]
- II OF HOW DON QUIXOTE DIED[47]
- HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
- THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES[49]
- IVAN TURGENEFF
- BAZAROV'S DEATH[50]
- HENRIK IBSEN
- THE THOUGHT CHILD[51]
- COUNT LEO TOLSTOY
- SHAKESPEARE NOT A GREAT GENIUS[52]