Lectures and Essays
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Chapters (23)(click to expand)
- LECTURES AND ESSAYS
- PREFATORY NOTE.
- CONTENTS.
- THE GREATNESS OF THE ROMANS
- THE GREATNESS OF ENGLAND
- THE GREAT DUEL OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- THE LAMPS OF FICTION
- AN ADDRESS DELIVERED TO THE OXFORD SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND ART AT THE DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES
- LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
- THE ASCENT OF MAN.
- PROPOSED SUBSTITUTES FOR RELIGION
- THE LABOUR MOVEMENT
- "WHAT IS CULPABLE LUXURY?"
- A TRUE CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY.
- A WIREPULLER OF KINGS.
- THE EARLY YEARS OF THE CONQUEROR OF QUEBEC
- FALKLAND AND THE PURITANS
- THE EARLY YEARS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
- ALFREDUS REX FUNDATOR
- THE LAST REPUBLICANS OF ROME
- AUSTEN-LEIGH'S MEMOIR OF JANE AUSTEN
- PATTISON'S MILTON
- COLERIDGE'S LIFE OF KEBLE.
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