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De la démocratie en Amérique
De la démocratie en Amérique

by Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont

AFTER the birth of a human being, his early years are obscurely spent in the toils or pleasures of childhood.

1835 421 ed.
The Constitution of the United States and related documents
The Constitution of the United States and related documents

by United States

SECTION 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist...

1787 146 ed.
πολιτεία
πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

The first chapter consists of a typical early Platonic dialogue: it was possibly originally written separately from the ...

1554 794 ed.
The Federalist, or, The New Constitution
The Federalist, or, The New Constitution

by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison

AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberat...

1788 349 ed.
The Prince
The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

ALL THE STATES and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedom...

1515 1407 ed.
It Can't Happen Here
It Can't Happen Here

by Sinclair Lewis

The handsome dining room of the Hotel Wessex, with its gilded plaster shields and the mural depicting the Green Mountain...

1935 157 ed.
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

THE history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

1848 459 ed.
Du contrat social
Du contrat social

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Tal vez no sea superfluo, al introducir el célebre libro de Rousseau, señalar como punto de partida que estamos ante un ...

1762 216 ed.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.

1791 679 ed.
The Second World War
The Second World War

by Winston S. Churchill

NOW at last the slowly-gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us.

1948 203 ed.
Walden
Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in ...

1854 1139 ed.
Rights of Man
Rights of Man

by Thomas Paine

AMONG the incivilities by which nations or individuals provoke and irritate each other, Mr. Burke's pamphlet on the Fren...

1791 279 ed.
Candide
Candide

by Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...

1746 1079 ed.
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

Enter Leonato Gouernour of Messina, Innogen his wife, Hero his daughter, and Beatrice his Neece, with a messenger.

1600 401 ed.
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...

1600 1594 ed.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

ONES-SELF I sing, a simple separate person,

1855 755 ed.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

MY FATHER'S FAMILY NAME being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...

1861 1489 ed.