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A Study of History
by Arnold J. Toynbee, D.C Somervell
THE starting-point of this book was a search for fields of historical study which would be intelligible in themselves wi...
A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
Fᴜ̈ʀ ᴅɪᴇ ᴇʀsᴛᴇ Aᴜsɢᴀʙᴇ dieses Buches habe ich kein Vorwort geschrieben – das hat freundlicherweise damal Carl Sagan über...
The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment ...
De rerum natura
by Titus Lucretius Carus
Mother of Aeneas and his race, delight of men and gods, life-giving Venus, it is your doing that under the wheeling cons...
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica
by Sir Isaac Newton
If you deny it, suppose them to be ultimately unequal, and let D be their ultimate difference.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...
by Edward Gibbon
Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which an historical writer may ascribe to himself; if any merit indeed can be...
The Stones of Venice
by John Ruskin
I. SINCE the first dominion of men was asserted over the ocean, three thrones, of mark beyond all others, have been set ...
Salomé
by Oscar Wilde
SCENE -A great terrace in the Palace of Herod, set above the banqueting-hall.
Essay concerning human understanding
by John Locke
1. Man fitted to form articulated Sounds.
A Vindication of Rights of Woman
by Mary Wollstonecraft
IN the present state of society it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths,...
Mere Christianity
by C. S. Lewis
Este presente livro pede para ser interpretado em seu contexto histórico, como um gesto de coragem para contar uma histó...
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
1.1 On board a ship carrying King Alonso of Naples and his entourage, a boatswain directs the crew to fight a great stor...
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Shelley
In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...
Poetics
by Aristotle
In this work, we propose to discuss the nature of the poetic art in general, and to treat of its different species in pa...
Essays
by Francis Bacon
1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.