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Principles of Political Economy
Principles of Political Economy

by John Stuart Mill

1. HAVING proceeded thus far in ascertaining the general laws of Value, without introducing the idea of Money (except oc...

1848 133 ed.
The Story of Philosophy
The Story of Philosophy

by Will Durant

IF YOU look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out i...

1926 141 ed.
Man and Superman
Man and Superman

by George Bernard Shaw

Roebuck Ramsden is in his study, opening the morning' letters.

1903 130 ed.
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.
Inferno
Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

Midway in his allotted threescore years and ten, Dante comes to himself with a start and realizes that he has strayed fr...

1767 446 ed.
Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus
Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus

by Max Weber

A glance at the occupational statistics for any country in which several religions coexist is revealing.

1700 137 ed.
Meditations
Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

1. From* my grandfather Venus:* the lesson of noble character and even temper.

1626 642 ed.
Bible
Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.

1200 6084 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.
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 1138 ed.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham

Whan that April with his showres soote

1478 722 ed.
A Vindication of Rights of Woman
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,...

1792 309 ed.
Moralia
Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

1500 211 ed.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

HEAVE the anchor short!

1855 755 ed.
The Wealth of Nations
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 ...

1776 123 ed.
De rerum natura
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...

1486 537 ed.
Nicomachean Ethics
Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle

THE question of the genuineness and of the literary character of each of the several works which have come down to us un...

1558 416 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.