Found 1,632 results for "Robert Bacon"
Essays
by Francis Bacon
1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.
Robert Bacon
by James Brown Scott
MORAL character, energy, and industry are ascribed to Nathaniel, the first of the Bacons to set foot upon the soil of Ne...
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about...
The complete poetical works
by Robert Burns
MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!
Utopia
by Thomas More
UPON a time when tidings came to the City of Corinth that King Philip, father to Alexander surnamed the Great, was comin...
The black arrow
by Robert Louis Stevenson
SIR DANIEL AND his men lay in and about Kettley that night, warmly quartered and well patrolled.
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 ...
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Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]
by William Shakespeare
THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...
The House of Seven Gables Readalong
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
HALFWAY DOWN A bystreet of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, f...
The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
1.1 Antonio, a Venetian merchant, has invested all his wealth in trading expeditions.
Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...
Ab urbe condita
by Titus Livius
Quae ab condita urbe Roma ad captam eandem Romani sub regibus primum, consulibus deinde ac dictatoribus decemuirisque ac...