Essays & Correspondence
epub |eng | 2009-12-28 | Author:Soren Kierkegaard

III The Results of Observing the Two Ages So here I am now at the final section, and with the difficulty the author has posed the critic by himself making ...
( Category: Philosophy April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Peter Abelard

Letter 7 Abelard to Heloise This long letter is Abelard’s answer to Heloise’s first question about the origin of nuns. To us it seems prolix and not very logical in ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-21 | Author:Torie Bosch

Before flying to Buenos Aires, I had downloaded the original Planet of the Apes to watch on the plane. I’d forgotten that the orangutans in the story are actually bad ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-03 | Author:Lorrie Moore

By this time, however, she was more than a little in love with a Jacksonian, John Robinson. He was also a writer (with Welty’s help he had a story published ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-04-08 | Author:Collier, Jane; Craik, Katharine A.;

End of Part the First PART THE SECOND HIS second part is addressed to those, who have no legal or exterior authority, but who may be said to have an ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-08 | Author:Iain Sinclair [Iain Sinclair]

As a kid, we used to travel on airplanes all the time. Every summer we flew from Austin to London or Hamburg (my mother’s family still has a house, about ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:James Agee [Agee, James]

[Monks Farm] [Stockton, New Jersey] Wednesday 29 August [1939] Dear Father: This won’t or shouldn’t be much of a letter, but knowing I must be at work and that I ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Bradford Morrow

On Monday, Kath found Paul’s door open by a finger’s width and the whole office charged with a strange atmosphere. Fraught. Some days, her patients told her, it’s better to ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 1971-01-02 | Author:Townsend, Sue [Townsend, Sue]

Tuesday June 23rd I have got tonsillitis. It is official. I am on antibiotics. Pandora sits by my bed reading aloud to me. I wish she wouldn’t, every word is ...
( Category: Humor & Satire April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-07 | Author:Daley, James;

ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809–1865) by Frederick Douglass (1876) Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, best known for putting an end to slavery and stewarding the nation through ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides April 7,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:John Adams

131. JOHN ADAMS 18 August 1776 My letters to you are an odd mixture. They would appear to a stranger like the dish which is sometimes called omnium gatherum. This ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-07 | Author:Lucius Annaeus Seneca

LXXXII. ON THE NATURAL FEAR OF DEATH I HAVE ALREADY ceased to be anxious about you. “Whom then of the gods,” you ask, “have you found as your voucher?” A ...
( Category: Philosophy April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-06 | Author:Dan Tucker [TUCKER, DAN / HOLZER, HAROLD]

Address to the New Jersey Senate at Trenton, New Jersey February 21, 1861 … I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall ...
( Category: Historical April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-08 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

VI The outcome of the Spanish war was settled in London, Paris, Rome, Berlin – at any rate not in Spain. After the summer of 1937 those with eyes in ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:John Ruskin

ST. MARK’S [Stones of Venice, Vol. II, Ch. 4.] “AND so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus.” If as the shores of Asia lessened upon his sight, the spirit ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 7,2018 )