A Shooter
音频 Thursday, Wednesday, 26 Oct. 1825 I was once acquainted with a famous shooter whose name was William Ewing. He was a barrister of...
On National Prejudices
原文音频 As I am one of that sauntering tribe of mortals, who spend the greatest part of their time in taverns, coffee houses, and other...
Letter to Lord Chesterfield
原文音频 My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the...
Sunday in the Country
原文音频 I am always very well pleased with a country Sunday, and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution, it...
A Modest Proposal
原文音频 for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them...
Of Studies
原文音频 Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament,...
SELF-CULTIVATION IN ENGLISH
音频 SELF-CULTIVATION IN ENGLISH, by George Herbert Palmer, published 1909 by the Houghton Mifflin Company of Boston as one of the...
THE THEORY OF THE LIBERAL COLLEGE
音频 THE THEORY OF THE LIBERAL COLLEGE, by Alexander Meiklejohn, from his Freedom and the College, New York, The Century Company, 1923, pp....
WHAT IS A UNIVERSITY?
音频 WHAT IS A UNIVERSITY?by John Henry Newman, from his Rise and Progress of Universities, Chapter II, reprinted in his Historical...
THE AMERICAN LOVE OF FREEDOM
音频 THE AMERICAN LOVE OF FREEDOM, from his “Conciliation with the Colonies.” Speech in Parliament March 22, 1775, against the Penal Bill...
