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Title: Harvard Classics Volume 28
Essays English and American

Author: Various

Editor: Charles W. Eliot

Release Date: June 29, 2007 [EBook #21962]

Language: English

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARVARD CLASSICS VOLUME 28 ***

Produced by Al Haines

[Frontispiece: Thomas H. Huxley]

THE HARVARD CLASSICS

EDITED BY CHARLES W ELIOT LL D

ESSAYS

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN

WITH INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS

"DR ELIOT'S FIVE-FOOT SHELF OF BOOKS"

P F COLLIER & SON

NEW YORK

[Transcriber's note: This book contains a number of Greek fragments.
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Copyright 1910
BY P. F. COLLIER & Son

Copyright 1886
BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

By arrangement with
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

Copyright 1889
BY THE TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY
OF HARTFORD, CONN.

Copyright 1891
BY THE TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY

CONTENTS

JONATHAN SWIFT
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY
I. WHAT IS A UNIVERSITY?
II. SITE OF A UNIVERSITY
III. UNIVERSITY LIFE AT ATHENS
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

THE STUDY OF POETRY
MATTHEW ARNOLD

SESAME AND LILIES
LECTURE I--SESAME: OF KINGS' TREASURIES
LECTURE II--LILIES: OF QUEENS' GARDENS
JOHN RUSKIN

JOHN MILTON
WALTER BAGEHOT

SCIENCE AND CULTURE
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

RACE AND LANGUAGE
EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN

TRUTH OF INTERCOURSE
SAMUEL PEPYS
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

ON THE ELEVATION OF THE LABORING CLASSES
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING

THE POETIC PRINCIPLE
EDGAR ALLAN POE

WALKING