Classical Works from the Library of Philip Atkinson

Author Title Joseph Addison Essays John Arbuthnot Political Lying Jane Austen The Fearsome Past Of General Tilney Francis Bacon Of Deformity; Of Friendship James Boswell Johnson Meets Monboddo— The Execution Of Gibson And Payne Jean de la Bruyère Characters Edmund Burke Letter to a Noble Lord— Letter to a member of the National Assembly of France Man's Obligation To The State— Reflections On The Revolution In France The Nature Of Society— Thoughts On French Affairs— Selected Prose Of Edmund Burke Maxims And Reflections Of Burke (Includes Burke's opinion of Thomas Paine) Joseph Butler Altruism And Self-Love— The Need For Forms In Religion Samuel Butler Military Government— On the Ignorance Of The Learned Earl Of Clarendon The Character Of Oliver Cromwell— Reflections On The Past Abraham Cowley Of Myself— Of Solitude George Crabbe Peter Grimes from The Borough Daniel Defoe A Young Thief— Money All-Powerfull John Dryden Chaucer As A Poet— True Satire Desiderius Erasmus Praise of Folly George Etherege The Man Of Mode Or 'Sir Fopling Flutter' Henry Fielding Of Love ( from A History Of Tom Jones, A Foundling)— The Rules Of Good Breeding Edward Gibbon The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire An Oxford College— Gibbon Sums Up Oliver Goldsmith A Comparison between Laughing and Sentimental Comedy— Beau Tibbs Letter To Mrs Bunbury— She Stoops To Conquer— The Fame Coach The Man In Black— The Vicar Of Wakefield— Verse William Hazlitt Of Persons One Would Wish To Have Seen— On Going A Journey— On Good Nature On The Disadvantage Of Intellectual Superiority— On The Ignorance Of The Learned On The Knowledge of Character— The Indian Jugglers My First Aquaintance With Poets

Author Title David Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (The Case Against Theism ) Annihilation Of The Order Of The Knights Templar Delicacy Of Taste And Delicacy Of Passion Massacre Of The Jews At The Coronation Of Richard I (1189) Of The Standard Of Taste— Of The Study Of History— Of Tragedy Superstition— The Maid of Orleans Richard Hurd Objections To The Grand Tour Samuel Johnson from A Journey To The Western Islands Of Scotland—Dictionary (Preface) Disciplining Children— Fortitude— Letter to Lord Chesterfield Lives Of The Poets— Pope and Dryden— William Collins—Joseph Addison Molly Quick's Complaint Of Her Mistress— Shakespeare The Art Of Biography— The Death Of Dr Robert Levet— The 'Idler' Essays Charles Lamb Imperfect Sympathies Alexander Pope Atticus — Essay on Criticism— The Genius Of Homer The Necessity For Bad Poetry Sir Walter Raleigh Worldly Wisdom John Ruskin Essays On Political Economy— The Political Economy Of Art— Unto This Last Tobias Smollett The Troubles Of A Fortune Hunter Adam Smith of the Division Of Labour— Letter about the death of David Hume Sir Richard Steele A Coquette— Introduction (to the first issue of The Tatler) Mr Bickerstaff's Correspondents— On 'The Man of Mode' The Club At The Trumpet— The Mohock Club The Pangs Of A Jilted Lover— The Story Of Alexander Selkirk Laurence Sterne War On Two Fronts; (from "The Life And Opinons Of Tristram Shandy, Gent") Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus The Twelve Caesars Jonathan Swift A Meditation Upon A Broom-Stick— A Modest Proposal — A Tale Of A Tub Argument Against Abolishing Christianity— Directions To Servants Resolutions: When I Come To Be Old— Swift's Correspondence The Examiner— The Journal To Stella— The Partridge-Bickerstaff Papers Thoughts: On Various Subjects— Verse Pieces Cornelius Tacitus Agricola— Germany— The Annals— The Histories Voltaire Candide—The Travels Of Scarmentado John Wilmot A Satyr Against Mankind

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