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Angling Sketches

Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912

Explore Angling Sketches through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Fishing”. Begin with...

Fishing
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Anima Poetæ

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834; Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, 1846-1920 [Editor]

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Quotations, EnglishColeridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- QuotationsColeridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
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Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates

Plato, 428? BCE-348? BCE; Brooks, Edward, 1831-1912 [Commentator]; Cary, Henry, 1804-1870 [Translator]

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Socrates, 470 BC-399 BC
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Autobiography and Selected Essays

Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895

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Science
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Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626; Montagu, Basil, 1770-1851 [Contributor]; Spiers, A. (Alexander), 1807-1869 [Contributor]

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English essays -- Early modern, 1500-1700Mythology, ClassicalBacon, Francis, 1561-1626
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Books and Bookmen

Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912

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BooksBook collectingBibliomania
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Cape Cod

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862; Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940 [Illustrator]

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Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Description and travel
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Compensation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

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American essays -- 19th century
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Courage

Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937

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Courage
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