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Emile

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778

Explore Emile through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Education -- Early works to 180...

Education -- Early works to 1800
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Emily Fox-Seton : being The making of a marchioness and The methods of Lady Walderhurst

Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924; Williams, C. D. (Charles D.), 1875-1954 [Illustrator]

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Young women -- FictionAristocracy (Social class) -- FictionHousehold employees -- Fiction
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English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4

Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894

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Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603Great Britain -- History, Naval -- Tudors, 1485-1603Sailors -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Esmeralda

Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924

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Manners and customs -- Fiction
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Essay and speech on Jewish disabilities

Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859; Abrahams, Israel, 1858-1925 [Editor]; Levy, Solomon, 1872-1957 [Editor]

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Jews -- Great Britain
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Essay on Burns

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881; Noyes, George Rapall, 1873-1952 [Editor]

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Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
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Essays

Hume, David, 1711-1776; Bennett, Hannaford, 1867-1946 [Commentator]

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PhilosophyPolitical science
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Essays and Lectures

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882; Turpin, Edna Henry Lee, 1867-1952 [Editor]

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Essays
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Essays in Literature and History

Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894; Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953 [Commentator]

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Essays in Radical Empiricism

James, William, 1842-1910; Perry, Ralph Barton, 1876-1957 [Editor]

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