Chapters (10)
- Title Page
- Bibliographical Note
- Copyright Page
- Note
- A FULL AND TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE FOUGHT LAST FRIDAY BETWEEN THE ANCIENT AND THE MODERN BOOKS IN SAINT JAMES’S LIBRARY.1
- A MEDITATION UPON A BROOMSTICK43
- A DISCOURSE CONCERNING THE MECHANICAL OPERATION OF THE SPIRIT. IN A LETTER TO A FRIEND. A FRAGMENT.
- AN ARGUMENT TO PROVE THAT THE ABOLISHING OF CHRISTIANITY IN ENGLAND MAY, AS THINGS NOW STAND, BE ATTENDED WITH SOME INCONVENIENCES, AND PERHAPS NOT PRODUCE THOSE MANY GOOD EFFECTS PROPOSED THEREBY.
- A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR PREVENTING THE CHILDREN OF POOR PEOPLE IN IRELAND FROM BEING A BURTHEN TO THEIR PARENTS OR COUNTRY, AND FOR MAKING THEM BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLIC.
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BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, Friedrich Nietzsche. 176pp. 0-486-29868-X
THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY, Friedrich Nietzsche. 96pp. 0-486-28515-4
COMMON SENSE, Thomas Paine. 64pp. 0-486-29602-4
SYMPOSIUM AND PHAEDRUS, Plato. 96pp. 0-486-27798-4
THE TRIAL AND DEATH OF SOCRATES: Four Dialogues, Plato. 128pp. 0-486-27066-1
A MODEST PROPOSAL AND OTHER SATIRICAL WORKS, Jonathan Swift. 64pp. 0-486-28759-9
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AND OTHER ESSAYS, Henry David Thoreau. 96pp. 0-486-27563-9
WALDEN; OR, LIFE IN THE WOODS, Henry David Thoreau. 224pp. 0-486-28495-6
NARRATIVE OF SOJOURNER TRUTH, Sojourner Truth. 80pp. 0-486-29899-X
THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE GLASS, Thorstein Veblen. 256pp. 0-486-28062-4
DE PROFUNDIS, Oscar Wilde. 64pp. 0-486-29308-4
OSCAR WILDE’s WIT AND WISDOM: A Book of Quotations, Oscar Wilde. 64pp. 0-486-40146-4
UP FROM SLAVERY, Booker T. Washington. 160pp. 0-486-28738-6
A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN, Mary Wollstonecraft. 224pp. 0-486-29036-0
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1
Saint James’s Library] the royal library, kept in St. James’s Palace in London.
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the former] A Tale of a Tub, which was published anonymously with “The Battle of the Books” and “A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit.”
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William Temple ... Boyle] Sir William Temple (1628-99) wrote “An Essay upon Ancient and Modern Learning” in his Miscellanea. Second Part (1690); William Wotton (1666—1726) wrote Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning (1694); Richard Bentley (1662-1742), the renowned classical scholar, argued that Phalaris’ Epistles were a late Greek forgery and that Æsop’s Fables were later than Temple suggested in his essay; Charles Boyle (1674—1731) published an edition of Phalaris’ Epistle in 1695.
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copperas] a green hydrated ferrous sulfate used in making ink.
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Their title-pages.
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brutum hominis] the heavy, corporeal part of man.
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The honourable Mr. Boyle, in the preface to his edition of Phalaris, says he was refused a MS. by the library-keeper [Dr. Bentley], “pro solita humanitate suâ” [“with that courtesy which distinguishes him”].
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two ... chiefs] Phalaris and Æsop.
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Withers] George Withers (1588-1667), Puritan poet and pamphleteer.
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According to the modern paradox.
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improvements ... mathematics] an argument for the excellence of modern learning.
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Tasso ... Hobbes] Torquato Tasso (1544-95), John Milton (1608-74), John Dryden (1631—1700) and George Withers; epic poets are considered full-armed horsemen and the lyrical poets light-horsemen, commanded by Abraham Cowley (1618-67) and Despreaux, better known as Nicholas Boileau (1636—1711). The bowmen, or philosophers, are led by René Descartes (1596-1650), Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655) and Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679).
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