Jonathan Swift by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -- What is a University?; Site of a University; University Life at Athens by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -- The Study of Poetry by MATTHEW ARNOLD -- Sesame: of Kings' Treasuries; Lilies: of Queens' Gardens by JOHN RUSKIN -- John Milton by WALTER BAGEHOT -- Science and Culture by THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY -- Race and Language by EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN -- Truth of Intercourse; Samuel Pepys by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -- On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING -- The Poetic Principle by EDGAR ALLAN POE -- Walking by HENRY DAVID THOREAU -- Abraham Lincoln; Democracy by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

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