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9,386 philosophy & ideas

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An Address to Lord Teignmouth, president of the British and Foreign Bible Society, occasioned by his address to the clergy of the Church of England
Thomas Sikes · ideas
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An Address to Men of Science
Richard Carlile · ideas
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An Address to the People of New-England
Samuel Hopkins · ideas
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An Address to the Sisters of St. Peter's Home, Brompton
Edward Meyrick Goulburn · ideas
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An Almond for a Parrot: Being a reply to Martin Mar-Prelate.
Thomas Nash · play
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An Amicable Controversy with a Jewish Rabbi, on The Messiah's Coming
John Ranicar Park · ideas
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An analysis of religious belief
John Russell viscount Amberley · ideas
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An analyticall exposition of both the Epistles of the Apostle Peter
William Ames · ideas
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An Answer to a Question that Nobody thinks of, viz., But what if the Queen should Die?
Daniel Defoe · ideas
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An Answer to a scurrilous pamphlet, lately printed, intituled, A letter from Monsieur de Cros, to the Lord ----
William Temple · ideas
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An Apologie for the Royal Party (1659); and A Panegyric to Charles the Second (1661)
John Evelyn · ideas
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An apology for abolitionists
Conn. Anti-slavery Society of Meriden · ideas
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An apology for atheism
Charles Southwell · ideas
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An apology for idlers, and other essays
Robert Louis Stevenson · ideas
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An apology for the study of northern antiquities
Elizabeth Elstob · science
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An Apology for the True Christian Divinity
Robert Barclay · ideas
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An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans
Lydia Maria Child · ideas
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An Appeal to Honour and Justice, Though It Be of His Worst Enemies.
Daniel Defoe · ideas
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An Appeal to the British Nation on the Humanity and Policy of Forming a National Institution for the Preservation of Lives and Property from Shipwreck (1825)
William Sir Hillary · ideas
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An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
Angelina Emily Grimké · ideas
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An Appeal to the People in Behalf of Their Rights as Authorized Interpreters of the Bible
Catharine Esther Beecher · ideas
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An Artist's Letters from Japan
John La Farge · travel
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An Atheist Manifesto
Joseph Lewis · ideas
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An Attic Philosopher in Paris — Complete
Émile Souvestre · novel
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An Attic Philosopher in Paris — Volume 1
Émile Souvestre · novel
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An Attic Philosopher in Paris — Volume 2
Émile Souvestre · novel
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An Attic Philosopher in Paris — Volume 3
Émile Souvestre · novel
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An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages
Martin Farquhar Tupper · ideas
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An Earnest Exhortation to a Frequent Reception of the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper
James Allan Park · ideas
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An Easter Disciple: The Chronicle of Quintus, the Roman Knight
Arthur Benton Sanford · novel
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An economic interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
Charles A. Beard · ideas
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An Edinburgh Eleven: Pencil Portraits from College Life
J. M. Barrie · biography
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An English Garner: Critical Essays & Literary Fragments
Edward Arber · ideas
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An Englishman Looks at the World
H. G. Wells · ideas
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An Englishwoman in the Philippines
Campbell Mrs. Dauncey · travel
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An Englishwoman in Utah: The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism
T. B. H. Mrs. Stenhouse · biography
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An Englishwoman's Love-Letters
Laurence Housman · novel
The story in one page
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
We see one event follow another. We assume a rule. We are probably guessing.
David Hume · ideas
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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
David Hume · ideas
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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty, etc.
Frances Reynolds · ideas
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An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War
Bernard Mandeville · ideas
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An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens
William Carey · ideas
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An epitome of astronomy, with the new discoveries
William Walker · science
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1
John Locke · ideas
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2
John Locke · ideas
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An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent
John Henry Newman · ideas
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An essay in defence of the female sex
Judith active Drake · ideas
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An Essay on Colophons, with Specimens and Translations
Alfred W. Pollard · reference