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9,386 philosophy & ideas

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An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit
George Meredith · ideas
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An Essay on Criticism
Mr. Oldmixon · ideas
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An Essay on Criticism
Alexander Pope · poetry
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An Essay on Demonology, Ghosts and Apparitions, and Popular Superstitions
James Thacher · science
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An Essay on Laughter: Its Forms, Its Causes, Its Development and Its Value
James Sully · ideas
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An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
Alexander Pope · poetry
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An Essay on Papal Infallibility
John Sinclair · ideas
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An Essay on Professional Ethics
George Sharswood · ideas
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An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad
Walter Harte · ideas
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An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism
Catharine Esther Beecher · ideas
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An essay on the American contribution and the democratic idea
Winston Churchill · ideas
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An Essay on the Beautiful, from the Greek of Plotinus
Plotinus · ideas
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An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
John Henry Newman · ideas
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An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance
John Foster · ideas
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An essay on the foundations of geometry
Bertrand Russell · ideas
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An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition
Adam Ferguson · ideas
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An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients
John Ogilvie · poetry
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An Essay on the Principle of Population
T. R. Malthus · ideas
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An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality
James Challis · ideas
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An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African
Thomas Clarkson · ideas
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An Essay on the Trial By Jury
Lysander Spooner · ideas
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An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams
Pierre Nicole · ideas
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An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
George Berkeley · ideas
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An Essay Towards a Philosophy of Education: A Liberal Education for All
Charlotte M. Mason · ideas
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An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744)
Corbyn Morris · ideas
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An Essay Upon Projects
Daniel Defoe · ideas
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An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times
Thomas Hill Green · collection
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An ethical philosophy of life presented in its main outlines
Felix Adler · biography
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An ethical problem; or, Sidelights upon scientific experimentation on man and animals
Albert Leffingwell · science
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An Ethnologist's View of History
Daniel G. Brinton · science
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An Examination into and an Elucidation of the Great Principle of the Mediation and Atonement of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
John Taylor · ideas
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An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will
Albert Taylor Bledsoe · ideas
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An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice
Simon Greenleaf · ideas
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An Exhortation to Peace and Unity
John Bunyan · ideas
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An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism
Martin Luther · ideas
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An explanation of the Baltimore catechism of Christian doctrine
Thomas L. Kinkead · ideas
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An Explanatory Discourse by Tan Chet-qua of Quang-chew-fu, Gent.
William Sir Chambers · science
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An Exposition of the Last Psalme
John Boys · ideas
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An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation"
S. Laing · science
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An Extract out of Josephus's Discourse to The Greeks Concerning Hades
Flavius Josephus · ideas
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An historical and moral view of the origin and progress of the French Revolution; and the effect it has produced in Europe
Mary Wollstonecraft · ideas
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An Historical Sketch of the Conceptions of Memory among the Ancients
William Henry Burnham · ideas
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An Humble Address and Earnest Appeal to Those Respectable Personages in Great-Britain and Ireland, Who, by Their Great and Permanent Interest in Landed Property, Their Liberal Education, Elevated Rank, and Enlarged Views, Are the Ablest to Judge, and the Fittest to Decide, Whether a Connection with, Or a Separation from the Continental Colonies of America, Be Most for the National Advantage, and the Lasting Benefit of These Kingdoms
Josiah Tucker · ideas
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An illustrated commentary on the Gospel according to St. John
Lyman Abbott · ideas
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An index finger
Tulis Abrojal · novel
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An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation
Thorstein Veblen · ideas
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An Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions
Orson Pratt · biography
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An Interpretation of Friends Worship
Jean Toomer · ideas