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In 1830 and 1831 I wrote the five Essays since published under the title of Essays on some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy, almost as they now stand, except that in 1833 I partially rewrote the fifth Essay.
Chapter V. A Crisis in My Mental History. One Stage Onward 1909
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[18] Those who are curious about the matter will find it treated in a set of Essays by the present writer, which originally appeared in _Macmillan's Magazine_ during the autumn of 1894, and were reprinted among _Essays in English
The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889
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The story is presented as "Excerpt from Walt Mervin's 'Certain Essays of History'" and as such is as lifeless and devoid of plot, character, or dialogue as an entry in an encyclopedia.
“. . . in the stiff, dead fingers, the petition of his slaves who toiled in Hell's Bottom.” 2008
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In 1987, Eugene Garfield published an article in Essays Of An Information Scientist (Vol. 10, 1987) that listed the most frequently cited works in the Arts & Humanities Index between 1976-1983.
Boing Boing: September 18, 2005 - September 24, 2005 Archives 2005
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The old four-volume Penguin Essays, Letters and Journalism is here replaced by 11 densely annotated volumes with new essays, many new letters, and odd items such as Orwell's lectures to his Home
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Punishment: An Economic Approach, 1968, and in Essays in the Economics of Crime and Punishment, 1974.
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Interpretation, though it appeared afterwards (I860) as a contribution to the volume known as Essays and Reviews, consists of a series of observations which had occurred to the writer in the course of the same long-continued labour.
Scripture and Truth: Dissertations by the Late Benjamin Jowett with Introduction by Lewis Campbell. 1817-1893 1907
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But in the second half of the nineteenth century these barriers were broken at many points, and, the stream of German thought being united with the current of devotion to truth in England, there appeared early in 1860 a modest volume entitled Essays and Reviews.
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896
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In this respect he had a strong affinity to Bacon -- the Bacon not of the 'Organon,' but of the 'Essays' -- and perhaps still more to
Historical and Political Essays William Edward Hartpole Lecky 1870
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Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion (Essays from the English Institute) by Lauren Berlant
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