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23 - AGAINST IDLENESS

In Essays book 2

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Michel de Montaigne and Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …

Book III, Chapter IX

In Knickerbocker's History of New York, Vol. 1

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Washington Irving

Washington Irving, an author, biographer, historian, and diplomat, completed his first major work, a satire of contemporary local history an…

First part, chapter II, part 1: Captain Cook’s predecessors, 1a

In Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 2

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Jules Verne

This volume, entitled "The Great Navigators of the 18th century", forms the second of three volumes under the general title of &qu…

Chapter I g: Dream-Theories and the Function of the Dream

In The Interpretation of Dreams

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Sigmund Freud

A neat book on dream analysis by the founding father of psychoanalysis. This book is about the inner theater and the workings of the mind in…

10 - Chapter 05, Byzantine Palaces, part 1

In The Stones of Venice, Volume 2

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John Ruskin

The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from …

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