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Book I Chapter 03: An Arrival

In Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress

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Frances Burney

The plot of Cecilia revolves around the heroine, Cecilia Beverley, whose inheritance from her uncle comes with the stipulation that she find…

Chapter 4, Part 1

In The Subjection of Women

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John Stuart Mill

The Subjection of Women is the title of an essay written by John Stuart Mill in 1869, possibly jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill, st…

Chapter 31

In The Portrait of a Lady Vol 2

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Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 …

The Substance of Economics

In Principles of Economics, Book 1: Preliminary Survey

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Alfred Marshall

Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…

01 - Part I, Section I: Chapters I - III

In The Theory of Moral Sentiments (First Edition)

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Adam Smith

"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortunes of other…

Bk 08: Ch 10-12

In The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

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Henry Fielding

Tom Jones is considered one of the first prose works describable as a novel. The novel is divided into 18 smaller books. Tom Jones is a foun…

74 - LETTER LXXIV. Lady Belmont to Sir John Belmont

In Evelina

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Frances Burney

In this epistolary novel, we find a young woman named Evelina, who was raised in rural seclusion until her eighteenth year because of her un…

Book 2 (The Hired Girls), Chapter 7

In My Ántonia

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Willa Cather and Willa Sibert Cather

My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a parti…

XX - Of Dominion Paternal and Despotical

In Leviathan (Books I and II)

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Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written in 1651…