Great essays by Montaigne, Sidney, Milton, Cowley, Disraeli, Lamb, Irving, Lowell, Jefferies, and others, with biographical notes and a critical introduction by Helen K. Johnson ...

Essays and essayists, by H.K. Johnson.--Of the institution and education of Children, by M.E. de Montaigne.--The defence of poesy, by Sir Philip Sidney.--Areopagitica ... by John Milton.--A discourse, by way of vision, concerning the government of Oliver Cromwell, by Abraham Cowley.--Of rewarding genius in England, by Oliver Goldsmith.--Common sense, by Thomas Paine.--The crisis, by Thomas Paine.--The philosophy of proverbs, by Isaac Disraeli.--A complaint of the decay of beggars, by Charles Lamb.--The convalescent, by Charles Lamb.--Rural funerals, by Washington Irving.--Thomas Ellwood, by J.G. Whittier.--On a certain condescension in foreigners, by J.R. Lowell.--Intellectual health and disease, by Edwin Percy Whipple.--Hindrances to spiritual growth, by John Campbell Shairp.--Sweetness and light, by Matthew Arnold.--A complaint of friends, by Gail Hamilton.--The pageant of summer, by Richard Jefferies.--Child's play, by Robert Louis Stevenson.Mode of access: Internet