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Essays and Dialogues

"We would no more choose to feed the minds of our countrymen and women with the despairing utterances of the pessimist poet, than we would their bodies with hasheesh. Such melancholy as his clothed in such eloquent words may be the luxury of the idle; it is poison to those who have work to do in the world. It shuts out hope, the very spring of energy; it makes the cheerful steady pursuit of duty a thing utterly beyond human powers. For we can none of us stand alone. Either in human or divine love we must find the mainspring of all life worth living. There must be something outside of ourselves which we regard not with despair, but with hope." -- Handwritten dedication in the book, dated Feb. 19th, 1883

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Biographical Sketch, part 1 (Mary J)
Biographical Sketch, part 2 (Mary J)
History of the Human Race (Jia Jia Yong)
Dialogue between Hercules and Atlas (chocmuse)
Dialogue between Fashion and Death (Beth Thomas (1974-2020))
Price Competition Announced by the Academy of Sillographs (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Dialogue between a Goblin and a Gnome (Peter Tucker)
Dialogue between Malambruno and Farfarello (Zeeshan Reshamwala)
Dialogue between Nature and a Soul (Beth Thomas (1974-2020))
Dialogue between the Earth and the Moon (Availle)
The Wager of Prometheus (Linda Dodge)
Dialogue between a Natural Philosopher and a Metaphysician (Beth Thomas (1974-2020))
Dialogue between Tasso and his Familiar Spirit (Rapunzelina)
Dialogue between Nature and an Icelander (Rapunzelina)
Parini on Glory, Chapters I-III (Mary J)
Parini on Glory, Chapters IV-VI (Mary J)
Parini on Glory, Chapters VII-IX (Mary J)
Parini on Glory, Chapters X-XII (Mary J)
Dialogue between Frederic Ruysch and his Mummies (ToddHW)
Remarkable Sayings of Philip Ottonieri, Chapters I-III (Peter Tucker)
Remarkable Sayings of Philip Ottonieri, Chapters IV-VII (Peter Tucker)
Dialogue between Christopher Columbus and Pietro Gutierrez (Zeeshan Reshamwala)
Panegyric of Birds (Eric Metzler)
The Song of the Wild Cock (Eric Metzler)
Dialogue between Timandro and Eleandro (Rapunzelina)
Copernicus, Scene I (Julia Niedermaier)
Copernicus, Scene II (Mary J)
Copernicus, Scene III (Rapunzelina)
Copernicus, Scene IV (Mary J)
Dialogue between an Almanac Seller and a Passer-by (Zeeshan Reshamwala)
Dialogue between Plotinus and Porphyrius (Linda Dodge)
Comparison of the Last Words of Marcus Brutus and Theophrastus (Eric Metzler)
Dialogue between Tristano and a Friend (Linda Dodge)
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