Lincoln himself thought his famous Gettysburg Address was a failure. To-day the whole world acclaims its greatness. Cast in bronze, it hangs on the wall of Balliol College, Oxford, regarded as the perfection of English prose. (Volume 43, Harvard Classics)
Abraham Lincoln born Feb. 12, 1809.
Introductory Note: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heroism, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Introductory Note: Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations (Book I, Ch. IV), by Adam Smith
Introductory Note: Thomas Hood
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Introductory Note: Alessandro Manzoni
I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed, Ch. I), by Alessandro Manzoni
Introductory Note: Alexander Pope
An Essay on Man (Epistle IV), by Alexander Pope
Introductory Note: Shakespeare’s Sonnets
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Introductory Note: Epictetus
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Little Ida’s Flowers, by Hans Christian Andersen
Introductory Note: Socrates and Plato
The Apology of Socrates, by Plato
Introductory Note: Ernest Renan
The Poetry of the Celtic Races (Ch. II), by Ernest Renan
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