"Benvenuto, the figure cannot succeed in bronze," so spoke the patron Duke. Cellini, stung to fury, passionately burst out: "You do not understand art." Feverishly he began the casting of the statue --- but read his own account of the tilt with the Duke. (Volume 31, Harvard Classics)
Introductory Note: Omar Khayyam
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, by Omar Khayyam
Introductory Note: American Historical Documents
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Introductory Note: Jean Jacques Rousseau
Discourse on Inequality (Part II), by Jean Jacques Rousseau
Introductory Note: Edmund Burke
A Philosophical Inquiry (On Taste), by Edmund Burke
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The Federalist Papers (No. 1 & 2), by Alexander Hamilton, etc.
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The Bacchæ (Part I), by Euripides
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Sir Francis Drake Revived
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The Book of Job (Ch. 1-10)
Introductory Note: The Thousand and One Nights
The Thousand and One Nights (Introduction)
Introductory Note: Virgil
The Æneid (Book II), by Virgil
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