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Title: A Century of English Essays
An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time

Author: Various

Editor: Ernest Rhys and Lloyd Vaughan

Release Date: May 5, 2010 [eBook #32267]

Language: English

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Transcriber's note:

A very small number of printer's errors have been corrected
by reference to other editions.

Footnotes have been moved from the bottom of the original
page to just below the referring paragraph, or in a few cases,
to just after the referring sentence.

Author attribution lines have been regularized so that all
appear one line below the essay to which they apply.

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Everyman's Library

Edited by Ernest Rhys

ESSAYS

A Century of English Essays Chosen by Ernest Rhys and Lloyd Vaughan

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This is No. 653 of _Everyman's Library_. The publishers will be
pleased to send freely to all applicants a list of the published and
projected volumes arranged under the following sections:

TRAVEL * SCIENCE * FICTION

THEOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY

HISTORY * CLASSICAL

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

ESSAYS * ORATORY

POETRY & DRAMA

BIOGRAPHY

REFERENCE

ROMANCE

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[Illustration: Most current ... For that they come home to men's
business & bosoms.--Lord Bacon]

[Illustration: A CENTURY of ENGLISH ESSAYS: an ANTHOLOGY RANGING FROM
CAXTON TO R. L. STEVENSON & THE WRITERS OF OUR OWN TIME.