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XX - Of Dominion Paternal and Despotical

In Leviathan (Books I and II)

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Thomas Hobbes


Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written in 1651…

74 - LETTER LXXIV. Lady Belmont to Sir John Belmont

In Evelina

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Frances Burney


In this epistolary novel, we find a young woman named Evelina, who was raised in rural seclusion until her eighteenth year because of her un…

Chapter 4, Part 1

In The Subjection of Women

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John Stuart Mill


The Subjection of Women is the title of an essay written by John Stuart Mill in 1869, possibly jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill, st…

01 - Part I, Section I: Chapters I - III

In The Theory of Moral Sentiments (First Edition)

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Adam Smith


"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortunes of other…

21 - Book II, Chapter 07: Of Political or Civil Society

In Two Treatises of Civil Government

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John Locke


The Two Treatises of Civil Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise is a…

Studies of Interference in Serial Verbal Reactions

In American Psychology, 1922-1947

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J. Ridley Stroop


This is the second of what is intended to be three projects featuring journal articles which chart the development of psychology as an acade…

57 - Book 9 Chapter 4 - The Second Ordeal

In The Brothers Karamazov

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky


The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Братья Карамазовы) is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered …

Book I Chapter 01: A Journey

In Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress

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Frances Burney


The plot of Cecilia revolves around the heroine, Cecilia Beverley, whose inheritance from her uncle comes with the stipulation that she find…

Bk 08: Ch 10-12

In The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

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Henry Fielding


Tom Jones is considered one of the first prose works describable as a novel. The novel is divided into 18 smaller books. Tom Jones is a foun…

The Substance of Economics

In Principles of Economics, Book 1: Preliminary Survey

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Alfred Marshall


Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…

Book 2 (The Hired Girls), Chapter 7

In My Ántonia

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Willa Cather and Willa Sibert Cather


My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a parti…