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| Those ideas which are in the mind of man are a transcript of the world; to this we may add, that words are the transcripts of those ideas which are in the mind of man, and that writing and printing are the transcript of words. |
| Joseph Addison |
| The World’s Best Essays |
| From the Earliest Period through the Nineteenth Century |
| Edited by David J. Brewer, et al. |
| These 977 selections by 404 authors—translated into very readable American English—span three millenia and major national literatures. |
| CONTENTS |
| Preface Advisory Council Bibliographic Record |
ST. LOUIS: FERD. P. KAISER, 1900 LOS ANGELES: BARTLEBY.COM, 2018 |
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