
Selected Essays
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- Introduction
- Note on the Text
- Select Bibliography
- Chronology
- 1: Of Essay Writing
- 2: Of the Middle Station of Life
- 3: Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion
- 4: That Politics may be Reduced to a Science
- 5: Of the First Principles of Government
- 6: Of the Origin of Government
- 7: Of the Parties of Great Britain
- 8: Of Superstition and Enthusiasm
- 9: Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature
- 10: Of Civil Liberty
- 11: Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences
- 12: The Epicurean
- 13: The Stoic
- 14: The Platonist
- 15: The Sceptic
- 16: Of National Characters
- 17: Of Tragedy
- 18: Of the Standard of Taste
- 19: Of Commerce
- 20: Of Refinement in the Arts
- 21: Of Interest
- 22: Of the Balance of Trade
- 23: Of Public Credit
- 24: Of Some Remarkable Customs
- 25: Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations
- 26: Of the Original Contract
- 27: Of the Protestant Succession
- 28: Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth
- 29: On Suicide
- 30: On the Immortality of the Soul
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