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Works: 305
Authors: 94
Passages: 89,767

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Corpus works: 259
Private works: 46
Private records: 56
Private excerpts: 20,006
Text representations: 223,819
Editions and translations: 849
Languages: 17
Works in French and English: 259
Multilingual works: 259
Tracked concepts: 9
Estimated sentences: 1,456,557
Words: 27,541,029

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Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record

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Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents

Incoming letters, petitions, and administrative records preserve the voices of people who petitioned, informed, or challenged Lincoln. The archive reveals the pressures of a wartime presidency without attributing his correspondents’ words to the president.

What you will learn

Composition: 1833-1916
Editions / translations: 2026
Languages: English · French
Extent: 19,210 passages · 7,989,852 words

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Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents

Letters, speeches, proclamations, and notes follow Lincoln from Illinois politics through the Civil War. They show his language of Union, slavery, emancipation, executive power, and reconciliation taking shape under pressure.

What you will learn

Composition: 1833-1865
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 982 passages · 326,103 words

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AcademicaCicero

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Academica

In the surviving fragments of the Academica, Cicero stages the conflict between dogmatic certainty and sceptical inquiry. He asks what criterion can identify a true impression and how action remains possible when secure knowledge is disputed.

What you will learn

Composition: 45 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 69 passages · 215,055 words

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Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades

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Ancient testimonia on Carneades

One hundred carrier passages follow Carneades from criticism of certain apprehension to probable judgment without inventing a book for him.

What you will learn

Composition: carriers from the 1st century BCE to the 3rd century CE; testimonia on Carneades
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · Latin · French · English
Extent: 100 passages · 35,730 words

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An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

The Essay examines the origin and composition of ideas, personal identity, and the limits of knowledge.

What you will learn

Composition: 1689-1700; revised lifetime editions
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 1,114 passages · 257,071 words

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Answers to Objections Concerning the Christian Religion, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter

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Answers to Objections Concerning the Christian Religion, by Elizabeth Carter

Elizabeth Carter answers a friend’s doubts after a close rereading of the Gospels. She defends Christianity’s credibility while freely stating the moral and textual difficulties that, in her view, require reasoned answers.

What you will learn

Composition: before 1806; published posthumously in 1807
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 69 passages · 18,442 words

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Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha

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Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses

The Aṅguttara Nikāya arranges teachings attributed to the Buddha in ascending numbered sets, from one item to eleven. Its mnemonic structure brings together conduct, mental training, communal life, and stages of awakening.

What you will learn

Composition: oral strata, late 5th to 3rd centuries BCE; later Pali organization
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French · Pali
Extent: 1,408 passages · 443,916 words

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Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero

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Brutus, or On Eminent Orators

Cicero traces the history of Roman eloquence through the speakers who shaped it. The dialogue combines criticism, portraiture, and an anxious reflection on public speech at a moment when the Republic is losing its freedom.

What you will learn

Composition: 46 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 334 passages · 79,995 words

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Collected Papers on Analytical PsychologyCarl Gustav Jung

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Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology

These essays by the early Jung trace the emergence of analytical psychology through word association, complexes, dreams, and the therapeutic relationship. Their collection shows a field in formation, still near Freud yet already developing its own distinctions.

What you will learn

Composition: collected papers, c. 1902-1916
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 508 passages · 156,362 words

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CratylusPlato

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Cratylus

Hermogenes, Cratylus, and Socrates debate the correctness of names: does it arise from convention or natural fit with things? Proliferating etymologies eventually move inquiry from language toward knowledge of reality.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 390-360 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 58 passages · 24,169 words

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Dhammapada: Verses on the DhammaSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha

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Dhammapada: Verses on the Dhamma

The Dhammapada gathers verses attributed to the Buddha on mind, heedfulness, violence, desire, and the conduct of the wise. Its vivid images condense a moral pedagogy meant to be remembered, recited, and tested against experience.

What you will learn

Composition: verse strata, 5th-2nd centuries BCE; collection attested by the 2nd century BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · Pali · French
Extent: 26 passages · 10,265 words

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Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by ArrianEpictetus

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Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by Arrian

Arrian transmits Epictetus’ oral teaching as lively exchanges with students. The teacher confronts their ambitions, fears, and inconsistencies with a central demand: govern assent, desire, and action rather than claim command over events.

What you will learn

Composition: teaching recorded by Arrian, c. 108-125 CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 95 passages · 118,661 words

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Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha

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Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long Discourses

The Dīgha Nikāya contains extended teachings in which the Buddha and his interlocutors examine ritual, rival doctrines, ethics, meditation, and human destiny. Several narratives also portray the Buddhist community and preserve memories of the teacher’s final days.

What you will learn

Composition: oral strata, late 5th to 3rd centuries BCE; later Pali organization
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · Pali · French
Extent: 34 passages · 188,836 words

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Ethics, Émile Saisset’s French TranslationBaruch Spinoza

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Ethics, Émile Saisset’s French Translation

Émile Saisset’s translation gives the demonstrative architecture of Spinoza’s Ethics in French. God identified with Nature, mind-body parallelism, analysis of passions, and intellectual blessedness unfold through nineteenth-century terminology.

What you will learn

Composition: composed c. 1661-1675; published in 1677
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: French · English
Extent: 300 passages · 92,036 words

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Jean-Pierre de Crousaz’s Examination of Mr. Pope’s Essay on Man, Translated by Elizabeth CarterJean-Pierre de Crousaz

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Jean-Pierre de Crousaz’s Examination of Mr. Pope’s Essay on Man, Translated by Elizabeth Carter

Jean-Pierre de Crousaz subjects Alexander Pope’s Essay on Man to philosophical and theological criticism. Elizabeth Carter’s English translation carries his debate about providence, freedom, evil, and cosmic order without making her the original author.

What you will learn

Composition: 1738-1739
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 157 passages · 42,668 words

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Laws

An Athenian, a Cretan, and a Spartan design institutions for a new city. Without Socrates, the dialogue examines legislation, education, worship, property, family, and punishment, asking how law can form citizens rather than merely constrain them.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 360-347 BCE; late work left unfinished
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 327 passages · 148,152 words

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Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Catherine TalbotElizabeth Carter

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Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot

Carter’s letters to Catherine Talbot follow an intellectual friendship shaped by reading, health, faith, work, and daily news. Private conversation becomes a place for testing scholarly vocation, social duty, and female independence.

What you will learn

Composition: correspondence, 1741-1770
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 139 passages · 109,330 words

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Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth MontaguElizabeth Carter

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Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Montagu

In letters to Elizabeth Montagu, Carter combines friendship, social observation, and literary life. Publications, travel, bereavement, and networks of sociability show two women negotiating intellectual authority, reputation, and mutual support.

What you will learn

Composition: correspondence, 1758-1805
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 232 passages · 227,104 words