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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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Algarotti’s Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy Explained for the Use of the Ladies, Translated by Elizabeth CarterFrancesco Algarotti

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Algarotti’s Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy Explained for the Use of the Ladies, Translated by Elizabeth Carter

Francesco Algarotti casts Newtonian physics as polite dialogues concerned especially with light, colour, and attraction. Elizabeth Carter supplies the English translation; the work remains Algarotti’s, including the strategies and assumptions of its gendered popularization.

What you will learn

Composition: 1738-1739
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 627 passages · 80,518 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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A New Year's WordFriedrich Nietzsche

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A New Year's Word

A New Year's Word must be read through its period, genre, and precise polemical target. Its striking formulations do not replace the movement of the text.

What you will learn

Composition: 1875, private publication
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 1 passage · 627 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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Beyond Good and EvilFriedrich Nietzsche

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Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil must be read through its period, genre, and precise polemical target. Its striking formulations do not replace the movement of the text.

What you will learn

Composition: 1886
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 302 passages · 62,008 words

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Beyond the Pleasure PrincipleSigmund Freud

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Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Faced with painful repetitions that pleasure-seeking does not explain, Freud advances new hypotheses about repetition compulsion and drives. The text shows a theory risking a step beyond its evidence.

What you will learn

Composition: 1920
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 60 passages · 18,851 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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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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David StraussFriedrich Nietzsche

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David Strauss

David Strauss must be read through its period, genre, and precise polemical target. Its striking formulations do not replace the movement of the text.

What you will learn

Composition: 1873
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 31 passages · 27,136 words

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DaybreakFriedrich Nietzsche

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Daybreak

Daybreak must be read through its period, genre, and precise polemical target. Its striking formulations do not replace the movement of the text.

What you will learn

Composition: 1881
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 581 passages · 86,086 words

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Dionysian DithyrambsFriedrich Nietzsche

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Dionysian Dithyrambs

Dionysian Dithyrambs must be read through its period, genre, and precise polemical target. Its striking formulations do not replace the movement of the text.

What you will learn

Composition: 1888, authorized manuscript
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 16 passages · 3,576 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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Ecce HomoFriedrich Nietzsche

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Ecce Homo

Ecce Homo must be read through its period, genre, and precise polemical target. Its striking formulations do not replace the movement of the text.

What you will learn

Composition: 1888, authorized manuscript
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 73 passages · 31,881 words

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Elizabeth Carter’s Notes on the BibleElizabeth Carter

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Elizabeth Carter’s Notes on the Bible

These annotations entered in Carter’s Bible comment on vocabulary, narrative coherence, doctrine, and moral difficulty. Published posthumously and never designed as a continuous book, they preserve traces of religious reading in progress.

What you will learn

Composition: notes composed before 1806; published posthumously in 1807
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 71 passages · 20,893 words

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Hippias MajorPlato

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Hippias Major

Socrates asks the sophist Hippias not which things are beautiful but what beauty itself is. A young woman, gold, appropriateness, utility, and sensory pleasure each fail to provide a definition without counterexample.

What you will learn

Composition: 4th century BCE; authenticity disputed
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 24 passages · 11,859 words

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Human, All Too Human IFriedrich Nietzsche

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Human, All Too Human I

Human, All Too Human I must be read through its period, genre, and precise polemical target. Its striking formulations do not replace the movement of the text.

What you will learn

Composition: 1878
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 656 passages · 90,609 words

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Human, All Too Human IIFriedrich Nietzsche

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Human, All Too Human II

Human, All Too Human II must be read through its period, genre, and precise polemical target. Its striking formulations do not replace the movement of the text.

What you will learn

Composition: 1879-1880; combined edition in 1886
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 769 passages · 82,229 words