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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ethics, English ManifestationBaruch Spinoza

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Ethics, English Manifestation

In the Ethics, Spinoza uses definitions, axioms, and demonstrations to construct an account of God or Nature, mind, affects, and freedom. This English manifestation presents a path in which understanding necessity transforms how passions are lived.

What you will learn

Composition: composed c. 1661-1675; published in 1677
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 261 passages · 88,568 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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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

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Idylls from MessinaFriedrich Nietzsche

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Idylls from Messina

Idylls from Messina 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: 1882
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 8 passages · 1,210 words

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Introduction to the Works of Epictetus, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter

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Introduction to the Works of Epictetus, by Elizabeth Carter

Elizabeth Carter opens her translation of Epictetus with an account of Stoicism, its three fields of exercise, and its moral vocabulary. She provides readers with orientation while comparing some ancient claims with her Christian commitments.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 1749-1758; published in 1759
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 37 passages · 8,770 words