Notes to The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I — Reading edition
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IMPERIAL POWER FOR GOOD AND BAD MEN[1] · Note 1THE HIGHEST HAPPINESS[2] · Note 1A DEFINITION OF HAPPINESS[3] · Note 1OF ETERNAL LIFE AND OF STRIVING FOR IT[4] · Note 1THE SACK OF CONSTANTINOPLE[5] · Note 1(1204) · Note 1GREEK FIRE IN BATTLE[7] · Note 1THE BATTLE OF CRÉCY[8] · Note 1OF THE CHARACTER OF LOUIS XI[9] · Note 1OF HUSBANDS WHO ARE UNFAITHFUL[10] · Note 1OF HUSBANDS WHO ARE UNFAITHFUL[10] · Note 2I GARGANTUA IN HIS CHILDHOOD[12] · Note 1I GARGANTUA IN HIS CHILDHOOD[12] · Note 2II GARGANTUA'S EDUCATION[14] · Note 1III OF THE FOUNDING OF AN IDEAL ABBEY[15] · Note 1OF FREEDOM FOR THE WILL[16] · Note 1WHY OLD FRENCH WAS NOT AS RICH AS GREEK AND LATIN[17] · Note 1WHY OLD FRENCH WAS NOT AS RICH AS GREEK AND LATIN[17] · Note 2I A WORD TO HIS READERS[19] · Note 1II OF SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE[20] · Note 1III OF HIS OWN LIBRARY[21] · Note 1IV THAT THE SOUL DISCHARGES HER PASSIONS UPON FALSE OBJECTS WHERE TRUE ONES ARE WANTING.[22] · Note 1V THAT MEN ARE NOT TO JUDGE OF OUR HAPPINESS TILL AFTER DEATH[23] · Note 1V THAT MEN ARE NOT TO JUDGE OF OUR HAPPINESS TILL AFTER DEATH[23] · Note 2OF MATERIAL THINGS AND OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD[25] · Note 1A SELECTION FROM THE "MAXIMS"[26] · Note 1A SELECTION FROM THE "MAXIMS"[26] · Note 2A SELECTION FROM THE "MAXIMS"[26] · Note 3OF THE PREVALENCE OF SELF-LOVE[29] · Note 1I GREAT NEWS FROM PARIS[30] · Note 1II AN IMPOSING FUNERAL DESCRIBED[31] · Note 1I IN THE SERVICE OF DR. SANGRADO[32] · Note 1II AS AN ARCHBISHOP'S FAVORITE[33] · Note 1I THE DEATH OF THE DAUPHIN[34] · Note 1II THE PUBLIC WATCHING THE KING AND MADAME[35] · Note 1II THE PUBLIC WATCHING THE KING AND MADAME[35] · Note 2BARON DE MONTESQUIEU · Note 1I OF THE CAUSES WHICH DESTROYED ROME[38] · Note 1II OF THE RELATION OF LAWS TO DIFFERENT HUMAN BEINGS[39] · Note 1I OF BACON'S GREATNESS[40] · Note 1II ENGLAND'S REGARD FOR MEN OF LETTERS[41] · Note 1II ENGLAND'S REGARD FOR MEN OF LETTERS[41] · Note 2II ENGLAND'S REGARD FOR MEN OF LETTERS[41] · Note 3II ENGLAND'S REGARD FOR MEN OF LETTERS[41] · Note 4II ENGLAND'S REGARD FOR MEN OF LETTERS[41] · Note 5II OF THE MANAGEMENT OF CHILDREN[46] · Note 1OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE[47] · Note 1IN AN AMERICAN FOREST[48] · Note 1SHAKESPEARE AS AN EXAMPLE OF CIVILIZATION[49] · Note 1SHAKESPEARE AS AN EXAMPLE OF CIVILIZATION[49] · Note 2OF MIRABEAU'S ORIGIN AND PLACE IN HISTORY[51] · Note 1THE BURNING OF MOSCOW[52] · Note 1THE BURNING OF MOSCOW[52] · Note 2I THE DEATH OF PÉRE GORIOT[54] · Note 1II BIROTTEAU'S EARLY MARRIED LIFE[55] · Note 1RICHELIEU'S WAY WITH HIS MASTER[56] · Note 1THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO[57] · Note 1II THE BEGINNINGS AND EXPANSIONS OF PARIS[58] · Note 1THE SHOULDER, THE BELT, AND THE HANDKERCHIEF[59] · Note 1LÉLIA AND THE POET[60] · Note 1