附註:Spine title: Essays and lectures.
"Joel Porte wrote the notes and selected the texts for this volume"--Leaf ff. title page.
Nature -- Addresses -- Lectures -- Essays, first and second series -- Representative men -- English traits -- The conduct of life -- Uncollected prose.
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