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The Essays of Adam Smith

by Adam Smith (1723–1790)

17 chapters, about 224,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 100 words
2. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 700 words
3. ESSAYS ON PHILOSOPHICAL SUBJECTS. 200 words
4. SEC. I.--OF THE SENSE OF PROPRIETY. 24,700 words
5. SEC. I.--OF THE SENSE OF MERIT AND DEMERIT. 4,900 words
6. SECT. II.--OF JUSTICE AND BENEFICENCE. 67,900 words
7. SEC. III.--OF SELF-COMMAND. 11,100 words
8. CONCLUSION OF THE SIXTH PART. 34,500 words
9. FORMATION OF LANGUAGES, ETC., ETC. 9,600 words
10. THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY. 29,600 words
11. HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT PHYSICS. 4,500 words
12. ANCIENT LOGICS AND METAPHYSICS. 4,800 words
13. PART I. 4,600 words
14. PART II. 8,700 words
15. PART III. 2,700 words
16. EXTERNAL SENSES; 14,100 words
17. ENGLISH AND ITALIAN VERSES. 1,200 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Astronomy
• Boyle's law
• Casuistry
• Celestial mechanics
• Conjunction (grammar)
• Dance
• Domitian
• Envy
• Event (philosophy)
• Federation
• Generosity
• Integrated circuit
• Interval (music)
• Lambda
• Language
• Latin
• Law and order (politics)
• Li (Confucianism)
• Li (neo-Confucianism)
• Modern language
• Moon
• Name
• Painting
• Parameter
• Passions (philosophy)
• Planet
• Poetry
• Praise
• Second
• Sympathy

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