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Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 1
52 chapters, about 168,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.
Chapters
- Chapter 1 100 words
- EDITOR’S PREFACE. 1,300 words
- INTRODUCTION. 4,700 words
- BY SIMON FORD, D.D. 300 words
- BY WILLIAM DILLINGHAM, D.D. 200 words
- OF BASHFULNESS. 200 words
- BY MR. PATRICK, OF THE CHARTERHOUSE. 200 words
- BY JOHN PHILIPS, GENT. 300 words
- OF THE TRANQUILLITY OF THE MIND. 300 words
- BY WILLIAM BAXTER, GENT. 200 words
- BY MATTHEW POOLE, D.D., OF NORTHAMPTON. 500 words
- CONSOLATION TO APOLLONIUS. 300 words
- CONCERNING THE VIRTUES OF WOMEN. 300 words
- OF HEARING. 200 words
- BY W. G. 200 words
- BY JOHN PHILIPS, GENT. 200 words
- A DISCOURSE TOUCHING THE TRAINING OF CHILDREN. 8,500 words
- SYLLA, FUNDANUS. 5,800 words
- OF BASHFULNESS. 4,500 words
- THAT VIRTUE MAY BE TAUGHT. 6,600 words
- ONESICRATES, SOTERICHUS, LYSIAS. 9,200 words
- PLUTARCH WISHETH ALL HEALTH TO HIS PACCIUS. 7,500 words
- OF SUPERSTITION OR INDISCREET DEVOTION. 2,600 words
- PLUTARCH TO TRAJAN THE EMPEROR WISHETH PROSPERITY. 13,800 words
- ROMAN APOPHTHEGMS. 7,700 words
- MOSCHIO, ZEUXIPPUS. 14,900 words
- CONSOLATION TO APOLLONIUS. 9,400 words
- CONCERNING THE VIRTUES OF WOMEN. 14,200 words
- LACONIC APOPHTHEGMS; OR REMARKABLE SAYINGS OF THE SPARTANS. 18,100 words
- OF HEARING. 20,200 words
- FOOT-NOTES: 500 words
- A. 3,000 words
- B. 300 words
- C. 1,200 words
- D. 900 words
- Discourse to an Unlearned Prince, iv. 323-330. 200 words
- E. 1,000 words
- F. 300 words
- G. 200 words
- H. 700 words
- I. 300 words
- L. 700 words
- M. 700 words
- N. 200 words
- O. 200 words
- P. 1,900 words
- R. 100 words
- S. 1,100 words
- T. 800 words
- V. 100 words
- W. 300 words
- X. 200 words
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