Introduction
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Adam Smith
Aeschylus
- Agamemnon E.D.A. Morshead (1881)
- Prometheus Bound E.D.A. Morshead (1883)
- The Eumenides E.D.A. Morshead (1881)
- The Libation-Bearers E.D.A. Morshead (1881)
- The Persians E.D.A. Morshead (1883)
- The Seven Against Thebes E.D.A. Morshead (1883)
- The Suppliant Maidens E.D.A. Morshead (1883)
Albert Einstein
- Relativity: The Special and General Theory Robert W. Lawson (1920)
Alexandre Dumas
- The Count of Monte Cristo Anonymous (1846)
Alexis de Tocqueville
- Democracy in America Henry Reeve (1835)
Antoine Lavoisier
- Elements of Chemistry Robert Kerr (1790)
Aquinas
- Summa Theologica, Part I Fathers of the English Dominican Province (1911)
Archimedes
- Measurement of a Circle T. L. Heath, The Works of Archimedes (Cambridge, 1897)
- The Sand-Reckoner
Aristophanes
Aristotle
- Nicomachean Ethics W.D. Ross (1925)
- On the Soul Charles Collier (1855)
- Physics R. P. Hardie and R. K. Gaye (1930)
- Poetics S. H. Butcher (1895)
- Politics William Ellis (1776)
- Rhetoric J. H. Freese (1926)
Augustine
- Confessions Edward Bouverie Pusey (1838)
- The City of God Marcus Dods (1871)
Berkeley
Blaise Pascal
- Geometrical Demonstration O. W. Wight (1859)
- Pensées W.F. Trotter (1910)
Calvin
- Institutes of the Christian Religion John Allen (1813)
Charles Darwin
Charles Dickens
Chaucer
- Canterbury Tales David Laing Purves (1870)
Christiaan Huygens
- Treatise on Light Silvanus P. Thompson (1912)
Cornelius Tacitus
- The Germany Thomas Gordon (1731)
Dante
- Divine Comedy Henry Francis Cary (1814)
David Hume
Descartes
- Meditations on First Philosophy William Molyneux (1680)
Edmund Burke
Edward Gibbon
Epictetus
- Discourses George Long (1877)
Euclid
- Elements John Casey (1885)
Euripides
- Alcestis Gilbert Murray (1915)
- Electra Gilbert Murray (1905)
- Hippolytus Gilbert Murray (1902)
- Iphigenia in Tauris Gilbert Murray (1910)
- Medea Gilbert Murray (1906)
- The Bacchae Gilbert Murray (1902)
- The Trojan Women Gilbert Murray (1905)
François Rabelais
- Gargantua and Pantagruel Thomas Urquhart, Peter Motteux (1708)
Friedrich Nietzsche
- Beyond Good and Evil Helen Zimmern (1906)
- The Genealogy of Morals Horace B. Samuel (1910)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Crime and Punishment Constance Garnett (1914)
- The Brothers Karamazov Constance Garnett (1912)
Galen
- On the Natural Faculties Arthur John Brock (1916)
Galileo Galilei
- Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio (1914)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Philosophy of Right S. W. Dyde (1896)
Hamilton, Madison, Jay
Henrik Ibsen
- The Master Builder Edmund Gosse and William Archer (1893)
Henry David Thoreau
Herman Melville
Herodotus
- The History G. C. Macaulay (1890)
Hesiod
- Works and Days & Theogony Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914)
Hippocrates
- Hippocratic Writings Francis Adams (1849)
Homer
- Iliad Samuel Butler (1898)
- The Odyssey Samuel Butler (1900)
Horace
- Ars Poetica John Conington's verse translation (1869).
- Epistles John Conington's verse translation (1869).
- Epodes Christopher Smart's literal prose translation (1756).
- Odes Christopher Smart's literal prose translation (1756).
- Satires John Conington's verse translation (1869); Satires I.2 and I.8, which Conington omitted, are supplied in Christopher Smart's prose (1756) and marked as such.
Immanuel Kant
- Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals T. K. Abbott (1873)
- Perpetual Peace Mary Campbell Smith (1903)
- The Critique of Judgement J. H. Bernard (1892)
- The Critique of Practical Reason Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1873)
- The Critique of Pure Reason J. M. D. Meiklejohn (1855)
- The Science of Right W. Hastie (1887)
Isaac Newton
- Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy Andrew Motte (1846)
- Opticks
Jane Austen
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Discourse on the Origin of Inequality G. D. H. Cole (1913)
- The Social Contract G. D. H. Cole (1913)
John Locke
John Milton
John Stuart Mill
Jonathan Swift
Joseph Fourier
- The Analytical Theory of Heat Alexander Freeman (1878)
Karl Marx
- Capital Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887)
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- The Communist Manifesto Samuel Moore (1888)
King James Bible
Leo Tolstoy
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich Louise and Aylmer Maude (1923)
- War and Peace Louise and Aylmer Maude (1922)
Locke
- A Letter Concerning Toleration William Popple (1689)
Lucretius
- On the Nature of Things William Ellery Leonard (1916)
Machiavelli
- The Prince W.K. Marriott (1908)
Marcus Aurelius
- Meditations George Long (1862)
Marcus Tullius Cicero
- On Friendship Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (1903)
- On Old Age Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (1903)
- On the Republic George Featherstonhaugh (1829); Book VI (Scipio's Dream) from Francis Barham & Charles Duke Yonge (Harper, 19th c.).
Mary Shelley
Michael Faraday
Michel de Montaigne
- Essays Charles Cotton (1685)
Miguel de Cervantes
- Don Quixote John Ormsby (1885)
Montesquieu
- A Defence of the Spirit of Laws Thomas Nugent (1777)
- A Dialogue between Sylla and Eucrates Thomas Nugent (1777)
- An Essay on Taste Thomas Nugent (1777)
- Considerations on the Romans Thomas Nugent (1777)
- Persian Letters Thomas Nugent (1777)
- The Spirit of Laws Thomas Nugent (1750)
- The Temple of Gnidus Thomas Nugent (1777)
Plato
- Apology Benjamin Jowett (1871)
- Crito Benjamin Jowett (1871)
- Euthyphro Benjamin Jowett (1871)
- Gorgias Benjamin Jowett (1871)
- Laws Benjamin Jowett (1871)
- Meno Benjamin Jowett (1871)
- Phaedo Benjamin Jowett (1871)
- Phaedrus Benjamin Jowett (1871)
- Protagoras Benjamin Jowett (1871)
- Republic Benjamin Jowett (1871)
- Symposium Benjamin Jowett (1871)
- Theaetetus Benjamin Jowett (1871)
- Timaeus Benjamin Jowett (1871)
Plotinus
- Sixth Ennead Stephen MacKenna (1930)
- Third Ennead Stephen MacKenna (1921)
Plutarch
- Lives John Dryden (1683)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
René Descartes
- A Discourse on Method John Veitch (1850)
- The Geometry David Eugene Smith and Marcia L. Latham (1925)
Shakespeare
Sigmund Freud
- A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis G. Stanley Hall (1920)
- Civilization and Its Discontents Joan Riviere (1930)
- The Interpretation of Dreams A. A. Brill (1913)
Sophocles
- Ajax Lewis Campbell (1883)
- Antigone F. Storr (1912)
- Electra Lewis Campbell (1883)
- Oedipus at Colonus F. Storr (1912)
- Oedipus the King F. Storr (1912)
- Philoctetes Lewis Campbell (1883)
- The Women of Trachis Lewis Campbell (1883)
Spinoza
- Ethics R. H. M. Elwes (1883)
Tacitus
- The Agricola Thomas Gordon (1728)
- The Annals Thomas Gordon (1728)
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas More
- Utopia Gilbert Burnet (1684)
Thomas Paine
Thucydides
- History of the Peloponnesian War Richard Crawley (1874)
United States
Virgil
- The Aeneid John Dryden (1697)
William Gilbert
- On the Loadstone P. Fleury Mottelay (1893)
William Harvey
- On the Generation of Animals Robert Willis (1847)
- On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals Robert Willis (1847)