| Introduction by Henry Craik |
Francis Bacon. 15611626. | Critical Introduction by William Minto |
Letter to Lord Burghley in 1591 |
Of Studies |
Of Marriage and Single Life |
Of Vainglory |
Of Building |
On the Vanity of Words without Matter |
Of the True Greatness of a State |
The Character of Henry VII. |
The Duties of Judges of Assize |
The Poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury |
A Haven after Storm |
On the Transmission of Immateriate Virtues |
John Hayward. 1564?1627. | Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
Difficulties in Reign of Edward VI. |
The Protector Somerset and His Brother |
Public Fears |
Queen Elizabeth |
The Jesuits |
James VI. and I. 15661625. | Critical Introduction by William S. MCormick |
On the Education of a Prince |
Tobacco and Good Manners |
John Spottiswoode. 15651639. | Critical Introduction by James Miller Dodds |
The Execution of Queen Mary |
The Adventures of Mr. John Craig |
Sir Henry Wotton. 15681639. | Critical Introduction by A. W. Ward |
How to Meet the Turk |
To Sir Edmund Bacon |
John Donne. 15721631. | Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
Occasional Mercies |
Salvation |
The Arithmetic of Sin |
Death |
To My Very True and Very Good Friend, Sir Henry Goodyere |
Ben Jonson. 15721637. | Critical Introduction by A. W. Ward |
De Malignitate Studentium |
De Bonis et MalisDe Innocentia |
Notæ Domini S. Albani de Doctrinæ Intemperantia |
Samuel Purchas. 1577?1626. | Critical Introduction by W. P. Ker |
Of the Hill Amara and the Rarities therein |
Sir Thomas Overbury. 15811613. | Critical Introduction by William S. MCormick |
An Affectate Traveller |
A Mere Fellow of an House |
A Roaring Boy |
A Franklin |
Robert Burton. 15771640. | Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
Democritus His Utopia |
Love of Solitude |
Of Repulse |
Charity, the Want of It |
Joseph Hall. 15741656. | Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
To the High and Mighty Monarch James |
Mediation in Church Controversies |
Besieged in His Palace |
Balaam and the Ass |
To My Reverend Brethren of the Diocese of Norwich |
The Christians Disposition |
Undutiful Sons |
Weary Loquacity |
James Ussher. 15811656. | Critical Introduction by Edmund K. Chambers |
Of Purgatory, and Prayer for the Dead |
John Selden. 15841654. | Critical Introduction by William S. MCormick |
A Scholars Defence |
The First Payment of Tithes in England |
Measure of Things |
Opinion |
Logic and Rhetoric |
Lord Herbert of Cherbury. 15831648. | Critical Introduction by W. P. Ker |
Lord Herbert of Cherbury in Paris |
John Hales. 15841656. | Critical Introduction by W. Wallace |
All Differences Do Not Involve Schism |
False Proofs |
William Drummond of Hawthornden. 15851649. | Critical Introduction by William S. MCormick |
A Reverie on Death |
George Herbert. 15931633. | Critical Introduction by Alfred Ainger |
The Parson Preaching |
The Parson on Sundays |
Thomas Hobbes. 15881679. | Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
The Causes of Mutual Fear |
The State of War |
Natural Religion |
The Race |
Love |
The Inconveniences of Government |
How the Presbyterians Grew Strong |
Thomas May. 1594/51650. | Critical Introduction by Edmund K. Chambers |
The Argument of His History |
Strafford |
The Queen Mother |
The Battle of Edgehill |
James Howell. c. 15941666. | Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
The Murder of Buckingham |
The White Bird |
Howells Sabbath Devotions |
The Pied Piper |
Wines |
Peter Heylyn. 15991662. | Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
Fuller as an Historian |
A Royal Progress |
Strafford and the King |
John Knox |
William Chillingworth. 16021644. | Critical Introduction by W. Wallace |
Scripture Intelligible |
Faith and Understanding |
Samuel Rutherford. 1600?1661. | Critical Introduction by James Miller Dodds |
Flight No Lawful Means of Escape for an Oppressed People |
Letter to Jean Brown |
Violent and Natural Death |
John Earle. 1601?1665. | Critical Introduction by A. W. Ward |
A Pretender to Learning |
A Sceptic in Religion |
A Vulgar-Spirited Man |
Owen Felltham. 1602?1668. | Critical Introduction by A. I. Fitzroy |
A Friend and Enemy, When Most Dangerous |
Of Preaching |
Description of a Dutch House |
Sir Kenelm Digby. 16031665. | Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
An Extract from a Ships Log |
The Maxims of Self-Contentment |
The Souls Excellence |
Sir Thomas Urquhart. 16111660. | Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
Doctor Seaton |
The Design of the Third Book, Entituled Cleronomaporia |
Sir Thomas Browne. 16051682. | Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
Part of Address to Reader |
Of Griffins |
Faith in Mysteries |
A Providence in Fortune |
Of the Nature of Angels |
The Soul Illimitable |
Sleep |
The Vanity of Ambition |
Imagination Sweetens Life |
Something to Be Loved in All |
Walk Not with Leaden Sandals |
Temperance in Pleasure |
The Limits of Felicity |
Un-man Not Thyself |
Izaak Walton. 15931683. | Critical Introduction by Edmund Gosse |
What We Owe to the Birds |
Angling an Art |
The Otter Hunt |
The Milkmaids Song |
The Blessing of Content |
A Vision |
George Herbert at Bemerton |
Dr. Sanderson at Boothby Pannel |
Lucy Hutchinson. 16201681. | Critical Introduction by W. P. Ker |
Lambert, 1659 |
Bulstrode Whitelocke. 16051675. | Critical Introduction by W. Wallace |
Ship Money |
A Conference with the King |
The Trial of the King |
Thomas Fuller. 16081661. | Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
The Natural Commodities of Hampshire |
John of Trevisa and Geoffrey Chaucer |
The Good Yeoman |
Ejaculations: Their Privilege |
An Ill Match |
The Imprisonment and Ransom of King Richard |
Fullers Farewell to Exeter on the Eve of Its Surrender |
Edward Hyde, Lord Clarendon. 16091674. | Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
The Death of Strafford |
The City of London |
Character of Hampden |
Character of Lord Falkland |
Character of Charles I. |
Character of Cromwell |
Clarendons Early Friends |
Clarendons Early Manhood |
Character of Himself |
Fealty against Conscience |
Hopes of Peace Frustrated |
Causes of the Corruption Which Followed the Restoration |
The Stuart Family |
Clarendons Letter to the King |
John Milton. 16081674. | Critical Introduction by A. W. Ward |
The Deliverance of England |
Not the Praise, but the Cause |
Himself a True Poem |
The New Inquisition |
The Search after Truth |
The Punishment of Tyrants |
The Kings Misgovernment |
Justice above the King |
Persecution, Papist and Protestant |
A Perpetual Grand Council of the Nation |
Robert Leighton. 16111684. | Critical Introduction by Edmund K. Chambers |
The Flower of the Grass |
The Vanity of Life |
Life and Death |
David and Solomon: Their Experience of Life |
Renunciation |
The Comfort of Belief |
The Inheritance |
Spiritual Sunshine |
James Harrington. 16111677. | Critical Introduction by George Saintsbury |
The Political Wisdom of Girls |
The Case for the Agrarian |
The Speech of the Lord Epimonus de Garrula |
Inequality in Commonwealths |
Samuel Butler. 16121680. | Critical Introduction by W. P. Ker |
A Rabble |
An Opinionater |
A Rebel |
An Hector |
Jeremy Taylor. 16131667. | Critical Introduction by J. H. Overton |
Holiness the Way to Knowledge |
The Responsibilities of a Bishop |
Of Contentedness in All Estates and Accidents |
Of the Practice of Patience |
On Set Forms of Liturgy |
On Difference of Opinion |
Bishop John Wilkins. 16141672. | Critical Introduction by Henry Craik |
A Journey to the Moon Possible |
Authority of the Ancients |
Motion of the Earth Possible |
Henry More. 16141687. | Critical Introduction by Edmund K. Chambers |
The Dream of Bathynous |
The Obscurity of the Christian Religion |
Design in the Animal World |
Richard Baxter. 16151691. | Critical Introduction by J. H. Overton |
The Knowledge of God |
The Heart in Heaven |
Abraham Cowley. 16181667. | Critical Introduction by A. W. Ward |
The Use of Leisure |
A Small Thing, but Mine Own |
A Maxim Criticised |
Poetry as a Mistress |
Ralph Cudworth. 16171688. | Critical Introduction by A. I. Fitzroy |
On the Incorporeality of the Deity |
Against Arbitrary Decrees |
On the Exercise of the Will |
On Christs Christianity |
Sir Roger LEstrange. 16161704. | Critical Introduction by J. H. Millar |
The Fox and the Raven |
The Daw and Borrowed Plumes |
The Fox and the Sick Lion |
The Ape and the Dolphin |