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Answers questions on Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays: First Series, including Self-Reliance, Compensation and Friendship, quoting the 1841 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the essay.
“# ESSAYS, FIRST SERIES”
Answers questions on Francis Bacon's Essays: short counsels on studies, truth, friendship, ambition, revenge and other topics, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the essay.
“# THE ESSAYS OR COUNSELS, CIVIL AND MORAL,”
Answers questions on The Art of Public Speaking by Esenwein and Carnegie: confidence, voice, gesture, preparation and holding an audience, quoting the 1915 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain).
“…Child's Garden of Verses*. —Stevenson, *Essays*. —Emerson, *Essays*. 8. Make a two-minute speech on any of the following general subjects, but you will find tha…”
Answers questions on Rose Buhlig's Business English: practice in business letters, sales letters, complaints and clear, correct English, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“Using the divisions you made for one of the subjects under Exercise 155, develop an outline for a theme.[153] Choose one of the following subjects; restrict it …”
Answers questions on Orison Swett Marden's Pushing to the Front: opportunity, perseverance, the value of time and character in a career, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“The writer has the advantage of being able to wait for his moods. He can write when he feels like it; and he knows that he can burn his manuscript again and aga…”
Answers questions on William Strunk's The Elements of Style (1918): rules of usage, principles of composition and words often misused, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the rule.
“In notebooks, in newspapers, in handbooks of literature, summaries of one kind or another may be indispensable, and for children in primary schools it is a usef…”
Answers questions on Rousseau's The Social Contract: the general will, sovereignty and legitimate government, quoting G. D. H. Cole's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.
“# THE SOCIAL CONTRACT & DISCOURSES”
Answers questions on writing clearly for your audience from the U.S. Federal Plain Language Guidelines, citing the GitHub repo GSA/plainlanguage.gov (US government work, public domain). Not an official U.S. government product.
“### Christine Mowat, "A Conference with Myself on Teaching Writing," Teacher as Researcher, Faculty of Education, The University of Calgary: Writing is not only…”
Answers questions on Descartes's Discourse on the Method: methodical doubt, his four rules and 'I think, therefore I am', quoting John Veitch's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the part.
“It is true that, while busied only in considering the manners of other men, I found here, too, scarce any ground for settled conviction, and remarked hardly les…”
Answers questions on John Ruskin's The Seven Lamps of Architecture: sacrifice, truth, power, beauty, life, memory and obedience, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“## PREFACE. The memoranda which form the basis of the following Essay have been thrown together during the preparation of one of the sections of the third volum…”
