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Answers questions on Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles: the legend of the hound, Sir Henry, Dartmoor and Sherlock Holmes, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“It was unlikely that she would dare to say that she had not been to Baskerville Hall if she really had been, for a trap would be necessary to take her there, an…”
Answers questions on Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the twelve stories from A Scandal in Bohemia onward, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the story.
“## V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases between the years ’82 and ’90, I am faced by so many which prese…”
Answers questions on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick: Ishmael, Queequeg, Captain Ahab and the hunt for the white whale, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“Though neither knows where lie the nameless things of which the mystic sign gives forth such hints; yet with me, as with the colt, somewhere those things must e…”
Answers questions on Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan: the state of nature, the social contract and sovereign power, quoting the 1651 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“### That Which Seemeth A Miracle To One Man, May Seem Otherwise To Another Furthermore, seeing Admiration and Wonder, is consequent to the knowledge and experie…”
Answers questions on Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Utterson, the will, Hyde's crimes and Jekyll's statement, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“A week afterwards Dr. Lanyon took to his bed, and in something less than a fortnight he was dead. The night after the funeral, at which he had been sadly affect…”
Answers questions on David Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: impressions and ideas, cause and effect, miracles and scepticism, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the section.
“### OF MIRACLES.”
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.
“## Of Truth”
