1859

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Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 1.

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Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 1.

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Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 2.

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Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 2.

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Marx, Karl. Zur Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie [On the Critique of Political Economy]. Berlin: Franz Duncker, 1859, preface.

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Marx, Karl. Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, edited by Maurice Dobb. International Publishers, 2022, preface.

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Tennyson, Alfred. "Lancelot and Elaine." Idylls of the King. London: Edward Moxon, 1859, I. 1082.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Lancelot and Elaine." Idylls of the King, edited by J. M. Gray. Penguin Classics, 1989, I. 1082.

Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The Virginians

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Thackeray, William Makepeace. The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century. Bradbury and Evans, 1 Nov. 1857 - 1 Nov. 1859.

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Eliot, George. Adam Bede. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1859, ch. 36.

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Eliot, George. Adam Bede, edited by Carol A. Martin. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 36.

This is a beautiful country.

John Brown

John Brown's last words before his execution.

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Brown, John. Last written words. 2 Dec. 1859.

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Lincoln, Abraham. Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others. 6 Apr. 1859.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "To Henry L. Pierce and Others, April 6, 1859." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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Gaskell, Elizabeth. Letter to George Smith. 4 Aug. 1859.

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Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Letters of Mrs. Gaskell. Mandolin, 1997.

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Brown, John. Quoted in John Brown and His Men, written by R. J. Hinton. Funk and Wagnals, 1894. Originally was his last written words, 2 Dec. 1859.

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Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 5.

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Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 5.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Fragments: Notes for Speeches." c. Sep. 1859?

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Notes for Speeches, c. September 1859." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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Eliot, George. Adam Bede. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1859, ch. 29.

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Eliot, George. Adam Bede, edited by Carol A. Martin. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 29.

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Metternich, Klemens von. Mein Politisches Testament [My Political Testament]. c. 1880.