The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

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1. 01Full text
2. 02_EVERY MAN HIS OWN BOSWELL_.
3. 03BOSTON:
4. 04JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY,
5. 05LATE TICKNOR & FIELDS, AND FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO.
6. 06OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES,
7. 07THE AUTOCRAT’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
8. 08OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
9. 09CHAPTER I
10. 10ALBUM VERSES.
11. 11LATTER-DAY WARNINGS.
12. 12CHAPTER II
13. 13SUN AND SHADOW.
14. 14THIS IS IT.
15. 15HERE IT IS—WITH THE _SLIGHT ALTERATIONS_!
16. 16CHAPTER III
17. 17LE RAT DES SALONS À LECTURE.
18. 18THE OLD MAN DREAMS.
19. 19CHAPTER IV
20. 20“HUNC LAPIDEM POSUERUNT SOCII MŒRENTES.”
21. 21THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS.
22. 22CHAPTER V
23. 23“OUR SUMATRA CORRESPONDENCE.
24. 24MARE RUBRUM.
25. 25CHAPTER VI
26. 26LES SOCIÉTÉS POLYPHYSIOPHILOSOPHIQUES.
27. 27WHAT WE ALL THINK.
28. 28CHAPTER VII
29. 29THE PROFESSOR’S PAPER.
30. 30THE LAST BLOSSOM.
31. 31THE LIVING TEMPLE.
32. 32CHAPTER VIII
33. 33SPRING HAS COME.
34. 34CHAPTER IX
35. 35A GOOD TIME GOING!
36. 36THE TWO ARMIES.
37. 37CHAPTER X
38. 38“MAN-TAMING EXTRAORDINARY.
39. 39SYLVA NOVANGLICA.
40. 40MY FIRST WALK WITH THE SCHOOLMISTRESS.
41. 41EXTRACT FROM MY PRIVATE JOURNAL.
42. 42MUSA.
43. 43CHAPTER XI
44. 44THE DEACON’S MASTERPIECE: OR THE WONDERFUL “ONE-HOSS-SHAY.”
45. 45A LOGICAL STORY.
46. 46ÆSTIVATION.
47. 47CONTENTMENT.
48. 48MY LAST WALK WITH THE SCHOOLMISTRESS.
49. 49CHAPTER XII
50. 50THE PROFESSOR UNDER CHLOROFORM.
51. 51PARSON TURELL’S LEGACY: OR THE PRESIDENT’S OLD ARM-CHAIR.
52. 52A MATHEMATICAL STORY.
53. 53THE LONG PATH.
54. 54THE VOICELESS.