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Eighteenth-Century E-Texts — C

This page, edited by Jack Lynch, is part of the larger collection of Eighteenth-Century E-Texts on the Net.

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Cadogan, William (1711-1797)

• An Essay upon Nursing and the Management of Children (1749) (neonatology.org)

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

• Life Is a Dream, tr. Edward Fitzgerald (1651)

Campan, Madame

• Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (Gutenberg)

Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844)

• The Battle of the Baltic (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Ye Mariners of England (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Campbell, Thomas (1763-1850)

• Declaration and Address (1809)

Cantillon, Richard (1680-1734)

• Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en General (1755) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• Essay on the Nature of Trade in General (1755) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• An Essay on Commerce in General — Part 1 (1755) (McMaster)
• An Essay on Commerce in General — Part 2 (1755) (McMaster)
• An Essay on Commerce in General — Part 3 (1755) (McMaster)

Carey, Henry (1693?-1743)

• A Drinking-Song (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Sally in Our Alley (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Carlyle, Thomas

• The French Revolution (Gutenberg)

Carnot, Sadi (1796-1832)

• Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat (1825) — Page images.

Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)

• Translation of Epictetus's "Enchiridion" (1758)

Cartwright, William (1611-1643)

• Falsehood (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• On the Queen's Return from the Low Countries (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• On a Virtuous Young Gentlewoman That Died Suddenly (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• To Chloe (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Carver, Jonathan (1710-1780)

• Three Years Travels through the Interior Parts of North-America for More than Five Thousand Miles (1789) (canadiana.org) — Page images.

Cary, Thomas (1751-1823)

• Abram's Plains: A Poem (1789) (canadiana.org) — Page images.

Casanova de Seingalt, Jacques

• Memoirs (Gutenberg)

Cassidy, James P.

• A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Dancing (1810) (Library of Congress)

Castel, Louis-Bertrand

• L'Homme moral opposé à l'homme physique (1756)

Catesby, Mark

• The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands (1754) (Wisconsin) — page images, including many plates.

Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle

• The Atomic Poems (from Poems and Fancies, 1653) (WWRP)
• The Autobiography of Margaret Cavendish

Caylus, Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, Comte de (1692-1765)

• Réflexions sur les historiens anciens en général, et sur Diodore de Sicil en particulier (1761)

Cazotte, Jacques (1719-1792)

• Le Diable amoureux (1772)

Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas de

• Mustapha et Zéangir (1824) (BNF) — Requires frames.

Chappell, Edward (1792-1861)

• Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson's Bay in His Majesty's Ship Rosamond (1817) (canadiana.org) — Page images.

Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de (1682-1761)

• Journal of a Voyage to North-America (1761) (canadiana.org) — Page images:
  • Vol. 1
  • Vol. 2
• Letters to the Dutchess of Lesdiguieres Giving an Account of a Voyage to Canada (1763) (canadiana.org) — Page images.

Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)

• Ælla:
  • Ælla, a Tragical Interlude (Toronto) — Selection.
  • Song from Ælla (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Copernican System
• The Death of Nicou; An African Eclogue
• Elegy on the Death of Mr. Phillips
• An Excelente Balade of Charitie: As Wroten bie the Gode Prieste Thomas Rowley, 1464 (Toronto)
• Narva and Mored

Chenier, Marie André (1762-1794)

• Poems (Delaware; in French)
• Caius Gracchus: tragédie en trois actes: représentée pour la première fois à Paris, sur le théâtre de la République, le 9 février 1792, l'an I de la république française (1793) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Jean Calas: tragédie en 5 actes (1793) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.

Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of

• David Widger's Quotations from Lord Chesterfield's Letters to His Son (Gutenberg)

Child, Sir Josiah (1630-1699)

• Observations concerning Trade and Interest of Money (1668) (McMaster)

Chmielowski, Benedykt

• Nowe Ateny — In Polish.

Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise-François

See Laclos.

Chudleigh, Lady Mary

• To the Ladies (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)

Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)

• Adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III (1700) (Richard III Society)
• The Tragical History of Richard III (Columbia)
• An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I and Volume II (Virginia)

Clare, John (1793-1864)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Selected Poems (Toronto)
  • Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
• Written in Northampton County Asylum (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Clarendon, Edward, Earl of

• A Survey of Mr Hobbes His Leviathan (McMaster)

Clarkson, Thomas (1760-1846)

• An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (1786) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• The History of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade (1808) (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Claus, Daniel (1727-1787)

• A Primer for the Use of the Mohawk Children, to Acquire the Spelling, Reading and Writing of Their Own Tongue (1786) (Canadiana.org)
• A Primer, for the Use of the Mohawk Children, to Acquire the Spelling, Reading and Writing of Their Own Tongue (1827) (Canadiana.org)

Cleland, John (1709-1789)

• Fanny Hill (Munseys)

Clive, Catherine (1711-1785)

• The Case of Mrs. Clive, Submitted to the Publick (1744) (Celebration of Women Writers)

Cocke, Louisiana Barraud

• Diary and Notes of Louisiana Barraud Cocke (1819-1820) (Virginia)

Cockle, Mary

• Elegy on the Death of His Late Majesty George the Third (BWRP)
• Lines Addressed to Lady Byron (1817) (BWRP)
• Reply to Lord Byron's "Fare Thee Well" (BWRP)

Coke, Roger

• A Discourse of Trade (1670) (McMaster)

Colden, Cadwallader (1688-1776)

• The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada (1747) (canadiana.org) — Page images.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • The Coleridge Archive (Virginia)
  • Selected Poems (Toronto)
  • Selected Poems (ReadPrint)
  • Selected Poems (Poetry Archives)
  • Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
• Biographia Literaria:
  • Biographia Literaria (Gutenberg)
  • Biographia Literaria, Vol. I (Toronto)
  • Biographia Literaria, Chapter 14 (Penn)
• Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, and Miscellaneous Essays from The Friend (Gutenberg)
• Glycine's Song (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Kubla Khan:
  • The Crewe Manuscript of "Kubla Khan" (Michael Gamer, Penn)
  • Kubla Khan (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Love (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Lyrical Ballads:
  • Lyrical Ballads: An Electronic Scholarly Edition (Romantic Circles) — An astounding edition of Lyrical Ballads in its many editions, with collations, page images, a bibliography, and much more. What Web scholarship should be. O si sic omnes!
  • Lyrical Ballads (Virginia)
  • Lyrical Ballads (Oregon)
• Reviews of The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Monk, Hubert de Sevrac, and The Italian (Michael Gamer, Penn)
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Time, Real and Imaginary (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Wanderings of Cain (Romantic Circles) — A thorough hypertext edition of the fragments.
• Work without Hope (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Youth and Age (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, and Robert Southey

• The Fall of Robespierre: An Historic Drama (1794)

Collin d'Harleville, Jean-François

• Les artistes: pièce en quatre actes et en vers (1797) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.

Collins, Mary

• The Woman's Labour: An Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck (Saskatchewan)
• The Woman's Labour (Steven E. Jones, Loyola Univ. Chicago)

Collins, William (1721-1759)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Selected Poems (Toronto)
• Fidele (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• How Sleep the Brave (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Ode to Evening (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Ode to Simplicity (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Colman, George, the Younger

• My Night-Gown and Slippers (Michael Gamer, Penn)

Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de

• Le commerce et le gouvernement considérés relativement l'un à l'autre: ouvrage élémentaire (1776) (BNF) — Requires frames.
• Essai sur l'origine des connoissances humaines: ouvrage où l'on réduit à un seul principe tout ce qui concerne l'entendement humain (1746) (BNF) — Requires frames.
• La logique, ou Les premiers développements de l'art de penser: ouvrage élémentaire (1780) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Traité des sensations (1788) (BNF) — Requires frames.

Condorcet, Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de (1743-1794)

• Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain (1793-94) (McMaster; in French)
• Observations on the Twenty-Ninth Book of the Spirit of Laws (1811) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship (1790) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• Progress of Human Mind (selections) (Modern History Sourcebook, Fordham)
• Sur l'admission des femmes au droit au cité (1790) (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Congreve, William (1670-1729)

• The Double-Dealer (Gutenberg)
• Incognita (Gutenberg)
• Love for Love (Gutenberg)
• The Old Bachelor (Gutenberg)
• Semele (libretto) (Renaissance Editions)
• The Way of the World:
  • The Way of the World (Gutenberg)
  • The Way of the World (Bibliomania)
• Poems:
  • False though She Be (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Constant, Benjamin (1767-1830)

• Adolphe
• Memoirs of Constant, tr. Elizabeth Gilbert Martin
• Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon (Gutenberg):
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4
  • Part 5
  • Part 6
  • Part 7
  • Part 8

Cook, James

• The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook around the World (1821) (canadiana.org) — Page images:
  • Vol. 1
  • Vol. 2
  • Vol. 3
  • Vol. 4
  • Vol. 5
  • Vol. 6
  • Vol. 7
• Directions for Navigating on Part of the South Coast of Newfoundland (1766) (Canadiana.org)
• A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World (1777) (Canadiana.org):
  • Vol. 1
  • Vol. 2

Cook, James, and James King

• A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (canadiana.org) — Page images:
  • Vol. 1
  • Vol. 2
  • Vol. 3
  • Vol. 4

Corneille, Pierre (1606-1684)

• Le Cid (1682)
• Cinna (1682)
• L'illusion comique (1636)
• Polyeucte (Bartleby)

Cottin, Sophie (1770-1807)

• Amélie Mansfield (1792) (Ellen Moody)

Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)

• To Coelia (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Coughlan, Laurence

• An Account of the Work of God in Newfoundland (1776)

Courtenay, John (1738-1816)

• The Present State of France and Italy (1794) (Chicago)

Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Selected Poems (Toronto)
• Anacreontics 1 (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Anacreontics 2 (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Anacreontics 3 (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Six Books of Plants (1689) (Virginia)
• Essays (Gutenberg)
• On the Death of Mr. William Hervey (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Wish (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Cowley, Hannah

• The Runaway (1776) (UMB)
• The Runaway (1776) (British Women Playwrights around 1800)

Cowper, William (1731-1800)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Selected Poems (Toronto)
  • Slavery Poems (Brycchan Carey) — Selections from Charity and The Task, with "The Negro's Complaint," "The Morning Dream," and "Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce"
• My Mary (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Snail (Virginia)
• To Mary Unwin (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Task, and Other Poems (Gutenberg)
• Translations from the French of Madame de la Mothe Guion (CCEL)

Coyer, Gabriel François, abbé (1707-1782)

• The Commercial Nobility (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Selected Poems (Toronto)
• The Borough (Gutenberg)
• The Library (Gutenberg)
• A Marriage Ring (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Meeting (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Late Wisdom (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Village, and The Newspaper (Gutenberg)

Crashaw, Richard (1613?-1649)

• Christ Crucified (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphical Saint Teresa (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Verses from the Shepherds' Hymn (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Weeper (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Wishes to His Supposed Mistress (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Crawford, Charles (b. 1752)

• An Essay on the Propagation of the Gospel (1801) (canadiana.org) — Page images.

Crébillon, Claude-Prosper Jolyot de

• La nuit et le moment ou Les matines de Cythère: dialogue (1779) (BNF) — Requires frames.
• Le Sopha: conte moral (BNF) — Requires frames.

Crébillon, Prosper Jolyot de

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Oeuvres de Crébillon. Tome premier (1812) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
  • Oeuvres de Crébillon. Tome second (1812) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
  • Oeuvres de Crébillon. Tome troisième (1812) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Atrée et Thyeste: tragédie (1818) (BNF) — Requires frames.
• Catilina: tragédie (1818) (BNF) — Requires frames.
• Idoménée: tragédie (1831) (BNF) — Requires frames.
• Rhadamisthe et Zénobie: tragédie (1813) (BNF) — Requires frames.
• Sémiramis: tragédie (1813) (BNF) — Requires frames.

Crèvecoeur, Henry St.-John de

• Letters From an American Farmer (Virginia)

Cristall, Anne Batten

• Poetical Sketches (1795) (Virginia)

Croker, John Wilson

• Review of Lady Morgan's France (Quarterly Review, 1817)

Culpeper, Nicholas

• The Complete Herbal (Blbiomania)
• The English Physitian (1652) (Yale Medical Library)

Cunningham, Allan (1784-1842)

• Hame, Hame, Hame (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Spring of the Year (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Sun Rises Bright in France (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Cunninghame-Graham, Robert, of Gartmore (1735-1797)

• If Doughty Deeds (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Cutts, John, Lord Cutts (1661-1707)

• Song (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Cuvier, Georges Léopole Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert, Baron Cuvier (1769-1832)

• Discours sur les revolutions de la surface du globe (Ian Johnston, Malaspina)
• Revolutionary Upheavals on the Surface of the Globe (Ian Johnston, Malaspina)
• Reviews:
  • Edinburgh Review on Cuvier's Essay (Ian Johnston, Malaspina)
  • English Reviews of Cuvier's Essay (Ian Johnston, Malaspina)