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Happiness -- Early works to 1800

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• Early works to 1800

• An Enquiry After Happiness in Three Parts (set made from 6th edition of parts 1 and 2, and 5th edition of part 3; 1734-1735), by Richard Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's "De Consolation Philosophiae" (EETS extra series #5; London et al.: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, 1868, reprinted 1969), by Boethius, ed. by Richard Morris, trans. by Geoffrey Chaucer (Gutenberg text)
• The Consolation of Philosophy, by Boethius, trans. by W. V. Cooper (HTML at ex-classics.com)
• The Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius, Translated into English Prose and Verse (London: E. Stock, 1897), by Boethius, trans. by H. R. James (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Theological Tractates (English versions of the Tractates only), by Boethius, trans. by H. F. Stewart and Edward Kennard Rand (page images and partial HTML at CCEL)
• The Theological Tractates; The Consolation of Philosophy (in English and Latin; 1918), by Boethius, trans. by H. F. Stewart and Edward Kennard Rand (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Rossi Formula for Maximum Happiness: A Philosophy of Life (New York: Exposition Press, c1972), by Emidio J. Rossi (HTML with commentary at Verizon)
• The Anatomy of Happiness (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1951), by Martin Gumpert (page images at HathiTrust)
• How You Can Keep Happy (Chicago: American Health Book Concern, 1926), by William S. Sadler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Happiness, As Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought (New York: F. A. Stokes co., c1898), by Horace Fletcher, contrib. by William H. Holcombe (Gutenberg text)
• Happiness That Lasts, by Martin Israel (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Just Be Glad (Los Angeles: New Literature Pub. Co., 1912), by Christian D. Larson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Laugh and Live (with a "close-up" of the author; New York: Britton Pub. Co., 1917), by Douglas Fairbanks, contrib. by George Creel (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Help Yourself to Happiness (New York and London: Whittlesey House, 1937), by David Seabury (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Way to Happiness (main text of Scientology-promoted ethical guide; electronic edition), by L. Ron Hubbard (illustrated HTML with commentary at thewaytohappiness.org)

• Happiness, Economics and Public Policy (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2007), by Helen Johns and Paul Ormerod, contrib. by Samuel Brittan and Melanie Powell (PDF with commentary at IEA)

• My Mortal Enemy (1926), by Willa Cather
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia

• The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Five Acts, by Maurice Maeterlinck, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
  • PDF at astorialand.com
  • Gutenberg text
• The Blue Bird; A Fairy Play in Six Acts (Act IV added in 1910; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1920), by Maurice Maeterlinck, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (page images at HathiTrust)

• Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, of the Holy Father Francis, to the Bishops, Clergy, Consecrated Persons and the Lay Faithful on the Proclamation of the Gospel in Today's World (also known as "The Joy of the Gospel"; in multiple languages; 2013), by Pope Francis (HTML and PDF at the Vatican)

• Desiring God: Meditations of A Christian Hedonist (1996 edition), by John Piper (frame-dependent HTML at desiringgod.org)
• When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy, by John Piper (PDF with commentary at desiringgod.org)

• The God Who Smiles (2001), by Sherwood Eliot Wirt (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Jesus, Man of Joy, by Sherwood Eliot Wirt (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Audrey Jaffe (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Influence of Joy (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1916), by George Van Ness Dearborn (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Treatise Concerning Enthusiasme, As it is an Effect of Nature, But is Mistaken by Many for Either Divine Inspiration, or Diabolical Possession (London: Printed by R.D. for T. Johnson, 1655), by Meric Casaubon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP

• Reflections Upon Laughter, and Remarks Upon the Fable of the Bees (Glasgow: Printed by R. Urie for D. Baxter, 1971), by Francis Hutcheson
  • microfilm scan (omitting some back matter): multiple formats at archive.org
  • 1971 facsmile reproduction: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Dialoghi di Amore (in Italian; Venice: G. de' Cavalli, 1565), by León Hebreo
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Andreae Capellani Regii Francorum De Amore Libri Tres (in Latin; Copenhagen: In Lib. Gadiana, 1892), by Andreas Capellanus, ed. by E. Trojel
  • color PDF in Denmark; 70 MB
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Phaedrus, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
• Symposium, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)

• The Spirit of Love, by William Law (HTML at CCEL)
• Treatise on the Love of God, by Saint Francis de Sales (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• Revelations of Divine Love (language somewhat modernized), by Julian of Norwich, ed. by G. Warrack (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• The Shewings of Julian of Norwich, by Julian of Norwich, ed. by Georgia Ronan Crampton (frame-dependent HTML at Rochester)
• The Fire of Love and The Mending of Life, by Richard Rolle, trans. by Richard Misyn (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)

• The Anatomy of Melancholy: What It Is, With All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Severall Cures of It: In Three Partitions, With Their Severall Sections, Members and Subsections, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up (London: Printed for J. Ganway, 1660), by Robert Burton (page images at NIH)
• The Anatomy of Melancholy (Philadelphia: J. W. Moore; New York: J. Wiley, 1850), by Robert Burton (page images at MOA)
• The Anatomy of Melancholy (London: Chatto and Windus, 1883), by Robert Burton (HTML at exclassics.com)
• The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton, ed. by Karl Hagen (Gutenberg text)

• A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three Parts; To Which is Prefixed a Sketch of the Life of the Author (Philadelphia: J. Crissy, 1821), by Jonathan Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religious Affections, by Jonathan Edwards (multiple formats at CCEL)

• The Marchants Avizo: Verie Necessarie for Their Sonnes and Servants, When They First Send Them Beyond The Seas, as to Spayne and Portingale, or Other Countreyes (London: Impr. by T. Orwin, 1590), by J. B. (page images at Yale)

• The Whole Art of the Stage: Containing Not Only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, But Many Curious Observations About It, Which May Be of Great Use to the Authors, Actors, and Spectators of Plays, Together With Much Critical Learning About the Stage and Plays of the Antients (London: Printed for the author and sold by W. Cadman et al., 1684), by François-Hédelin Aubignac (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya (English translations only; 1921), by Śaṅkarācārya, trans. by S. Venkataramanan (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The Analysis of Beauty: Written With a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste (London: J. Reeves, 1753), by William Hogarth (page images at Wisconsin)
• A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757), by Edmund Burke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Indagación Filosófica Sobre el Orígen de Nuestras Ideas Acerca de lo Sublime y lo Bello (in Spanish; Alcalá: Oficina de la Real Universidad, 1807), by Edmund Burke, trans. by Juan de la Dehesa (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Essay on the Beautiful (From the Greek of Plotinus) (London: J. M. Watkins, 1917), by Plotinus, trans. by Thomas Taylor (Gutenberg text)
• Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry, With Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient Art (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1887), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, trans. by Ellen Frothingham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke (HTML at Bartleby)
• Aristotle on the Art of Poetry (aka Poetics), by Aristotle, trans. by Ingram Bywater, contrib. by Gilbert Murray (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poesie: Containing the Necessary, Rational, and Universal Rules for Epick, Dramatick, and the Other Sorts of Poetry (London: Printed by T.N. for H. Herringman, 1674), by René Rapin, trans. by Thomas Rymer (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)

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