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Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a FriendReligio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a FriendSIR THOMAS BROWNE (whose works occupy so prominent a position in the literary history of the seventeenth century) is an author who is now little known and less read. This comparative oblivion to which he has...
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Running a Thousand Miles for FreedomRunning a Thousand Miles for Freedom - Or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from SlaveryHAVING heard while in Slavery that "God made of one blood all nations of men," and also that the American Declaration of Independence says, that "We hold these...
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The History of the Thirty Years' WarThe History of the Thirty Years' WarThe present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first...
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The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of SpainThe Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of SpainI cannot permit the second edition of this work to go to press without premising it with a few words. When some two years ago I first gave The Zincali to the world, it was, as...
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Puck of Pook's HillPuck of Pook's Hill And see you marks that show and fade, Like shadows on the Downs? O they are the lines the Flint Men made, To guard their wondrous towns! The children were at the Theatre, acting to Three Cows as much as...
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The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican RevolutionThe Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution Mariano Azuela, the first of the "novelists of the Revolution," was born in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico, in 1873. He studied medicine in Guadalajara and returned to Lagos in 1909, where he began the practice...
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The Life of Me: An AutobiographyThe Life of Me: An AutobiographyThis writing grew out of a request from my daughter, Anita, that I write to her concerning me, my family, my parents and their families; how we lived, how we grew up; our ideals, our customs, and our social...
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A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in SamoaA Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in SamoaAn affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the...
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Joe the Hotel Boy Or, Winning out by PluckJoe the Hotel Boy; Or, Winning out by Pluck A number of years ago the author of this story set out to depict life among the boys of a great city, and especially among those who had to make their own way in the...
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Court Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and PeopleCourt Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and People Until within the past ten years a study of Chinese court life would have been an impossibility. The Emperor, the Empress Dowager, and the court ladies were shut up within the Forbidden City, away...
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The Chinese Boy and GirlThe Chinese Boy and Girl No thorough study of Chinese child life can be made until the wall of Chinese exclusiveness is broken down and the homes of the East are thrown open to the people of the West. Glimpses of that life however,...
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History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in ChristendomHistory of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom My book is ready for the printer, and as I begin this preface my eye lights upon the crowd of Russian peasants at work on the Neva under my windows. With pick and shovel...
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RezanovRezanov A long list of works Gertrude Atherton has to her credit as a writer. She is indisputably a woman of genius. Not that her genius is distinctively feminine, though she is in matters historical a passionate partisan. Most of the critics who approve...
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The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil WarThe Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and...
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The Psychology of RevolutionThe Psychology of RevolutionPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million dollars...
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Miracle Mongers and Their MethodsMiracle Mongers and Their Methods - A Complete Exposé of the Modus Operandi of Fire Eaters, Heat Resisters, Poison Eaters, Venomous Reptile Defiers, Sword Swallowers, Human Ostriches, Strong Men, Etc. "All wonder," said Samuel Johnson, "is the effect of novelty on ignorance." Yet we...
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KidnappedKidnapped While my husband and Mr. Henley were engaged in writing plays in Bournemouth they made a number of titles, hoping to use them in the future. Dramatic composition was not what my husband preferred, but the torrent of Mr. Henleys enthusiasm swept him...
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The Bible in SpainThe Bible in Spain - Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the PeninsulaIt is very seldom that the preface of a work is read; indeed, of late years, most books have been sent...
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John Jacob AstorJohn Jacob AstorThe man who makes it the habit of his life to go to bed at nine o'clock, usually gets rich and is always reliable. Of course, going to bed does not make him richI merely mean that such a man will in...
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The Souls of Black FolkThe Souls of Black Folk Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here at the dawning of the Twentieth Century. This meaning is not without interest to you, Gentle Reader; for the problem...
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