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The Art of Public SpeakingThe Art of Public SpeakingThe efficiency of a book is like that of a man, in one important respect: its attitude toward its subject is the first source of its power. A book may be full of good ideas well expressed, but if its...
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The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862Cornell University Library produced this volume to preserve the informational content of the deteriorated original. The best available copy of the original has been used to create this digital copy. It was scanned bitonally at 600...
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The Turkish JesterThe Turkish Jester - or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin EffendiThe story goes, one of the stories of a hundred, that Cogia Nasr Eddin Efendi one day ascending into the pulpit to preach, said, O believers, do ye not know what I am...
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An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744)An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744)Series One: Essays on Wit No. 4 [Corbyn Morris] An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Raillery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) With an Introduction by James L....
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The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 - Devoted To Literature and National PolicyThere are two sections of the United States, the Free States and the Slave States, who hold views widely different upon the subject of Slavery and the true interpretation...
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English SatiresEnglish SatiresSatire and the satirist have been in evidence in well-nigh all ages of the world's history. The chief instruments of the satirist's equipment are irony, sarcasm, invective, wit, and humour. The satiric denunciation of a writer burning with indignation at some social wrong...
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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1880, by J.B. LIPPINCOTT & Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. AN HISTORICAL ROCKY-MOUNTAIN OUTPOST. LOST. ADAM AND EVE. CHAPTER...
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Literary Character of Men of GeniusLiterary Character of Men of Genius - Drawn from Their Own Feelings and ConfessionsFor the fifth time I revise a subject which has occupied my inquiries from early life, with feelings still delightful, and an enthusiasm not wholly diminished. Had not the principle upon...
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Little Classics, Volume 10 (of 18)Stories of ChildhoodThey were friends in a friendship closer than brotherhood. Nello was a little Ardennois,Patrasche was a big Fleming. They were both of the same age by length of years, yet one was still young, and the other was already old. They had...
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A Dutch Boy Fifty Years AfterA Dutch Boy Fifty Years After IN WHOSE LIVES ARE FOUND THE SOURCE AND MAINSPRING OF SOME OF THE EFFORTS OF THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK IN HIS LATER YEARS Along an island in the North Sea, five miles from the Dutch coast, stretches...
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De la littérature des nègres, ou Recherches sur leurs facultés intellectuelles, leurs qualités morales et leur littératureDe la littérature des nègres, ou Recherches sur leurs facultés intellectuelles, leurs qualités morales et leur littératureA tous les hommes courageux qui ont plaid la cause des malheureux Noirs et Sang-mls, soit par leurs ouvrages, soit par leurs discours dans les assembles politiques, dans...
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Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885In the following article I propose to give some account of a typical tobacco-plantation in Virginia and the life of its negro laborers as I have observed it from day to day and season to season. Although it is restricted to...
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Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch, 1908-1911Books and Persons; Being Comments on a Past Epoch, 1908-1911NOVELS A MAN FROM THE NORTH ANNA OF THE FIVE TOWNS LEONORA A GREAT MAN SACRED AND PROFANE LOVE WHOM GOD HATH JOINED BURIED ALIVE THE OLD WIVES' TALE THE GLIMPSE HELEN WITH THE HIGH...
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How To Write Special Feature ArticlesHow To Write Special Feature Articles - A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of NewspapersThis book is the result of twelve years' experience in teaching university students to write special feature articles...
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The Silly SyclopediaThe Silly Syclopedia - A Terrible Thing in the Form of a Literary Torpedo which is Launched for Hilarious Purposes Only Inaccurate in Every Particular Containing Copious Etymological Derivations and Other Useless Things Some eighteen months ago I took this brilliant bunch of brain...
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Best Short StoriesBest Short StoriesThere is a wide difference of opinion, even among the most discriminating critics, as to what constitutes the point of a good joke. Aside from varying temperaments, this is largely due to one's experience with life in general. Or intimate acquaintance with...
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Augustan Reprint Society, publication number 06Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the English Stage (1704); Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady (1704) Within two or three years after the appearance in 1698 of Jeremy Collier's A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness...
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Humorous Masterpieces from American LiteratureHumorous Masterpieces from American Literature BAYARD TAYLOR Selections from the Experiences of the A.C. WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER. Dobbs His Ferry JOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST. Father Higgins's Preferment JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE. Fred Trover's Little Iron-Clad OLIVER BELL BUNCE. Mr. Bluff Discourses on the Country and...
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Love Letters of a Rookie to JulieLove Letters of a Rookie to JulieWell, hear I am in camp after being "rough-housed on the rattlers" for 1 day and 2 nites; I was so shook-up that I'm like a loose button on an overcoatno wheres in particular. The most vivid impression...
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The Book of Three Hundred AnecdotesThe Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes - Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New SelectionGeorge I. and the Lieutenant, 121 II. and the Dutch-Innkeeper, 64 and the Court Martial, 122 III. Punctuality, 64 Carbonel the Wine Merchant, 65 The Horse Dealer, 66 Memorial to a Servant,...
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