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The Enchanted TypewriterThe Enchanted Typewriter It is a strange fact, for which I do not expect ever satisfactorily to account, and which will receive little credence even among those who know that I am not given to romancingit is a strange fact, I say, that the...
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Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 THE Dutch clergy of the Reformed Church, as has already been mentioned in a previous introduction, were men whose observations we must value because of their intelligence and their acquirements; and they also had a point of view which...
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The OdysseyThe Odyssey Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for the most part, to shut our ears against conviction; since, from the very gradual character of our education,...
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The Hermit of Far EndThe Hermit of Far End It was very quiet within the little room perched high up under the roof of Wallater's Buildings. Even the glowing logs in the grate burned tranquilly, without any of those brisk cracklings and sputterings which make such cheerful company...
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Our American CousinOur American Cousin This etext was produced by the Levin family, Englewood, CO. Like many plays, there is no authoritative version and it evolved over the course of time, indeed in multiple directions. The 1869 printing upon which this etext is primarily based was...
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The Path of Empire: A Chronicle of the United States as a World PowerThe Path of Empire: A Chronicle of the United States as a World Power THE PATH OF EMPIRE CHAPTER I. The Monroe Doctrine CHAPTER II. Controversies With Great Britain CHAPTER III. Alaska And Its Problems CHAPTER IV. Blaine And Pan-Americanism CHAPTER V. The United...
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Andrea DelfinAndrea DelfinThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they can legally do with the texts....
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SheShe In giving to the world the record of what, looked at as an adventure only, is I suppose one of the most wonderful and mysterious experiences ever undergone by mortal men, I feel it incumbent on me to explain what my exact connection...
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The Surprising Adventures of Baron MunchausenThe Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen Baron Munchausen has certainly been productive of much benefit to the literary world; the numbers of egregious travellers have been such, that they demanded a very Gulliver to surpass them. If Baron de Tott dauntlessly discharged an enormous...
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The Virgin of the SunThe Virgin of the Sun Some five-and-thirty years ago it was our custom to discuss many matters, among them, I think, the history and romance of the vanished Empires of Central America. In memory of those far-off days will you accept a tale that...
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The Junior Classics, Volume 1: Fairy and wonder talesThe Junior Classics, Volume 1: Fairy and wonder talesThe purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, stories, and poems, both ancient and modern, suitable for boys and girls of from...
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Human Nature, and Other SermonsHuman Nature, and Other SermonsJoseph Butler was born in 1692, youngest of eight children of a linendraper at Wantage, in Berkshire. His father was a Presbyterian, and after education at the Wantage Free Grammar School Joseph Butler was sent to be educated for the...
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Marm LisaMarm LisaEden Place was a short street running at right angles with Eden Square, a most unattractive and infertile triangle of ground in a most unattractive but respectable quarter of a large city. It was called a square, not so much, probably, because it...
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A Village StradivariusA Village StradivariusGoodfellow, Puck and goblins, Know more than any book. Down with your doleful problems, And court the sunny brook. The south-winds are quick-witted, The schools are sad and slow, The masters quite omitted The lore we care to know. One of Paggernyners...
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A Summer in a Canyon: A California StoryA Summer in a Canyon: A California StoryIt was nine oclock one sunny California morning, and Geoffrey Strong stood under the live-oak trees in Las Flores Caon, with a pot of black paint in one hand and a huge brush in the other. He...
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Two on a TowerTwo on a TowerThis slightly-built romance was the outcome of a wish to set the emotional history of two infinitesimal lives against the stupendous background of the stellar universe, and to impart to readers the sentiment that of these contrasting magnitudes the smaller might...
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The Author of BeltraffioThe Author of BeltraffioMuch as I wished to see him I had kept my letter of introduction three weeks in my pocket-book. I was nervous and timid about meeting himconscious of youth and ignorance, convinced that he was tormented by strangers, and especially by...
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Froude's History of EnglandFroude's History of EnglandThere appeared a few years since a Comic History of England, duly caricaturing and falsifying all our great national events, and representing the English people, for many centuries back, as a mob of fools and knaves, led by the nose in...
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Sir Walter Raleigh and His TimeSir Walter Raleigh and His TimeTruth is stranger than fiction. A trite remark. We all say it again and again: but how few of us believe it! How few of us, when we read the history of heroical times and heroical men, take the...
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Plays and PuritansPlays and PuritansThe British Isles have been ringing for the last few years with the word Art in its German sense; with High Art, Symbolic Art, Ecclesiastical Art, Dramatic Art, Tragic Art, and so forth; and every well-educated person is expected, nowadays, to know...
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