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Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary SpaceOff on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space Among so many effective and artistic tales, it is difficult to give a preference to one over all the rest. Yet, certainly, even amid Vernes remarkable works, his Off on a Comet must be given...
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An Old MaidAn Old Maid Most persons have encountered, in certain provinces in France, a number of Chevaliers de Valois. One lived in Normandy, another at Bourges, a third (with whom we have here to do) flourished in Alencon, and doubtless the South possesses others. The...
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The Chignecto Isthmus and Its First SettlersThe Chignecto Isthmus and Its First SettlersFor some years past I, in common with many others, have felt that all letters of interest and accessible facts in connection with the early history of the Truemans should be collected and put in permanent form, not...
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The Country DoctorThe Country Doctor In hardly any of his books, with the possible exception of Eugnie Grandet, does Balzac seem to have taken a greater interest than in Le Mdecin de Campagne; and the fact of this interest, together with the merit and intensity of...
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RussiaRussia The first edition of this work, published early in January, 1877, contained the concentrated results of my studies during an uninterrupted residence of six years in Russiafrom the beginning of 1870 to the end of 1875. Since that time I have spent in...
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A Master's DegreeA Master's Degree IT happened by mere chance that the September day on which Professor Vincent Burgess, A.B., from Boston, first entered Sunrise College as instructor in Greek, was the same day on which Vic Burleigh, overgrown country boy from a Kansas claim out...
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A New Philosophy: Henri BergsonA New Philosophy: Henri Bergson This little book is due to two articles published under the same title in the "Revue des Deux Mondes", 1st and 15th February 1912. Their object was to present Mr Bergson's philosophy to the public at large, giving as...
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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis BonaparteThe Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is one of Karl Marx most profound and most brilliant monographs. It may be considered the best work extant on the philosophy of history, with an eye especially upon the history of...
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The Vicar of ToursThe Vicar of Tours Early in the autumn of 1826 the Abbe Birotteau, the principal personage of this history, was overtaken by a shower of rain as he returned home from a friends house, where he had been passing the evening. He therefore crossed,...
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The Secrets of the Princesse de CadignanThe Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan After the disasters of the revolution of July, which destroyed so many aristocratic fortunes dependent on the court, Madame la Princesse de Cadignan was clever enough to attribute to political events the total ruin she had caused...
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BureaucracyBureaucracy In Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a moment when...
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Pride and PrejudicePride and Prejudice It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a...
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The Altruist in PoliticsThe Altruist in Politics There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems...
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Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1Please 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...
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SaloméSaloméComposed in 1891 in the French language, Salom was not written for Madame Sarah Bernhardt, but was accepted by her for production at the Palace Theatre, London, in 1892, when a license was refused by the Censor. The play was first performed by the...
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Selected Prose of Oscar WildeSelected Prose of Oscar WildeWith the possible exceptions of the Greek Anthology, the Golden Treasury and those which bear the name of E. V. Lucas, no selections of poetry or prose have ever given complete satisfaction to anyone except the compiler. But critics derive...
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ShelleyShelley In the case of most great writers our interest in them as persons is derived from out interest in them as writers; we are not very curious about them except for reasons that have something to do with their art. With Shelley it...
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Shelley: An EssayShelley: An EssayThe Church, which was once the mother of poets no less than of saints, during the last two centuries has relinquished to aliens the chief glories of poetry, if the chief glories of holiness she has preserved for her own. The palm...
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The Ancien RégimeThe Ancien RégimeThe rules of the Royal Institution forbid (and wisely) religious or political controversy. It was therefore impossible for me in these Lectures, to say much which had to be said, in drawing a just and complete picture of the Ancien Rgime in...
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Paul KelverPaul Kelver Transcriber's Note: Items in [brackets] are editorial comments added in proofing. The pound (currency) symbol has been replaced by the word pound. At the corner of a long, straight, brick-built street in the far East End of Londonone of those lifeless streets,...
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