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Latin Vulgate, Daniel: Prophetia DanielisThis is a complete electronic ASCII text of the Book of Daniel from the Latin Clementine Vulgate, sections translated from the Greek Septuagint included, with section headers, footnotes, and appendicies. notes concerning this file: I have transcribed from this source...

Latin Vulgate, Esther: Liber EstherI have transcribed from this source as accurately as possible for this e-text, with the following changes: 1) I formatted each verse into a separate line and added the chapter number to each verse number. In doing this I lost...

Latin Vulgate, Esther: Liber EstherI have transcribed from this source as accurately as possible for this e-text, with the following changes: 1) I formatted each verse into a separate line and added the chapter number to each verse number. In doing this I lost...

Latin Vulgate, Bible Book Titles and NamesI have assembled four lists of the designations used for the Bible books from the above source: Full Tiles, Long Names, Short Names, & Abbreviations. The only changes I made were typing all names in "First Caps" rather...

Speeches: Literary and SocialCharles Dickens was born at Landport, Portsmouth, on February 7, 1812. At that time his father, Mr. John Dickens, held an office in the Navy Pay Department, the duties of which obliged him to reside alternately at the principal naval stations...

The Life of St. Declan of Ardmore Five miles or less to the east of Youghal Harbour, on the southern Irish coast, a short, rocky and rather elevated promontory juts, with a south-easterly trend, into the ocean [about 51 deg. 57 min. N /...

The Tarn of EternityPaths meander through the drear landscape. In earlier time lovingly attended, now lie they under gray dust and blowing brown leaves. All paths, in good time, led to the garden gate, its posterns now long whitened by blowing wind and sand....

Dombey and SonI make so bold as to believe that the faculty (or the habit) of correctly observing the characters of men, is a rare one. I have not even found, within my experience, that the faculty (or the habit) of correctly observing so...

Edison: His Life and Inventions THE reader who has followed the foregoing narrative may feel that inasmuch as it is intended to be an historical document, an appropriate addendum thereto would be a digest of all the inventions of Edison. The desirability of such...

The History of the Telephone Thirty-five short years, and presto! the newborn art of telephony is fullgrown. Three million telephones are now scattered abroad in foreign countries, and seven millions are massed here, in the land of its birth. So entirely has the telephone...

The Aeroplane Speaks The reasons impelling me to write this book, the maiden effort of my pen, are, firstly, a strong desire to help the ordinary man to understand the Aeroplane and the joys and troubles of its Pilot; and, secondly, to produce something...

The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996Please 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...

Democracy in America — Volume 2 The Americans live in a democratic state of society, which has naturally suggested to them certain laws and a certain political character. This same state of society has, moreover, engendered amongst them a multitude of feelings and opinions...

Democracy in America — Volume 1 Amongst the novel objects that attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of conditions. I readily discovered the prodigious influence which this primary fact exercises on...

Hunting Sketches It seems to be odd, at first sight, that there should be any such men as these; but their name and number is legion. If we were to deduct from the hunting-crowd farmers, and others who hunt because hunting is brought to...

Reminiscences of Tolstoy, by His Son IN one of his letters to his great-aunt, Alexandra Andreyevna Tolstoy, my father gives the following description of his children: The eldest [Sergei] is fair-haired and good-looking; there is something weak and patient in his expression, and very...

Catalan's Constant to 1,500,000 PlacesThe algorithm used is the one presented by Greg Fee on ISSAC '90 (using only integer arithmetic in the main loop). Again, I have verified the previous 1000100-digit value using LiDIA and text comparison. Catalan constant to 1500000 digits computed...

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus - From the Quarto of 1616 SQUARE BRACKETS: The square brackets, i.e. are copied from the printed book, without change, except that the stage directions usually do not have closing brackets. These have been added. FOOTNOTES: For this...

George Silverman's ExplanationBut, sitting with my pen in my hand looking at those words again, without descrying any hint in them of the words that should follow, it comes into my mind that they have an abrupt appearance. They may serve, however, if I...

Holiday RomanceThis beginning-part is not made out of anybodys head, you know. Its real. You must believe this beginning-part more than what comes after, else you wont understand how what comes after came to be written. You must believe it all; but you must...