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Army Life in a Black Regiment

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson


These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the …

Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy

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John Stuart Mill


This is Mill’s first work on economics. It foreshadows his Political Economy which was the standard Anglo-American Economics textbook of the…

The Mother and the Child

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Maria Montessori


"The mother and the child" is a lecture given by Maria Montessori in 1915. The famous educational reformer speaks about the import…

The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines

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Isabel Anderson


Isabel Anderson has written a most interesting travelogue of Hawaii and The Philippines. Actually it is more of a history lesson. Anyone wit…

Constitución Española de 1978

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Las Cortes Y El Pueblo Español


Constitución vigente en España actualmente, fruto de la Transición a la democracia tras la muerte de Francisco Franco. …

The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80, Part 1

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Archibald Forbes


The First Anglo–Afghan War was fought between British India and Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842. It was one of the first major conflicts durin…

The Friendship of Christ

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Robert Hugh Benson


Robert Hugh Benson, who was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, was ordained an Anglican priest in 1895 by his father, …

Amendments to the United States Constitution

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United States Government and Unit


The Amendments to the Constitution of the USA are a continuously modified document that attempts to secure all basic and other rights for Am…

Jerusalem - The Emanation of the Giant Albion

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William Blake


The epic poem Jerusalem was in Blake's own opinion his masterpiece. It is the last of the great prophetic books. Originally produced as an e…

The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

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Thomas Henry Huxley


Thomas H. Huxley, an English biologist and essayist, was an advocate of the theory of evolution and a self-proclaimed agnostic. A talented w…

Historical Tales, Vol I: American I

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Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews


Volume I of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This first volume comprises…

The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 3

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Agnes Strickland


The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by he…

Mormonism and Masonry

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Samuel H. Goodwin


The edition of the book published in 1921 explored extensively the reasons why Mormons were not accepted ("are" at the time of pub…

Holy Sonnets

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John Donne


John Donne (1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean poet and preacher, representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works, nota…

The Life Of Charlotte Brontë Volume 2

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Charlotte Bronte was a British author, the eldest of the three famous Bronte sisters who have become standards of English literature. She is…

A Short History of the World

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H. G. Wells


A Short History of the World is a non-fictional historic work by English author H. G. Wells, largely inspired by Wells's earlier 1919 work T…

The Westminster Confession of Faith

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Westminster Assembly


The Westminster Confession of Faith is a Reformed confession of faith, in the Calvinist theological tradition. Although drawn up by the 1646…

History of the Britons

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Nennius


One of the earliest recorded histories of Britain; Nennius wrote the book around 796BC. These days Nennius is recognised as being a teller, …

The King of Schnorrers

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Israel Zangwill


Manasseh da Costa, protagonist of this hilarious novel, is a schnorrer (beggar) who lives on the charitable contributions of the Jews of lat…

The General History of the Pyrates

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Captain Charles Johnson


A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book containing biographies of contemporary pirates. …

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