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Gleanings of a Mystic: A Series of Essays on Practical Mysticism

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Max Heindel


In “Gleanings of a Mystic” are found twenty-four lessons which were formerly sent out to students. It is the wish of the writer of this intr…

An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the Afr…

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Thomas Clarkson


Thomas Clarkson was one of the most influential abolitionists in England leading up the passage the Slavery Abolition Act in 1823. He wrote …

The Cambridge Modern History. Volume 04, The Thirty Years' War

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Various


The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…

History of the Kingdom of Siam

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François-Henri Turpin


Turpin's History of Siam, published at Paris in the year 1771 consists of two volumes, the first of which deals merely with the natural Hist…

Women of Versailles: the Court of Louis XIV

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Arthur-Léon Imbert De Saint-Amand


Jean de La Bruyère famously characterized Versailles as "that region where joys were visible but false, and vexations hidden but…

A General History of the Pyrates (version 2)

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Captain Charles Johnson


A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book published in Britain containing biographies of c…

Anti-Dictator: The Discours sur la servitude voluntaire

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Étienne De La Boétie


Étienne de La Boétie was the closest friend of Michel de Montaigne and the subject of the latter's famous essay "On Frien…

The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 2

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W. E. B. Du Bois


The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerci…

The Spirit of the Curé of Ars

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Alfred Monnin


St. Jean-Baptiste Marie Vianney (known in English as St. John Vianney), was a French priest that lived from 1786-1859. He would later become…

The Diaries of John Evelyn Volume I

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John Evelyn


John Evelyn was a 17th century polymath, with interests in the fine arts, architecture, gardening, as well as anatomy and the natural scienc…

History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution Vol. 2

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Mercy Otis Warren


A contemporary three-volume history of the American Revolution written with an Enlightenment tone that covers the background of the era span…

A Collection of the Facts and Documents Relative to the Death of Major-General …

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William Coleman


Compiled by William Coleman the first editor of the New York Evening Post, this book includes items that trace a path leading to the death o…

Four Hundred Years of Freethought, Part 1

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Samuel Porter Putnam


This is Samuel Putnam's tour of European literature which began to appear once the globe was circumnavigated and the printing press made boo…

The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648

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Samuel Rawson Gardiner


Samuel Rawson Gardiner remains a respected source on the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), which began as a civil conflict between Protestant p…

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13

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Charles F. Horne


A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…

Hobbes

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Leslie Stephen


Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously wrote that in the state of nature "the life of man" was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, a…

Galateo

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Giovanni della Casa and Giovanni Della Casa


A book on the practice of mannerly behaviour at Court, originally written in Italian but translated into English for the Elizabethan court. …

History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution Vol. 3

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Mercy Otis Warren


A contemporary three-volume history of the American Revolution written with an Enlightenment tone that covers the background of the era span…

Reflections on the rise, progress, and probable consequences, of the present co…

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John Erskine


Several late pamphlets composed with much art and ability have painted the claims and conduct of the North Americans; and thereby, have not …

The Life of Frederick William von Steuben

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Friedrich Kapp


The Life of Frederick William Von Steuben: Major General in the Revolutionary Army - tells the story of Baron Steuben, who had been an offic…

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