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Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, Vol I

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Charles Lewis Meryon and Lady Hester Stanhope

Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in Conversations with her Physician, comprising her opinions and anecdotes of som…

Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer

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Dexter C. Bloomer

As Mrs. Bloomer was one of the pioneers in what is sometimes called the “Woman’s Movement,” it seems right that a record of her work should …

The Great Beach

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John Hay

Written by John Hay, a naturalist and co-founder of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, The Great Beach is an exploration into the natur…

Chapter VII

In The Journal of John Woolman

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John Woolman

John Woolman was born at Northampton, N. J., in 1720, and died at York, England, in 1772. He was the child of Quaker parents, and from his y…

The Shock at Buffalo

In Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

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Alexander Berkman

In 1892, anarchist and Russian émigré Alexander Berkman was apprehended for the failed assassination of industrialist Henry Cl…

Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of Rosebery - Robert Burns

In The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. V: Great Britain - III

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William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey and Various,William Jennings Bryan

In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations…

Skirmishing

In A Battle of the Books

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Gail Hamilton

"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for an author to dissolve the bands which have connected him with his publis…

The Life of NATHANIEL HAWES, a Thief and a Robber

In Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for…

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Arthur L. Hayward

"If there be a haunted spot in London it must surely be a few squareyards that lie a little west of the Marble Arch, for in the long co…

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