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Chapter 16

In The Last of the Mohicans - A Narrative of 1757 (version 2)

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James Fenimore Cooper

This story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns a Huron massacre (with passive French a…

Chapter 34

In The Portrait of a Lady Vol 2

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Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 …

Book III: Paris challenges Menelaus

In The Iliad

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Homer, trans. Butler and Homer

The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated t…

01- Book 6

In Versio Latina (Homeri Odyssea) Liber VI

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Andrea Divus and Homer

The Versio Latina, or Latin translation of the works of Homer, has existed since the 14th century, but was first printed, under the name of …

Part I, Chapter III - Section 1

In Dead Souls

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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, translated by D. J. Hogarth and Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души) by Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer, was first published in 1842, and is one of the most prominent works of …

28 - The Palatine Bone

In Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 1 (Gray's Anatomy)

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Henry Gray

Henry Gray's classic anatomy textbook was first published in 1858 and has been in continuous publication ever since, revised and expanded th…

Book 4, Chapter 4

In History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 1

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Niccolò Machiavelli

History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy is an historical account by Niccolò Machiavelli. Toward the end of 1520, the Cardinal…

Heraclitus of Ephesos (translated by G.T.W. Patrick)

In Ancient Greek Philosopher-Scientists

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Various

The Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, that is, the philosopher-scientists who lived before or contemporaneously to Socrates, were the first m…

Chapter XVII: Foundation of Constantinople Pt. 1

In The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. II

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Edward Gibbon

The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

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