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In Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland (dating from 1837). Recorded by …

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Constance Campbell Petrie and Thomas Petrie

Tom Petrie (1831-1910), explorer and grazier, arrived in the then convict settlement of Moreton Bay in 1837. His reminiscences of what was t…

The School of Life

In The Calendar and Other Verses

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Irving Sydney Dix

Written by poet Irving Sydney Dix in 1913 for "evidence of my love for and interest in the greatest of all the arts," this little …

Sarojini Naidu

In Figures of Several Centuries

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Arthur Symons

Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and cr…

Chapter V. The Kosher Problem

In With the Judæans in the Palestine Campaign

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John Henry Patterson

From the Preface: The formation of a Battalion of Jews for service in the British Army is an event without precedent in our annals, and the …

James Monroe

In Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable

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Jean S. Remy

Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable is a halting account in presidential history - quite literally! From Washington to Jac…

How a Man May Inoffensively Praise Himself Without Being Liable to Envy

In The Morals (Moralia), Book 2

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus

The Moralia (loosely translatable as "Matters relating to customs") of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an e…

The War And The Status Of The Jew

In The Shield

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Pavel Dolgorukov

This is not merely a book about the Russian Jews. It is a marvellous revelation of the Russian soul. It shows not only that the overwhelming…

Chapter XIII - Victory of the Americans over Burgoyne at Saratoga, AD 1777 - Pa…

In The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World

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Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy

This work is Edward Creasy's best known fundamental work of history. It describes in detail 15 battles of world history, beginning with the …

The Queen's Rival

In The Golden Threshold

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Sarojini Naidu

Sarojini Naidu was a remarkable woman. Known as the Nightingale of India, she started writing at the age of thirteen and throughout her life…