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PARKES, GUY, SIMON, AND PUBLIC HEALTH

In Eminent Doctors: Their Lives and Their Work; Vol. 2

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George Thomas Bettany


Short biographies of doctors who were leaders in their profession. In this collection, we learn about men who developed specialities, of ten…

ON BEING DELIGHTFUL

In Letters to a Daughter

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Hubert Bland


Letters to a Daughter is a collection of essays proffering ‘fatherly advice’ in the form of a one-sided correspondence. Each of these takes …

Chapter VIII. The Anglo-Dutch Wars. (2) The Wars (1664-74) by C. T. Atkinson (p…

In The Cambridge Modern History. Volume 05, The Age of Louis XIV

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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…

Establishment of the Bank of England, AD 1694, by John Francis

In The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12

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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…

Mordaunt Reeves Talks to Himself

In The Viaduct Murder

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Ronald Knox


A badly battered corpse is found on the golf links. The first verdict was suicide; but four leisurely gentlemen staying at the country club …

Book V. Chapter 3. Strato

In Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume 1

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Diogenes Laertius


Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers provides a wealth information about the lives and teachings of ancient Greek thinkers. Desp…

A Reminiscence of the Middle Ages - "Guibour"

In Seen on the Stage

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Clayton Hamilton


A fourth collection of essays on theatre by American critic Clayton Hamilton, intended as a suffix to his earlier works, The Theory of the T…

The Forth Bridge

In The Romance of Modern Engineering

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Archibald Williams


As it would be impossible to treat, in the compass of a few hundred pages, all the great engineering feats of modern times without reducing …

Chapter VII. Wallenstein and Bernard of Weimar (1632-5) by A. W. Ward (part 1)

In 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…

Chapter 27. Conspiracy

In The Wing of Azrael, Volume 2

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Mona Caird


Mona Caird, a British writer and feminist, criticized in numerous non-fiction writings the state of marriage as it existed in her time. Her …

Chapter 12: The Dark Ages

In The Road

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Hilaire Belloc


"We are arrived at a chief turning-point in the history of the English highway. New instruments of locomotion, a greater volume of traf…

Chapter 2 THE ASSOCIATIONS OF NORMAL SUBJECTS Part 1

In Studies in Word-Association

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Carl Gustav Jung


Following his Psychology of the Unconscious Processes, this book is a series of papers compiled under the direction of Dr. Carl Jung, also k…

The Chains Are Loosed

In The Ship of Ishtar

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Abraham Merritt


Imaginative, sensual, gory.John Kenton, WWI veteran and wealthy archaeologist, receives stone artifact from a friend in Babylon. Surprisingl…