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30 Chapter XVIII

In Herndon's Lincoln

Read by Lucretia B.


William H. Herndon and Jesse William Weik and William H. Herndon


A biography of Abraham Lincoln by his long-time law partner, William Herndon and Herndon's collaborator, Jesse Weik. The book is notable for…

Vashti's Scroll

In Earlier Poems

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Julia Caroline Dorr


This is a collection of the earlier poems of Julia Caroline Dorr. - Summary by Carolin

An April Girl

In A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia

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Amanda Minnie Douglas


The early youth of an old town has a certain simplicity like the youth of human life. Its struggles, its romance, its unfolding come down th…

31 - Letters in Conclusion - Letter 1

In Basil

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Wilkie Collins


Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a…

Oliver Goldsmith

In Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous

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Sarah Knowles Bolton


These characters have been chosen from various countries and from varied professions, that the youth who read this book may see that poverty…

19 - THAT TO STUDY PHILOSOPY IS TO LEARN TO DIE

In Essays book 1

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Michel de Montaigne and Michel Eyquem De Montaigne


Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …

JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL

In The Book of American Negro Poetry

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James Weldon Johnson and Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.


The Book of American Negro Poetry is one of the earliest and most essential anthologies of African-American verse ever brought to print. Edi…

The Sower (13:18)

In Matthew, from Horae Homileticae

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Charles Simeon


Simeon's Works, as they were published 1832, fill twenty-one large octavo volumes, and the title-page reads, 'Horae Homileticae or Discourse…

Chapter 13: Aristotle | Part 4: Physics, or the philosophy of nature, part 2

In A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

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Walter Terence Stace


This book contains the substance, and for the most part the words, of a course of public lectures delivered during the first three months of…

17 - The Spaniel - Part 1

In Anecdotes of Dogs

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Edward Jesse


"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends." The character, sensibilities, and intellectual facu…

The Will

In The Mind And Its Education

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George Herbert Betts


"We are to study the mind and its education; but how? It is easy to understand how we may investigate the great world of material thing…

Chapter 1

In The Coming of the Fairies

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


After a number of deaths in his close family, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned to spiritualism in hope of finding proof of the afterlife. Being…

To Dignitaries of Church and State. Part One

In Dedications

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Mary Elizabeth Brown


Dedications is an anthology of the forms used from the earliest days of book-making to the present time. My purpose in the following antholo…

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