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The Period o Fierce Persecution

In The Story of George Fox

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Rufus Jones


A biography of George Fox, founder of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). - Summary by Richard Vogel

Whaling in Earnest

In The Young Ice Whalers

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Winthrop Packard


Noted American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, has given such enchanting nature books as Wildwood Ways, White Mountain Trails, and Woodland W…

Chapter XVI: The Schools of Porto Rico

In Porto Rico: The Land of the Rich Port

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Joseph B. Seabury


Puerto Rico was acquired by the United States in 1898 following the Spanish-American War. This volume was written in 1903 as Book XII in the…

Chapter VI - Zacatecas. Mines of Zacatecas. Farming in Mexico. Aguas Calientes.…

In The Boy Travellers in Mexico

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Thomas Wallace Knox


An engaging travelogue published in 1890, written conversationally among two youths and their guide and mentor. From the preface: "a bo…

Barnave. Against Majority Absolutism (1791)

In The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. VII: Continental Europe

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William Jennings Bryan


This book contains a number of famous speeches and addresses from continental Europe between 300 CE to 1900 CE, organized around the followi…

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