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A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson

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Watkin Tench

Watkin Tench was a British marine officer who sailed with the First Fleet from England to Australia, landing in January 1788. He first wrote…

Dialogue between Hercules and Atlas

In Essays and Dialogues

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Giacomo Leopardi

"We would no more choose to feed the minds of our countrymen and women with the despairing utterances of the pessimist poet, than we wo…

Psalms 111, 116, 118, 121, 136

In The Bible For Young People Vol. 1

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Anonymous

"The Bible for Young People tells the sweet and simple stories of the Bible in the Bible language, omitting only genealogies and doctri…

Chapter XI

In Old Friends, Essays in Epistolary Parody

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Andrew Lang

"Every fancy which dwells much with the unborn and immortal characters of Fiction must ask itself, Did the persons in contemporary nove…

Had the Chance been with us that has not been

In Dead Men's Shoes

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Sybil, a gentlewoman who has to work for a living, finally finds employment as her rich uncle's house keeper. Nothing could be better: she w…

01 - Ch.1: Dostoevsky the Sensationalist

In Old and New Masters

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Robert Lynd

Jane Austen, WB Yeats, Chesterton, Shaw... these are personal and intelligent short essays on a selection of great (and great-ish) writers: …

Exploration of Botany Bay and Surrounding Coast of Australia: an Excerpt from C…

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 035

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James Cook

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include how to swim, Navajo silversmithing…

John Hepburn, Smeaton Hill

In Letters from Victorian Pioneers

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Various

A series of letters on the early occupation of the colony, the Aborigines, etc addressed by Victorian pioneers to his Excellency Charles Jos…

Penelope

In Phantom Fortune, A Novel

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Lady Maulevrier was once a beautiful socialite, beloved and welcomed in London high society. But her life took a turn for the worse when her…