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The Ordeal of Mark Twain

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Van Wyck Brooks


This book, published in 1920, analyzes the literary progression of Samuel Clemens and his shortcomings (which are debatable). Brooks attribu…

03 - Mr Jabberjee gives his views concerning the Laureateship.

In Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.

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F. Anstey


Another delightful example of an English writer poking fun at his countrymen, or maybe all races' reactions to someone from a different back…

The Prayer of the Virgin Mary by H. C. Harwood

In Oxford Poetry 1915

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Various


The first of many yearly-published Oxford poetry books. - Summary by Campbell SchelpPoets include: Gerald H. CrowEric DickinsonEsther Lilian…

Part 2, Chapter 11, The Right of Property in Idea, Chapter 12, The Right of Pro…

In Social Statics

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Herbert Spencer


Social Statics, or The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed is an 1851 book by the British polymath …

Ch.40. The Public Pedagogue

In The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast, Volume 1

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William Cowper Brann


William Cowper Brann earned the nickname “The Iconoclast” by fearlessly attacking established beliefs and institutions which he thought to b…

21 - Above Rubies

In How to Succeed

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Orison Swett Marden


In this volume, Orison Swett Marden explains the road to success in simple terms for the benefit of anyone, who wishes to follow in his foot…

Book II, Chapter V, Section I, "Critical Examination of Preceding Theories"

In The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

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Émile Durkheim


A study and analysis of religion as a social phenomenon by French sociologist Émile Durkheim. (Summary by Erin Stone)

Chapter XVIII - Popocatepetl. Amecameca. Tlamacas. Las Cruz. The Pico del Frail…

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…

Chapter 30 part 1 - Settlement at South Place chapel - London City in 1864 - Ex…

In Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 2

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Moncure Daniel Conway


Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist, Unitarian, clergyman and author. This second volume of his autobiography covers the year…

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…

04 - Book 1, Chapter 4 - A Quiet Life

In The Mermaid

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Lily Dougall


"'What a fool I was not to go where she beckoned!' mused Caius. 'Where? Anywhere into the heart of the ocean, out of this dull, sordid …