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Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass


These two articles were reproduced as an e-book by Project Gutenberg in 2008 to supplement "...several articles by Frederick Douglass,…

La Commune

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Louise Michel


Louise Michel était une anarchiste française très active dans la Commune de Paris de 1871. Son livre "La Commune&q…

The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I

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James Boswell


Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest English-language biography ever written. It was revolutionary in it…

Light and Peace: Instructions for Devout Souls to Dispel Their Doubts and Allay…

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Carlo Giuseppe Quadrupani


Padre Quadrupani was an Italian priest and member of the Clerics Regular of St. Paul, also known as the Barnabites, from their association w…

Four Great Americans

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James Baldwin


Written for children, James Baldwin's history of Washington, Franklin, Webster, and Lincoln brings these men to life in a way that will be i…

The Wonder-Worker of Padua

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Charles Warren Stoddard


This is the inspiring story of Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231). The son of a wealthy Portuguese family, he was initially ordained a pries…

A Short History of the World

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H. G. Wells


A Short History of the World is a non-fictional historic work by English author H. G. Wells, largely inspired by Wells's earlier 1919 work T…

The Faith of Our Fathers

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James Gibbons


The Faith of Our Fathers: A Plain Exposition and Vindication of the Church Founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ is a book published in 1876 by a…

Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy

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John Stuart Mill


This is Mill’s first work on economics. It foreshadows his Political Economy which was the standard Anglo-American Economics textbook of the…

The Secrets of the Italian Language 2 - I Segreti della Lingua Italiana per Stra…

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Antonio Libertino


Have YOU ever wanted to listen to real Italian, read it and understand it? How can YOU understand Italian even if YOU are an absolute beginn…

Army Life in a Black Regiment

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson


These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the …

The Mother and the Child

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Maria Montessori


"The mother and the child" is a lecture given by Maria Montessori in 1915. The famous educational reformer speaks about the import…

The Friendship of Christ

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Robert Hugh Benson


Robert Hugh Benson, who was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, was ordained an Anglican priest in 1895 by his father, …

The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines

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Isabel Anderson


Isabel Anderson has written a most interesting travelogue of Hawaii and The Philippines. Actually it is more of a history lesson. Anyone wit…

Constitución Española de 1978

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Las Cortes Y El Pueblo Español


Constitución vigente en España actualmente, fruto de la Transición a la democracia tras la muerte de Francisco Franco. …

Jerusalem - The Emanation of the Giant Albion

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William Blake


The epic poem Jerusalem was in Blake's own opinion his masterpiece. It is the last of the great prophetic books. Originally produced as an e…

The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80, Part 1

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Archibald Forbes


The First Anglo–Afghan War was fought between British India and Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842. It was one of the first major conflicts durin…

Historical Tales, Vol I: American I

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Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews


Volume I of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This first volume comprises…

The Life Of Charlotte Brontë Volume 2

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Charlotte Bronte was a British author, the eldest of the three famous Bronte sisters who have become standards of English literature. She is…

Amendments to the United States Constitution

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United States Government and Unit


The Amendments to the Constitution of the USA are a continuously modified document that attempts to secure all basic and other rights for Am…

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