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Chapter 1 - The Jews

In The History of Prostitution

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William Sanger


Common sense asks for a full investigation of all the evils attending prostitution. In the every-day affairs of life, any man who feels the …

How a Man May Inoffensively Praise Himself Without Being Liable to Envy

In The Morals (Moralia), Book 2

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus


The Moralia (loosely translatable as "Matters relating to customs") of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an e…

The Ships that Won't Go Down - Read by JK

In The Ships that Won't Go Down

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Henry Lawson


Henry Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets …

The School of Life

In The Calendar and Other Verses

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Irving Sydney Dix


Written by poet Irving Sydney Dix in 1913 for "evidence of my love for and interest in the greatest of all the arts," this little …

Stephen Grover Cleveland

In Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable

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Jean S. Remy


Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable is a halting account in presidential history - quite literally! From Washington to Jac…

Sarojini Naidu

In Figures of Several Centuries

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Arthur Symons


Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and cr…

Chapter V. The Kosher Problem

In With the Judæans in the Palestine Campaign

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John Henry Patterson


From the Preface: The formation of a Battalion of Jews for service in the British Army is an event without precedent in our annals, and the …

Chapter XIII - Victory of the Americans over Burgoyne at Saratoga, AD 1777 - Pa…

In The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World

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Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy


This work is Edward Creasy's best known fundamental work of history. It describes in detail 15 battles of world history, beginning with the …

Borrowed Scenes

In Danger! and Other Stories

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


This is a volume of short stories by the famous Arthur Conan Doyle. - Summary by Carolin

The Queen's Rival

In The Golden Threshold

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Sarojini Naidu


Sarojini Naidu was a remarkable woman. Known as the Nightingale of India, she started writing at the age of thirteen and throughout her life…

Part 2 Chapter 3

In Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland (dating from 1837). Recorded by …

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Constance Campbell Petrie and Thomas Petrie


Tom Petrie (1831-1910), explorer and grazier, arrived in the then convict settlement of Moreton Bay in 1837. His reminiscences of what was t…

Fourth Book: Poems 256-258

In The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Pieces In the English Language

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Francis T. Palgrave


Palgrave's principal contribution to the development of literary taste was contained in his Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics (186…