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In Defense of Women

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H. L. Mencken


In Defense of Women is H. L. Mencken's 1918 book on women and the relationship between the sexes. Some laud the book as progressive while ot…

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In The Sayings of Confucius

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Confucius 孔子


Promoting virtues such as filial devotion, compassion, loyalty, and propriety, these dialogues between the ancient Chinese philosopher Confu…

Ch 5 – Applications

In On Liberty

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John Stuart Mill


Published in 1859, On Liberty details Mill's view that individuals should be left wholly free to engage in any activity, thought or belief t…

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In The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing

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Joseph Trienens and Joseph Triemens


Written in 1910, this "cyclopedia" is full of information that was quite useful at the time. A hundred years later, its text is mo…

Chapter XVI: Causes Mitigating Tyranny In The United States—Part I

In Democracy in America Vol. I

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Alexis de Tocqueville and Alexis De Tocqueville


When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful …

1784-04-26 Letter to the authors of the Journal de Paris: Daylight Savings Time

In Historical Newspaper Articles, Volume 1

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Journal de Paris


Public Domain newspaper articles in the US span a period of nearly two and a half centuries. Subjects, styles, period, publisher, and length…

Preface

In The Lilac Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang


Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although And…

Letter I - The Subject Proposed

In Familiar Letters on Chemistry

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Justis Liebig and Justus Von Liebig


Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) was a German chemist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry and is known for hi…

The Jewish Cemetery at Newport

In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection Vol. 001

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


A collection to celebrate Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 200th birthday, on 27th February, 2007.

ON MURDER, CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTS, PART II

In Miscellaneous Essays of Thomas de Quincey

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Thomas de Quincey and Thomas De Quincey


The Hunter Thompson of the 19th Century, de Quincey is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater (an activity shared with his…

Queer

In Winesburg, Ohio

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Sherwood Anderson


Published in 1919, and listed on the Modern Library roster of the 20th century's 100 greatest novels in English, Winesburg, Ohio presents a …