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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…

A Talk About Climbers

In Talks About Flowers

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Mary Decker Wellcome

To all Flower Lovers who may read these pages, we come with kindly greetings. To you we dedicate our Work. Encouraged by the many testimonia…

10 - Ch.6.i - Henry James: 1. The Novelist of Grains and Scruples

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: …

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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William James Mcglothlin

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

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…

Winter

In Florence Nightingale the Angel of the Crimea

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Laura E. Richards and Laura E. Howe Richards

One evening, some time after the great Crimean War of 1854-55, a company of military and naval officers met at dinner in London. They were t…

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…