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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…

01 - Ch.1: Dostoevsky the Sensationalist

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: …

Prophets Priests and Kings: The Kaiser

In First World War Centenary Prose Collection Vol. II

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Alfred George Gardiner


This collection of non-fiction and fiction pieces is the second volume commemorating the First World War. The majority of the items, all cho…

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…

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…

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…

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…

John Hepburn, Smeaton Hill

In Letters from Victorian Pioneers

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Various


A series of letters on the early occupation of the colony, the Aborigines, etc addressed by Victorian pioneers to his Excellency Charles Jos…

Had the Chance been with us that has not been

In Dead Men's Shoes

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Sybil, a gentlewoman who has to work for a living, finally finds employment as her rich uncle's house keeper. Nothing could be better: she w…

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…