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Ch.40. The Public Pedagogue

In The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast, Volume 1

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William Cowper Brann


William Cowper Brann earned the nickname “The Iconoclast” by fearlessly attacking established beliefs and institutions which he thought to b…

Childhood

In Catherine Booth

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Mildred Duff


Catherine Booth (1829 – 1890) was the wife of William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army in England. She was a full-partner with her …

Déjazet

In Among the Great Masters of the Drama

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Walter Rowlands


In "Among the great masters of the drama; scenes in the lives of famous actors; thirty-two reproductions of famous pictures with text&q…

To Dignitaries of Church and State. Part Two

In Dedications

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Mary Elizabeth Brown


Dedications is an anthology of the forms used from the earliest days of book-making to the present time. My purpose in the following antholo…

10 - Sacrifice and Prayer

In Israel's Faith

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Nathan Solomon Joseph and George Alexander Kohut


A series of short readings (lessons, if you will) for Jewish youth and others. This book ought not to be viewed as a kind of catechism, but …

WILLIAM H. A. MOORE

In The Book of American Negro Poetry

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James Weldon Johnson and Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.


The Book of American Negro Poetry is one of the earliest and most essential anthologies of African-American verse ever brought to print. Edi…

Part 1 Chapter 18

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…

VI. The Treatise, Part 1

In English Literature

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Geraldine Hodgson


This book is not meant to be a History of English Literature, but an introduction for those who do not know much about it, or who may be thi…

Appendix

In Oracles of Nostradamus

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Charles A. Ward


Charles A. Ward was considered one of the most knowledgeable in his studies of the prophecies of Nostradamus. Ward viewed the prophecies of …

Dream Number Six

In Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams

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Annie Denton Cridge


"Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams" is the first known feminist utopian novel written by a woman. The te…

Part II Chapter 3, Articles I-V

In The Christian Nurse and Her Mission in the Sick Room

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François-Xavier Gautrelet


François-Xavier Gautrelet was a French Jesuit priest whose legacy survives as being the inspiration and originator of the Apostleshi…

The Chariots Go Forth to War by Tu Fu

In Gems of Chinese Verse

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Juyi Bai 白居易, Shen Cen 岑參, Zi'ang Chen 陈子昂, Fu Du 杜甫, Bai Li 李白, Haoran Meng 孟浩然, Wei Qui 邱為, Quanqi Shen 沈佺期, Shu Sikong 司空曙, Changling Wang 王昌齡, Wei Wang 王維, Tingyun Wen 溫庭筠, Jiuling Zhang 張九齡, Ji Zhang 張籍 and Various, Translated Byw. J. B. Fletcher


Translations of various Chinese poets' work. - Summary by KevinS

Of the Nature and Properties of Hops

In The Theory and Practice of Brewing

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Michael Combrune


This is an elaborate treatise on how to brew beer. That art is as noble today as it was in 1761, when this book was first published, and Mr.…

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