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An enquiry into the Volume of Malt, in order to reduce the Grist to liquid Meas…

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.…

Chapter VIII

In Khaled, A Tale of Arabia

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Francis Marion Crawford


Khaled is a powerful jinn, or genius, but he has a good heart. When he sees that Zehowah, the beautiful, virtuous daughter of the king is ab…

Early Christian Pilgrims. Circa 333-867.

In Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery

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Charles Raymond Beazley


Prince Henry was a significant explorer and adventurer in a period of enlightenment and expansion of European trade and knowledge of the wor…

CHAPTER XXIV. That well-ordered States always provide Rewards and Punishments f…

In Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 1

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Niccolò Machiavelli


In "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius", posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful…

The Ninth Chapter

In Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch

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Wilhelm Meinhold


Wilhelm Meinhold, a Pomeranian priest working on the Island of Usedom, relates the story of Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch. The author ass…

Topic 10, First Paper, by Mrs. R. D. Sprague

In Twentieth Century Negro Literature or A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topi…

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Daniel Wallace Culp


The object of this book is... (1) To enlighten the uninformed white people on the intellectual ability of the Negro. (2) To give to those, w…

Chapter 13: Aristotle | Part 4: Physics, or the philosophy of nature, part 2

In A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

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Walter Terence Stace


This book contains the substance, and for the most part the words, of a course of public lectures delivered during the first three months of…

Chapter IX Of The Imperfection Of Words

In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book III

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John Locke


This is the third book of John Locke's Essay on Human Understanding. Book I was Neither Principles Nor Ideas Are Innate. Book II was Of Idea…

Book VII - The Battle, part 1

In Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars

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Lucan


Lucan's only surviving work, De Bello Civili, more generally known as the Pharsalia, is an epic poem about the civil war between Julius Caes…

George Wyndham

In The Uses of Diversity

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G. K. Chesterton


A collection of 35 essays by G.K. Chesterton originally published in his weekly columns in "The Illustrated London News" and the &…

Kako je Potjeh tražio istinu

In Priče iz Davnine

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Ivana Brlić Mažuranić


Priče iz davnine, glasovita zbirka od osam pripovijetki-bajki Ivane Brlić-Mažuranić, u kojima je autorica ostvarila svoj književni vrhunac.[…

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