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A Tactical Platform for the Unity Congress of the RSDLP

  [english | 1906]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [The birth of the Cesarevitch Alexis Nicolaievitch in August 1904 caused great rejoicings in Russia because it had been preceded by the birth of four daughters to the lmnperial couple and there seemed reason to fear that the succession to the Throne would not descend in the direct line. The joy of the Imperial Family was increased when it was found that the child was of a bright active disposition ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 206

A Tale Of A Lonely Parish

  [english | ]  

F Marion Crawford

Excerpts: [... unhesitatingly yielded the post of honour to the vicar, adding to enforce his opinion the very plausible argument that if he, the squire, took Mrs. ...... in his short holiday, had never so much as mentioned him. One afternoon in January the squire found himself alone with Mrs. Goddard. It was ...... to do it. Mrs. Ambrose had great faith in the sternness of her eye under certain ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 228

A Tale Of Jerusalem

  [english | 1832]  

Edgar Allan Poe

Excerpts: [... Abel-Phittim to Buzi-Ben-Levi and Simeon the Pharisee, on the tenth day of the month Thammuz, in the year of the world three thousand nine hundred ...... Gizbarim, or sub-collectors of the offering, in the holy city of Jerusalem. Verily, replied the Pharisee, let us hasten: for this generosity in the ...... the Ammonites proved wanting to their own interests? Methinks it is no ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 447

A Tale Of The Ragged Mountains

  [english | 1843]  

Edgar Allan Poe

Excerpts: [... uneven, although sound, than I had ever before seen teeth in a human head. The expression of his smile, however, was by no means unpleasing, as might ...... grew accustomed to it, and my uneasiness wore off. It seemed to be his design rather to insinuate than directly to assert that, physically, he had not ...... doctrines of Mesmer. It was altogether by means of magnetic remedies ...]
Genres: [fiction | horror | short stories] Downloads: 52

A Tale Of The Summer Holidays

  [english | ]  

G Mockler

Excerpts: [... of paper and a pencil before her, and a glass of water at her elbow. Good-morning, she said, rising and shaking hands with them all round. ...... have you been up to? I know, he said, catching sight of the tumbler now really empty at last in Drusie's hand. A secret meeting. You might have ...... a very big party of rabbits that went with them. But as Jumbo followed a great deal ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 409

A Tale Of Three Lions

  [english | 1887]  

Henry Rider Haggard

Excerpts: [... doors the angels of the sun seem to move continually. And there, too, is the wild game, following its feeding-grounds in great armies, with the springbuck ...... life, and most curious some of them were. No man can pass all those years following the rough existence of an elephant-hunter without meeting with many ...... just in time, for in another moment I should have gone for him, ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | short stories] Downloads: 423

A Tale Of Two Cities

  [english | 1859]  

Charles Dickens

Summary: [A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the brutal oppression of the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution and the corresponding savage brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the ...]
Genres: [fiction | historical] Downloads: 103

A Talk on Cadet Eating

  [english | 1897]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [The February Revolution of 1917 in Russia was the first stage of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Largely a bloodless transfer of power from the Tsar the regime that came into being was an alliance between liberals and socialists who wanted to instigate political reform create a democratically elected executive and constituent assembly. In the first half of February lack of food supply caused ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 279

A Talk with Defenders of Economism

  [english | 1915]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [Lenin was a prolific political theoretician and philosopher who wrote about the practical aspects of carrying out a proletarian revolution he wrote pamphlets articles and books without a stenographer or secretary until prevented by illness. He simultaneously corresponded with comrades allies and friends in Russia and world-wide. His Collected Works comprise 54 volumes each of about 650 pages ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 57

A Tame Surrender A Story Of The Chicago Strike

  [english | ]  

Charles King

Excerpts: [... perhaps, which to a humble civilian like himself might call for explanation. He was merely stating a fact, one which he regretted, of course, as he ...... train in Southern Kansas. Allison invited them all into the private car and proposed making them his guests on the homeward run. The chief declined ...... point of view, yet who, while paying her lover-like devotions, dared to ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 136

A Terrible Temptation

  [english | ]  

Charles Reade

Excerpts: [... invited to dine and sleep at Mr. Hardwicke's, distance fifteen miles they went, and found Richard Bassett dining there, by Mrs. Hardwicke's invitation, ...... risks of a public trial. Whatever the result, you have played the honorable and womanly part of peacemaker and it is unfortunate for your ...... stuff. You are a good, sensible girl and too beautiful to want a husband long. ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 125

A Test Of The Truth

  [english | ]  

Felicia Skene

Summary: [Felicia Mary Frances Skene (1821?1899) was a Scottish author philanthropist and prison reformer in the Victorian era. Skene used the pseudonym Erskine Moir and was a friend of Florence Nightingale (1820?1910). There is a blue plaque for Felicia Skene installed on 2 July 2002 by the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board located at 34 St Michaels Street Oxford England.]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 171

A Texas Matchmaker

  [english | 1904]  

Andy Adams

Summary: [From the writer and genuine Western Trail cattle driver responsible for some of the best and most realistic accounts of cowboy life in literature.]
Genres: [fiction | westerns] Downloads: 345

A Textbook Of Theosophy

  [english | ]  

C Leadbeater

Summary: [Charles Leadbeater (formerly known as Charlie Leadbeater) is a British author and former advisor to Tony Blair. He first came to widespread notice in the 1980s as a regular contributor to the magazine Marxism Today. Later he was Industrial Editor and Tokyo Bureau Chief at the Financial Times. While working at The Independent in the 1990s he devised Bridget Joness Diary (originally a column) with ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 63

A Thane Of Wessex

  [english | ]  

Charles Whistler

Excerpts: [... hill, thinking him slain. But men had seen him remount and ride on, And Osric bid me, and all of us who seek him, pray Heregar-if Heregar it be- ...... dawning I think, I awoke, shivering, and with a great untellable fear on me, and saw a tall, gray figure standing by my couch. And I looked, and ...... till we came to the great abbey. It was not so great then as now, nor is it now ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 37

A Theodicy Or Vindication Of The Divine Glory

  [english | ]  

Albert Taylor Bledsoe

Excerpts: [... to do a thing against his will, this is not, properly speaking, his act at all nor is it an omission of his, if he wills to do a thing, and ...... the opposite motions imply no contradiction and we only have to vary the force in order to vary the motion. Hence, freedom in this sense of the ...... celebrated, but now obsolete fiction, of a preestablished harmony. Now, if the ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 127

A Theologico Political Treatise Part I

  [english | ]  

Baruch Spinoza

Excerpts: [... This element of inconsistency has been the cause of many terrible wars and revolutions for, as Curtius well says (lib. iv. chap. 10): The mob ...... would no longer fiercely persecute, but rather be filled with pity and compassion. (31) Furthermore, if any Divine light were in them, it ...... the mind, as all who have enjoyed intellectual certainty will doubtless attest. (11) Here, ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 35

A Theologico Political Treatise Part Ii

  [english | ]  

Baruch Spinoza

Excerpts: [... that men go on to this day imagining miracles, so that they may believe themselves God's favourites, and the final cause for which God created ...... them from the fixed and immutable order of nature. (41) By miracle, I here mean an event which surpasses, or is thought to surpass, human comprehension: ...... (72) In Psalm civ:4, wind and fire are called the angels and ministers of ...]
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A Theologico Political Treatise Part Iii

  [english | ]  

Baruch Spinoza

Excerpts: [... of Elijah to Jehoram, 2 Chron. xxi:12, which begins, Thus saith the Lord. (4) In the Apostolic Epistles we find nothing of the sort. ...... for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. (34) We therefore conclude that the Apostles were only indebted to special revelation ...... the Apostolic imprimatur, possibly with a view to the attention of the reader by ...]
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A Theologico Political Treatise Part Iv

  [english | ]  

Baruch Spinoza

Excerpts: [... OF THE NATURAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS AND OF THE RIGHTS OF THE SOVEREIGN POWER. (1) Hitherto our care has been to separate ...... it sanctions. [16:4] (55) It will, perhaps, be thought that we are turning subjects into slaves: for slaves obey commands and free men ...... may be thus defined. (61) A slave is one who is bound to obey his master's orders, though they are ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 362