Books For The Letter O. Page 2 Of 33

On The Improvement Of The Understanding

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Benedict De Spinoza

Summary: [On The Improvement Of The Understanding by Benedict De Spinoza. Benedict de Spinoza s classic work ]
Genres: [philosophy] Downloads: 429

Our Master

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Bramwell Booth

Summary: [At the Feet of the Master is a book attributed to Jiddu Krishnamurti authored when he was fourteen years old. Written under the name Alcyone it was first published in 1910. It has since gone through dozens of editions and has been translated in many languages. The identity of the author has been the subject of debate. It has been proposed that C.W. Leadbeater Krishnamurtis mentor was the actual ...]
Genres: [religion] Downloads: 399

Origin Of The Anglo Boer War Revealed

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C Thomas

Excerpts: [... which are now unhappily staked in this present war. In 1814 a payment of six millions sterling received by the Prince of Orange closed the transfer ...... to reconcile the malcontents. Those efforts, however, proved fruitless the people held to their project with resolute fearlessness and self-confidence, ...... was quite differently situated as to adjoining territory imposed the ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 253

Out Of The Fog

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C Ober

Summary: [Josiah Ober is an American historian and classical political theorist. He is currently the Constantine Mitsotakis Chair of Classics and Political Science at Stanford University. His teaching and research links ancient Greek history and philosophy with modern political theory and practice. Ober was educated at the University of Minnesota (B.A. Major in History 1975) and the University of Michigan ...]
Genres: [adventure | nautical] Downloads: 495

Otho

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C Suetonius Tranquillus

Excerpts: [... The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, Volume 8. [OTHO]. Author: C. Suetonius Tranquillus. >. THE LIVES OF THE TWELVE CAESARS. By ...... palace an honour which had been conferred but upon very few before him. And Claudius advanced him to the dignity of a patrician, commending him, at ...... to that of the emperor or, as some say, by the reciprocal practice of mutual pollution. He had so ...]
Genres: [history | biography] Downloads: 193

O Arrependimento

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Camilo Castelo Branco

Excerpts: [... distribuir finezas e galanteios s mais formosas rainhas dos mais brilhantes sales. Era sempre com vivo pesar que a via apontar para o relogio, indicando-me ...... de para o futuro se poder rehabilitar pelo arrependimento, e se o momento em que lhe infringisse o castigo no seria o destinado por Deus para esse arrependimento. -Eis-ahi, ...... permittia esperar com socego, o momento ...]
Genres: [romance | short story collection] Downloads: 464

Our Pilots In The Air

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Captain William Perry

Excerpts: [... he announced decidedly:. I'm going to get after our Sergeant this afternoon. If he knows what's what, he'll let you and me take out that neat ...... the first spiral upward, in an effort to attain a position suitable for using the machine gun. Blaine therefore zigzagged more to westward, thereby throwing ...... mad. But our Yankee adventurers were by no means at the end of their ...]
Genres: [war | adventure] Downloads: 274

Old Indian Days

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Charles Eastman

Summary: [Includes bibliographical references (p. xix-xxiv).]
Genres: [fiction and literature | short story collection] Downloads: 365

On Horseback

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Charles Dudley Warner

Summary: [I. My summer garden. Calvin: a character study. Backlog studies. Baddeck and that sort of thing.--II. Saunterings. --III. My winter on the Nile.--IV. In the Levant.--V. A roundabout journey.--VI. In the wilderness. How spring came in New England. Captain John Smith.--VII. Being a boy. On horseback. Mexican notes. The Golden Hesperides.--VIII. Studies in the South and West with Comments on Canada]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 499

Old Mission Stories Of California

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Charles Franklin Carter

Summary: [Old Mission Stories Of California by Charles Franklin Carter. This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.]
Genres: [short story collection] Downloads: 87

Our Androcentric Culture

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Excerpts: [... and condemnation. In any library catalogue we may find books upon books about women: physiological, sentimental, didactic, religious-all manner ...... toward freedom and justice, to her present valiant efforts toward full economic and political equality, each step has been termed unfeminine and resented ...... duty to her parents, with heavy religious sanction and then duty to her ...]
Genres: [essays | women studies] Downloads: 118

Owindia

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Charlotte Selina Bompas

Summary: [Owindia by Charlotte Selina Bompas. When the first man entered the lodge it could not have been more than a few seconds after the firing of the fatal shot for Michel was still standing gun in hand and his poor wife sighing forth the last few breathings of her sad and troubled life. She had kept her word and met her death without one cry or expostulation It might have been heard from far that ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 323

Our Friend John Burroughs

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Clara Barrus

Excerpts: [... dead, and four or five decades of daisies have bloomed over him, says the world then, if there is any virtue in his works, we will tag and label them ...... are waiting for the fish to bite, she will detect some fresh gleam in your composition when next you hand one in. There is no way to learn style so ...... Mr. Burroughs continued he always seemed to have infinite time at his ...]
Genres: [biography | nature] Downloads: 496

Old French Fairy Tales

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Comtesse De Sgur

Summary: [Frontispiece and plates accompanied by guard sheet descriptive letterpress.]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 163

The Olynthiacs And The Phillippics Of Demothenes

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Demosthenes

Excerpts: [... had disputes with him, which were at first accommodated, and he gratified them by the cession of Anthemus. They then joined him in a war against Athens, ...... expelled from Pherae. This established Philip's influence, and led to his being afterward called in to terminate the Sacred war. How far the assertions ...... promptly, before any one will pay attention to you. And if ye ...]
Genres: [essays | classic] Downloads: 187

On The Indian Trail

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Egerton Ryerson Young

Excerpts: [... he is. But I suppose we have a different view of how we ought to tell others how much time we spend praying. Things are different these days. This ...... in our bill of fare. Black bears being still numerous in those wild regions we sometimes had bear's steak broiled on the coals, or ribs skidded on ...... find some human, habitation in which to obtain or prepare their food and ...]
Genres: [religion | fiction and literature] Downloads: 203

Oowikapun

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Egerton Ryerson Young

Excerpts: [... wigwam by his companions. When there are but two persons, and an accident happens to one of them, two young trees that are tough and elastic are used. ...... sing in a manner so different from the wild, droning, monotonous songs of the conjurers, that Oowikapun was filled with a strange feeling of awe, which ...... that he was not concentrating his mind on his work in a manner that ...]
Genres: [religion] Downloads: 110

Over The Border Acadia

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Eliza Chase

Summary: [Over The Border Acadia by Eliza Chase. By the treaty of Utrecht in 1713 Acadia was ceded to the English but the French colonists in taking the oath of allegiance to their new rulers 1727-28 were promised that they should not be required at any time to take up arms against France. They were now in the position of Neutrals and by that name were known but this placed them in an awkward predicament ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 58

One Snowy Night

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Emily Sarah Holt

Summary: [One Snowy Night by Emily Sarah Holt. The story of the following pages is one of the least known yet saddest episodes in English history--the first persecution of Christians by Christians in this land. When Boniface went forth from England to evangelise Germany he was received with welcome and regarded as a saint when Gerhardt came from Germany to restore the pure Gospel to England he was cast out ...]
Genres: [religion | fiction and literature | history] Downloads: 65

Our Little Lady

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Emily Sarah Holt

Summary: [Lady Lazarus is the first novel by O. Henry Award-winning writer Andrew Foster Altschul published by Harcourt in 2008. Drawing its title from the poem of the same name by Sylvia Plath Lady Lazarus also deals with themes similar to the poem namely issues of exhibitionism and the publics hunger for tragedy and spectacle. Described by Publishers Weekly as a gleeful difficult debut with razor-sharp ...]
Genres: [religion | fiction and literature | history] Downloads: 400