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A Letter From A Clergyman To His Friend

  [english | 1726]  

Anonymous

Excerpts: [... envious, disaffected). A person with a powerful ego and astringent sense of humor, Swift must have been a delightful friend, if somewhat difficult, but ...... correct, for it was not long before four Keys, the earliest commentary in pamphlet form on the Travels, were published by a Signor Corolini, undoubtedly ...... the author's intent is to vilify Swift in retaliation for attacks ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 219

A Letter From Mr Cibber To Mr Pope

  [english | 1742]  

Colley Cibber

Excerpts: [... and if he went on in his sauciness he might expect such a reception from him. The next night Gay came accordingly, and, treating him as Pope had ...... attack in the form of broadsides, pamphlets and the like, Cibber is clearly innocent however, like many actors, he was an expert improvisator of ...... in public throughout his life. But a charge of immorality did bother him, for he ...]
Genres: [correspondence | criticism] Downloads: 66

A Letter Of Mara Son Of Serapion

  [english | ]  

A Letter Of Mara Son Of Serapion

Excerpts: [... which I have by careful observation discovered in the world. For the kind of life men lead has been carefully observed by me. I tread the path of ...... able still to preserve his previous character, and properly does that which it behoves him to do, he is that chosen man who is called the blessing ...... their virtue and those who cultivate philosophy, they are looking to escape ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 88

A Letter to a Comrade on Our Organizational Tasks

  [english | 1899]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [Lenins April Theses form one of the most decisive manifestos in the history of the revolution. They consist of just a few short notes the bare skeleton of Lenins speeches when he arrived back in Petrograd in April 1917. But the ideas outlined within them brought about a decisive reorientation of the Bolshevik leadership. Lynn Walsh re-examines the April Theses and their lessons for today. Lenins ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 372

A Letter To A Gentleman In The Country

  [english | 1757]  

Anonymous

Summary: [A Letter To A Gentleman In The Country From His Friend In London Giving An Authentick And Circumstantial Account Of The Confinement Behaviour And Attested By The Gentlemen Who Were Present by Anonymous. This title has fewer than 24 printed text pages. The Plotters is presented here in a high quality kindle edition. This popular classic work by Alexander Blade is in the English language. If you ...]
Genres: [history | correspondence] Downloads: 460

A Letter To A Gentleman In The Country From His Friend In London

  [english | ]  

Anonymous

Summary: [A Letter To A Gentleman In The Country From His Friend In London Giving An Authentick And Circumstantial Account Of The Confinement Behaviour And Attested By The Gentlemen Who Were Present by Anonymous. This title has fewer than 24 printed text pages. The Plotters is presented here in a high quality kindle edition. This popular classic work by Alexander Blade is in the English language. If you ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 215

A Letter to A M Gorky

  [english | 1895]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [Lenins April Theses form one of the most decisive manifestos in the history of the revolution. They consist of just a few short notes the bare skeleton of Lenins speeches when he arrived back in Petrograd in April 1917. But the ideas outlined within them brought about a decisive reorientation of the Bolshevik leadership. Lynn Walsh re-examines the April Theses and their lessons for today. Lenins ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 342

A Letter To A Noble Lord

  [english | ]  

Edmund Burke

Summary: [For the Danish statesman see Edmund Bourke (1761-1821). Edmund Bourke was an Irish Dominican. Born in Galway during the second half of the 17th century joining the Order of Preachers in that county where he began his studies before leaving for Spain where he completed them. He is noted as the author of numerous scholarly works though none of them have been traced. In 1706 he was principal regent ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 240

A Letter To Dion

  [english | 1732]  

Bernard Mandeville

Excerpts: [... between Berkeley and Mandeville that men like . Berkeley, who may be termed the religious-minded . in their anguish, threw logic to the winds, and criticized ...... nothing can make a Man honest or virtuous but a Regard to some religious or moral Principles and characterizes it as precisely the rigorist position ...... clothes in order to deepen the cleavages among the members of ...]
Genres: [philosophy] Downloads: 339

A Letter To Hon Charles Sumner

  [english | 1870]  

Hamilton Wilcox Pierson

Excerpts: [... of Thomas Jefferson, and making public a larger portion of your ample materials, in the form of public lectures. The unanimous expression of approbation ...... man who held a civil office in the State, except the magistrate at Andersonville that a few days after my arrival there I performed the first religious ...... went to him last Friday a week ago, (January 29th, 1869) for a ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 436

A Letter to Huysmans Secretary of the International Socialist Bureau

  [english | 1897]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the seminal events of the early twentieth century. In the face of mounting opposition and disastrous defeats in World War I Tsar Nicholas II abdicated power and was replaced by the Provisional Government. It was not able to successfully disengage from the war or resolve the economic chaos that resulted from the collapse of the old regime. Because of these ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 337

A Letter To Lord Robert Bertie

  [english | 1757]  

Anonymous

Excerpts: [... reflecting on the supposed Authors of their Misfortunes. And when they call to mind that indelible Disgrace which has befallen them in the Mediterranean, ...... therefore take that Liberty which, as one of your Constituents, I may claim, of canvassing the Merits of that Transaction in which your Lordship had a ...... Repose. In these Circumstances, what Transports of Pleasure would ...]
Genres: [history | correspondence] Downloads: 207

A Letter to Students at the Capri Party School

  [english | 1895]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [It took a good deal of negotiation and courage for Lenin and a group of like-minded Russian revolutionaries to travel from Switzerland back to Russia through the enemy country of Germany. The man who returned to Russia in the spring of 1917 was of medium height quite bald except for the back of his head with a reddish beard. The features of his face were strikingslanted eyes that looked ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 327

A Letter to the Comrades

  [english | 1895]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [After the defeat of the July Days the Bolsheviks had their backs to the wall. Their press had been smashed and many of their leaders were also being hounded. The reaction was further boosted by the revelation that Lenin was really in the pay of the German government (with which Russia was still at war). This lie peddled by a couple of drunken adventurers implausible though it was was suddenly ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 141

A Letter to the German Communists

  [english | 1898]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [On 8th July 1917 Alexander Kerensky became the new leader of the Provisional Government. Kerensky was still the most popular man in the government because of his political past. In the Duma he had been leader of the moderate socialists and had been seen as the champion of the working-class. However Kerensky like George Lvov was unwilling to end the war. In fact soon after taking office he ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 210

A Letter To The Hon Samuel Eliot

  [english | 1851]  

H Irving Hancock

Excerpts: [... they persisted in speaking and writing against you. Anxious to relieve yourself from the load of obloquy by which you were oppressed, in an evil hour ...... of detail, for the purpose of reducing them to the form of a Constitution. In these resolutions, there was not the most distant allusion to fugitive ...... understand the cunning wickedness of this clause, it must be ...]
Genres: [politics] Downloads: 483

A Letter to the Organisers of the Party School on Capri

  [english | 1910]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [ Vladimir Lenin was a Russian revolutionary leader and theorist who presided over the first government of Soviet Russia and then that of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Lenin was the leader of the radical socialist Bolshevik Party (later renamed the Communist Party) which seized power in the October phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917. After the revolution Lenin headed the ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 265

A Letter To The Reverend Mr Channing

  [english | 1813]  

George Bethune English

Summary: [George Bethune English (March 7 1787 - Washington D.C. September 20 1828) was an American adventurer diplomat soldier and convert to Islam. The oldest of four children English was born in Cambridge Massachusetts where he was baptized at Trinity Church on April 1 1787. He later attended Harvard College where his dissertation won a Bowdoin Prize he received a Masters in theology in 1811. During his ...]
Genres: [religion] Downloads: 150

A Liberal Labour Party Manifesto

  [english | 1919]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [A Marxist movement had developed in Russia during the last decade of the nineteenth century. It was a response to the rapid growth of industry cities and the proletariat (a group of lower-class workers especially in industry). Its first intellectual spokesmen were people who had turned away from relying on the peasants (rural poor people) of the Russian villages and countryside and they placed ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 366

A Liberal Professor on Equality

  [english | 1906]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [Over the next twelve years bolshevism which had begun as a faction within the Russian Social-Democratic Workers party gradually emerged as an independent party that had cut its ties with all other Russian Marxists. The process involved long and bitter arguments against Mensheviks as well as against all those who worked to reunite the factions. It involved fights over funds struggles for control ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 199