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The Alternative A Separate Nationality
[english | ]William Henry Holcombe
Excerpts: [... South. The Alternative: A Separate Nationality, or. by William Henry Holcombe. The EBook of The Alternative: A Separate Nationality, or. Title: ...... decision of the Supreme Court, or even the Constitution itself and that, consequently, the issues may be stayed and the dangers arrested by the drawing ...... rights share in the universal opinion that slavery is a great moral and ...]
Genres: [essays | african american studies] Downloads: 318
The Altruist In Politics
[english | 1889]Benjamin Cardozo
Summary: [Includes bibliographies.]
Genres: [politics | essays] Downloads: 192
The American Credo
[english | 1920]H Mencken
Summary: [Henry Louis H. L. Mencken (September 12 1880 - January 29 1956) was an American journalist essayist magazine editor satirist acerbic critic of American life and culture and a student of American English. Mencken known as the Sage of Baltimore is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Mencken is known for writing The ...]
Genres: [essays | criticism] Downloads: 478
The American Mind
[english | 1912]Bliss Perry
Excerpts: [... adequate report of the racial or national or personal emotions felt during a given epoch, but that it fails to report these emotions at all. Not only ...... that seem to be our own and yet are unutterably strange. To confess thus that literature, in the proper sense of the word, represents but a narrow ...... her bookish lessons. This is not saying that we have had a continuous or ...]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 379
The American Newspaper
[english | ]Charles Dudley Warner
Summary: [From Edison films catalog: Showing Committee of Arrangements visit to the Admiral on board the U.S. Cruiser Olympia. 100 feet. 15.00]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 149
The Appetite Of Tyranny
[english | 1915]G Chesterton
Summary: [The Appetite Of Tyranny by G K Chesterton. Unless we are all mad there is at the back of the most bewildering business a story and if we are all mad there is no such thing as madness. If I set a house on fire it is quite true that I may illuminate many other people s weaknesses as well as my own. It may be that the master of the house was burned because he was drunk it may be that the mistress ...]
Genres: [essays | audiobook] Downloads: 287
The Ballotless Victim Of One Party Governments
[english | 1913]Archibald Grimk
Excerpts: [... color are different from his own. Not a doubt of it in legal theory but when he puts his theoretical rights to the test of fact he finds that he is ...... proved himself an undesirable citizen. Certainly not if past services to the country of the greatest value are any proof to the contrary. In the Revolutionary ...... along the route where he may get a meal, and not a hotel which ...]
Genres: [essays | politics | african american studies] Downloads: 146
The Beautiful Necessity
[english | 1910]Claude Fayette Bragdon
Summary: [The art of architecture.--Unity and polarity.--Changeless change.--The bodily temple.--Latent geometry.--The arithmetic of beauty.--Frozen music.--Conclusion.]
Genres: [philosophy | essays] Downloads: 489
The Book Of Delight And Other Papers
[english | 1912]Israel Abrahams
Summary: [A Timescape Book.]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 386
The Booklover And His Books
[english | 1917]Harry Lyman Koopman
Excerpts: [... where they are not seen with it. Photogravures, for instance, may be put at the end of the book, or they may be covered with a piece of opaque tissue ...... the years of every scholar's and reader's life. At this point we may even introduce a claim for print as a contributor to literature. There are ...... if he will stand before a shelf full of these little Aldus classics, handle ...]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 31
The Business Career In Its Public Relations
[english | 1904]Albert Shaw
Excerpts: [... by. Title: The business career in its public relations. Author: Albert Shaw. Release Date: August 9, 2009 [EBook #29641]. pgdp. THE BUSINESS ...... distribution in printed form. What better way to train to higher commercial standards the minds, not only of the youths who are seeking a university ...... of view without careful discrimination, we may well be alarmed for we live in a ...]
Genres: [business | instructional | essays] Downloads: 301
The Business Of Being A Woman
[english | 1921]Ida Tarbell
Summary: [Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5 1857 - January 6 1944) was an American teacher author and journalist. She was known as one of the leading muckrakers of the progressive era work known in modern times as investigative journalism. She wrote many notable magazine series and biographies. She is best-known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company which was listed as No. 5 in a 1999 ...]
Genres: [women studies | essays] Downloads: 51
The Call Of The Twentieth Century
[english | 1903]David Starr Jordan
Excerpts: [... Will you let him come, taking your place, gaining through your experiences, hallowed through your joys, building on them his own, or will you fling his ...... she will lay heavy burdens of duty. The color of life is red. Already the fad of the drooping spirit, the end-of-the-century pose, has given way ...... we know that they are being made ready for every crisis which may need ...]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 6
The Case Of Wagner Nietzsche Contra Wagner
[english | 1911]Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Summary: [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15 1844 - August 25 1900) was a 19th-century German philosopher and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion morality contemporary culture philosophy and science displaying a fondness for metaphor irony and aphorism. Nietzsches influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy notably in existentialism and postmodernism. His style ...]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 412
The Chief End Of Man
[english | 1897]George Merriam
Summary: [Cromwell Our Chief of Men by Antonia Fraser (1973 is a biography of Oliver Cromwell. The title is from a poem praising Cromwell by John Milton perhaps the most famous and accomplished poet of the English Commonwealth. Frasers goal is to rescue Oliver Cromwell and rehabilitate his reputation as a statesman and leader while not glossing over his obvious faults. From Frasers point-of-view one of ...]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 35
The City That Was
[english | 1906]William Henry Irwin
Summary: [Another Bullshit Night in Suck City is a 2004 memoir by playwright and poet Nick Flynn describing Flynns reunion with his estranged father Jonathan -- an alcoholic resident of the homeless shelter where Nick was a social worker in the late 1980s. The title refers to Jonathans description of homeless life in Boston. The memoir earned Flynn a 2004 award from PEN International was shortlisted for ...]
Genres: [non fiction | essays] Downloads: 230
The Colored Girl Beautiful
[english | 1916]E Azalia Hackley
Excerpts: [... of other colored women, hoping that among them there is some new thought worthy of a racial Amen.. E. AZALIA HACKLEY. Chicago, Ill., August, 1916. CONTENTS. The ...... clouds, or the fleeciness of the soft white clouds tell her to listen to the language of the birds and insects, and the sighing of the winds through ...... sufficient will power to direct these forces for his own ...]
Genres: [essays | african american studies | etiquette] Downloads: 95
The Colour Of Life
[english | 1897]Alice Meynell
Excerpts: [... quantity when all the heads of a great indoor meeting are turned at once upon a speaker but it is only in the open air, needless to say, that the colour ...... the death of a bird and in exhibiting the death of Shelley. The death of a soldier - passe encore. But the death of Shelley was not his goal. ...... find the dead in some labyrinth they have to mourn his dying and to welcome ...]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 284