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The Rape Of Lucrece
[english | ]William Shakespeare
Summary: [Sir Thomas More (February 7 1478 - July 6 1535) also Saint Thomas More was an English lawyer social philosopher author statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important counsellor to Henry VIII of England and for three years toward the end of his life he was Lord Chancellor. He is also recognized as a saint within the Catholic Church and in the Anglican Communion. He was an opponent ...]
Genres: [poetry] Downloads: 223
Life Of Francis Marion
[english | ]William Dobein James
Excerpts: [... JERVEY, Clerk of the District of South-Carolina. Preface.Preface. During the siege of Charleston, in May, 1780, the grammar school at Salem, on Black ...... principally of militia, who could not be brought under control and in the midst of arms, when the enemy were at the distance of only three miles, their ...... and council did despair already, for a majority of them had finally ...]
Genres: [biography | war] Downloads: 270
Plays Of Henley And R L Stevenson
[english | ]William Henley
Summary: [The power of darkness.--The first distiller.--The fruits of enlightenment.--The live corpse.--The light shines in the darkness.--The root of all evil.--The wisdom of children.]
Genres: [drama] Downloads: 238
Civil Government Of Virginia
[english | ]William Fox
Summary: [Sir Adolphus William Ward (2 December 1837 ? 19 June 1924) was an English historian and man of letters. He was born at Hampstead London and was educated in Germany and at Peterhouse Cambridge. In 1866 he was appointed professor of history and English literature in Owens College Manchester and was principal from 1890 to 1897 when he retired. In 1898 Ward delivered the Ford Lectures at Oxford ...]
Genres: [non fiction | politics] Downloads: 28
The Norsk Nightingale
[english | ]William Kirk
Summary: [William Kirk Dickson (1860 Edinburgh - 1949) was a Scottish advocate librarian and writer. He was Keeper of the Advocates Library from 1906-25 and Librarian of the National Library of Scotland from 1925-31.]
Genres: [poetry] Downloads: 194
The Life Of Stephen A Douglas
[english | ]William Gardner
Summary: [Havent read the book. However Mr. Homers review of this book seems to contain some false information. I am unable to verify any of it so far...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 47
The Majesty Of Calmness
[english | ]William George Jordan
Summary: [A really lovely book. Very inspiring]
Genres: [religion | health | audiobook] Downloads: 264
Imogen
[english | ]William Godwin
Excerpts: [... by the critics, and admired by that credulous train who clap and stare whenever they are bid, have when the recommendation of novelty has subsided been ...... with an eye of candour, and her benevolence to gratify all the innocent wishes, of those about her. The character of a woman undistinguishing in her ...... had not moistened his cheek. The heart of Modred was haughty, ...]
Genres: [romance] Downloads: 58
Italian Letters Vols 12
[english | ]William Godwin
Excerpts: [... starting from his eye. It is not the voice of flattery, that can render him callous to the most virtuous and respectable feelings that can inform ...... misrepresent every circumstance of his conduct. He had been calumniated, cruelly calumniated, and could he discover the author of the aspersion, he ...... to state to you the whole of my conduct. It is a sensation to which I have ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 340
Confiscation
[english | ]William Greenwood
Excerpts: [... the faculty that, made him intelligible and interesting to the young, and the right to preside at a meeting of Humboldts. But there is pride of ...... know what a government by the people and for the people means. If they did, they would know that there was something wrong when one man has $50,000,00 ...... This claim of itself shows the institution to which he should be consigned. ...]
Genres: [politics] Downloads: 360
Foliage Various Poems
[english | ]William Davies
Summary: [William Robertson Davies CC O. Ont FRSC FRSL (born August 28 1913 at Thamesville Ontario and died December 2 1995 at Orangeville Ontario) was a Canadian novelist playwright critic journalist and professor. He was one of Canadas best-known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished men of letters a term Davies is variously said to have gladly accepted for himself and to have ...]
Genres: [poetry] Downloads: 486
A Man Of Samples
[english | ]William Maher
Summary: [Travellers Samples is a 1951 short story collection by Frank OConnor. It features the following stories: First Confession The Man of the House The Idealist The Drunkard The Thief My First Protestant This Mortal Coil Old Age Pensioners Legal Aid The Masculine Principle The Sentry Jerome The Lady of the Sagas Darcy in the Land of Youth]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 4
The Early Life Of Mark Rutherford
[english | ]William Hale White
Excerpts: [... in infancy. My brother, a painter of much promise, died young. Ruskin and Rossetti thought much of him. He was altogether unlike the rest of us, in ...... at Walton-on-the-Naze, then a fishing village with only four or five houses in it besides a few cottages. No living creature could be more excitedly ...... miles actual speed, excluding stoppages for change. Barring accidents, it ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature | biography] Downloads: 11
Lectures On The English Poets
[english | ]William Hazlitt
Excerpts: [... to the desires of the soul, instead of subjecting the soul to external things, as reason and history do. It is strictly the language of the imagination ...... nothing, as they are evidently picturesque, rather than imaginative. Raphael's cartoons are certainly the finest comments that ever were made on the Scriptures. ...... turn of Chaucer's mind and restless impatience of his ...]
Genres: [essays | poetry] Downloads: 307
Liber Amoris Or The New Pygmalion
[english | ]William Hazlitt
Excerpts: [... what this is a picture of. H. I hardly know but it is a very small and delicate copy (painted in oil on a gold ground) of some fine old Italian picture, ...... be getting impatient at my stopping so long. H. You know he has nothing to fear for you-it is poor I that am alone in danger. But I wanted to ask about ...... arms round my neck, and feed me with kisses, and let me take ...]
Genres: [correspondence | romance | sexuality] Downloads: 221
The Habitant And Other French Canadian Poems
[english | ]William Henry Drummond
Summary: [William Henry Drummond (April 13 1854 - April 6 1907) was an Irish-born Canadian poet. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom in 1898 and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1899.]
Genres: [poetry] Downloads: 89
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
Diary Of A Pedestrian In Cashmere And Thibet
[english | ]William Henry Knight
Excerpts: [... and paymaster to the forces and, as he will figure largely in the following pages, under the title of the Q.M.G., and comes, moreover, under the head ...... its name. The Jhelum only remains - the ancient Hydaspes of Alexandrian notoriety. JUNE 11. - Reached Goojerat at five A.M. and enjoyed a few ...... of Cashmere, and anxiety as to our having got all supplies, &c. which we ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 470
The Mastery Of The Air
[english | ]William Claxton
Excerpts: [... years of education, and vast efforts of intelligence, foresight, and daring to accomplish, is known by the tiny fledglings almost as soon as they come ...... behind her French neighbour's in balloon aeronautics-much as she has recently done in aviation-for a considerable time, and,it was not till August of ...... vessel, being 150 feet long and 35 feet in diameter, with a capacity ...]
Genres: [science | history | non fiction] Downloads: 484
The Fall Of The Grand Sarrasin
[english | ]William Ferrar
Excerpts: [... or tussle and mock battle, and tourney, and race by land or water in summer, when our bodies gleamed white beneath the calm waves as we played like young ...... how, in consequence, the hand of man was against their hand, as their hand was against man's. Where were the other men I had seen. In a moment ...... and his body and face were very fat like a great bull of the stall he lay ...]
Genres: [religion | fiction and literature] Downloads: 357