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by Alice Morse Earle, Editor
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
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FOREWORD.
IN the year 1770, a bright little girl ten years of age, Anna Green Winslow, was sent from her far away home in Nova Scotia to Boston, the birthplace of her parents, to be "finished" at Boston schools by Boston...
The Works of William Hogarth
In a Series of Engravings with Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
The Works of William Hogarth
In a Series of Engravings with Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency
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RAKE'S PROGRESS.
Plate 1 Heir taking Possession
" 2 Surrounded by Artists
" 3 Tavern...
by Ethan Allen
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
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CONTENTS (abridged list)
INTRODUCTION.
PREFACE.
CHAPTER I.
SECTION I. THE DUTY OF REFORMING MANKIND FROM SUPERSTITION AND ERROR...
SECTION II. OF THE BEING OF A GOD
SECTION III. THE MANNER OF DISCOVERING THE MORAL PERFECTIONS...
SECTION IV. THE...
White Slaves
Or, the Oppressions of the Worthy Poor
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
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CONTENTS
I. THE WHITE SLAVES OF THE BOSTON “SWEATERS”
II. LETTER OF CRITICISM
III. REPLY TO A CRITICISM ON “THE WHITE SLAVES OF THE BOSTON SWEATERS”
IV. THE PLAGUE OF THE SWEAT-SHOP
V. THE RELATION OF WAGES TO MORALS
VI. THE WAGES AND...
by Martin Johnson, Ralph D. Harrison, Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
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Introduction
I On the Trail of Adventure
II The Building of the "Snark"
III On the High Seas
IV A Pacific Paradise
V Molokai, the Leper Island
VI The Long Traverse
VII In the Marquesas
VIII The Society...
by Théophile Gautier
Language: French
Release Date: November 17, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: November 17, 2013
TABLE Avertissement des Éditeurs Préface Méditation. (Él. I.) Moyen âge. (Int. VI.) Élégie I. (Él. VI.) 11 Paysage. (Pays. VII.) La jeune fille....
The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy"
From London to Paris, and by Harve across the Channel to the Isle of Wight, South Coast, &c., &c.
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
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PREFACE.
In the earlier part of this voyage, and where it was most wished for, along the dangerous coast of France, fine weather came.
Next there was an amphibious interlude to the Paris Exhibition, while the Rob Roy sailed inland.
Thence...
The Sayings of Confucius
A New Translation of the Greater Part of the Confucian Analects
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2014
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The Sayings of Confucius
A New Translation of the Greater Part of the Confucian Analects
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL DISCIPLES
GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
INDIVIDUAL VIRTUE
CONFUCIUS' ESTIMATE OF OTHERS
CONFUCIUS...
The Shinto Cult
A Christian Study of the Ancient Religion of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
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CONTENTS
The Country
Is Shinto a Religion?
Origin and Relative Age of the People
Meaning of the Term Shinto
Sources of Information
Japanese Cosmogony and Mythology
The Japanese a Self-centered People
Essence of the Shinto Cult
The...
by John Dalberg-Acton
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
THE HISTORY OF FREEDOM AND OTHER ESSAYS
BY JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG-ACTON
First Baron ACTON D.C.L., L.L.D., ETC. ETC.
REGIUS PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN NEVILLE FIGGIS, Litt.D.
SOMETIME LECTURER IN ST. CATHARINE'S COLLEGE,...
The Abolitionists
Together with Personal Memories of the Struggle for Human Rights 1830-1864
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE ABOLITIONISTS
THE ABOLITIONISTS — WHO AND WHAT THEY WERE
ONE OF THEIR TRAITS
PRO-SLAVERY PREJUDICE
THE POLITICAL SITUATION
ANTI-SLAVERY PIONEERS
SALMON PORTLAND CHASE
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETIES
WANTED, AN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY
ANTI-SLAVERY...
by Constant Premier Valet De Chambre, Walter Clark, Translator
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
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Excursions in the Mountains of Ronda and Granada
With Characteristic Sketches of the Inhabitants of the South of Spain
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
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CONTENTS (abridged list)
PREFATORY CHAPTER
Containing little more than an Invocation—A Dissertation—A Choice of Miseries—A Bill of Fare—And a Receipt for making a Favourite Spanish Dish
CHAPTER I
Gibraltar—Forbidden Ground—Derivation...
Dred Scott Versus John F. A. Sandford
Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Opinions of the Judges Thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott Versus John F. A. Sandford. December Term, 1856
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
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CONTENTS
Syllabus
Mr. Chief Justice Taney (majority opinion)
Mr. Justice Wayne (concurrence)
Mr. Justice Nelson (concurrence)
Mr. Justice Grier (concurrence)
Mr. Justice Daniel (concurrence)
Mr. Justice Campbell (concurrence)
Mr. Justice Catron (concurrence)
Mr. Justice McLean (dissent)
Mr. Justice Curtis (dissent)