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19 - THAT TO STUDY PHILOSOPY IS TO LEARN TO DIE

In Essays book 1

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Michel de Montaigne and Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …

Apocalypse by Richard Realf

In Poems of American Patriotism

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Brander Matthews

This book is a collection of patriotic poems by many authors. - Summary by Hannah Shaver

10 - Part VIa: The ____

In Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography

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Laurence Oliphant

Laurence Oliphant, author, international traveller, diplomatist and mystic, who spent a decade in later life under the influence of the spir…

Chapter XVIII - Popocatepetl. Amecameca. Tlamacas. Las Cruz. The Pico del Frail…

In The Boy Travellers in Mexico

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Thomas Wallace Knox

An engaging travelogue published in 1890, written conversationally among two youths and their guide and mentor. From the preface: "a bo…

Part 1 Chapter 18

In Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland (dating from 1837). Recorded by …

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Constance Campbell Petrie and Thomas Petrie

Tom Petrie (1831-1910), explorer and grazier, arrived in the then convict settlement of Moreton Bay in 1837. His reminiscences of what was t…

Book II, Chapters 1 to 7

In On Christian Doctrine

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Saint Augustine of Hippo

De doctrina Christiana, On Christian Doctrine, is a famous treatise by Augustine of Hippo, consisting of four books that describe how to int…

Stolen Waters

In Three Sunsets and Other Poems

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Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll's most enduring works are the Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, but he also wrote some very interesting poetry. The poems in …

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