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Whether Genius is Conscious of its Powers

In The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

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William Hazlitt


The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things is a posthumous collection of essays by William Hazlitt, organized by his grandson, Wi…

The Aurora Borealis and Telegraph Cables

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 097

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Scientific American


"One does not care to walk over a rug or carpet that displays a scene in perspective, neither does one wish to gaze into a landscape wr…

Vier Sorten Plätzchen (aus: Praktisches Kochbuch)

In Adventskalender 2014

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Henriette Davidis


Diese Sammlung ist ein Adventskalender und enthält für jeden Tag vom 1. bis 24. Dezember eine Aufnahme über Weihnachten, den …

The Canals Photographed

In Mars and Its Canals

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Percival Lowell


In the days before telescope photography, astronomers had to draw what they thought they saw through the eyepiece throughout the long dark n…

SCHEVENINGEN—5 P.M. TO 6 P.M.

In Around the clock in Europe: A travel sequence

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Charles Fish Howell


In this travelog, the author takes us on a tour of European cities, giving snapshots at given times of the day from midday til midnight.

Photographing Snowflakes

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 056

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Wilson Alwyn Bentley


Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the impact of World War I on human …

Ch. XIX: Influencing by Exposition

In The Art of Public Speaking

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Dale Carnagey and Joseph Berg Esenwein and Joseph Berg Esenwein


The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and Joseph B. Esenwein is a manual for people who have to speak in public, and it is still in us…

Prince Eugene Vanquishes the Turks, AD 1717, by Prince Eugene of Savoy

In The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13

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Charles F. Horne


A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…

Can Radio Ignite Balloons

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 057

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Nikola Tesla


Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Natural cataclysm is the subject of several readin…

Artistic Japan

In Coffee Break Collection 006 - Food and Drink

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Clarence Edgar Edwords


This is the sixth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in leng…

Putting on the End Papers and Trimming

In The Art of Bookbinding

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Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf


This handbook explains the art of bookbinding and simultaneously reminds us what a complex technology is to make books! Zaehnsdorf, bookbind…

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