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A Glimpse of India

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Clara Swain

A Glimpse of India: being a collection of extracts from the letters Dr. Clara A. Swain, first medical missionary to India of the Woman's For…

Preface and Introduction

In The History of Chemistry

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Thomas Thomson

Origin and progress of chemistry, from its beginnings in alchemy into the early 19th century including history and characters of important c…

Linnaeus, Part 2

In Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists

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Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…

A Yucatan Breakfast And Other Sights

In The American Egypt

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Channing Arnold

Arnold and Frost were English archaeologists who traveled to the Yucatan Peninsula and wrote "the first book ever written by Englishmen…

Book 1, Chapter 4, part 5

In History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 1

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Henry Charles Lea

The first volume of Lea’s monumental work on the Inquisition of Spain, covering its origin and establishment and its relations with the stat…