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Lessons in the Shanghai Dialect

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Francis Lister Hawks Pott

A rare textbook on Shanghai dialect by Reverend F. L. H. Pott, an American missionary and educator who lived in China for more than 50 years…

Letters on England

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Voltaire

Voltaire spent his early thirties in England as an exile following the Bastille imprisonment for his satires. With passionate admiration, he…

Three Years in the Wilderness

In George Washington

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Ferdinand Schmidt

Among all the numerous life stories written by Ferdinand Schmidt for the delectation and education of German youth, none surpasses that of W…

Luther's Childhood

In Life of Luther

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Gustav A. Just

This short biography of Martin Luther, by Gustav Just, who taught at Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran School, St. Louis, is a standard resourc…

PREFACE TO THE SEVENTH EDITION

In The Life of John Ruskin

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William Gershom Collingwood

W. G. Collingwood became a student of John Ruskin in 1872 when he started his study in University College, Oxford. For many years he dedicat…