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Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.

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Excerpt: The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper.

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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no...

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Excerpt: The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper.

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Excerpt: The Upanishads translated by with commentary by Swami Paramananda.

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