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Excerpt: In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereigne Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first colony in the Northerne Parts of Virginia; doe, by these Presents, solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civill Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid;...

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Excerpt: A Simple Soul by Gustave Flaubert.

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Excerpt: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians, the Fiftieth Book of the King James Version of the Bible.

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Excerpt: The Sea-Gull by Anton Checkov.

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Introduction: Nicolo Machiavelli was born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. He was the second son of Bernardo di Nicolo Machiavelli, a lawyer of some repute, and of Bartolommea di Stefano Nelli, his wife. Both parents were members of the old Florentine nobility....

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One.

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Contents EDGAR ALLAN POE AN APPRECIATION ............................................................................................................. 4 EDGAR ALLAN POE BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL ....................................................................................... 11 TO HELEN ................................................................................................................................................................. 14 DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE BY N. P. WILLIS........................................................................................................ 19 THE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURES OF ONE HANS PFAAL......................................................................... 26 Notes to Hans Pfaal .................................................................................................................................................... 68 THE GOLD-BUG ....................................................................................................................................................... 75 THE HOMO-CAMELEOPARD ...................................................................

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Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

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Excerpt: Tell Me A Story by Lisa Suhay.

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Contents Foreword ....................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Preface ........................................................................................................................................................................... 8 IN THE BEGINNING................................................................................................................................................... 9 The Diamond of Hope ................................................................................................................................................. 10 Birch Finds Its Roots ................................................................................................................................................ 11 Sleeper?s Awakening .................................................................................................................................................... 15 Chandra?s Change .........................................................................................

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Excerpt: Rosmersholm. A Play in Four Acts by Henrik Ibsen, translated by R. Farquharson Sharp.

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THE SEVENTY-EIGHTH BOOK OF THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED & REVISED SET FORTH IN 1611 AND COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE KING JAMES VERSION ...

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel -- 2. The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD -- 3. So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son -- 4. And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel -- 5. And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel, in the valley of Jezreel....

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Preface: Like many other works of mine, this playlet is a piece d?occasion. In 1905 it happened that Mr. Arnold Daly, who was then playing the part of Napoleon in The Man of Destiny in New York, found that whilst the play was too long to take a secondary place in the evening?s performance, it was too short to suffice by itself. I therefore took advantage of four days continuous rain during a holiday in the north of Scotland to write How He Lied To Her Husband for Mr. Daly. In his hands, it served its turn very effectively....

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THE FORTY-SEVENTH BOOK OF THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED & REVISED SET FORTH IN 1611 AND COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE KING JAMES VERSION...

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia -- 2. Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ -- 3. Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; -- 4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God -- 5. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ -- 6. And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation -- 7. And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation....

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Excerpt: The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare.

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Excerpt: The School mistress and other stories by Anton Chekhov.

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Contents THE SCHOOLMISTRESS ......................................................................................................................................... 4 A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN................................................................................................................................... 13 MISERY...................................................................................................................................................................... 35 CHAMPAGNE: .......................................................................................................................................................... 40 AFTER THE THEATRE............................................................................................................................................ 46 A LADY?S STORY ..................................................................................................................................................... 49 IN EXILE ....................................................................................................................................................

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Introduction: In an age of materialism like our own the phenomenon of spiritual power is as significant and inspiring as it is rare. No longer associated with the ?divine right? of kings, it has survived the downfall of feudal and theocratic systems as a mystic personal emanation in place of a coercive weapon of statecraft....

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Contents INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................................... 4 LIST OF POSTHUMOUS WORKS......................................................................................................................... 34 THE FORGED COUPON ........................................................................................................................................ 35 AFTER THE DANCE ............................................................................................................................................. 108 ALYOSHA THE POT ............................................................................................................................................. 118 MY DREAM ............................................................................................................................................................ 123 THERE ARE NO GUILTY PEOPLE .................................................................................................................... 136 THE YOUNG TSAR .............

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Excerpt: Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau.

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Excerpt: The First Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Thessalonians, the Fifty-second Book of the King James Version of the Bible.

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THE TWENTY-NINTH BOOK OF THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED & REVISED SET FORTH IN 1611 AND COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE KING JAMES VERSION...

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Excerpt: The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel -- 2. Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? -- 3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation -- 4. That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten....

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Excerpt: The Song of Solomon, the Twenty-second Book of the King James Version of the Bible.

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Excerpt: The Book of Nehemiah, the Sixteenth Book of the King James Version of the Bible.