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by Aristotle
THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their p...
by James Fenimore Cooper
IT WAS a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be...
by Charles Dickens
MY FATHER'S FAMILY NAME being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...
by Charles Dickens
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...
by Euripides
For Greeks of the fifth century BCE there is very little biographical information that can be relied upon.
by Emily Brontë
1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Whatever may lie at the bottom of this questionable book: it must have been a question of the greatest interest and appe...
by William Shakespeare
This edition of Henry IV Part I is part of the Cambridge School Shakespeare series.
by William Shakespeare
This is one of Shakespeare's bleakest comments on human history.
by George Orwell
U PO KYIN, Subdivisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, in Upper Burma, was sitting in his veranda.
by Charles Dickens
There once lived in a sequestered part of the country of Devonshire, one Mr Godfrey Nickleby, a worthy gentleman, who ta...
by Thornton Wilder
On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the g...
by Evelyn Waugh
ALL DAY THE HEAT HAL been barely supportable but at evening a breeze arose in the West, blowing from the heart of the se...
by William Shakespeare
IN the Induction to Bartholomew Fair (1614), where Ben Johnson is making fun of the popular taste of his day, one of the...