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The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews
by Henry Fielding
It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: And if this be just in w...
Security Analysis
by Benjamin Graham, David Dodd
The objectives of security analysis are twofold.
Word Power Made Easy
by Norman Lewis
1 HOW TO TEST YOUR PRESENT VOCABULARY If you are the average adult, your vocabulary is barely one-and-one-half times ...
The Bible in Spain
by George Henry Borrow, Ulick Ralph Burke
On the morning of the tenth of November, 1835, I found myself off the coast of Galicia, whose lofty mountains, gilded by...
Calculus Made Easy
by Silvanus Phillips Thompson
The preliminary terror, which chokes off most high school students from even attempting to learn how to calculate, can b...
Georgica
by Publius Vergilius Maro
Critics since antiquity have seen the last six books of the Aeneid as Virgil's 'Iliad', the story of the war in Italy th...
The Secret History
by Procopius, Richard Atwater
In what I have written on the Roman wars up to the present point, the story was arranged in chronological order and as c...
The Prisoner of Zenda
by Anthony Hope, Gary Hoppenstand
'I wonder when in the world you're going to do anything, Rudolf?'
Divine songs
by Isaac Watts
Verse was first designed for the praising of God, though it was been wretchedly abused since.
Vita di Benvenuto Cellini
by Benvenuto Cellini
i. All men, whatever be their condition, who have done anything of merit, or which verily has a semblance of merit, if s...
Black reconstruction in America 1860-1880
by W. E. B. Du Bois, Eric Foner
How black men, coming to America in the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, became a central th...
Shall we tell the President?
by Jeffrey Archer
Her hand still resting on the Douay Bible, the forty-third President smiled at the First Gentleman.
Bullshit Jobs
by David Graeber
In the spring of 2013, I unwittingly set off a very minor international sensation.
Familiar quotations; a collection of passages, phrases, and ...
by John Bartlett
There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
