Found 37,155 results for "Africa, history"
by H. Rider Haggard
There are some events of which each circumstance and surrounding detail seem to be graven on the memory in such fashion ...
by Edward Gibbon
Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which an historical writer may ascribe to himself; if any merit indeed can be...
by Joseph Conrad
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
by William Shakespeare
1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...
by Emily Brontë
1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.
by Augustine of Hippo
Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning.
by William Shakespeare
Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords.
by Winston S. Churchill
NOW at last the slowly-gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us.
by Mark Twain
My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...
by H. Rider Haggard
It is a curious thing that at my age-fifty-five last birthday-I should find myself taking up a pen to try and write a hi...
by Olaudah Equiano
PERMIT me with the greatest deference and respect, to lay at your feet the following genuine Narrative; the chief design...
by William Shakespeare
Macbeth was first produced at a time of radical theatrical change in England.
by Bible
Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.
by William Shakespeare
1. When reading verse, note the appropriate phrasing and intonation.
by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The Gandhis belong to the Bania caste and seem to have been originally grocers. But for three generations, from my grand...
by William Shakespeare
In Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare dramatizes a major event in world history, the founding of the Roman Empire around ...
by Arthur Conan Doyle
IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...