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De la démocratie en Amérique
by Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont
AFTER the birth of a human being, his early years are obscurely spent in the toils or pleasures of childhood.
American notes
by Charles Dickens, Diana C. Archibald
I SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the th...
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
THE cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham
Whan that April with his showres soote
The Age of Revolution
by Eric Hobsbawm
THE first thing to observe about the world of the 1780s is that it was at once much smaller and much larger than ours.
Rip Van Winkle
by Washington Irving
THE following Tale was found among the papers of the tale Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old gentleman of New York, who was ...
Federally chartered corporation
by United States. General Accounting Office. Accounting and Information Management Division
Farewell address
by George Washington
Friends and Fellow-Citizens, The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the Un...
Founding Brothers
by Joseph J. Ellis
THE MOST succinct version of the story might go like this: On the morning of July 11, 1804, Aaron Burr and Alexander Ham...
