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A Bounty Boy
by Frank Thomas BullenThis perhaps should rather be called a prefatory note, since all the introduction to my book that I deem necessary is to say that in it I have endeavoured to sketch a community for whom I have the highest admiration, the descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty, who I maintain are a standing proof of the miraculous power of the Gospel in the rege..
Freedom! Equality!! Justice!!!
by Victoria C. WoodhullFreedom! Equality!! Justice!!! These Three; but the Greatest of These Is JusticeA Speech on the Impending Revolution, Delivered in Music Hall, Boston, Thursday, Feb. 1, 1872, and the Academy of Music, New York, Feb. 20, 1872.Standing upon the apex of the nineteenth century, we look backward through the historic era, and in the distant, dim past cat..
Philosophumena, Volume I
by Antipope HippolytusThe story of the discovery of the book here translated so resembles a romance as to appear like a flower in the dry and dusty field of patristic lore. A short treatise called Philosophumena, or “Philosophizings,” had long been known, four early copies of it being in existence in the Papal and other libraries of Rome, Florence and Turin. The supersc..
An Authentick Account of the Measures and Precautions Used at Venice
by AnonymousIt is now the Third Century since the following Regulation took its Rise. The Office of Health is furnished with such ample Power and Authority, as makes it at once useful and respectable; it is administered by the Subjects of the Republick most eminent for their Prudence, Dignity and Talents; it is furnished with Abundance of Officers, a few of wh..
Gabrielle de Bergerac
by Henry JamesMy good old friend, in his white flannel dressing-gown, with his wig "removed," as they say of the dinner-service, by a crimson nightcap, sat for some moments gazing into the fire. At last he looked up. I knew what was coming. "Apropos, that little debt of mine—"Not that the debt was really very little. But M. de Bergerac was a man of honor, and I ..
The Green Millennium
by Fritz LeiberThe world Phil Gish lived in was not a pretty one, and Phil didn't enjoy living in it. He was disillusioned, purposeless, hopeless, and haunted by the fear that a robot would take over his job. But then Phil was a timid person, not much given to adventure seeking. If he hadn't been so mild he might have found his kicks at All Amusements, the syndic..
A Body of Divinity, Vol. 4 (of 4)
by Thomas RidgleyA Body of Divinity, Vol. 4 (of 4)Wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are explained and defended, being the substance of several lectures on the Assembly's Larger Catechism..
It Might Have Happened Otherwise
by Hugh PendexterThe growth of the thing in his mind had been gradual. When it had obtruded upon his consciousness at first he had drawn back in mingled fear and anger. By degrees, however, he tolerated the thought, only always at a distance, and concluded by allowing it to make a rendezvous of his idle meditations, receiving it much as one might welcome an unwhole..