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The Cynic's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
epub |eng | 2014-01-20 | Author:Ambrose Bierce

LONGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge. LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death. LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane ...
( Category: Anthologies March 9,2020 )
The Wartime Journals by Hugh Trevor-Roper
epub |eng | | Author:Hugh Trevor-Roper [Trevor-Roper, Hugh]

The Great Whaddon Row Nov 1943 I was staying with the Wheelers at Whitchurch,341 before hunting with the Bicester; it was after dinner; I was alone with Mr Wheeler; and ...
( Category: Historical March 9,2020 )
The Death of Cool by Gavin McInnes
epub |eng | | Author:Gavin McInnes

New Wave Hookers (2000) Passerby was an art gallery in the West Village with a fun bar and a dance floor that lit up like Saturday Night Fever. A hilariously ...
( Category: Essays March 9,2020 )
Forty-Three Years: A Civil Servant by Royston J Tucker
epub |eng | | Author:Royston J Tucker

CHAPTER NINE PRODUCTION In the summer of 1968, I was transferred to another ship production section in E Block as an additional clerical support but this had nothing to do ...
( Category: Memoirs March 9,2020 )
The Lusitania Sinking by Anthony Richards
epub |eng | 2019-09-06 | Author:Anthony Richards

Chapter 8 Investigations News of the sinking travelled fast and as soon as the Prichard family learned of the disaster, their first thought was of Preston. Had he survived? Was ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 9,2020 )
The View from Rat Lake by John Gierach
epub |eng | | Author:John Gierach

· THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES · It’s toward the end of May; shirtsleeve warm most days, but still cold—rather than “cool”—as night comes on. The cottonwoods, willows, and dogwoods ...
( Category: Fishing March 9,2020 )
Alchemy by H. Stanley Redgrove
epub |eng | 2019-11-14 | Author:H. Stanley Redgrove [Redgrove, H. Stanley]

PLATE 9. PORTRAIT OF EDWARD KELLEY. PORTRAIT OF JOHN DEE. To face page 68] Edward Kelley (1555–1595) and John Dee (1527–1608.) Table of Contents § 52. Edward Kelley or Kelly ...
( Category: Magic Studies March 9,2020 )
The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude by Howard Axelrod
epub |eng | 2015-09-21 | Author:Howard Axelrod [Axelrod, Howard]

The week after the party, I found myself taking more walks than usual, examining faces more closely beneath the porticoes on Via Irnerio. Wherever I went, Milena’s presence felt close ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays March 9,2020 )
A Sharp Left Turn by Mike Chunn
epub |eng | 2019-08-18 | Author:Mike Chunn

Chapter Eighteen The Pavilion Revisited My taxi drifted down Manukau Road to Parnell. I was home. Each building was a welcome. Each set of lights beamed at me, and our ...
( Category: Medical March 9,2020 )
The Broken Circle by Rodney Barker
epub |eng | | Author:Rodney Barker

Two family photos immortalize Ted and Doreen Burke. In one, Ted, tall and handsome, poses beside a tanker truck wearing a leather jacket and a white-toothed grin, looking like a ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 9,2020 )
A Broken Journey - Wanderings from the Hoang-Ho Yo the Island of Saghalien and the Upper Reaches of The Amur River by Mary Gaunt
epub |eng | 2017-03-20 | Author:Mary Gaunt [Gaunt, Mary]

CHAPTER IX—KHARBIN AND VLADIVOSTOK At Tientsin I sweltered in the Astor House, and I put it on record that I found it hotter in Northern China than I did on ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs March 9,2020 )
Thomas Jefferson - His permanent influence on American institutions by John Sharp Williams
epub |eng | 2017-04-26 | Author:John Sharp Williams [Williams, John Sharp]

Jefferson also at first wanted an amendment to prevent the Executive from being indefinitely self-successive. I think few of us in this year of our Lord's grace will challenge his ...
( Category: Historical March 9,2020 )
Mamaskatch by Darrel J. McLeod
epub |eng | 2018-09-14 | Author:Darrel J. McLeod

Indian Princesses The day mother found Greggie’s letter, I had run home upbeat and excited, not at all prepared for the scene that awaited me. I planned to practise trumpet ...
( Category: Native American & Aboriginal March 9,2020 )
The Autobiography and Other Writings by Benjamin Franklin
epub |eng | 2018-10-28 | Author:Benjamin Franklin

* * * AN EDICT BY THE KING OF PRUSSIA (1773) A prolific political journalist, Franklin generally considered his political writings ephemeral. When asked for a gathering of such pieces ...
( Category: American Revolution March 9,2020 )
Medieval Europe by Henry Davis
epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Henry Davis

VI The Hildebrandine Church Modern life has travelled so far beyond medieval Christianity that it is only with an effort we retrace our steps to the intellectual position of a ...
( Category: Europe March 9,2020 )

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