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I have been called, in many of the public journals, a “professed tourist;” but I am sorry to say that I have no title to the appellation in its usual sense. On the one hand I possess too little wit and humour to render my writings amusing; and, on the other, too little knowledge to judge rightly of what I have gone through.
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Category: Non-Fiction  -  General  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

The word soil occurs many times in this little book. In agriculture this word is used to describe the thin layer of surface earth that, like some great blanket, is tucked around the wrinkled and age-beaten form of our globe.
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Category: Non-Fiction  -  1. Agriculture  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

AT WORK, people who say what they mean and mean what they say are almost as rare as spotted owls. Here are some ideas about how to deal with coworkers who play fast and loose with the truth.
Description: 101 Solutions for Surviving Office Insanity
Category: Non-Fiction, Business  -  General  -  NON-PUBLIC DOMAIN

I SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the third of January eighteen-hundred-and-forty-two, I opened the door of, and put my head into, a 'state-room' on board the Britannia steam-
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Category: Non-Fiction  -  General  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

The name of Andrew Marvell ever sounds sweet, and always has, to use words of Charles Lamb's, a fine relish to the ear. As the author of poetry of exquisite quality, where for the last time may be heard the priceless note of the Elizabethan lyricist, whilst at the same moment utterance is being given to thoughts and feelings which reach far forward to Wordsworth and Shelley, Marvell can never be forgotten in his
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Category: Non-Fiction  -  General  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

How you, O Athenians, have been affected by my accusers, I cannot tell; but I know that they almost made me forget who I was--so persuasively did they speak; and yet they have hardly uttered a word of truth.
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Category: Non-Fiction  -  General  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

This book can lay no claim to unity of theme, since its subjects range from skyscrapers to symbols and soul states; but the author claims for it nevertheless a unity of point of view, and one (correct or not) so comprehensive as to include in one synthesis every subject dealt with.
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Category: Non-Fiction  -  General  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

The life of Francis Bacon is one which it is a pain to write or to read.
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Category: Non-Fiction  -  General  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

Description: I hvilken Forstand Overveielsens Gjenstand er en Opgave for Psychologiens Interesse, og i hvilken Forstand den efter at have været Psychologiens Opgave og Interesse peger hen netop paa Dogmatiken.
Category: Non-Fiction  -  General  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

Description: Best of TOC is a collection of essential posts from the last 12 months, selected from the TOC blog and a number of external sources. One of the mantras at Tools of Change is "fail forward fast," which is an alliterative way of encouraging experimentation. That's why we felt it appropriate to use Best of TOC as a testing ground for a "Web-to-book" process. As we hoped, experimentation led to lessons we wouldn't have learned otherwise. The material in Best of TOC is a small part of an ongoing dialog. We hope you'll join us on the TOC blog and the TOC Community as we collaboratively discuss the tools, developments, and organizations that are shaping the future of publishing.
Category: Tools of Change, Technology, Non-Fiction  -  General  -  NON-PUBLIC DOMAIN

It has been thought that all the works published under the names of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell were, in reality, the production of one person.
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Category: Non-Fiction  -  1. Biography 2. Brontë family  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

The fourth decade of the deceased century dawned on a procession of Oriental pilgrims, variously qualified or disqualified to hold the gorgeous East in fee, who, with bakshish in their purses, a theory in their brains, an unfilled diary-book in their portmanteaus, sought out the Holy Land, the Sinai peninsula, the valley of the Nile, sometimes even Armenia and the Monte Santo, and returned home to emit their illustrated and mapped octavos.
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Category: Non-Fiction  -  1. Biography 2. Kinglake, Alexander William, 1809-1891  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

Botanists tell us that all of the Cabbage family, which includes not only every variety of cabbage, Red, White, and Savoy, but all the cauliflower, broccoli, kale, and brussels sprouts, had their origin in the wild cabbage of Europe (Brassica oleracea), a plant with green, wavy leaves, much resembling charlock, found growing wild at Dover in England, and other parts of Europe. This plant, says McIntosh, is mostly confined to the sea-shore, and grows only on chalky or calcareous soils.
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Category: Non-Fiction  -  1. Cabbage 2. Cauliflower  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

The sovereignty and goodness of GOD, together with the faithfulness of his promises displayed, being a narrative of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, commended by her, to all that desires to know the Lord's doings to, and dealings with her.
Description: Published in 1682 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson was one of the first books published in the New World. It became a best seller in the New World and in England and went through fifteen editions by 1800. It is a narrative of her capture and imprisonment by Native Americans during King Philip's War.
Category: Non-Fiction  -  General  -  NON-PUBLIC DOMAIN

Before we enter upon a recital of the great expeditions of the eighteenth century, we shall do well to chronicle the immense progress made during that period by the sciences.
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Category: Non-Fiction  -  1. Explorers 2. Discoveries in geography 3. Voyages and travels  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

Back of the Virginia Clemenses is a dim procession of ancestors stretching back to Noah's time.
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Category: Non-Fiction  -  General  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN