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William Wells Brown - My Southern Home or, The South and Its People
William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave; his father was a white man who never acknowledged his paternity. Brown escaped slavery at about the age of 20. For...
7 hours 17 minutes
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492
Matthew Henry - Concise Commentary on the Bible - Book of Matthew
Spiritual and practical lessons are extracted from every verse of the Book of Matthew, as well as detailed explanation of the text. The Book of Matthew is part of the New Testament in the Holy Bible and is one of the...
4 hours 7 minutes
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482
Charles H. Spurgeon - According to Promise, or The Lord’s Method of Dealing with His Chosen People
Charles Haddon (C.H.) Spurgeon (19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher and is still known today as the «Prince of Preachers». He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist...
4 hours 31 minutes
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446
Mother Mary Loyola - Jesus of Nazareth: The Story of His Life Simply Told
The study of Our Lord’s life is something very precious to all souls devoted to living a Christian life, according to the Gospels. By learning about Our Lord, Jesus Christ, and His life on earth, we learn how to love...
8 hours 58 minutes
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Henry Morgenthau - Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important primary historical resource for the study of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire...
12 hours 38 minutes
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Thomas Babington Macaulay - History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 4, Chapter 18)
This is volume 4 chapter 18 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resume of the history of England up until the Stuart kings and then starts to...
4 hours 20 minutes
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Thomas Heyden - Memoir on the Life and Character of the Rev. Prince Demetrius A. de Gallitzin
Prince Demetrius of Gallitzin (1770-1840), or «Father Smith,» as he was known on the eighteenth century American frontier, was one of the glories of early Catholicism in America. Though a prince by birth, Demetrius...
2 hours 2 minutes
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William Cooper Howells - Recollections of Life in Ohio, from 1813-1840
Recollections of Life in Ohio is the autobiography of William Cooper Howells (1807-1894), father of the American novelist William Dean Howells. The Howells were Welsh woolen mill owners. William Cooper's father...
6 hours 34 minutes
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Unknown - Life and Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa
Saint Catherine of Genoa (Caterina Fieschi Adorno, born Genoa 1447 – 15 September 1510) is an Italian Roman Catholic saint and mystic, admired for her work among the sick and the poor. She was a member of the noble...
4 hours 2 minutes
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Eaton G. Osman - Starved Rock: A Historical Sketch
This book is an early history of the Starved Rock Area in Northern Illinois. In the pre-Columbian era, the Starved Rock area was home to Native Americans, particularly the Kaskaskia who lived in the Grand Village of...
2 hours 25 minutes
