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Imbert de Saint-Amand - Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty
Paris in 1792 is no longer what it was in 1789. In 1789, the old French society was still brilliant. The past endured beside the present. Neither names nor escutcheons, neither liveries nor places at court, had...
11 hours 9 minutes
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853
John Stuart Mill - Auguste Comte and Positivism
Part 1 lays out the framework for Positivism as originated in France by Auguste Comte in his Cours de Philosophie Positive. Mill examines the tenets of Comte's movement and alerts us to defects. Part 2 concerns all...
5 hours 47 minutes
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958
Charles William Chadwick Oman - Byzantine Empire
Fifty years ago the word “Byzantine” was used as a synonym for all that was corrupt and decadent, and the tale of the East-Roman Empire was dismissed by modern historians as depressing and monotonous. The great Gibbon...
9 hours 18 minutes
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Washington Irving - Alhambra: A Series Of Tales And Sketches Of The Moors And Spaniards
This is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories by Washington Irving. Irving lived at the Alhambra Palace while writing some of the material for his book. In 1828, Washington Irving traveled from Madrid,...
10 hours 57 minutes
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John D. Rockefeller - Random Reminiscences of Men and Events
A good book by the oil revolutionist of the 20th century. As they say «Men should listen to experience» and this book is all about the experience of the second highest taxpayer of the US during the 20's. Though it...
3 hours 46 minutes
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Elizabeth Louisa Gebhard - Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor
John Jacob Astor was pre-eminently the opener of new paths, a breaker of trails. From his first tramp alone through the Black Forest of Baden, at sixteen, his life never lost this typical touch. In America, both...
7 hours 30 minutes
