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Excerpt: Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau.

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Excerpt: The First Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Thessalonians, the Fifty-second Book of the King James Version of the Bible.

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THE TWENTY-NINTH BOOK OF THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED & REVISED SET FORTH IN 1611 AND COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE KING JAMES VERSION...

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Excerpt: The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel -- 2. Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? -- 3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation -- 4. That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten....

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Excerpt: The Song of Solomon, the Twenty-second Book of the King James Version of the Bible.

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Excerpt: The Book of Nehemiah, the Sixteenth Book of the King James Version of the Bible.

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THE SEVENTH BOOK OF THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED & REVISED SET FORTH IN 1611 AND COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE KING JAMES VERSION...

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them? -- 2 And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand -- 3. And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him -- 4. And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men -- 5. And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites....

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Excerpt: The Divine Comedy, Volume Two, Purgatory [Purgatorio] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles Eliot Norton.

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Contents PURGATORY................................................................... 6 CANTO I. Invocation to the Muses.?Dawn of Easter on the shore of Purgatory.?The Four Stars.?Cato.?The cleansing of Dante from the stains of Hell. ............................................................................................................ 6 CANTO II. Sunrise.?The Poets on the shore.?Coming of a boat, guided by an angel, bearing souls to Purgatory.? Their landing.?Casella and his song.?Cato hurries the souls to the mountain. ................................. 10 CANTO III. Ante-Purgatory.?Souls of those who have died in contumacy of the Church.? Manfred. ............. 13 CANTO IV. Ante-Purgatory.?Ascent to a shelf of the mountain.?The negligent, who postponed repentance to the last hour.?Belacqua. ..................................................................................................................................... 16 CANTO V. Ante-Purgatory.?Spirits who had delayed repentance, and met with death by violence, but died repentant.?Jacopo del Cassero.?Buonconte da Montefeltro?Via de? Tolomei. ................................

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Excerpt: The Revelation of St. John the Divine, the sixty-sixth book of the King James Version of the Bible.

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Excerpt: O?Flaherty V.C. Recruiting Pamphlet by George Bernard Shaw.

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Introduction: ?For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

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Excerpt: The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians, the Fifty-third Book of the King James Version of the Bible.

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Excerpt: The Book of Psalms, the Nineteenth Book of the King James Bible.

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Excerpt: Press Cuttings by George Bernard Shaw.

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. In the eastern side of the Dead Sea rose the citadel of Machaerus. It was built upon a conical peak of basalt, and was surrounded by four deep valleys, one on each side, another in front, and the fourth in the rear. At the base of the citadel, crowding against one another, a group of houses stood within the circle of a wall, whose outlines undulated with the unevenness of the soil. A zigzag road, cutting through the rocks, joined the city to the fortress, the walls of which were about one hundred and twenty cubits high, having numerous angles and ornamental towers that stood out like jewels in this crown of stone overhanging an abyss....

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THE SIXTY-THIRD BOOK OF THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED & REVISED SET FORTH IN 1611 AND COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE KING JAMES VERSION ...

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Excerpt: The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they tht have known the truth -- 2. For the truth?s sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever -- 3. Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love -- 4. I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father -- 5. And now I beseech thee, lady, not as through I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another -- 6. And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it....

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Excerpt: Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louis Maude.

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Excerpt: War and Peace: Two by Leo Tolstoy.

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Introduction: In 1775, when Goethe was twenty-six, and before he went to Weimar, he began to write ?Egmont? After working on it at intervals for twelve years, he finished it at Rome in 1787. The scene of the drama is laid in the Low Countries at the beginning of the revolt against Spain. In the fifteenth century Philip of Burgundy had usurped dominion over several of the provinces of the Netherlands, and through him they had passed into the power of his descendant, the Emperor Charles V. This powerful ruler abolished the constitutional rights of the provinces, and introduced the Inquisition in order to stamp out Protestantism....

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Excerpt: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Titus, the Fifty-sixth Book of the King James Version of the Bible.

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake -- 2. And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither....