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What Is Coming a Forecast of Things after the War

By: H. G. Wells

...metal supply, the great metal industries, much engineering, and most agri- culture, will be more or less completely under collective own- ership, and ... ...one of the remaining three was certainly not British, but, I should guess, Spanish-American. And it isn’t only the undergraduates who have gone. All t... ...he community not in countries but cantons, each with its own religion, its culture and self- government, and all at peace under a polyglot and imparti... ... will speak the closely related Italian. I do not see why this Latin black culture should not extend across equatorial Africa to meet the Indian influ... ...rench and the British have the strongest interest in the revival of Arabic culture. Let the German learn T urkish if it pleases him. Through all Afric... ...with our debt to the Hebrew and Greek. It is to the initiatives of Islamic culture, for example, that we owe our numerals, the bulk of modern mathemat...

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Nostromo a Tale of the Seaboard

By: Joseph Conrad

...d been kept busy negotiating with the members of Don Vincente’s Government—cultured men, men to whom the conditions of civilized busi- ness were not u... ...was indeed a fabulously rich mine. Its so-called agent, evidently a man of culture and abil- ity, seemed, without official position, to possess an ext... ...vellanos, their neighbour across the street, a statesman, a poet, a man of culture, who had rep- resented his country at several European Courts (and ... ...iew of success they would have been amazed at the state of her mind as the Spanish-American ladies had been amazed at the tireless activity of her bod... ...n the Palace of the Intendencia in Sulaco, and who piqued him- self on his culture and Europeanism generally in a rather French style because he had l... ...he frank- ness of a brazen and childish impudence character- istic of some Spanish-American Governments. But it must be noted that at about the time o... ... had brought into a five- year dictatorship Don Vincente Ribiera, a man of culture and of unblemished character, invested with a mandate of reform by ... ...cking effect of her scorn for the rigid conventions regulating the life of Spanish-American girlhood. And, in truth, she was no longer girlish. It was... ...pencil sketch by Mrs. Gould. I was well acquainted with that distinguished Spanish-American of the old school, a true Hidalgo, beloved by everybody wh...

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When the Sleeper Wakes

By: H. G. Wells

...tioner by the city specialist, had robbed the village of its last touch of culture. After telephone, kinemato- graph and phonograph had replaced newsp... ...the illiterate class, the class, that is, beyond the reach of phono- graph culture, in their common-place intercourse. Every- where this trouble of di...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...- ions, west by the Rocky Mountains, and south by the line along which the culture of corn and cotton meets, and which in- cludes part of Virginia, pa...

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Up from Slavery : An Autobiography

By: Booker Taliaferro Washington

...shall never forget. Miss Mackie was a member of one of the oldest and most cultured families of the North, and yet for two weeks she worked by my side... ...training, whether in the languages or mathematics, that gives strength and culture to the mind —but at the same time to give them the most thorough tr... ...ntage, for the reason that I found the white people possessing a degree of culture and education that is not surpassed by many localities. While the c... ...th of the world in the direction of giving mankind more intelligence, more culture, more skill, more liberty, and in the direction of extending more s... ...casion. I was asked now to speak to an audience composed of the wealth and culture of the white South, the representa- tives of my former masters. I k... ...e general rejoicing throughout the country which followed the close of the Spanish-American war, peace celebrations were arranged in several of the la... ...n you have gotten the full story or the heroic conduct of the Negro in the Spanish-American war, have heard it from the lips of Northern soldier and S... ... President for his recognition of the Negro in his appointments during the Spanish-American war. The President was sitting in a box at the right of th...

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

...e hundred thousand inhabitants, with all the accompaniments of wealth and culture, and now (in 1859) the most quiet and well governed city of its s...

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