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In The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella

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Michelangelo Buonarroti

Michael Angelo and Campanella represent widely sundered, though almost contemporaneous, moments in the evolution of the Italian genius. Mich…

Chapter III - Our Queen of Hearts

In The Queen of Hearts

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Wilkie Collins

The elderly Brothers Owen, Morgan and Griffith live a quiet, retired life in the countryside, which is turned upside-down by Griffith's ward…

Question 2 - OF THOSE THINGS IN WHICH MAN'S HAPPINESS CONSISTS (In Eight Articl…

In Summa Theologica - 06 Pars Prima Secundae, On the Last End, On Human Acts

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Saint Thomas Aquinas

The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written between 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas, eve…

Third Day, Tale XXIII

In The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Volume 3

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Marguerite of Navarre and Marguerite Of Navarre

THE HEPTAMERON (here Volume 3 of 5), first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, a…

Chapter XI, Part 1

In The Dream of the Red Chamber Book I

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Xueqin Cao

The Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of the Stone) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, and considered the g…

Elbert Hubbard II

In Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women

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Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings m…

Home, 10th April, 1881

In The Stark Munro Letters

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"The letters of my friend Mr. Stark Munro appear to me to form so connected a whole, and to give so plain an account of some of the tro…

Question 116 - ON FATE (In Four Articles)

In Summa Theologica - 05 Pars Prima, On the Divine Government

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Saint Thomas Aquinas

The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–127…

17 - Book 17, Chapters 40-47:Methods of irrigation; remarkable facts connected …

In The Natural History Volume 4

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Pliny the Elder

Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …

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