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The story projects Twain’s lifelong struggles with his conscience. Here the conscience admits to being the “most pitiless enemy” of its host, whom it is supposed to “improve” but only tyrannizes with gusto while refusing to praise the host for anything.
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Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
Автор: Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
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The story begins by describing the ancestors of Sir Arthur Jermyn, a British nobleman. His great-great-great-grandfather, Sir Wade Jermyn, had been an early explorer of the Congo region, whose books on a mysterious white civilization there had been ridiculed. He had been confined to an asylum in 1765. Lovecraft describes how the Jermyn family has a peculiar physical appearance that began to appear in the children of Wade Jermyn and his mysterious and reclusive wife, who Wade claimed was Portuguese.
A discourse concerning the being and attributes of God
Автор: Samuel Clarke
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Полный вариант заголовка: «A discourse concerning the being and attributes of God, the obligations of natural religion, and the truth and certainty of the christian revelation : in answer to Mr. Hobbs, Spinoza, the author of the Oracles of reason, and other deniers of natural and revealed religion : being 16 sermons, preach'd in the Cathedral-Church of St. Paul, in the years 1704, and 1705, at the lecture founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle : in which is inserted a discourse concerning the connexion of the Prophecies in the Old Testament, and the application of them to Christ : there is alfo, an answer to a 7th letter, concerning, the argument a priori, in proof of the being of God / by Samuel Clarke».
Interesting facts: relating to the fall and death of Joachim Murat, King of Naples
Автор: Francis Maceroni
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Полный вариант заголовка: «Interesting facts relating to the fall and death of Joachim Murat, king of Naples; the capitulation of Paris in 1815; and the second restoration of the Bourbons : Original letters from king Joachim to the author, with some account of the author, and of his persecution by the French government / By Francis Macirone».
Inquiry concerning the site of ancient Palibothra. P. 1
Автор: William Francklin
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Полный вариант заголовка: «Inquiry concerning the site of ancient Palibothra : conjectured to lie with in the limits of the modern district of Bhaugulpoor according to researches made on the spot in 1811 and 1812 / by William Francklin».
Inquiry concerning the site of ancient Palibothra. P. 2
Автор: William Francklin
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Полный вариант заголовка: «Inquiry concerning the site of ancient Palibothra : Part 2 : with a map, views, and sections : 1814-15 / by William Francklin».
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