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Gettysburg Address
Gettysburg Address (1863), Nicolay draft
Gettysburg Address (1863), Hay draft
Gettysburg Address (1864), Everett copy
Gettysburg Address (1864), Bancroft copy
Gettysburg Address (1864), Bliss copy
Gettysburg Address (1922), inscribed on the southern interior wall at the Lincoln Memorial
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Declaration by United Nations
A Joint Declaration by the United States, the United Kingdom, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nic... |
Declaration of Independence (Israel)
The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books.
Af... |
September 14, 2001 speech
We are here in the middle hour of our grief. So many have suffered so great a loss,
and today we express our nation's sorrow. We come before God to pray for the
missing and the dead, and for those who loved them.
On Tuesday, our country was attacked with deliberate and massive cruelty. We h... |
Ryan White's Testimony before the President's Commission on AIDS
"Thank You, Commissioners:
My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.
When I was three days old, the doctors told my parents I was a severe hemophiliac, meaning my blood does not clot. Lucky for me, there was a p... |
Atlantic Charter
Joint Statement by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, August 14, 1941:
The following statement signed by the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Great Britain is released for the information of the Press:
The President of the United States and the Prime Minister,... |
Kubla Khan
Kubla Khan, in Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision; The Pains of Sleep (1816)
Kubla Khan, in The Hundred Best Poems (lyrical) in the English language - second series (1904) |
Aesthetic Papers/Resistance to Civil Government
Essays
Political philosophy
Political tracts
United States
Lectures
fr:La Désobéissance civile
zh:公民不服从 (梭罗) |
Essays: First Series/Self-Reliance
"Ne te quaesiveris extra."
"Man is his own star; and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing to him falls early or too late.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still."
Epilogu... |
Unto This Last (Ruskin)
Friend, I do thee no wrong.
Didst not thou agree with me for a penny ?
Take that thine is, and go thy way.
I will give unto this last even as unto thee.
If ye think good, give me my price;
And if not, forbear.
So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
Preface
The four following es... |
A Letter to a Hindu
Introduction by M. K. Gandhi
"All that exists is One. People only call this One by different names."
The Vedas
"God is love, and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him."
I John 4.16
"God is one whole; we are the parts."
Exposition of the Teachings of the Vedas by V... |
E.S. Dargan on Secession
I wish, Mr. President, to express the feelings with which I vote for the secession of Alabama from the Government of the United States; and to state, in a few words, the reasons that impel me to this act.
I feel impelled, Mr. President, to vote for this Ordinance by an overruling necessity. Y... |
Sermons (Meister Eckhart)
Preface
Meister Eckhart, who has been called the “Father of German thought”, was a Dominican monk, and one of the most profound thinkers of the Middle Ages. He was born about 1260 A.D. in Thuringia, and purportedly died at Cologne 1327 A.D. although his burial site has never been discovered... |
President Wilson's War Address
President Wilson's war address calling for action against Germany, delivered by him to the Congress in special session, April 2, 1917
"Gentlemen of the Congress: I have called the congress into extraordinary session because there are serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made, ... |
German Instrument of Surrender (7 May 1945)
Germany
World War II
Treaties
pl:Wstępny protokół kapitulacji Trzeciej Rzeszy z 7 maja 1945
ru:Акт о безоговорочной капитуляции Германии (7 мая) |
The Tempest (unsourced)
DRAMATIS PERSONAE (Persons Represented):
ALONSO, King of Naples
SEBASTIAN, his Brother
PROSPERO, the right Duke of Milan
ANTONIO, his Brother, the usurping Duke of Milan
FERDINAND, Son to the King of Naples
GONZALO, an honest old counselor
ADRIAN, Lord
FRANCISCO, Lord
CALIBAN, a savage and def... |
Shakespeare - First Folio facsimile (1910)/The Tragedy of King Lear
Plays
Tragedy
fr:Le Roi Lear
pl:Król Lir
ru:Песня шута (Кто в службе знает лишь расчёт — Шекспир/Кузмин) |
The Phoenix and the Turtle
Let the bird of loudest lay,
On the sole Arabian tree,
Herald sad and trumpet be,
To whose sound chaste wings obey.
But thou, shrieking harbinger,
Foul pre-currer of the fiend,
Augur of the fever's end,
To this troop come thou not near.
From this session interdict
Every fowl of tyrant wing... |
Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Oxford 1911)/Volume 4/The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
KING RICHARD THE SECOND
JOHN OF GAUNT, Duke of Lancaster - uncle to the King
EDMUND LANGLEY, Duke of York - uncle to the King
HENRY, surnamed BOLINGBROKE, Duke of Hereford, son of
John of Gaunt, afterwards King Henry IV... |
Hind Swaraj (1938 edition)
CHAPTER 1: THE CONGRESS AND ITS OFFICIALS
Reader: Just at present there is a Home Rule wave passing over
India. All our countrymen appear to be pining for National
Independence. A similar spirit pervades them even in South Africa.
Indians seem to be eager to acquire rights. Will you expl... |
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (unsourced)
DRAMATIS PERSONAE (Persons Represented):
ANTIOCHUS, king of Antioch.
PERICLES, prince of Tyre.
HELICANUS, ESCANES, two lords of Tyre.
SIMONIDES, kIng of Pentapolis.
CLEON, governor of Tarsus.
LYSIMACHUS, governor of Mytilene.
CERIMON, a lord of Ephesus.
THALIARD, a lord of Antioc... |
Constitution of Japan
I rejoice that the foundation for the construction of a new Japan has been laid according to the will of the Japanese people, and hereby sanction and promulgate the amendments of the Imperial Japanese Constitution effected following the consultation with the Privy Council and the decision of the ... |
The Red-Headed League
"The Red-Headed League", as originally published in The Strand Magazine (1891)
"The Red-Headed League", as collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) |
The Strand Magazine/Volume 2/Issue 9/A Case of Identity
Fiction
Modern works
Short stories
Mystery short stories
fi:Kadonnut sulhanen
fr:Nouvelles Aventures de Sherlock Holmes/Un cas d’identité |
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Signed at Moscow May 26, 1972
Ratification advised by U.S. Senate August 3, 1972
Ratified by U.S. President September 30, 1972
Proclaimed by U.S. President October 3, 1972
Instruments of ratification exchanged October 3, 1972
Entered into force October 3, 1972
The United States of A... |
Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
I see no good in having several lords;
Let one alone be master, let one alone be king.
These words Homer puts in the mouth of Ulysses, as he addresses the people. If he had said nothing further than "I see no good in having several lords," it would have been well spoken. For the sake ... |
Steps Toward Inner Peace
IN MY EARLY LIFE I made two very important discoveries. In the first place I discovered that making money was easy. And in the second place I discovered that making money and spending it foolishly was completely meaningless. I knew that this was not what I was here for, but at that time (this ... |
Kevin and the validity of marriage
Case document
1. These proceedings are now cited as Re Kevin : Validity of Marriage of Transsexual (2001) FamCA 1074 and (2001) FLC 93-087 ("Re Kevin"). Justice Chisholm's original decision, granting a Declaration of Validity of Marriage in respect of the marriage, in which the hus... |
Primary sources concerning Wyatt Earp
Portal:Miscellaneous material
Wichita Weekly Beacon (12 May, 1875)
On Tuesday evening of last week, policeman Wyatt Earp, in his rounds ran across a chap whose general appearance and get up answered to a description given of one W. W. Compton, who was said to have stolen two hor... |
Constitution of India
The Constitution of India (Original Calligraphed and Illuminated Version) (1949)
Constitution of India (2020)
Government of India
India |
The Adventures of Gerard
HOPE that some readers may possibly be interested in these little tales of the Napoleonic soldiers to the extent of following them up to the springs from which they flow. The age was rich in military material, some of it the most human and the most picturesque that I have ever read. Setting ... |
The Adventures of Gerard/The Last Adventure of the Brigadier
I will tell you no more stories, my dear friends. It is said that man is like the hare, which runs in a circle and comes back to die at the point from which it started. Gascony has been calling to me of late. I see the blue Garonne winding among the vineyard... |
The Adventures of Gerard/How the Brigadier Bore Himself at Waterloo
Of all the great battles in which I had the honour of drawing my sword for the Emperor and for France there was not one which was lost. At Waterloo, although, in a sense, I was present, I was unable to fight, and the enemy was victorious. It is not fo... |
The Adventures of Gerard/How the Brigadier Rode to Minsk
I would have a stronger wine to-night, my friends, a wine of Burgundy rather than of Bordeaux. It is that my heart, my old soldier heart, is heavy within me. It is a strange thing, this age which creeps upon one. One does not know, one does not understand; the s... |
The Adventures of Gerard/How the Brigadier Triumphed in England
I have told you, my friends, how I triumphed over the English at the fox-hunt when I pursued the animal so fiercely that even the herd of trained dogs was unable to keep up, and alone with my own hand I put him to the sword. Perhaps I have said too much o... |
The Adventures of Gerard/How the Brigadier Saved the Army
I have told you, my friends, how we held the English shut up for six months, from October, 1810, to March, 1811, within their lines of Torres Vedras. It was during this time that I hunted the fox in their company, and showed them that amidst all their sportsme... |
The Adventures of Gerard/How the Brigadier Slew the Fox
In all the great hosts of France there was only one officer toward whom the English of Wellington's Army retained a deep, steady, and unchangeable hatred. There were plunderers among the French, and men of violence, gamblers, duellists, and roues. All these cou... |
The Adventures of Gerard/How the Brigadier Captured Saragossa
Have I ever told you, my friends, the circumstances connected with my joining the Hussars of Conflans at the time of the siege of Saragossa and the very remarkable exploit which I performed in connection with the taking of that city? No? Then you have ind... |
The Adventures of Gerard/How Brigadier Gerard Lost His Ear
It was the old Brigadier who was talking in the café.
I have seen a great many cities, my friends. I would not dare to tell you how many I have entered as a conqueror with eight hundred of my little fighting devils clanking and jingling behind me. The caval... |
The Mystery of Cloomber
Contents
Chapter 1: The Hegira of the Wests from Edinburgh
Chapter 2: Of the Strange Manner in Which a Tenant Came to Cloomber
Chapter 3: Of Our Further Acquaintance with Major-General J. B. Heatherstone
Chapter 4: Of a Young Man with a Grey Head
Chapter 5: How Four of Us Came to be Under the S... |
Moon Treaty
1979 United Nations Moon Treaty
Preamble
THE STATES PARTIES TO THIS CONVENTION,
NOTING the achievements of States in the exploration and use of the moon and other celestial bodies,
RECOGNIZING that the moon, as a natural satellite of the earth, has an important role to play in the exploration of ou... |
Titulus Regius
To the High and Myghty Prince Richard Duc of Gloucester.
Please it youre Noble Grace to understande the Consideracon, Election and
Peticion underwritten, of use the Lords Spirituelx and Temporelx, and Commons of
this Reame of Englond, and thereunto agreably to geve your assent, to the common
and pub... |
Magna Carta
"Magna Carta" translated by G. R. C. Davis (1963).
"Magna Carta. 1215" translated by William Sharp McKechnie (1914) in Albert Beebe White and Wallace Notestein (1915), Source Problems in English History. Harper: New York.
"Magna Carta" translated by Ernest Flagg Henderson (1892).
England
United Kingdom ... |
Irish duelling code
outlawing the practice of
THE TWENTY-SIX COMMANDMENTS
I. The first offence requires the first apology, though the retort may have been more offensive than the insult. Example: A tells B he is impertinent, etc. B retorts that he lies; yet A must make the first apology, because he gave the first o... |
California Proposition 187 (1994)
California
1994 - California
This initiative measure is submitted to the people in accordance with the provisions of Article II, Section 8 of the Constitution.
This initiative measure adds sections to various codes; therefore, new provisions proposed to be added are printed in {+ i... |
The Crisis of Confidence
Good evening.—This is a special night for me. Exactly 3 years ago, on July 15, 1976, I accepted the nomination of my party to run for President of the United States.
I promised you a President who is not isolated from the people, who feels your pain, and who shares your dreams and who draws h... |
Washington's Farewell Address
George Washington's Farewell Address
FRIENDS AND FELLOW-CITIZENS:
The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not far distant, and the time actually arrived, when your thoughts must be employed designating the person, w... |
The Star-Spangled Banner
O! say can you see by the dawn's early light
Francis Scott Key
Fred Waring
Defence of Fort M'Henry broadside.jpg
Star-spangled banner.ogg
"Defence of Fort McHenry", broadside, 1814 (lyrics only).
"The Star-Spangled Banner" in The Riverside song book (1893)
"The Star Spangled Banner" in Sugge... |
Pledge of Allegiance
The Pledge of Allegiance, a patriotic oath of the United States of America. See w:Pledge of Allegiance for background.
Original version, written by Francis Bellamy in 1892:
Version used endorsed by President Benjamin Harrison and used by children on Columbus Day, 1892 (insertion of word “to”):
... |
Free as in Freedom (2002)
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
This version from FAIFzilla 1.0 (http://www.faifzilla.org/), accessed January 2004. This book is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It was originally published online and in print by O'Reilly and Associates in... |
Free as in Freedom (2002)/Preface
The work of Richard M. Stallman literally speaks for itself. From the documented source code to the published papers to the recorded speeches, few people have expressed as much willingness to lay their thoughts and their work on the line.
Such openness—if one can pardon a momentary u... |
Free as in Freedom (2002)/Chapter 1
I fear the Greeks. Even when they bring gifts.
---Virgil
The Aeneid
The new printer was jammed, again.
Richard M. Stallman, a staff software programmer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AI Lab), discovered the malfunction the hard w... |
Free as in Freedom (2002)/Chapter 2
The New York University computer-science department sits inside Warren Weaver Hall, a fortress-like building located two blocks east of Washington Square Park. Industrial-strength air-conditioning vents create a surrounding moat of hot air, discouraging loiterers and solicitors alik... |
Free as in Freedom (2002)/Chapter 3
Richard Stallman's mother, Alice Lippman, still remembers the moment she realized her son had a special gift.
"I think it was when he was eight," Lippman recalls.
The year was 1961, and Lippman, a recently divorced single mother, was whiling away a weekend afternoon within the fam... |
Free as in Freedom (2002)/Chapter 4
Although their relationship was fraught with tension, Richard Stallman would inherit one noteworthy trait from his mother: a passion for progressive politics.
It was an inherited trait that would take several decades to emerge, however. For the first few years of his life, Stallman... |
Free as in Freedom (2002)/Chapter 5
Ask anyone who's spent more than a minute in Richard Stallman's presence, and you'll get the same recollection: forget the long hair. Forget the quirky demeanor. The first thing you notice is the gaze. One look into Stallman's green eyes, and you know you're in the presence of a tru... |
Free as in Freedom (2002)/Chapter 6
The AI Lab of the 1970s was by all accounts a special place. Cutting-edge projects and top-flight researchers gave it an esteemed position in the world of computer science. The internal hacker culture and its anarchic policies lent a rebellious mystique as well. Only later, when man... |
Free as in Freedom (2002)/Chapter 7
On September 27, 1983, computer programmers logging on to the Usenet newsgroup net.unix-wizards encountered an unusual message. Posted in the small hours of the morning, 12:30 a.m. to be exact, and signed by rms@mit-oz, the message's subject line was terse but attention-grabbing. "N... |
Free as in Freedom (2002)/Chapter 8
The Maui High Performance Computing Center is located in a single-story building in the dusty red hills just above the town of Kihei. Framed by million-dollar views and the multimillion dollar real estate of the Silversword Golf Course, the center seems like the ultimate scientific ... |
Free as in Freedom (2002)/Chapter 9
By the spring of 1985, Richard Stallman had settled on the GNU Project's first milestone—a Lisp-based free software version of Emacs. To meet this goal, however, he faced two challenges. First, he had to rebuild Emacs in a way that made it platform independent. Second, he had to reb... |
Free as in Freedom (2002)/Chapter 10
By 1993, the free software movement was at a crossroads. To the optimistically inclined, all signs pointed toward success for the hacker culture. Wired magazine, a funky, new publication offering stories on data encryption, Usenet, and software freedom, was flying off magazine rack... |
Free as in Freedom (2002)/Chapter 11
In November, 1995, Peter Salus, a member of the Free Software Foundation and author of the 1994 book, A Quarter Century of Unix, issued a call for papers to members of the GNU Project's "system-discuss" mailing list. Salus, the conference's scheduled chairman, wanted to tip off fel... |
Free as in Freedom (2002)/Chapter 12
Richard Stallman stares, unblinking, through the windshield of a rental car, waiting for the light to change as we make our way through downtown Kihei.
The two of us are headed to the nearby town of Pa'ia, where we are scheduled to meet up with some software programmers and their ... |
Free as in Freedom (2002)/Chapter 13
For Richard Stallman, time may not heal all wounds, but it does provide a convenient ally.
Four years after "The Cathedral and the Bazaar," Stallman still chafes over the Raymond critique. He also grumbles over Linus Torvalds' elevation to the role of world's most famous hacker. H... |
Free as in Freedom (2002)/Epilogue
Writing the biography of a living person is a bit like producing a play. The drama in front of the curtain often pales in comparison to the drama backstage.
In The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Alex Haley gives readers a rare glimpse of that backstage drama. Stepping out of the ghostw... |
Free as in Freedom (2002)/Appendix A
For the most part, I have chosen to use the term GNU/Linux in reference to the free software operating system and Linux when referring specifically to the kernel that drives the operating system. The most notable exception to this rule comes in Chapter 9. In the final part of that ... |
Free as in Freedom (2002)/Appendix B
To understand the full meaning of the word "hacker," it helps to examine the word's etymology over the years.
The New Hacker Dictionary, an online compendium of software-programmer jargon, officially lists nine different connotations of the word "hack" and a similar number for "ha... |
On Dreams
Half our dayes wee passe in the shadowe of the earth, and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives. A good part of our sleepes is peeced out with visions, and phantasticall objects wherin wee are confessedly deceaved. The day supplyeth us with truths, the night with fictions and falsehoods, wh... |
To a friend intending a difficult work
Think and think again on the work you intend; consider how strong your shoulders be; You must be a good swimmer, a Delian even, yet in this stormy sea swim not without a buoy; the books you have to disclose are no common ones, nay they are living things.
You know how wanton is t... |
To an illustrious friend on his wearisome Chatterer
Source British Museum MS 1827
Latin translation from the Collected Works of Sir Thomas Browne, vol. 4 ed. Simon Wilkins Fletcher and Sons 1835-6 Norwich
A ventriloquist stretches me to the fifth hole and tortures me on the cruellest rack; yours is a parasite, a b... |
From a reading of Athenaeus
Would that a little part survived of the writers from whom Athenaeus quotes, scattered here and there, notable, startling or amusing sayings, and whets the appetite of his eager reader. Who that reads the Parodist of Matro does not blame time for being no respecter of persons? Who will no... |
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758
2758 (XXVI). Restoration of the lawful rights of the People's Republic of China in the United Nations
The General Assembly,
Recalling the principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Considering the restoration of the lawful rights of the People's Republic of Chin... |
Joseph Ritner's Inaugural Address
Fellow-Citizens:
The people the State have entrusted to me, for the ensuing three years, the performance of the duties of the Executive Department of the Government. I accept the trust, with the profoundest gratitude for the honor conferred, and the most unfeigned diffidence of my ab... |
Notes on Cookery of the ancients
Source British Museum Sloane MS no.1827 Latin original
Collected Works of Sir Thomas Browne ed. Simon Wilkin pub. Fletcher and Son Norwich 1835-36
What sauce but hunger that herbivorous age used that went before the flood, would that the Columns of Setho told! Those who take away vine... |
On Bubbles
That the last circumference of the universe is butt the bubble of the chaos & pellicle arising from the grosser foundation of the first matter, containing all the higher & diaphanous bodies under it, is noe affirmation of myne;
Butt that bubbles on watery & fluid bodies are butt the thinne parts of ayre, o... |
Bible (King James)
Christianity
Bible
Anglicanism
ar:الكتاب المقدس
eo:Malnova Testamento (Zamenhof)
fa:کتاب مقدس (گروسی)
pt:Tradução Brasileira da Bíblia#Antigo Testamento |
Bible (King James)/Genesis
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Chapter 3
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the God had made. And he said unto the woman, † Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
And the woman said unto... |
The Legend of Jubal (Lovell, 1881)
When Cain was driven from Jehovah's land
He wandered eastward, seeking some far strand
Ruled by kind gods who asked no offerings
Save pure field-fruits, as aromatic things,
To feed the subtler sense of frames divine
That lived on fragrance for their food and wine:
Wild joyous go... |
Commonplace notebooks
Part 1
1. Several hints which may be serviceable unto you and not ungrateful to others I present to you in this paper. They are not trite or vulgar, and very few of them anywhere to be met with. I set them not down in order, but as memory, fancy or occasional observation produced them, whereof ... |
Texas Declaration of Independence
The Unanimous
Declaration of Independence
made by the
Delegates of the People of Texas
in General Convention
at the town of Washington
on the 2nd day of March 1836.
When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers ... |
Instrument of Government (1974)
Chapter 1. Basic principles of the form of government
Art. 1. All public power in Sweden proceeds from the people.
Swedish democracy is founded on the free formation of opinion and on universal and equal suffrage. It shall be realised through a representative and parliamentary polit... |
East-Hampton Pattent
Thomas Dongan, Captain Generall, Governor-in-Chiefe and Vice-Admiral of the Province of New Yorke and dependencyes, under his Majesty James Ye Second, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, defender of the faith, &c. To all to whom this shall come, sendeth greeting: -... |
The Story of an Hour
Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.
It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing. Her husband's friend Richards was... |
Harpers Weekly:General Robert Edward Lee
General Robert Lee, Commander-in-Chief of the Rebel Armies, whose portrait we give on this page, is unquestionably a consummate Master of the art of war. That superiority, indeed, was acquired at the expense and under the patronage of the Government he is now endeavoring to de... |
Northwest Ordinance
July 13, 1787
An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio.
Be it ordained by the United States in Congress assembled, That the said territory, for the purposes of temporary government, be one district, subject, however, to be divided into tw... |
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
Preamble
The States Parties to the present Convention
Considering the fundamental role of treaties in the history of international relations,
Recognizing the ever-increasing importance of treaties as a source of international law and as a means of developing peaceful co-ope... |
Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement
Legislative Proposals Relating to the War in Southeast Asia Thursday, April 22, 1971 United States Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C.
The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 11:05 a.m., in Room 4221, New Senate Office Building, Senator J. W. Fulbrigh... |
On Lucy, Countess of Bedford
This morning timely wrapt with holy fire,
I thought to form unto my zealous Muse,
What kind of creature I could most desire
To know, serve, and love, as Poets use.
I meant to make her fair, and free, and wise,
Of greatest blood, and yet more good than great;
I meant the day-star should not... |
2003 Wikipedia Press Release
Modern works
Wikipedia press releases
Wikipedia ( http://www.wikipedia.org ), a community-built multilingual encyclopedia, is announcing that the English edition of the project has reached a milestone of 100,000 articles in development. In addition, the project itself has celebrated its t... |
Aphorisms
Section 1
1. LIFE is short, and Art long; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
2. In disorders of the bowels and vomitings, occurring sp... |
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
Annex 1 of Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992)
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development,
Having met at Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 Jun... |
Account of a thunderstorm
After 7 aclock in the evening there was almost a continued thunder untill 8, wherin the Tonitru & Fulgur, the noyse & lightening were so terrible that they putt the whole citty into an Amazement,& most unto their prayers. The clowdes went lowe & the cracks seemed neere over our heads during t... |
Upon the darke thick miste
Source British Museum Sloane MS 1844
Though it be not strange to see frequent mistes, Clowdes and raynes in England, as many ancient describers of this country have noted, yet I could not but take notice of a very great mists which happened upon the 27 of the last November (1674) and from t... |
Medical Observations
Source Brit. Mus Sloane MS No. 1848
On anatomy
The subjects for anatomie in most parts of Europe are of bodies of persons hanged, wherein there seemeth to bee no considerable impediment in the exploration of parts, butt in the parts about the throat.
To avoyd this inconvenience:
some commend body... |
The Internationale (Pottier, English)
1. Arise! ye workers [starvelings], from your slumbers;
Arise! ye prisoners [criminals] of want.
For reason in revolt now thunders
And ends at last the age of "can't".
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses, arise! arise!
We’ll change henceforth [forthwith] the old tr... |
George W. Bush's Fourth State of the Union Address
Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, Members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens:
America this evening is a Nation called to great responsibilities. And we are rising to meet them.
As we gather tonight, hundreds of thousands of American serviceme... |
MER press briefing, January 28, 2004
January 28, 2004
Natalie: Opportunity completed first part of standup. Spirit continues to improve.
Rick Welch: Really another great day for Opportunity at Meridiani. We did complete the first two parts of our four part standup. Graphic? Images we acquired during standup process... |
On Arthur Dee
Source Bibl. Bodleian MS No. 1788
edited with modernized spelling
Dr Browne to Mr Elias Ashmole 25 January 1658
Most worthy Sir,
I return you humble thanks for your courteous letter and the good news of the hopeful recovery of Mr Dugdale, unto whom I shall be ready in any fart... |
Manifesto of the Communist Party
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