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Excerpt: Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States.

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Excerpt: What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells.

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...Excerpt: Preface To The American Edition. On the death of Fleeming Jenkin, his family and friends determined to publish a selection of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two cons...

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Excerpt: The French Revolution. A History.

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