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...efective. Dictated by science and technology, the search for immortality near destroyed the human race. What remains of mankind, struggles to survive in barbaric clans suppressed by Masters and false doctrine. Known as Project Noah, an underground community seeks to restore civilization by rehabilitating those snatched from the surface. An enemy from the past is out to re-...

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...Excerpt: PART I; CHAPTER I -- IN the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses--and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy spinning-wheels of polished oak --there might be seen in districts far away among the...

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...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever rivaled this astonishing metropolis in the gran...

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...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is a...

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...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...

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...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , th... ... have disregarded for eight years, and could disre gard for eighty more. LONDON, JUNE 22, 1850. American Notes – Dickens 3 PREFACE TO THE “CHARLES... ...urtesy prevails. Most of our Departments are suscep tible of considerable improvement in this respect, but the Custom—house above all others would do... ... city looked exactly like a scene in a pantomime. It rarely happens in the business streets that a trades man, if I may venture to call anybody a tra... ...shes of no old superstitions; never interpose between the people and their improvement; exclude no man be cause of his religious opinions; above all,... ...and dislike. To cancel old wills, and invent new ones, is at last the sole business of such a testator’s ex istence; and relations and friends (some ... ...on all the passengers they inveigle, are constantly travelling about those districts where poverty and discontent are rife, and tempting the credu lo... ...resumption that the character of the parties concerned was formed in slave districts, and brutalised by slave customs. ‘HORRIBLE TRAGEDY. ‘By a slip f...

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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...

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