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The Devil's Dictionary: Fly-speck

by Ambrose Bierce FLOPFOLLYFLY-SPECK -n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the systems of punctuation in use by the various literary nations depended originally…

HIV/AIDS: Lessons Learned

Lessons LearnedHIV/AIDSIntroductionThe Birth of a DiseaseFrom Epidemic to PandemicWhere Did HIV Come From?Diagnosis & Anti-HIV TherapyVaccination & Natural ResistanceLessons Learned Perhaps…

Impartial Examiner V

Impartial Examiner V18 June 1788by When a change, so momentous in it's nature, as that of new modelling a plan of government, becomes the object of any people's meditation, every citizen,…

Anne Bradstreet: Air

AirContent (quoth Air) to speak the last of you, Yet am not ignorant first was my due: I do suppose you'l yield without controul I am the breath of every living soul. Mortals, what one of you…

Oliver Ellsworth: Landholder X

Landholder XOliver EllsworthMonday, March 3, 1788To the Citizens of New Hampshire [20] The opposition in your state to the new federal constitution, is an event surprising to your New…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Harp

The HarpOne musician is sure, His wisdom will not fail, He has not tasted wine impure, Nor bent to passion frail. Age cannot cloud his memory, Nor grief untune his voice, Ranging down the…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Sphinx

The SphinxThe Sphinx is drowsy, Her wings are furled: Her ear is heavy, She broods on the world. "Who'll tell me my secret, The ages have kept?— I awaited the seer While they…

Little Speech on Liberty

by John Winthrop I suppose something may be expected from me upon this charge that is befallen me, which moves me to speak now to you; yet I intend not to intermeddle in the…