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Bleak House by Charles Dickens
This etext was prepared by Donald Lainson, Toronto, Canada (charlie@idirect.com) BLEAK HOUSE by Charles Dickens PREFACE A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject
The Federalist Papers
FEDERALIST. No. 1 General Introduction For the Independent Journal. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in