The Complete Book of Cheese - The Complete Book of Cheese by Robert Carlton Brown
Excerpt: Cheese market day in a town in the north of Holland. All the cheese-fanciers are out, thumping the cannon-ball Edams and the millstone Goudas with their bare red knuckles, plugging in with a hollow steel tool for samples. In Holland the business of judging a crumb of cheese has been taken with great seriousness for centuries. The abracadabra is comparable to that of the wine-taster or tea-taster. These Edamers have the trained ear of music-masters and, merely by knuckle-rapping, can tell down to an air pocket left by a gas bubble just how mature the interior is.
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Life of Abraham Lincoln Life of Abraham Lincoln
By John Hugh Bowers, Ph.D., LL.B.
Excerpt:
The story of Lincoln, revealing how one American, by his own honest efforts, rose from the most humble beginning to the most high station of honor and worth, has inspired millions and will inspire millions more
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by Martin Luther
Excerpt:
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In presenting this work to the public, the compilers would say, that they do not intend it as a rival of any other Hymn Book already in existence; but, if advancement in the light of other good works be allowable, as an improvement on them all
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by Charles Reginald Haines
Excerpt:
CHAPTER I. THE GOTHS IN SPAIN.
CHAPTER II. THE SARACENS IN SPAIN.
CHAPTER III. THE MARTYRDOMS AT CORDOVA.
CHAPTER IV. FANATICISM OF THE MARTYRS.
CHAPTER V. CONTROVERSY CONCERNING THE MARTYRS.
CHAPTER VI. THE MUZARABES.
CHAPTER VII
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Excerpt:
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by H. G. Wells
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Excerpt:
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The American Lectures on the History of Religions are delivered under the auspices of the American Committee for Lectures on the History of Religions
