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Anne Bradstreet: Childhood

Childhood Ah me! conceiv'd in sin, and born in sorrow, A nothing, here to day, but gone to morrow, Whose mean beginning, blushing can't reveal, But night and darkness must with shame conceal…

Tender Troubles

Tender Troubles"Jo, I'm anxious about Beth.""Why, Mother, she has seemed unusually well since the babies came.""It's not her health that troubles me now, it's her spirits. I'm sure there is…

Ten Tips for Better Spelling

This may be the best-known spelling rule: i before e, except after cor when sounded like "ay"as in neighbor and weigh Here are some words that follow the rule:IE words: believe, field,…

The Devil's Dictionary: Lead

by Ambrose Bierce LAZINESSLEARNINGLEAD -n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives. Lead is…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Worship

WorshipThis is he, who, felled by foes, Sprung harmless up, refreshed by blows: He to captivity was sold, But him no prison-bars would hold: Though they sealed him in a rock, Mountain chains…

The Koran/Sura XXXVIII — Sad

Sura XXXVIII — SadMecca — 88 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful SAD.[320] By the Koran full of warning! In sooth the Infidels are absorbed in pride, in contention…

Asculum

(Encyclopedia) AsculumAsculumăˈsky&oobreve;ləm [key], ancient town, Apulia, SE Italy, 18 mi (29 km) S of Foggia, on a branch of the Appian Way. Here Pyrrhus won a hard-fought battle against the…