Opium Eating: An Autobiographical Sketch by an Habituate is a book by an anonymous author. It covers the harsh conditions that can come about when opium is used. Excerpt: "The physician gave me a ...

In conformity with the wish, you have frequently expressed, that I should give you an outline of my life, I have now the pleasure to give you the following very brief sketch:- My ancestors were ...

THE life of James Croll is very remarkable. That a mason's son, who in youth laboured on the few acres of his father's homestead; who then, having a mind disposed to mechanics, became apprentice to ...

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