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Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz — Volume 2Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz — Volume 2MADAME:I lay it down as a maxim, that men who enter the service of the State should make it their chief study to set out in the world with some notable act...
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Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz — Volume 1Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz — Volume 1Our Author, John Francis Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz, Sovereign of Commercy, Prince of Euville, second Archbishop of Paris, Abbot of Saint Denis in France, was born at Montmirail, in Brie,...
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Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — CompleteMemoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Complete The Memoirs, of which a new translation is now presented to the public, are the undoubted composition of the celebrated princess whose name they bear, the contemporary of our Queen Elizabeth; of equal abilities...
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Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Volume 3Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Volume 3CHARLES, COMTE DE VALOIS, was the younger brother of Philip the Fair, and therefore uncle of the three sovereigns lately dead. His eldest son Philip had been appointed guardian to the Queen of Charles...
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Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Volume 2Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Volume 2At length my brother returned to Court, accompanied by all the Catholic nobility who had followed his fortunes. The King received him very graciously, and showed, by his reception of him, how much he...
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Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Volume 1Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Volume 1The Memoirs, of which a new translation is now presented to the public, are the undoubted composition of the celebrated princess whose name they bear, the contemporary of our Queen Elizabeth; of equal abilities...
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Hospital SketchesHospital SketchesTitle: Hospital Sketches Author: Louisa May Alcott Posting Date: March 6, 2009 [EBook #3837] Release Date: March, 2003 First Posted: October 2, 2001 Last Update: April 23, 2018. Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 A considerable portion of this volume was published in...
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Swiss Family RobinsonSwiss Family RobinsonNo unabridged edition of exists in English. Indeed, the book has been rewritten so many times, by so many editors, that it can legitimately be said that that no complete edition of the book exists in language. Johann David Wyss, a Swiss...
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Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1This should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they...
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Hassan : the story of Hassan of Bagdad, and how he came to make the golden journey to Samarkand : a play in five actsHassan : the story of Hassan of Bagdad, and how he came to make the golden journey to Samarkand : a play in five actsThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written...
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Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the PiccaninniesAustralian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies A neighbour of mine exclaimed, when I mentioned that I proposed making a small collection of the folk-lore legends of the tribe of blacks I knew so well living on this station,...
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Australia FelixAustralia Felix In a shaft on the Gravel Pits, a man had been buried alive. At work in a deep wet hole, he had recklessly omitted to slab the walls of a drive; uprights and tailors yielded under the lateral pressure, and the rotten...
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The Secret PowerThe Secret Power A cloud floated slowly above the mountain peak. Vast, fleecy and white as the crested foam of a sea-wave, it sailed through the sky with a divine air of majesty, seeming almost to express a consciousness of its own grandeur. Over...
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OverruledOverruled TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: In the printed version of this text, all apostrophes for contractions such as "can't", "wouldn't" and "he'd" were omitted, to read as "cant", "wouldnt" and "hed". This etext restores the omitted apostrophes. This piece is not an argument for or against...
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Love Among the ChickensLove Among the Chickens TO- But For Whose Sympathy and Encouragement This Book Would Never Have Been Written type of dedication. It sounds so weak-minded. But in the case of Love Among the Chickens it is unavoidable. It was not so much that you...
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Simon the JesterSimon the Jester I met Renniker the other day at the club. He is a man who knows everythingfrom the method of trimming a puppy's tail for a dog-show, without being disqualified, to the innermost workings of the mind of every European potentate. If...
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The Days Before YesterdayThe Days Before Yesterday The Public has given so kindly a reception to The Varnished Pomps of Yesterday (a reception which took its author wholly by surprise), that I have extracted some further reminiscences from the lumber-room of recollections. Those who expect startling revelations,...
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Rise of the New West, 1819-1829Rise of the New West, 1819-1829In the present volume I have kept before myself the importance of regarding American development as the outcome of economic and social as well as political forces. To make plain the attitude and influence of New England, the middle...
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PygmalionPygmalion As will be seen later on, Pygmalion needs, not a preface, but a sequel, which I have supplied in its due place. The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so...
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The Lamp of FateThe Lamp of Fate To AUDREY HEATH DEAR AUDREY: I always feel that you have played the part of Fairy Godmother in a very special and delightful way to all my stories, and in particular to this one, the plot of which I outlined...
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