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The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. 05The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. 05 THE LETTERS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, SILAS DEANE, JOHN ADAMS, JOHN JAY, ARTHUR LEE, WILLIAM LEE, RALPH IZARD, FRANCIS DANA, WILLIAM CARMICHAEL, HENRY LAURENS, JOHN LAURENS, M. DE LAFAYETTE, M. DUMAS, AND OTHERS, CONCERNING THE FOREIGN...
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The SerfThe SerfThis is the history of a man who lived in misery and torture, and was held as the very dirt of the world. In great travail of body and mind, in a state of bitter and sore distress, he lived his life. His...
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The Spell of FlandersThe Spell of Flanders - An Outline of the History, Legends and Art of Belgium's Famous Northern ProvincesLord Beaconsfield once said: Flanders has been trodden by the feet and watered by the blood of countless generations of British soldiers. This famous passagewhich has received...
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Politica estera: memorie e documentiPolitica estera: memorie e documenti Il primo Capitolo di questo libro attende la luce sin dalla fine del 1886. In quell'anno Francesco Crispi lo compose e divis di pubblicarlo affinch il paese, conoscendo esattamente quanto era stato preparato al 1877, potesse meglio giudicare gli...
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The Political Future of IndiaThe Political Future of IndiaMy book, Young India, was written during the first year of the war and was finally revised and sent to the press before the war was two years old. It concluded with the following observation: The events that have happened...
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Life of Thomas à BecketLife of Thomas à BecketPerhaps the chapter of English history fullest of romantic interest, is that containing the life of Thomas Becket. In fact, the great struggle between Becket and Henry II.,between individual genius and sovereign power, between a subject and his king, between...
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Impressions of AmericaImpressions of AmericaOscar Wilde visited America in the year 1882. Interest in the sthetic School, of which he was already the acknowledged master, had sometime previously spread to the United States, and it is said that the production of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera,...
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The San Francisco Fairy: A Tale of Early TimesThe San Francisco Fairy: A Tale of Early TimesSan Francisco, December, 1868. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by Chas. P. Kimball, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Northern District of California. ......Buy Now (To Read...
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A Legend of Reading AbbeyA Legend of Reading AbbeyIt was in the year of Grace eleven hundred and thirty-seven (when the grace of God appeared to be entirely departing from the sinful and unhappy land of England), and Stephen of Blois, nephew of the deceased King Henry Beauclerc,...
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The Treaty of Waitangi or, how New Zealand became a British ColonyThe Treaty of Waitangi; or, how New Zealand became a British ColonyThe arrival in New Zealand waters of the battleship given to the Empire by this Dominion during a grave national crisis, marks a new epoch in the life of our country, and an...
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General GatacreGeneral Gatacre - The Story of the Life and Services of Sir William Forbes Gatacre, K.C.B., D.S.O., 1843-1906 Assured of worthiness, we do not dread Competitors; we rather give them hail And greeting in the lists where we may fail: Must, if we bear...
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Reports of the Committee on the Conduct of the WarReports of the Committee on the Conduct of the War - Fort Pillow Massacre. Returned Prisoners.Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War be, and...
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Archaic EnglandArchaic England - An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie SuperstitionsThis book is an application of the jigsaw system to certain archological problems which under the ordinary detached methods of the Specialist have proved insoluble. My fragments...
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King Arthur in CornwallKing Arthur in CornwallThe following pages present an attempt to bring together what may be accepted with regard to the personality and actual life of King Arthur, while putting aside everything that is obviously or probably fabulous. I have endeavoured to give due weight...
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The Country House (with Designs)The Country House (with Designs)HITHERTO the Contributions have appeared in a small volume: but a friend having furnished me with the Manuscripts of the following Letters, in order to do justice to the beautiful designs, it has been necessary to increase the size of...
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America, Volume 3 (of 6)America, Volume 3 (of 6) Hendrick HudsonThe Ship "Half Moon"Manhattan IslandNew AmsterdamHudson RiverFire IslandNavesink HighlandsSandy HookLiberty StatueGovernor's IslandJersey CityHobokenWeehawkenThe KillsPerth AmboyStaten IslandNew DorpCommodore VanderbiltHackensack RiverPassaic RiverPatersonNewarkElizabethRahwayRaritan RiverNew BrunswickBattle of MonmouthMolly PitcherGreater New YorkBattery ParkBowling GreenBroadwayTrinity ChurchFamous and Sky-Scraping BuildingsWall StreetNational City BankSt. Paul's ChurchCity...
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Cornish Characters and Strange EventsCornish Characters and Strange EventsCornwall, peopled mainly by Celts, but with an infusion of English blood, stands and always has stood apart from the rest of England, much, but in a less degree, as has Wales. That which brought it into more intimate association...
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The History of SuluThe History of SuluThe first object sought in the search for the Genealogy of Sulu was a knowledge of those significant historical events of Sulu which antedated the Spanish discovery and conquest of the Philippine Islands, the connection which those events might have had...
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Studies in Moro History, Law, and ReligionStudies in Moro History, Law, and ReligionSir: I have the honor to transmit a series of papers on Moro history, law, and religion consisting of original studies and translations from Moro texts made by Dr. Najeeb M. Saleeby. I recommend that these papers be...
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The Jesuits, 1534-1921The Jesuits, 1534-1921 - A History of the Society of Jesus from Its Foundation to the Present TimeSome years ago the writer of these pages, when on his way to what is called a general congregation of the Society of Jesus, was asked by...
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