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Nooks and Corners of CornwallNooks and Corners of CornwallAt first sight it seems incongruous to speak of the Nooks and Corners to be found in so rugged a land as Cornwall. The masses of rock at Tintagel, Tol-Pedn, and the Lizard, the sheer drop of the High Cliff...
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The Outlook: Uncle Sam's Place and Prospects in International PoliticsThe Outlook: Uncle Sam's Place and Prospects in International PoliticsIT is exactly a year and a day since Oswego, responding to the President's call, sent away her modest quota of citizen-soldiery to the war with Spain. A novel and inspiring scene, whose meaning, perhaps,...
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O Romance da Rainha MercedesO Romance da Rainha MercedesQue secreto mobil determina as evolues da humanidade atravez dos tempos? Que mysteriosa lei regula os destinos das sociedades no discorrer dos seculos? Eis o grande problema que ha duzentos annos preoccupa o espirito humano. a Providencia: diz Bossuet. As...
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Romantic Spain: A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I)Romantic Spain: A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I)THIS simple recital of personal haps and mishaps in perturbed Spain from the abdication of Amadeus to the entry of Don Carlos, puts forward no claim to the didactic or dogmatic. Its chief aim is to...
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The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 2The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 2When in the course of human events, my boy, it becomes necessary for a chap of respectable parentage to write a full and graphic account of a great battle, without exasperating the press-censor by naming the locality of...
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A Sketch of the Life and Labors of George WhitefieldA Sketch of the Life and Labors of George WhitefieldThere are some men in the pages of history, whose greatness no person of common sense thinks of disputing. They tower above the herd of mankind, like the Pyramids, the Parthenon, and the Colosseum, among...
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The Hidden Force: A Story of Modern JavaThe Hidden Force: A Story of Modern JavaThe Hidden Force gives a picture of life in the Dutch East Indies in the last year of the nineteenth and the first year of the twentieth century. Conditions have altered slightly since thenDutch ladies no longer...
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We Were There at the Oklahoma Land RunWe Were There at the Oklahoma Land RunThousands of land-hungry people edged the Oklahoma border that April day in 1889, awaiting the signal that would send them across! What was in store for them? Wild riding! Possibly danger. Certainly adventure. And young Alec Simpson...
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A Short History of English LiberalismA Short History of English LiberalismNo rational man ever did govern himself by abstractions and universals.... A statesman differs from a professor in an university; the latter has only the general view of society.... A statesman, never losing sight of principles, is to be...
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The Life of Roger Langdon, Told by himself. With additions by his daughter EllenThe Life of Roger Langdon, Told by himself. With additions by his daughter Ellen. THE writing of this foreword to the biography of the late Mr. Roger Langdon should have devolved upon one of the notable personages who had an admiration for him and...
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Dorothy Payne, Quakeress: A Side-Light Upon the Career of 'Dolly' MadisonDorothy Payne, Quakeress: A Side-Light Upon the Career of 'Dolly' MadisonMinor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Printer errors have been changed, and they are indicated with a mouse-hover and listed at the end of this book. All other inconsistencies are as in...
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English Pharisees and French CrocodilesEnglish Pharisees French Crocodiles, and Other Anglo-French Typical CharactersYou are a dear friend and a delightful fellow. You are on the road that will safely lead you to the discovery of everything that can insure the prosperity of the land of which you are...
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Jonathan and His Continent: Rambles Through American SocietyJonathan and His Continent: Rambles Through American SocietyAs for the book, since you wish it, here it is. But I must warn you that if ever you should fancy you see in this little volume a deep study of your great country and of...
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Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of AlabamaRed Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama.A work of this kind necessarily makes no pretension to originality in its materials; but while all that is here related is to be found in books, there is no one book devoted exclusively...
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Adventures Among the Red IndiansAdventures Among the Red Indians - Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South AmericaThese pages describe the adventures of men whom duty or inclination has brought into contact with the Indians of the entire American continent; and, since every day...
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The Baron's Sons: A Romance of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848The Baron's Sons: A Romance of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848[Pg vii]No page of history is more crowded with thrilling interest than that which records the uprising of the Hungarians, in 1848-49, in a gallant attempt to recover their constitutional rights. The events of...
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Character and Opinion in the United StatesCharacter and Opinion in the United States - With Reminiscences of William James and Josiah Royce and Academic Life in AmericaThe major part of this book is composed of lectures originally addressed to British audiences. I have added a good deal, but I make...
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A Gentleman Player His Adventures on a Secret Mission for Queen ElizabethA Gentleman Player; His Adventures on a Secret Mission for Queen ElizabethL. C. Page_AND COMPANY, Publishers (Incorporated) 196 Summer St., Boston, Mass. At three o'clock in the afternoon of the cold first Monday in March, 1601, a red flag rose, and a trumpet sounded...
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De Dageraad der VolksvrijheidDe Dageraad der Volksvrijheid - Geschiedenis van de wording der Nederlandsche RepubliekDe Nederlanden. Vruchten der regeering van keizer Karel V. Vereeniging van de Nederlandsche gewesten. Bloei des lands. Algemeene welvaart en beschaving. Liefde des volks voor Karel V. Hare oorzaken. De hervorming in de...
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Letters of a Javanese PrincessLetters of a Javanese PrincessThese letters which breathe the modern spirit, in all of its restless intensity, were written by a girl of the Orient, reared in an ancient and outworn civilization. They unfold the story of the writer with unconscious simplicity and present...
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