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Mémoires de Mademoiselle Mars (volume I)Mémoires de Mademoiselle Mars (volume I) - (de la Comédie Française)Dans le courant de 1829, la Revue de Paris, recueil alors la mode, publia une toute petite nouvelle de cinq pages, appele: Marie ou le Mouchoir bleu. Cette nouvelle obtint un vritable succs. Pour...
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Histoire du CanadaHistoire du Canada - et voyages que les Freres mineurs recollects y ont faicts pour la conversion des infidelles.Ce document a t produit partir d'un fichier PDF obtenu de la Bibliothque Nationale de France (Gallica). La numrisation en tait assez soigne, mais l'impression de...
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War and the WeirdWar and the Weird[11] "Do you think there is anything in it?" He was a clean-set six-foot specimen of English manhood, an officer of the R.F.A. wounded at Mons, who spoke. "I mean I haven't studied these subjects muchin fact, I haven't studied them...
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Sir Walter Ralegh: A BiographySir Walter Ralegh: A BiographyStudents of Ralegh's career cannot complain of a dearth of materials. For thirty-seven years he lived in the full glare of publicity. The social and political literature of more than a generation abounds in allusions to him. He appears and...
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Narrative of the shipwreck of the brig Betsey, of Wiscasset, Maine, and murder of five of her crew, by piratesNarrative of the shipwreck of the brig Betsey, of Wiscasset, Maine, and murder of five of her crew, by pirates, - on the coast of Cuba, Dec. 1824.BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this twenty-sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord one...
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A Confederate Girl's DiaryA Confederate Girl's Diary A Philadelphian had been talking with my mother of North and South, and had alluded to the engagement between the Essex and the Arkansas, on the Mississippi, as a brilliant victory for the Federal navy. My mother protested, at once;...
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The Americans in the South SeasThe Americans in the South Seas - 1901 Perhaps the proper title of this article should be "The Influence of American Enterprise upon the Maritime Development of the first Colony in Australia," but as such a long-winded phrase would convey, at the outset, no...
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The Beginning of the Sea Story of AustraliaThe Beginning of the Sea Story of Australia - 1901 To many people in England the mention of Australia conjures pictures of tented gold-fields and tall, black-bearded, red-shirted bushrangers; of mounted police recruited from "flaxen-haired younger sons of good old English families, well-groomed and...
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Thirteen Chapters of American HistoryThirteen Chapters of American History - represented by the Edward Moran series of Thirteen Historical Marine PaintingsTHROUGH WHOSE STEADFAST FRIENDSHIP FOR MR. AND MRS. EDWARD MORAN AND LOYAL DEVOTION TO ME, I WAS LED TO CHAMPION, AND ENCOURAGED TO PERSEVERE IN ESTABLISHING, THE RIGHTS...
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Trapped in 'Black Russia': Letters June-November 1915Trapped in 'Black Russia': Letters June-November 1915There is no reason why this letter should ever reach you if you consider that it's war-time and that I am in Russia. Still, the censor may be sleeping when it comes along, or I may find a...
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William Pitt and the Great WarWilliam Pitt and the Great WarEngland and France have held in their hands the fate of the world, especially that of European civilization. How much harm we have done one another: how much good we might have done!Napoleon to Colonel Wilks, 20th April 1816....
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Thirty Indian LegendsThirty Indian Legends For the most part the legends here told are drawn from original sources. Many of the stories are printed for the first time; others have been adapted from well-known authorities. The author wishes to acknowledge in this latter connection help received...
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The Sun KingThe Sun KingBefore the flood, even before Egypt's greatness, the world was divided into three main countries, named Jaffeth, Shem and Arabin'ya. There were other less populated lands and places; Uropa in the west, Heleste in the north, and the two great lands of...
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Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61Now that the prejudices and bitter partisan feeling of the past are subsiding, it seems a fitting time to record the facts and incidents connected with the first conflict of the Rebellion. Of the eleven officers who...
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Behind the Scenes or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White HouseBehind the Scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White HouseEver since arriving in Washington I had a great desire to work for the ladies of the White House, and to accomplish this end I was ready to make almost...
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Travels in the Far EastTravels in the Far East I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer...
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First Oration of Cicero Against CatilineFirst Oration of Cicero Against Catiline - with Notices, Notes and Complete VocabularyIf the words do not display properly, or if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. First, make sure...
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The War in South Africa, Its Cause and ConductThe War in South Africa, Its Cause and ConductFor some reason, which may be either arrogance or apathy, the British are very slow to state their case to the world. At present the reasons for our actions and the methods which we have used...
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Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation'Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' - From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts To many people the return of the Bradford Manuscript is a fresh discovery of colonial history. By very many...
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Mediæval WalesMediæval Wales - Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular LecturesTHIS volume contains the substance of a course of popular Lectures delivered at Cardiff in 1901. The work does not claim in any way to be an original contribution to knowledge, and...
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