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Cartrefi CymruCartrefi CymruDyma gartref Edmund Prys, swynwr yn ol cred gwlad, arch-ddiacon Meirionnydd wrth ei swydd, a chyfieithydd melodaidd y Salmau. Ganwyd ef tua 1541, bu farw tua 1621. Nid edwyn neb le ei fedd ym Maentwrog. Y mae Bryn Tynoriad yn nyffryn yr Wnion,...
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Die Versuchung des PescaraDie Versuchung des Pescara "Eine furchtbare Ziffer!" seufzte der Herzog und entsetzte sich vor der Summe, welche die mit Eile betriebenen Festungsarbeiten verschlungen hatten. "Wie viele Schweitropfen meiner armen hungernden Lombarden!" Und um dem Anblick der verhngnisvollen Zahl zu entrinnen, lie er die melancholischen...
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The Dragon and the Raven Or, The Days of King AlfredThe Dragon and the Raven; Or, The Days of King Alfred Living in the present days of peace and tranquillity it is difficult to picture the life of our ancestors in the days of King Alfred, when the whole country was for years overrun...
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The Firefly of FranceThe Firefly of France The restaurant of the Hotel St. Ives seems, as I look back on it, an odd spot to have served as stage wings for a melodrama, pure and simple. Yet a melodrama did begin there. No other word fits the...
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Peg WoffingtonPeg Woffington To T. Taylor, Esq., my friend, and coadjutor in the comedy of Masks and Faces, to whom the reader owes much of the best matter in this tale: and to the memory of Margaret Woffington, falsely summed up until to-day, this Dramatic...
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The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, And Explorations of the Nile SourcesThe Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, And Explorations of the Nile SourcesIn the history of the Nile there was a void: its Sources were a mystery. The Ancients devoted much attention to this problem; but in vain. The Emperor Nero sent an...
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Andreas Hofer: An Historical NovelAndreas Hofer: An Historical NovelThis 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 can legally do...
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Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — 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...
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Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879This 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 can...
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History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the nameHistory of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the nameThis 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...
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Alfred TennysonAlfred TennysonIn writing this brief sketch of the Life of Tennyson, and this attempt to appreciate his work, I have rested almost entirely on the Biography by Lord Tennyson (with his kind permission) and on the text of the Poems. As to the Life,...
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Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and ThibetDiary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and ThibetMore than a year and a half had been spent in the hottest parts of the plains of India, and another dreaded hot season was rapidly making its approach, when, together with a brother officer, I applied...
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The Devil's DiscipleThe Devil's Disciple At the most wretched hour between a black night and a wintry morning in the year 1777, Mrs. Dudgeon, of New Hampshire, is sitting up in the kitchen and general dwelling room of her farm house on the outskirts of the...
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Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Abraham LincolnWidger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Abraham LincolnThis 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...
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Honoré de BalzacHonoré de BalzacOf all the books perhaps the one best designed for training the mind and forming the character is "Plutarch." The lives of great men are object-lessons. They teach effort, devotion, industry, heroism and sacrifice. Even one who confines his reading solely to...
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English Men of LettersChaucer The peculiar conditions of this essay must be left to explain themselves. It could not have been written at all without the aid of the Publications of the Chaucer Society, and more especially of the labours of the Society's Director, Mr. Furnivall. To...
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IsmailiaIsmailiaAn interval of five years has elapsed since the termination of my engagement in the service of His Highness the Khedive of Egypt, "to suppress the slave-hunters of Central Africa, and to annex the countries constituting the Nile Basin, with the object of opening...
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Second Shetland Truck System ReportSecond Shetland Truck System ReportThis 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 can legally do...
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Antonina Or, The Fall of RomeAntonina; Or, The Fall of Rome In preparing to compose a fiction founded on history, the writer of these pages thought it no necessary requisite of such a work that the principal characters appearing in it should be drawn from the historical personages of...
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Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Volume 12Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Volume 12This 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...
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