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Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, Vol. 3 (of 3)Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, Vol. 3 (of 3) - With Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected [The following little sketch was written a few days after the death of Mrs. Siddons, and was called forth by certain paragraphs which appeared in...
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Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, Vol. 2 (of 3)Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, Vol. 2 (of 3) - With Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Tuesday.M. de Klenze called this morning and conducted me over the whole of the new palace. The design, when completed, will form a vast quadrangle....
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King Matthias and the Beggar BoyKing Matthias and the Beggar BoyTowards the close of a gloomy day in autumn, a very dusty traveller was riding quietly up to a castle which stood perched on a height in one of the northern counties of Hungary. A very extraordinary-looking castle it...
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RomeRomeMARBLE RELIEF OF THE AMBARVALIA SACRIFICE, IN THE FORUM The sacrifice of the suovetaurilia took place at the confines of Rome and Alba Longa after the perlustration of the Roman ager. See pages 15, 70. The twelve chapters in this book were all written...
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Création et rédemption, première partie: Le docteur mystérieuxCréation et rédemption, première partie: Le docteur mystérieuxLe 17 juillet 1785, la Creuse, aprs une matine d'orage, roulait profonde et trouble entre deux rangs de maisons fort peu symtriquement alignes sur ses rives, et qui baignaient dans l'eau leur pied de bois. Toutes vieilles...
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Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2)Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) If the preface of a book be a plea to the reader, its force must lie in the aims of the author. In the following pages his main aim has been to be of service to somebody....
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Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2)Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) CHAPTER XXIV. CONVERSATIONS WITH MR. GLADSTONE CHAPTER XXV. HERBERT SPENCER, THE THINKER CHAPTER XXVI. SINGULAR CAREER OF MR. DISRAELI CHAPTER XXVII. CHARACTERISTICS OF JOSEPH COWEN CHAPTER XXVIII. CHARACTERISTICS OF JOSEPH COWEN CHAPTER XXIX. THE PERIL OF SCRUPLES...
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A Book About the TheaterA Book About the TheaterFrench Dramatists of the 19th Century Pen and Ink, Essays on subjects of more or less importance Aspects of Fiction, and other Essays The Historical Novel, and other Essays Parts of Speech, Essays on English The Development of the Drama...
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Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and ScienceTriumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and ScienceIt is not difficult to account for the pre-eminence, generally assigned to the victories of war over the victories of peace in popular history. The noise and ostentation which attend the former, the air of romance...
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And What if the Pretender should Come?And What if the Pretender should Come? - Or Some Considerations of the Advantages and Real Consequences of the Pretender's Possessing the Crown of Great BritainTranscriber's Note: This e-book, a pamphlet by Daniel Defoe, was originally published in 1713, and was prepared from The...
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Stevenson's Shrine: The Record of a PilgrimageStevenson's Shrine: The Record of a PilgrimageI, a lover of the man, personally unknown to me, save through the potency of his pen, journeyed across the world in order to visit his grave, and to get into direct touch with his surroundings. The voyage...
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Religion and the WarReligion and the WarThe present volume is the second work published by the Yale University Press on the James Wesley Cooper Memorial Publication Fund. This Foundation was established March 30, 1918, by a gift to Yale University from Mrs. Ellen H. Cooper in memory...
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Capturing a Locomotive: A History of Secret Service in the Late WarCapturing a Locomotive: A History of Secret Service in the Late War.War has a secret as well as a public story. Marches and battles are open to the popular gaze; but enterprises of another class are in their very nature secret, and these are...
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The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 2 of 2The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 2 of 2 - or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old DominionThe lightning streamed athwart the heavens in quick and vivid flashes. One peal of thunder after another echoed from cliff to cliff, while a...
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Peggy Owen at YorktownPeggy Owen at Yorktown The members of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, residing in the American colonies, were sadly tried during the struggle by those colonies against King George. The Quaker principles forbade warfare, but the Quaker hearts were often as loyal to...
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The Strange Story of Rab RábyThe Strange Story of Rab RábyNow it is not because the double name of "Rab Rby" is merely a pretty bit of alliteration that the author chose it for the title of his story, but rather because the hero of it was, according to...
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Peggy Owen, Patriot: A Story for GirlsPeggy Owen, Patriot: A Story for Girls In Peggy Owen, the preceding book of the series, the heroine, a little Quaker maid, lives across from the State House in Philadelphia. By reason of this she becomes much interested in the movements of the Continental...
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Dr. Teodoro HerzlDr. Teodoro Herzl - Discorso Commemorativo tenuto in Trieste la sera del 12 Luglio 1904 Io penso rabbrividendo allo schianto che avr percosso le plebi orientali alla notizia della morte di Teodoro Herzl. Quante speranze grandi, quante gioie son morte con Lui! Con Lui...
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House of TormentHouse of Torment - A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English CourtSince I first met you, considerably more than a decade ago, in a little studio high up in a great...
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Recollections of a Varied LifeRecollections of a Varied Life At any rate it is not because of personal interest in my own life that I am writing this book. I was perfectly sincere in wanting to call these chapters "The Autobiography of an Unimportant Man," but on reflection...
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