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Algemeene Geschiedenis in Verhalen: OudheidAlgemeene Geschiedenis in Verhalen: Oudheid1. Het ligt volstrekt niet in onze bedoeling, hier van het ontstaan der wereld en der menschen te spreken. Wat daarover door geleerde mannen geschreven is, laat zich niet zoo licht begrijpelijk maken. Zooveel schijnt echter duidelijk, dat eerstens de...
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Government in Republican ChinaGovernment in Republican ChinaThe origins of Chinese society may reach half a million years into the past. Anthropologists have suggested that Sinanthropus Pekinensis, among the earliest forms of man, resembles the modern Chinese more closely than he does any other modern race. In what...
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Augustan Reprint Society, publication number 141Selections from the Observator (1681-1687)[Pg xiv] [Pg 1] To the READER. Most Prefaces are, (Effectually) Apologies; and neither the Book, nor the Author, one Jot the Better for them. If the Book be Good, it will not Need an Apology; If Bad, it will...
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Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence, Vol. 2Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence, Vol. 2Curious History of the Chevalier dEonSecret Agent of Louis XVThe Chevalier Feigns to Be a WomanCuriosity of London ArousedNecessity for the French Government to Obtain Possession of State Papers in dEons HandsBeaumarchais Accepts MissionObtains Possession of...
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The Agrarian Problem in the 16th CenturyThe Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth CenturyAny one who turns over the Statutes and State Papers of the sixteenth century will be aware that statesmen were much exercised with an agrarian problem, which they thought to be comparatively new, and any one who follows...
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German PhilhellinismΟ Γερμανικός ΦιλελληνισμόςNote: The tonic system has been changed from polytonic to monotonic; otherwise the spelling of the book has not been changed. Footnotes have been converted to endnotes and are included in (). I have also added explanation of words in endnotes. These...
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Ahasvero nell'Isola del Diavolo: versiAhasvero nell'Isola del Diavolo: versi - preceduti da uno studio su l'Ebraismo e la rivoluzione franceseE tu, mio maestro ed amico, morivi a Parigi colla parola Umanit sulle labbra, e tu, mio fratello di pensiero e di fede, Carlo Fauvety, grande per intelletto, pi...
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Traduzione di Elia Morpurgo de' Discorsi Ebraici di Tolleranza e FelicitàTraduzione di Elia Morpurgo de' Discorsi Ebraici di Tolleranza e Felicità - diretti da Naftalì Herz Weisel, agli Ebrei dimoranti ne' dominj dell'Augustissimo Imperadore Giuseppe II. il Giusto con le note del traduttoreTitle: Traduzione di Elia Morpurgo de' Discorsi Ebraici di Tolleranza e Felicit...
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The Celtic Magazine, Vol. I, No. VI, April 1876The Celtic Magazine, Vol. I, No. VI, April 1876 - A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and AbroadStair meanwhile had made up his mind, and through his...
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Problems of the PacificProblems of the PacificThe Pacific is the ocean of the future. As civilisation grows and distances dwindle, man demands a larger and yet larger stage for the fighting-out of the ambitions of races. The Mediterranean sufficed for the settlement of the issues between the...
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Nooks and Corners of Old ParisNooks & Corners of Old ParisParis! What visions this magic word calls uphistoric Paris, with its palaces, churches, monuments, streets, and squares; the Paris of literature and its admirable procession of writers, poets, thinkers, dramatists, philosophers, and humourists; the Paris of society, its ftes,...
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Memorie di un vecchio carbonaro ravegnanoMemorie di un vecchio carbonaro ravegnano A queste Memorie di un vecchio Carbonaro che Primo Uccellini compose nell'onorata vecchiezza, s per ricordare a s stesso e agli altri i casi avventurosi e dolorosi della sua lunga vita di patriota, s per lasciare ai giovani...
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Lord Montagu's Page: An Historical RomanceLord Montagu's Page: An Historical Romance BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. Prefatory Dedication. LORD MONTAGU'S PAGE. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER...
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Paris VistasParis VistasWebster defines a vista as "a view, especially a distant view, through or between intervening objects." If I were literal-minded, I suppose I should either abandon my title or make this book a series of descriptions of Sacr Coeur, crowning Montmartre, as you...
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Vie de Bohème: A Patch of Romantic ParisVie de Bohème: A Patch of Romantic ParisIF there is one reason for which the growth of newspapers during the last century may be looked at askance, it is the journalist's persistency in perpetuating phrases. Phrases and catchwords at the moment of invention are...
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The Testimony of TraditionThe Testimony of TraditionA large portion of this work has already appeared in the form of a series of articles contributed to the Archological Review (Aug.-Oct., 1889, and Jan., 1890), but these have here undergone some alteration and have been supplemented to a considerable...
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Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 1 (of 2)Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 1 (of 2)When I finished my late work on Society in America, I had not the most remote idea of writing anything more on the subject of the New World. I have since been strongly solicited to communicate more...
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Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 2 (of 2)Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 2 (of 2)About four o'clock in the afternoon of the 6th of May we were convoyed, by a large party of friends, to the "Henry Clay," on board of which accommodations had been secured for us by great exertion...
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Les Explorateurs du Centre de l'AfriqueLes Explorateurs du Centre de l'AfriqueL'Afrique centrale a certainement t connue des anciens gyptiens. L'gypte seule avec sa valle du Nil, ses dserts de Nubie et de Libye n'est pas une base suffisante pour expliquer la puissance des pharaons, des Ssostris et des Ptolme....
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The Celtic Magazine, Vol. I No. VThe Celtic Magazine, Vol. I No. V - A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and AbroadVery interesting and instructive, though very sad it is to chronicle certain...
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