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Mediæval town seriesThe Story of MilanEverybody has been in Milan, but who knows Milan? The traveller in search of the picturesque and medival sees nothing to arrest himexcept comfortable hotelsin a city which seems to tell only of yesterday. A glance at the Cathedral, at St....
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Sir Ian Hamilton's Despatches from the Dardanelles, etcSir Ian Hamilton's Despatches from the Dardanelles, etc.I was serving in the Royal Navy when Lieutenant Lucas, H.M.S. Hecla, earned the first Victoria Cross that was gazetted, for having thrown overboard a live shell. I was in the 21-gun battery before Sevastopol sixty-one years...
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Impressions of England or, Sketches of English Scenery and SocietyImpressions of England; or, Sketches of English Scenery and SocietyThe following sketches pre-suppose, on the part of the reader, a familiarity with English subjects, and with the geography, history and literature of England. The writer has endeavored to avoid the common-places of travel, and...
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A Book of the CevennesA Book of the CevennesTHE Cvennes are a mountain fringe to the uplifted plateau of Central France, and are less visited by English tourists than any other mountainous district in la belle France. They have been most unjustly neglected. The scenery is singularly varied....
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Ein deutsches Kriegsschiff in der SüdseeEin deutsches Kriegsschiff in der Südsee Die nachfolgenden Reisebriefe, welche ich hiermit der Oeffentlichkeit bergebe, wurden ursprnglich nicht zu diesem Zweck geschrieben, sondern sollten nur meinen Angehrigen dasjenige im Bilde vorfhren, was ich selbst gesehen und erlebt hatte. Ich hielt mich weder fr dazu...
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Haw-Ho-Noo Or, Records of a TouristHaw-Ho-Noo; Or, Records of a TouristThe title and table of contents of this volume contain all that I have to say in regard to its character. My only apology for again appearing before the public is to be found in the treatment which I...
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The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 129, December, 1908The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 129, December, 1908A ladys account of the fearful ordeal she underwent as a young girl on an estate in Natallocked up in a tiny church, whither she had gone to practise a Christmas voluntary, with a huge...
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Disraeli: A Study in Personality and IdeasDisraeli: A Study in Personality and IdeasThe power of imagination is essential to supreme statesmanship. Indeed, no really originative genius in any domain of the mind can succeed without it. In literature it reigns paramount. Of art it is the soul. Without it the...
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Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 2 (of 3), 1642-1660Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 2 (of 3), 1642-1660There was no outbreak in Munster during November, but Lord President St. Leger knew that he had no real means of resisting one. The Lords Justices had drawn off most of the...
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Über die bürgerliche Verbesserung der WeiberÜber die bürgerliche Verbesserung der WeiberMan sagt: der strengste Beweis der Wahrheit sei, wenn gewisse Dinge jeder Bemhung sie lcherlich zu machen und zu travestiren, widerstehen, und wenn sie trotz allem Lcherlichen, womit wir sie behngen, doch ehrwrdig bleiben. Wenn die krumme Linie die...
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The Diary of a Girl in France in 1821The Diary of a Girl in France in 1821The child who wrote this quaintly-illustrated diary, eighty-three years ago, was the second daughter of William Browne, Esq., of Tallentire Hall, in the County of Cumberland. She was born there, February 15, 1807. Descended, on her...
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SlaverySlaveryThe recent attempt of John Brown to incite an insurrection at Harper's Ferry has created no little excitement throughout the country. Strange and desperate as the movement was, it seems to have been the natural and necessary result of the long twenty years' war,...
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A Soldier of the LegionA Soldier of the Legion - An Englishman's Adventures Under the French Flag in Algeria and TonquinSitting at the terrace of a well-known caf, on the main boulevard of the French capital, some time ago, I happened to glance down the columns of a...
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Trails of the PathfindersTrails of the PathfindersThree centuries ago half a dozen tiny hamlets, peopled by white men, were scattered along the western shores of the North Atlantic Ocean. These little settlements owed allegiance to different nations of Europe, each of which had thrust out a hand...
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Armenia and the WarArmenia and the WarOf all the peoples upon whom this war has brought calamity and suffering, the Armenian people have had the most to endure. Great as has been the misery inflicted by the invaders upon the non-combatant populations of Belgium and Northern France,...
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Some of Our East Coast TownsSome of Our East Coast TownsChelmsford, one of the youngest of the Essex Boroughs, and almost a suburb of Greater London by means of the Great Eastern Railway, was, when I first knew it, a dignified county town, the leading people of which considered...
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The Sanitary Condition of the Poor in Relation to Disease, Poverty, and CrimeThe Sanitary Condition of the Poor in Relation to Disease, Poverty, and Crime - With an appendix on the control and prevention of infectious diseasesThe following pages having already appeared in the form of letters in the Marylebone Mercury, any preface on my part...
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How Beauty Was Saved, and Other Memories of the SixtiesHow Beauty Was Saved, and Other Memories of the SixtiesIn the summer of 1862, in the Bayou Manchac country near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, there was a modest little schoolhouse called the "Dove's Nest." To that school came two young girls to complete a course...
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Bragelonnen varakreivi eli Muskettisoturien viimeiset urotyöt II (2)Bragelonnen varakreivi eli Muskettisoturien viimeiset urotyöt II (2) - Historiallinen romaani Ludvig XIV:n hovista 130. Ilta Madamen luona. 131. Tarina vedenneidosta ja sinipiiasta. 132. Kuninkaan mieliala. 133. Mit vedenneito ei aavistanut sen paremmin kuin sinipiikakaan. 134. Uusi jesuiittikenraali. 135. Rajuilma. 136. Sade. 137. Tobias....
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Bragelonnen varakreivi eli Muskettisoturien viimeiset urotyöt IBragelonnen varakreivi eli Muskettisoturien viimeiset urotyöt I - Historiallinen romaani Ludvig XIV:n hovista 1. Kirje. 2. Sanansaattaja. 3. Nuorten kohtaus. 4. Is ja poika. 5. Puhetta Cropolista ja Cropolesta sek maineettomaksi jneest suuresta maalarista. 6. Tuntematon. 7. Parry. 8. Kuningas Ludvig XIV kahdenkolmatta ikisen....
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