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L'Égypte d'hier et d'aujourd'huiL'Égypte d'hier et d'aujourd'huiLes grands paquebots accomplissent maintenant en trois jours la traverse Marseille-Alexandrie, et en deux jours celle de Naples-Alexandrie: ce progrs me parat d'autant plus apprciable que, lors de mon dernier voyage en gypte, il n'y a pas bien longtemps, j'ai eu...
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The Spell of SwitzerlandThe Spell of SwitzerlandThe present book is cast in the guise of fiction. The vague and flitting forms of my niece and her three children are wholly figments of the imagination. No such person as Will Allerton enters my doorway. The Moto, which does...
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Historic Highways of America, Vol. 4Braddock's Road and Three Relative PapersThe French were invariably defeated by the British on this continent because the latter overcame natural obstacles which the former blindly trusted as insurmountable. The French made a league with the Allegheniesand Washington and Braddock and Forbes conquered the...
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Italy with sketches of Spain and PortugalItaly; with sketches of Spain and PortugalSOME justly admired Authors having condescended to glean a few stray thoughts from these Letters, which have remained dormant a great many years; I have been at length emboldened to lay them before the public. Perhaps, as they...
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Henri IV en Gascogne (1553-1589)Henri IV en Gascogne (1553-1589)Il est des hommes si universellement aims, qu'on voudrait tout connatre d'eux, au risque d'arriver la dsillusion. Cette remarque, faite depuis longtemps, n'a jamais t plus justifie que par la curiosit, mle d'enthousiasme et de vnration, qui s'est constamment attache...
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Club Life of London, Vol. 1 (of 2)Club Life of London, Vol. 1 (of 2) - With Anecdotes of the Clubs, Coffee-Houses and Taverns of the Metropolis During the 17th, 18th, and 19th CenturiesPictures of the Social Life of the Metropolis during the last two centuries are by no means rare....
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Historic Highways of America, Vol. 6Boone's Wilderness RoadThe naming of our highways is an interesting study. Like roads the world over they are usually known by two namesthe destinations to which they lead. The famous highway through New York state is known as the Genesee Road in the eastern...
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The Fishguard Invasion by the French in 1797The Fishguard Invasion by the French in 1797The very curious incident related in the following narrative took place nearly a hundred years ago, and, as mens memories are short, and the whole affair reads like fictionand very improbable and imaginative fictionit may be as...
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The Way to WinThe Way to WinI do not think anyone who has studied the progress of the War with care and patience can deny that, during the past few months, a mighty change has come over the aspect of the great struggle. A year ago, when...
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Historic Highways of America, Vol. 5The Old Glade (Forbes's) Road (Pennsylvania State Road)When General Edward Braddock landed in Virginia in 1755, one of his first acts in his campaign upon the Ohio was to urge Governor Morris to have a road opened westward through Pennsylvania. His reason for wishing...
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Histoire des salons de Paris (Tome 2/6)Histoire des salons de Paris (Tome 2/6) - Tableaux et portraits du grand monde sous Louis XVI, Le Directoire, le Consulat et l'Empire, la Restauration et le règne de Louis-Philippe IerDe tous les crimes commis pendant cette poque de folie nomme la Terreur, celui...
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Arabian Society in the Middle Ages: Studies From The Thousand and One NightsArabian Society in the Middle Ages: Studies From The Thousand and One NightsWhen Mr. Lane translated the "Thousand and One Nights," he was not content with producing a mere rendering of the Arabic text: he saw that the manners and ideas there described required...
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Admiral JellicoeAdmiral JellicoeIn trying to chronicle the events in Admiral Sir John Jellicoes life one is faced with many difficulties, the greatest of which is that hitherto his most important battles have been fought on land, behind closed doors and, as far as the public...
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The Wonder Book of KnowledgeThe Wonder Book of Knowledge - The Marvels of Modern Industry and Invention, the Interesting Stories of Common Things, the Mysterious Processes of Nature Simply ExplainedThis book is presented to those, both young and old, who wish to have a non-technical account of the...
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Historic Highways of America, Vol. 9Waterways of Westward Expansion - The Ohio River and its TributariesIn the study of Waterways of Westward Expansion, the Ohio Riverthe Gateway of the Westoccupies such a commanding position that it must be considered most important and most typical. Such is its situation in...
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Eastern Nights - and Flights: A Record of Oriental AdventureEastern Nights - and Flights: A Record of Oriental Adventure. Photograph of Captain Alan Bott, taken in Constantinople while he was a prisoner. Captain Bott signed it in the name of "Fritz Richter, First Lieutenant in the German Flying Corps." While escaping, he was...
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Passeggiate per l'Italia, vol. 4Passeggiate per l'Italia, vol. 4Roma, da dopo la rivoluzione del 1848, appare ancor pi silenziosa che nel passato; tutta la vivacit del popolo scomparsa e le classi agiate si tengono paurosamente nascoste, guardandosi bene di far parlare di s; e le classi infime sono...
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The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 4 (of 6)The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 4 (of 6) - New Complete Library EditionThis text uses UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding. 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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Leonora Christina Ulfeldt's "Jammers-minde". En egenhændig skiedring of hendes fangenskab i Blaataarn i aarene 1663-1685Leonora Christina Ulfeldt's "Jammers-minde". En egenhændig skiedring of hendes fangenskab i Blaataarn i aarene 1663-1685Als ich im Sommer des Jahres 1858 auf der Insel Fhnen, unweit des Schlosses Egeskov, in dem Dorfkirchlein zu Qurndrup die Grber meiner dnischen Ahnen des Stammes Ulfeld besuchte, fasste...
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Insula Sanctorum et Doctorum Or, Ireland's Ancient Schools and ScholarsInsula Sanctorum et Doctorum; Or, Ireland's Ancient Schools and ScholarsDUBLIN: SEALY, BRYERS & WALKER, 86 Middle Abbey Street. M. H. GILL & SON, 50 Upper OConnell Street. LONDON: BURNS & OATES, Limited, 28 Orchard Street, W., and 63 Paternoster Row, E.C.. New York, Cincinnati...
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