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Memories of HawthorneMemories of HawthorneIt will be seen that this volume is really written by Sophia Hawthorne; whose letters from earliest girlhood are so expressed, and so profound in thought and loveliness, that some will of sterner quality than a daughter's must cast them aside. I...
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The History of Thomas Ellwood Written By HimselfThe History of Thomas Ellwood Written By HimselfThe life of the simple Quaker, Thomas Ellwood, to whom the pomps and shows of earth were nowhere so vain as in association with the spiritual life of man, may serve as companion to another volume in...
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The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1Early History and Constitution of Castile.Invasion of the Arabs.Slow Reconquest of the Country.Religious Enthusiasm of the Spaniards. Influence of their Minstrelsy.Their Chivalry.Castilian Towns. Cortes.Its Powers.Its Boldness.Wealth of the Cities.The Nobility. Their...
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English Men of Letters: ColeridgeEnglish Men of Letters: ColeridgeIn a tolerably well-known passage in one of his essays De Quincey enumerates the multiform attainments and powers of Coleridge, and the corresponding varieties of demand made by them on any one who should aspire to become this many-sided man's...
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Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1I have been asked to write a few words of preface to this work. If the life-long friendship of my mother with her Majesty, which gained for me the honour of often seeing the...
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Voyages of Peter Esprit RadissonVoyages of Peter Esprit Radisson - Being an Account of His Travels and Experiences Among the North American Indians, from 1652 to 1684The author of the narratives contained in this volume was Peter Esprit Radisson, who emigrated from France to Canada, as he himself...
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A Brief History of the United StatesA Brief History of the United StatesIt is not too much to assert that most of our countrymen acquire at school all the knowledge they possess of the past history of their country. In view of this fact it is most desirable that a...
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History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, at SantiagoHistory of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, at Santiago - With a Few Unvarnished Truths Concerning that Expedition On the morning of July 1st, the dismounted cavalry, including my regiment, stormed Kettle Hill, driving the Spaniards from their trenches. After taking the...
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First Footsteps in East AfricaFirst Footsteps in East AfricaAverse to writing, as well as to reading, diffuse Prolegomena, the author finds himself compelled to relate, at some length, the circumstances which led to the subject of these pages. In May 1849, the late Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm, formerly...
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Il Sacro Macello Di ValtellinaIl Sacro Macello Di ValtellinaCAPO V La Valtellina indipendenteInvasa dai GrigioniPolitica delle potenzeBattaglia di TiranoGoverno della ValtellinaLa Valtellina resa ai GrigioniLamentiIl trattato di Milano cassatoI Grigioni espulsi dalla ValtellinaInvasi dagli stranieriRiconoscono l'indipendenza della valleNe spiace alle potenzeAmbagi diplomaticheLa valle consegnata ai PapaliniOccupata dai FrancesiTrattato...
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The Indolence of the FilipinoThe Indolence of the FilipinoMr. Charles Derbyshire, who put Rizal's great novel Noli me tangere and its sequel El Filibusterismo into English (as The Social Cancer and The Reign of Greed), besides many minor writings of the "Greatest Man of the Brown Race", has...
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France and England in North America, Part V: Count Frontenac, New France, Louis XIVFrance and England in North America, Part V: Count Frontenac, New France, Louis XIV The events recounted in this book group themselves in the main about a single figure, that of Count Frontenac, the most remarkable man who ever represented the crown of France...
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Canada and the StatesCanada and the StatesThe following pages have been written at the request of many old friends, some of them co-workers in the cause of permanent British rule over the larger part of the Great Northern Continent of America. In 1851 I visited Canada and...
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Mark TwainMark Twain There are to-day, all over the world, men and women and children who owe a debt of almost personal gratitude to Mark Twain for the joy of his humour and the charm of his personality. In the future they will, I doubt...
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The Battle GroundThe Battle Ground Toward the close of an early summer afternoon, a little girl came running along the turnpike to where a boy stood wriggling his feet in the dust. Old Aunt Ailsey's done come back, she panted, an' she's conjured the tails off...
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Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine PatriotLineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine PatriotIn writing a biography, the author, if he be discriminating, selects, with great care, the salient features of the life story of the one whom he deems worthy of being portrayed as a person possessed of...
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Why We Are at War : Messages to the Congress January to April 1917Why We Are at War : Messages to the Congress January to April 1917 Messages to the Congress January to April, 1917 by Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, with the Presidents proclamation of war April 6, 1917 and his message to the...
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Why and How : a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in CanadaWhy and How : a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in CanadaIt has been said "Woman has a capacity for suffering," and during all the years of the past, in all countries and among all nations, woman has been proving this...
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Chronicles of Canada series: Volume 10The Passing of New France : a Chronicle of Montcalm 'War is the grave of the Montcalms.' No one can tell how old this famous saying is. Perhaps it is as old as France herself. Certainly there never was a time when the men...
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Four YearsFour Years At the end of the eighties my father and mother, my brother and sisters and myself, all newly arrived from Dublin, were settled in Bedford Park in a red-brick house with several wood mantlepieces copied from marble mantlepieces by the brothers Adam,...
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