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Eminent VictoriansEminent VictoriansTHE history of the Victorian Age will never be written; we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historianignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. Concerning...
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History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, by the House of Representatives, and his trial by the Senate for high crimes and misdemeanors in office, 1868History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, by the House of Representatives, and his trial by the Senate for high crimes and misdemeanors in office, 1868 Little is now known to the general public of the history of the...
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The Story of the Mormons, from the Date of Their Origin to the Year 1901The Story of the Mormons, from the Date of Their Origin to the Year 1901 No chapter of American history has remained so long unwritten as that which tells the story of the Mormons. There are many books on the subject, histories written under...
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OxfordOxfordThese papers do not profess even to sketch the outlines of a history of Oxford. They are merely records of the impressions made by this or that aspect of the life of the University as it has been in different ages. Oxford is not...
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The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 JAMES was now at the height of power and prosperity. Both in England and in Scotland he had vanquished his enemies, and had punished them with a severity which had indeed...
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The Memoirs of General Baron de MarbotThe Memoirs of General Baron de MarbotPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about...
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Imaginary PortraitsImaginary Portraits They have been renovating my father's large workroom. That delightful, tumble-down old place has lost its moss-grown tiles and the green weather-stains we have known all our lives on the high whitewashed wall, opposite which we sit, in the little sculptor's yard,...
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History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 1History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 1Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next...
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The Conquest of the Old Southwest the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 The romantic and thrilling story of the southward and westward migration of successive waves of transplanted European peoples throughout the entire course of...
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Bardelys the MagnificentBardelys the Magnificent - Being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... Being an Account of the Strange Wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol; Marquis of Bardelys, and of the things that in...
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Theodore Roosevelt: An Intimate BiographyTheodore Roosevelt: An Intimate BiographyPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million...
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Memoir of the Proposed Territory of ArizonaMemoir of the Proposed Territory of Arizona "The NEW TERRITORY of ARIZONA, better known as the GADSDEN PURCHASE, lies between the thirty-first and thirty-third parallels of latitude, and is bounded on the north by the Gila River, which separates it from the territory of...
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Up from Slavery: An AutobiographyUp from Slavery: An Autobiography The details of Mr. Washington's early life, as frankly set down in "Up from Slavery," do not give quite a whole view of his education. He had the training that a coloured youth receives at Hampton, which, indeed, the...
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The Path of the LawThe Path of the Law When we study law we are not studying a mystery but a well-known profession. We are studying what we shall want in order to appear before judges, or to advise people in such a way as to keep them...
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The Princess De MontpensierThe Princess De Montpensier This story was written by Madame de Lafayette and published anonymously in 1662. It is set in a period almost 100 years previously during the sanguinary wars of the counter-reformation, when the Catholic rulers of Europe, with the encouragement of...
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Los Bombardeos Atomicos de Hiroshima y NagasakiLos Bombardeos Atomicos de Hiroshima y Nagasaki Este reporte describe los efectos de las bombas atmicas que bombardearon las ciudades de Hiroshima y Nagasaki el 6 y el 9 de agosto de 1945, respectivamente. Resume toda la informacin que est disponible sobre dao hecho...
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The Riddle of the SandsThe Riddle of the Sands A word about the origin and authorship of this book. In October last (1902), my friend Carruthers visited me in my chambers, and, under a provisional pledge of secrecy, told me frankly the whole of the adventure described in...
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History of PhoeniciaHistory of Phoenicia 01 (return) [ Die Phnizier, und das phnizische Alterthum, by F. C. Movers, in five volumes, Berlin, 1841-1856.] 02 (return) [ History and Antiquities of Phoenicia, by John Kenrick, London, 1855.] 03 (return) [ Histoire de lArt dans lAntiquit, par MM....
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Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2THOSE who have attended to the practice of our literary tribunal are well aware that, by means of certain legal fictions similar to those of Westminster Hall, we are frequently enabled to take cognisance of cases lying beyond...
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Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 Depuis deux sicles les Essais forment une branche importante de la littrature anglaise; pour designer un crivain de cette classe, nos voisins emploient un mot qui na pas dquivalent en francais; ils disent: un essayiste. Quoest-ce quun...
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