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Henry VI, Part 1Henry VI, Part 1 B) This license is subject to the conditions that you honor the refund and replacement provisions of this "small print!" statement; and that you distribute exact copies of this etext, including this Small Print statement. Such copies can be compressed...
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El Dorado: An Adventure of the Scarlet PimpernelEl Dorado: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel There has of late years crept so much confusion into the mind of the student as well as of the general reader as to the identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel with that of the Gascon Royalist...
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The Ballad of the White HorseThe Ballad of the White Horse This ballad needs no historical notes, for the simple reason that it does not profess to be historical. All of it that is not frankly fictitious, as in any prose romance about the past, is meant to emphasize...
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Lincoln An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of WarLincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War Authority for all important statements of facts in the following pages may be found in the notes; the condensed references are expanded...
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Child of StormChild of Storm For twenty years, I believe I am right in saying, you, as Assistant Secretary for Native Affairs in Natal, and in other offices, have been intimately acquainted with the Zulu people. Moreover, you are one of the few living men who...
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A History of Science — Volume 2A History of Science — Volume 2 The studies of the present book cover the progress of science from the close of the Roman period in the fifth century A.D. to about the middle of the eighteenth century. In tracing the course of events...
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A History of Science — Volume 4A History of Science — Volume 4 AS regards chronology, the epoch covered in the present volume is identical with that viewed in the preceding one. But now as regards subject matter we pass on to those diverse phases of the physical world which...
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A History of Science — Volume 3A History of Science — Volume 3 BOOK III CHAPTER I. THE SUCCESSORS OF NEWTON IN ASTRONOMY The work of Johannes HeveliusHalley and HeveliusHalley's observation of the transit of Mercury, and his method of determining the parallax of the planetsHalley's observation of meteorsHis inability...
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A History of Science — Volume 1A History of Science — Volume 1 Should the story that is about to be unfolded be found to lack interest, the writers must stand convicted of unpardonable lack of art. Nothing but dulness in the telling could mar the story, for in itself...
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Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: ActorsLittle Masterpieces of Autobiography: ActorsA good play gives us in miniature a cross-section of life, heightened by plot and characterisation, by witty and compact dialogue. Of course we should honour first the playwright, who has given form to each well knit act and telling...
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Our Legal Heritage: The First Thousand Years: 600 - 1600Our Legal Heritage: The First Thousand Years: 600 - 1600 - King Aethelbert - Queen ElizabethPlease 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...
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New Forces in Old China: An Inevitable AwakeningNew Forces in Old China: An Inevitable AwakeningPlease 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...
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The Narrative of Sojourner TruthThe Narrative of Sojourner TruthPlease 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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Webster's 7th of March Speech and the Secession Movement, 1850Webster's Seventh of March Speech and the Secession Movement, 1850 It is very curious that much of the history of the United States in the Forties and Fifties of the last century has vanished from the general memory. When a skilled historian reopens the...
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The Adventures of GerardThe Adventures of Gerard I hope that some readers may possibly be interested in these little tales of the Napoleonic soldiers to the extent of following them up to the springs from which they flow. The age was rich in military material, some of...
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IonIon The Ion is the shortest, or nearly the shortest, of all the writings which bear the name of Plato, and is not authenticated by any early external testimony. The grace and beauty of this little work supply the only, and perhaps a sufficient,...
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A Monk of FifeA Monk of Fife - Being the Chronicle Written by Norman Leslie of Pitcullo, Concerning Marvellous Deeds That Befell in the Realm of France, in the Years of Our Redemption, MCCCCXXIX-XXXINorman Leslie of Pitcullo, whose narrative the reader has in his hands, refers more...
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Old English LibrariesOld English Libraries - The Making, Collection, and Use of Books During the Middle AgesWITH the arrangement and equipment of libraries this essay has little to do: the ground being already covered adequately by Dr. Clark in his admirable monograph on The Care of...
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KenilworthKenilworth A certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation of Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting her sister and her foe, the celebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have approached the task with the...
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The Greatest English ClassicThe Greatest English Classic - A Study of the King James Version of the Bible and Its Influence on Life and LiteraturePlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping...
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