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David Malan: Een verhaal uit den Grooten TrekVoorop reden een tiental ruiters, allen met het geweer op den zadelknop rustende, terwijl kruithoorn en kogeltasch hen over de schouders hingen. Dan volgden de wagens, zoowat veertig in getal; zware, logge gevaarten, doch ijzersterk, en sommige...

Aarne herran rahat: KertomusSiihen aikaan kun Tanskan kuningas Fredrik II oli Bohuslnin isnt, asui Marstrandissa kalakauppias nimelt Torarin Haakenpoika. Hn oli kyh ja halpastyinen mies, sill toisen ktens vuoksi, joka oli rujo, ei hn kyennyt kalalle eik soutomieheksi. Kun hn ei voinut saada merest...

Lord Lister No. 0013: De inbraak in den slaapwagenDoor de kruinen der aloude boomen van het Bois de Boulogne te Parijs schudde de herfstwind met boozen ruk de bladeren, die naar beneden dwarrelden en zich vormden tot een reuzentapijt, dat door de ondergaande zon...

Independence: Rectorial address delivered at St. Andrews October 10, 1923The sole revenge that Maturity can take upon Youth for the sin of being young, is to preach at it. When I was young I sat and suffered under that dispensation. Now that I am...

Nagy idők, nagy emberek: RegényJ helyen szletett, tl a Dunn, a hol legsznesebb a magyar sz, a frgedi pusztn, egy kis ispni lakban, csiksok, bojtrok, regbresek s urasgi hajdk kzt, s j idben, 1823-ban, mikor mg a rgi vilg meg volt a maga pipz...

History of the war in the Peninsula and in the south of France from the year 1807 to the year 1814, vol. 3The manuscript authorities consulted for this volume consist of original papers and correspondence of the duke of Wellington, marshal Soult, king Joseph,...

Insect life: Souvenirs of a naturalistThis little volume introduces the work of a great French naturalist to the reader of English. Raumur, another Frenchman, is the greatest naturalist devoting himself to the observation of insects the world has yet seen. His six quarto volumesMmoires...

The passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European historyThe addition of a Documentary Supplement to the latest revision of this book has been made in response to a persistent demand for authorities. The author has endeavored to make the references...

Dark DawnThe Albacore was eight hundred miles out of Suva, feeling her way through the Pacific toward a destination unmarked except on the charts. She was a Navy cruiser jury-rigged into a floating laboratory, Navy manned, but carrying a dozen specialized technicians as passengers....

A világegyetem élete és megismerésének története a legrégibb időtől napjainkigA vilgok keletkezse cm munkmat oly nagy jakarattal fogadtk, hogy azt elgg meg nem ksznhetem. Ennek egyik kvetkezmnye volt az is, hogy gy ismersk, mint ismeretlenek a legklnbzbb krdsekkel fordultak hozzm. E krdsek gyakran azon...

The quest of the Silver Swan: A land and sea tale for boysHere and there a flying fish, spurning its usual element, cut the air like a swift ray of light, falling back into the sea again after its short flight with a splash...

Address of President Roosevelt at St. Louis, Missouri, October 2, 1907It is a very real pleasure to address this body of citizens of Missouri here in the great city of St. Louis. I have often visited St. Louis before, but always by rail. Now...

The book of the ancient Greeks - An introduction to the history and civilization of Greece from the coming of the Greeks to the conquest of Corinth by Rome in 146 B.C. Copyright, 1925 by Dorothy Mills Published, August, 1925 Second impression, March, 1928...

The triumph over MidianIn attempting to illustrate the history of the victory of Gideon, I am conscious that I am entering on well-trodden ground. Others have gathered the lessons and examined the types with which that portion of the Scripture-field is so richly studded....

Joel Chandler Harris' life of Henry W. Grady including his writings and speechesIT is within the bounds of entire accuracy to say that the death of no man ever created a deeper and more universal sorrow than that which responded to the announcement that...

Among unknown Eskimo - An account of twelve years intimate relations with the primitive Eskimo of ice-bound Baffin Land, with a description of their ways of living, hunting customs & beliefsIn offering the present book on the Eskimo tribes of the Arctics to the...

Angola and the River Congo, vol. 2The distance from Ambriz to Loanda is about sixty miles, and the greater part of the country is called Mossulo, from being inhabited by a tribe of that name. These natives have not yet been reduced to obedience...

The Cornhill Magazine, February, 1860 (Vol. I, No. 2)Almost the last words which Sir Walter spoke to Lockhart, his biographer, were, Be a good man, my dear! and with the last flicker of breath on his dying lips, he sighed a farewell to his...

The Princess Athura: A romance of IranIT was morning on the plains of Asia. Long-legged herons stood in the shallows of the yellow Jaxartes, bathing their feet in its sluggish flood and warming their bodies in the first rays of the sun. They were...

Progressive ChileIn the following presentation of Progressive Chile, no effort has been made to elaborate, to give undue coloring to the picture, or to magnify its defects. It is a record of impressions gained from personal observations, of the life and customs of the...