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Three Accounts of Peterloo by EyewitnessesThree Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses - Bishop Stanley, Lord Hylton, John Benjamin Smith; with Bishop Stanley's Evidence at the Trial Of the three accounts of the Tragedy of Peterloo given here, two (the first and third) have never been published before. The second...
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Sisaret: RomaaniSisaret: RomaaniKummallisen sattumuksen kautta on Memphiin hvinneest kuninkaallisesta arkistosta silynyt jlkimaailmalle joukko kirjoituksia, jotka sisltvt kreikankielisi papyyrukselle kirjoitettuja anomuskirjoja, Nmt on ers serapeumiin sulkeutunut, makedonialaista syntyper oleva erakko tehnyt kahden kaksoissisaren hyvksi, jotka "juoma-uhrien valelijoina" palvelivat jumalaa. Ensi silmykselt nmt anomuskirjat tuskin nyttvt huomiota...
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The Proper Limits of the Government's Interference with the Affairs of the East-India CompanyThe Proper Limits of the Government's Interference with the Affairs of the East-India Company - Attempted to be Assigned with some few Reflections Extorted by, and on, the Distracted State of the TimesEvery effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as...
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The ghosts of their ancestorsThe ghosts of their ancestorshere was a clanging, brassy melody upon the air. For three-score years since York of the Scarlet Coats died, and the tune "God Save the King" floated for the last time out of tavern door and mansion window, the bells...
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Body, Parentage and Character in History: Notes on the Tudor PeriodBody, Parentage and Character in History: Notes on the Tudor PeriodIn my little work on Character as Seen in Body and Parentage I have put forward not a system, but a number of conclusions touching the relationship which I believe to exist between certain...
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An Englishman's View of the Battle between the Alabama and the KearsargeAn Englishman's View of the Battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge - An Account of the Naval Engagement in the British Channel, on Sunday June 19th, 1864THE NAVAL ENGAGEMENT IN THE BRITISH CHANNEL, ON SUNDAY, JUNE 19TH, 1864. FROM INFORMATION PERSONALLY OBTAINED IN...
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The Women of the ConfederacyThe Women of the ConfederacyOne of the last things the great Henry W. Grady said, was: If I die, I die serving the South, the land I love so well. My father died fighting for it. I am proud to die speaking for it....
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The Captured Scout of the Army of the JamesThe Captured Scout of the Army of the James - A Sketch of the Life of Sergeant Henry H. Manning, of the Twenty-fourth Mass. RegimentThe fact that it was shaped to be spoken rather than to be read,designed for the ear rather than for...
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A West Country PilgrimageA West Country PilgrimageEast of Exe River and south of those rolling heaths crowned by the encampment of Woodberry, there lies a green valley surrounded by forest and hill. Beyond it rise great bluffs that break in precipices upon the sea. They are dimmed...
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The Story of the ToysThe Story of the ToysThis story of my mother's family was set down by her originally only to recall it to my mind when I might no longer listen to it as it fell so often from her own lips. It was written in...
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Harriet MartineauHarriet Martineau The material for this biographical and critical sketch of Harriet Martineau and her works has been drawn from a variety of sources. Some of it is quite new. Her own Autobiography was completed in 1855; and there has not hitherto been anything...
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Kongens FaldKongens FaldVejen bjede tilvenstre over en Bro og ind gennem Serritslev By; Grfterne laa med mrkt Grs og gule Smaablomster, ude over Markerne hvilede hist og her en hvid Blak, en Blomstertaage, i Skumringen. Solen var gaaet under, og Luften stod klig klar, skyls...
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In the Days of the GuildIn the Days of the GuildIn the reign of King HenryII., when as yet there were no factories, no railways or even coaches, no post-offices and no tea-tables in England, a boy sat on a hillside not far from Salisbury Plain, with a great...
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Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-TalesPawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales - With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee peopleLast spring I visited the Pawnee Agency in the Indian Territory. On the day after my arrival, I rode over to the house of Eagle Chief, whom,...
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Mémoires du général baron de Marbot (3/3)Mémoires du général baron de Marbot (3/3) J'engage le colonel Marbot continuer crire pour la dfense de la gloire des armes franaises et en confondre les calomniateurs et les apostats. (Testament de Napolon.) Mon frre et les autres aides de camp de Massna ne...
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Mémoires du général baron de Marbot (2/3)Mémoires du général baron de Marbot (2/3) J'engage le colonel Marbot continuer crire pour la dfense de la gloire des armes franaises et en confondre les calomniateurs et les apostats. (Testament de Napolon.) Pour l'intelligence de ce que je vais raconter, il est indispensable...
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Mémoires du général baron de Marbot (1/3)Mémoires du général baron de Marbot (1/3) J'engage le colonel Marbot continuer crire pour la dfense de la gloire des armes franaises et en confondre les calomniateurs et les apostats. (Testament de Napolon.) Je rejoins Paris mon pre et mes frres.Mon pre est nomm...
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Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume 2 (of 2)Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume 2 (of 2) - A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings CHAPTER PAGE I.Franklin's Personal Characteristics 1 II.Franklin as a Man of Business 26 III.Franklin as a Statesman 95 IV.Franklin as a Man of Science 350...
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William the ThirdWilliam the ThirdWilliam Henry, Prince of Orange and Count of Nassau, a ruler destined to play a greater part in shaping the destinies of modern England than any of her native sovereigns, was born at the Hague on the 4th of November 1650. By...
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Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, Volume 1 (of 2)Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, Volume 1 (of 2) - A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own WritingsIn reading the life of Benjamin Franklin, the most lasting impressions left upon the mind are those of versatility and abundance. His varied genius lent itself...
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