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The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me TangereThe Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me TangereWe travel rapidly in these historical sketches. The reader flies in his express train in a few minutes through a couple of centuries. The centuries pass more slowly to those to whom the years...
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Memoir of Father Vincent de Paul religious of La TrappeMemoir of Father Vincent de Paul; religious of La TrappeThe reply of Maximilian to the wealthy courtier who tendered him a goodly purse of gold for a title of nobility, was worthy of that emperor: "I can enrich thee," he said, "but only thy...
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England under the TudorsEngland under the TudorsIn England, as in France and Germany, the main characteristic of the last twenty years, from the point of view of the student of history, has been that new material has been accumulating much faster than it can be assimilated or...
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The Wentworth LetterThe Wentworth Letter At the request of Mr. John Wentworth, Editor, and Proprietor of the "Chicago Democrat," I have written the following sketch of the rise, progress, persecution, and faith of the Latter-Day Saints, of which I have the honor, under God, of being...
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The Earth TrembledThe Earth TrembledAt the beginning of the Civil War there was a fine old residence on Meeting Street in Charleston, South Carolina, inhabited by a family almost as old as the State. Its inheritor and owner, Orville Burgoyne, was a widower. He had been...
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ChinaChinaAs China has now fairly taken her place in the family of nations, it is unnecessary to elaborate an argument in support of even the humblest attempt to elucidate her history. It is a subject to which we can no longer remain indifferent, because...
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The Emancipation of MassachusettsThe Emancipation of Massachusetts I wrote this little volume more than thirty years ago, since when I have hardly opened it. Therefore I now read it almost as if it were written by another man, and I find to my relief that, on the...
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Mrs. ShelleyMrs. ShelleyI have to thank all the previous students of Shelley as poet and mannot last nor least among whom is my husbandfor their loving and truthful research on all the subjects surrounding the life of Mrs. Shelley. Every aspect has been presented, and...
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Life of Harriet Beecher StoweLife of Harriet Beecher Stowe - Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward StoweAt my suggestion and with what assistance I have been able to render, my son, Ross Charles Edward Stowe, has compiled from my letters and journals, this...
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Inns and Taverns of Old LondonInns and Taverns of Old LondonFor all races of Teutonic origin the claim is made that they are essentially home-loving people. Yet the Englishman of the sixteenth and seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially of the latter, is seen to have exercised considerable zeal in...
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Once Upon a Time in ConnecticutOnce Upon a Time in ConnecticutIt is a pleasure to write a few words of introduction to this collection of stories dealing with the early history of Connecticut, a state that can justly point with pride to a past rich in features of life...
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Discours Civiques de DantonDiscours Civiques de DantonVoici le seul orateur populaire de la Rvolution. De tous ceux qui, la Constituante, la Lgislative ou la Convention, ont occup la tribune et mrit le laurier de l'loquence, Danton est le seul dont la parole trouva un cho dans la...
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FieldingFieldingFrom a critical point of view, the works of Fielding have received abundant examination at the hands of a long line of distinguished writers. Of these, the latest is by no means the least; and as Mr. Leslie Stephen's brilliant studies, in the recent...
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From the Caves and Jungles of HindostanFrom the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan "You must remember," said Mme. Blavatsky, "that I never meant this for a scientific work. My letters to the Russian Messenger, under the general title: 'From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan,' were written in leisure moments,...
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Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02After the death of Cromwell, on September 3rd, 1658, there ensued for the exiled Court twenty months of constant alternation between hope and despair, in which the gloom greatly preponderated. As the chief pilot of the...
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The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830The story of the United States has frequently been told. It has been told in the spirit of boasting, as a marvel of local accomplishment. It has been told in the spirit of reverence, as the work...
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History of King Charles the Second of EnglandHistory of King Charles the Second of EnglandThe author of this series has made it his special object to confine himself very strictly, even in the most minute details which he records, to historic truth. The narratives are not tales founded upon history, but...
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Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01The journals of Champlain, commonly called his Voyages, were written and published by him at intervals from 1603 to 1632. The first volume was printed in 1603, and entitled, 1. Des Sauuages, ou, Voyage de Samuel Champlain,...
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A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — CompleteA Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete Behold a nation whose fame had spread over all the earth ere the flag of England had come into existence. For 500 years her life has...
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A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2 Sir Henry Sidney, in writing to his court, had always reported John O'Neil as "the only strong man in Ireland." Before his rout at Lough...
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