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The Scottish ChiefsThe Scottish ChiefsBright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end. Ambition seemed satiated; and the vanquished, after having passed under the yoke of their enemy, concluded they might wear their chains in peace. Such were...
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School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present timeSchool History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present timeIn the publication of a fourteenth edition it seems proper that something should be said as to changes made in this work. At a session of the North Carolina Board of Education, held...
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Louis Agassiz: His Life and CorrespondenceLouis Agassiz: His Life and CorrespondenceI am aware that this book has neither the fullness of personal narrative, nor the closeness of scientific analysis, which its too comprehensive title might lead the reader to expect. A word of explanation is therefore needed. I thought...
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The Legends of San FranciscoThe Legends of San Francisco You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of receipt...
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The Unwilling VestalThe Unwilling Vestal The title of this romance is likely to prejudice any reader against it. There exists a popular delusion that fiction with a classical setting is bound to be dull and lumbering, that it is impossible for it to possess that quality...
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King--of the Khyber Rifles: A Romance of AdventureKing--of the Khyber Rifles: A Romance of Adventure The men who govern India--more power to them and her!--are few. Those who stand in their way and pretend to help them with a flood of words are a host. And from the host goes up...
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Memoirs of Lady FanshaweMemoirs of Lady Fanshawe - Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, Bt., Ambassador from Charles II to the Courts of Portugal and Madrid.Anne, Lady Fanshawe.Frontispiece From a painting formerly at Parsloes The Original Manuscript of the Fanshawe Memoirs Ware Park, Hertfordshire From an old print...
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Works of John Bunyan — CompleteWorks of John Bunyan — CompleteIt is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and little minding a crucified Jesus, when, in the meanwhile, their bodies are well provided for, their estates...
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Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03It is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and little minding a crucified Jesus, when, in the meanwhile, their bodies are well provided for, their...
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Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02Though this be a small treatise, yet it doth present thee with things of the greatest and most weighty concernment, even with a discourse of life and death to eternity: opening, and clearing, by the scriptures of God,...
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Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 When the Philistine giant, Goliath, mocked the host of Israel, and challenged any of their stern warriors to single combat, what human being could have imagined that the gigantic heathen would be successfully met in the mortal...
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Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of ConstantinopleMemoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople Be it known to you that eleven hundred and ninety-seven years after the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the time of Innocent Pope of Rome, and Philip King of France,...
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Memoirs of My Life and WritingsMemoirs of My Life and Writings In the fifty-second year of my age, after the completion of an arduous and successful work, I now propose to employ some moments of my leisure in reviewing the simple transactions of a private and literary life. Truth,...
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The Iron Star — And What It Saw on Its Journey Through the AgesThe Iron Star — And What It Saw on Its Journey Through the Ages - From Myth to HistoryThis is a wonderful old world of ours, the one we live in. It is wonderful to think how it has grown, day by day, year...
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The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 Louisbourg was no mere isolated stronghold which could be lost or won without affecting the wider issues of oversea dominion. On the contrary, it was a necessary link in the chain of waterside posts which...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.DThe Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.In every narrative, whether historical or biographical, authenticity is of the utmost consequence. Of this I have ever been so firmly persuaded, that I inscribed a former work to that person who was...
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Under the StormUnder the Storm We hear a great deal about King and Parliament, great lords and able generals, Cavaliers and Roundheads, but this story is to help us to think how it must have gone in those times with quiet folk in cottages and farmhouses....
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Maximilian in Mexico: A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862-1867Maximilian in Mexico: A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862-1867His approval of five articles on the French Intervention and the reign of Maximilian, which appeared in the "Century Magazine" in 1897, and his earnest request that they "be published in a more permanent...
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Station Amusements in New ZealandStation Amusements in New Zealand The interest shown by the public in the simple and true account of every-day life in New Zealand, published by the author three years ago, has encouraged her to enlarge upon the theme. This volume is but a continuation...
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In Kedar's TentsIn Kedar's TentsIt is in the staging of her comedies that fate shows herself superior to mere human invention. While we, with careful regard to scenery, place our conventional puppets on the stage and bid them play their old old parts in a manner...
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