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The Guns of Shiloh: A Story of the Great Western CampaignThe Guns of Shiloh: A Story of the Great Western Campaign The Guns of Shiloh, a complete story in itself, is the complement of The Guns of Bull Run. In The Guns of Bull Run the Civil War and its beginnings are seen through...
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My Life — Volume 1My Life — Volume 1The contents of these volumes have been written down directly from my dictation, over a period of several years, by my friend and wife, who wished me to tell her the story of my life. It was the desire of...
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Pearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of JerusalemPearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem It was but two hours after midnight, yet many were wakeful in Csarea on the Syrian coast. Herod Agrippa, King of all Palestineby grace of the Romansnow at the very apex of his power, celebrated a...
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Aladdin O'BrienAladdin O'Brien It was on the way home from Sunday-school that Aladdin had enticed Margaret to the forbidden river. She was not sure that he knew how to row, for he was prone to exaggerate his prowess at this and that, and she went...
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The PoetasterThe Poetaster THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben Jonson,...
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The TreasureThe TreasureI. At Solberga Parsonage II. On the Quays III. The Messenger IV. In the Moonlight V. Haunted VI. In the Town Cellars VII. Unrest VIII. Sir Archie's Flight IX. Over the Ice X. The Roar of the Waves In the days when King...
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How I Found LivingstoneHow I Found Livingstone - Travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley On the sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine,...
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Chronicles of Canada series: Volume 07The Fighting Governor : A Chronicle of FrontenacThe Canada to which Frontenac came in 1672 was no longer the infant colony it had been when Richelieu founded the Company of One Hundred Associates. Through the efforts of Louis XIV and Colbert it had assumed...
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My Life — Volume 2My Life — Volume 2MINNA had been lucky enough to find quarters near Zurich which corresponded very closely with the wishes I had so emphatically expressed before leaving. The house was situated in the parish of Enge, a good fifteen minutes' walk from the...
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The Fortune of the RougonsThe Fortune of the Rougons I wish to explain how a family, a small group of human beings, conducts itself in a given social system after blossoming forth and giving birth to ten or twenty members, who, though they may appear, at the first...
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Quotations from John L. Motley WorksQuotations from John L. Motley WorksReaders acquainted with the works of John L. Motley may wish to see if their favorite passages are listed in this selection. The eBook editor will be glad to add your suggestions. One of the advantages of internet over...
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Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. PopeLetters to Sir William Windham and Mr. PopeHenry St. John, who became Viscount Bolingbroke in 1712, was born on the 1st of October, 1678, at the family manor of Battersea, then a country village. His grandfather, Sir Walter St. John, lived there with his...
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The Young Carthaginian: A Story of The Times of HannibalThe Young Carthaginian: A Story of The Times of Hannibal MY DEAR LADS, When I was a boy at school, if I remember rightly, our sympathies were generally with the Carthaginians as against the Romans. Why they were so, except that one generally sympathizes...
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The Prodigal JudgeThe Prodigal Judge CHAPTER I. THE BOY AT THE BARONY CHAPTER II. YANCY TELLS A MORAL TALE CHAPTER III. TROUBLE AT SCRATCH HILL CHAPTER IV. LAW AT BALAAM'S CROSS-ROADS CHAPTER V. THE ENCOUNTER CHAPTER VI. BETTY SETS OUT FOR TENNESSEE CHAPTER VII. THE FIGHT...
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The Contest in AmericaThe Contest in America The cloud which for the space of a month hung gloomily over the civilized world, black with far worse evils than those of simple war, has passed from over our heads without bursting. The fear has not been realized, that...
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Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, ClerkCitation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, ClerkThese words were really spoken, and were repeated in conversation as most ridiculous. Certainly such was very far from the ladys intention; and who knows to what extent they are true?...
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The Confessions of a BeachcomberThe Confessions of a BeachcomberTo the Honourable Robert Philp, M.L.A. "Exact in his life, Extensive in his charity, Exemplary in everything he does," THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY ONE WHO OWES TO HIM MUCH OF HIS LOVE FOR TROPICAL QUEENSLAND. Does the fact...
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The Canadian Brothers Or, The Prophecy Fulfilled: A Tale of the Late American War — Volume 2The Canadian Brothers; Or, The Prophecy Fulfilled: A Tale of the Late American War — Volume 2A few days after the adventure detailed in our last chapter, the American party, consisting of Major and Miss Montgomerie, and the daughters of the Governor, with their...
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The Canadian Brothers Or, The Prophecy Fulfilled: A Tale of the Late American War — CompleteThe Canadian Brothers; Or, The Prophecy Fulfilled: A Tale of the Late American War — CompleteWindsor Castle, October 29, 1832. DEAR SIR,I have received your letter of the 27th instant, and beg to reply that there cannot be the least objection to your sending...
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The Canadian Brothers Or, The Prophecy Fulfilled: A Tale of the Late American War — Volume 1The Canadian Brothers; Or, The Prophecy Fulfilled: A Tale of the Late American War — Volume 1Windsor Castle, October 29, 1832. DEAR SIR,I have received your letter of the 27th instant, and beg to reply that there cannot be the least objection to your...
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