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The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858 DEAR SPEED:Yours of the 9th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a "bore," but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In...
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Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the GrayCaptains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter began the third and greatest modern civil war fought by English-speaking people. This war was quite as full of politics...
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The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843 Immediately after Lincoln's re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows:...
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Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 2Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 2While occupying the ground between Clifton and Berryville, referred to in the last chapter of the preceding volume, I felt the need of an efficient body of scouts to collect information regarding...
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Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 1Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 1When, yielding to the solicitations of my friends, I finally decided to write these Memoirs, the greatest difficulty which confronted me was that of recounting my share in the many notable events...
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Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1 THIS work has been undertaken principally from a conviction that it is the performance of a duty which, to the best of my ability, it is incumbent on me to fulfil. Though even on this ground...
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The Second Funeral of NapoleonThe Second Funeral of Napoleon MY DEAR ,It is no easy task in this world to distinguish between what is great in it, and what is mean; and many and many is the puzzle that I have had in reading History (or the works...
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The History of John BullThe History of John Bull The world is much indebted to the famous Sir Humphry Polesworth for his ingenious and impartial account of John Bull's lawsuit. Yet there is just cause of complaint against him, in that he relates it only by parcels, and...
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Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Volume 2Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Volume 2On the 18th day of March, 1864, at Nashville, Tennessee, I relieved Lieutenant-General Grant in command of the Military Division of the Mississippi, embracing the Departments of the Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee, and Arkansas, commanded respectively by...
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Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Volume 1Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Volume 1Another ten years have passed since I ventured to publish my Memoirs, and, being once more at leisure, I have revised them in the light of the many criticisms public and private. My habit has been...
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The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 ON the eighteenth of January 1691, the King, having been detained some days by adverse winds, went on board at Gravesend. Four yachts had been fitted up for him and for...
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The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 THE Revolution had been accomplished. The decrees of the Convention were everywhere received with submission. London, true during fifty eventful years to the cause of civil freedom and of the reformed...
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The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 I HAVE thought it right to publish that portion of the continuation of the "History of England" which was fairly transcribed and revised by Lord Macaulay. It is given to the...
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The Hunchback of Notre DameNotre-Dame de Paris A few years ago, while visiting or, rather, rummaging about Notre-Dame, the author of this book found, in an obscure nook of one of the towers, the following word, engraved by hand upon the wall: . These Greek capitals, black with...
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The Vicomte De BragelonneThe Vicomte De Bragelonne The Vicomte de Bragelonne is the final volume of DArtagnan Romances: it is usually split into three or four parts, and the final portion is entitled The Man in the Iron Mask. The Man in the Iron Mask were familiar...
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Noto: An Unexplored Corner of JapanNoto: An Unexplored Corner of JapanPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two...
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The Life of Stephen A. DouglasThe Life of Stephen A. DouglasPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two...
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The Modern Regime, Volume 1The Modern Regime, Volume 1 Neither lips nor heart are capable of pronouncing the above invigorating and conclusive phrase after a silence of 30 years. That local society ought to be a private association, does not interest those who are concerned, while the legislator...
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The Modern Regime, Volume 2The Modern Regime, Volume 2 "To treat of the Church, the School, and the Family, describe the modern milieu and note the facilities and obstacles which a society like our own encounters in this milieu, such was the program of the last5101 section of...
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The French Revolution - Volume 2The French Revolution - Volume 2 In this volume, as in those preceding it and in those to come, there will be found only the history of Public Authorities. Others will write that of diplomacy, of war, of the finances, of the Church; my...
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