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Sexueele Zeden in Woord en Beeld: De Humor in het GeslachtslevenSexueele Zeden in Woord en Beeld: De Humor in het GeslachtslevenHet liefdeleven van den mensch wekt volstrekt niet alleen naar verheven gedachten, dichterlijke stemmingen, romantische mijmeringen en wat dies meer zij. Het is ook een onuitputtelijke bron van humor. Behalve jubelende hoogliederen en dwepend...
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A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany, Vol. 1 (of 2)A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany, Vol. 1 (of 2) - With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent CharactersFrom a diffidence of his own abilities, and from other motives not so well founded, the Author of the following Letters thought...
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De Twee Broeders: Een Kennemer Legende uit de jaren 1420-1436De Twee Broeders: Een Kennemer Legende uit de jaren 1420-1436Het was laat in den herfst van het jaar 1420. De zon was reeds lang ondergegaan, zonder zich den geheelen dag ook maar een enkel oogenblik te hebben vertoond. Zij had zich schuil gehouden achter...
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Madame Adam (Juliette Lambert), la grande FrançaiseMadame Adam (Juliette Lambert), la grande Française - from Louis Philippe until 1917La Grande Franaise [1] Professor of Energy, a term first applied to Napolon I, is a title which has been bestowed on more than one living Frenchman. None has better claim to...
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Brave BelgiansBrave BelgiansI am glad to hear that you have now completed the work you undertook of collecting, from our soldiers themselves, these accounts of the war. They will certainly help people to know, and to appreciate, what you so rightly call our heroic and...
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My Colored BattalionMy Colored BattalionYou know, too, that for some time, during the Great World War, we were in the very front lines of that magnificent wave of determined Allies in France who held and at last swept back the fiendish forces of autocracy and tyranny...
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Life in Afrikanderland as viewed by an AfrikanderLife in Afrikanderland as viewed by an Afrikander - A story of life in South Africa, based on truthTo the Reader, Gentle Reader, I have written this story in the English languagea language learned by me, as a foreign language, for the chief purpose...
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Some Experiences of a New Guinea Resident MagistrateSome Experiences of a New Guinea Resident MagistrateIt appears to be the custom, for writers of books of this description, to begin with apologies as to their style, or excuses for their production. I pretend to no style; but have simply written at the...
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Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, Volume 4 (of 4)Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 4 (of 4)Victories of the Russians.Altercation with France.Position of the Duc de Choiseul.Origin of his Power.His Character.Madame du Barry.Her Influence opposed to that of the Duc.Opposition to her Presentation at Court, which is at...
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Comenius and the Beginnings of Educational ReformComenius and the Beginnings of Educational ReformThe present volume is an effort to trace the reform movement in education from Vives, Bacon, and Ratke to Comenius, who gave the movement its most significant force and direction; and from him to the later reformers,Francke, Rousseau,...
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The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society (Vol. II)The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society (Vol. II)I take great pleasure in presenting the second volume of the Journal to the Society. In so doing, I desire to acknowledge many courtesies received from various sources during its preparation. I have also been favored...
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Perry's Saints Or, The Fighting Parson's Regiment in the War of the RebellionPerry's Saints; Or, The Fighting Parson's Regiment in the War of the RebellionTo the rising generation the war of the rebellion already seems more like a romance than a reality. One by one the active participants in that momentous period of the nation's history...
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The Manchester and Glasgow Road, Volume 2 (of 2)The Manchester and Glasgow Road, Volume 2 (of 2) - This Way to Gretna GreenLondon Road Railway Station nowadays marks the beginning of central Manchester. Hitherto the long, long approach, although busy and crowded, has been, if not a thought suburban, at least busy...
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Ben Hur: Una storia di CristoBen Hur: Una storia di Cristo Dopo che il Quo Vadis ha portato una vera rivoluzione nel campo dei romanzi storici, parr per lo meno ardito presentare al pubblico una nuova opera dello stesso genere sostenendo che, per elevatezza di concetti ispiratori, e per...
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Sun and Shadow in SpainSun and Shadow in SpainBY MAUD HOWE Author of Roma Beata, Two in Italy, Etc. WITH PICTURES FROM PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1908 {iv} Copyright, 1908, By Little, Brown, and Company. All rights reserved Published November, 1908 The...
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Observations of an Illinois Boy in Battle, Camp and Prisons—1861 to 1865Observations of an Illinois Boy in Battle, Camp and Prisons—1861 to 1865 The story contained in this book is a true one. It was taken from letters, memoranda and memory. The author has in his possession twenty-nine letters written by him while in the...
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Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune TellingGypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling - Illustrated by numerous incantations, specimens of medical magic, anecdotes and talesThis work contains a collection of the customs, usages, and ceremonies current among gypsies, as regards fortune-telling, witch-doctoring, love-philtering, and other sorcery, illustrated by many anecdotes and instances,...
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Essays of an AmericanistEssays of an Americanist - I. Ethnologic and Archæologic. II. Mythology and Folk Lore. III. Graphic Systems and Literature. IV. Linguistic.The word Essays appears on the title of this book in the sense in which old Montaigne employed itattempts, endeavors. The articles which make...
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The South Devon CoastThe South Devon CoastIf the map of Devon be measured across in a straight line, it will be found that, from Lyme Regis, where it joins Dorsetshire, to Kings Tamerton on the River Tamar, where Devonshire at its westernmost extremity looks across to Saltash,...
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Sicily in Shadow and in Sun: The Earthquake and the American Relief WorkSicily in Shadow and in Sun: The Earthquake and the American Relief WorkTHE EARTHQUAKE AND THE AMERICAN RELIEF WORK BY MAUD HOWE AUTHOR OF ROMA BEATA, SUN AND SHADOW IN SPAIN, TWO IN ITALY, ETC. With numerous illustrations Including pictures from photographs taken in...
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