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A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries - And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864It has been my object in this work to give as clear an account as I was able of tracts of...

A Popular Account of the Manners and Customs of IndiaThe author of the present work was a clergyman, who, along with his wife, quitted England about the beginning of the year 1842, leaving behind him several young children, to whom, as appears from the...

A Popular Account of Thugs and Dacoits, the Hereditary Garotters and Gang-Robbers of IndiaThey who reverence ancient descent, and a long line of ancestors, are bound to regard the Thugs with peculiar veneration. Perhaps, neither in Asia nor in Europe are there any other...

A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools - Including by Special Permission Notes Collected from the Works of John RuskinThe pictures in the National Gallery are hung methodically, so far as the wall-space and other circumstances will admit, in order...

A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth EditionSince the third edition of the present work issued from the press, the nineteenth century has run its course and finished its record. A new era has dawned, not by chronological prescription alone,...

A Popular History of England, From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria; Vol. I "The History of France," related to his grandchildren by M. Guizot, is now universally known. It has supplied a want which every one must have felt; it...

A Popular History of England, From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria; Vol. II death (143), army (116), Tower of London (95), war, died, battle, arms, money, power, enemies, soldiers, reign, prison, unhappy, insurrection, condemned, vain, treaty, refuge, possession, influence, forces,...

A Popular History of England, From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria; Vol. III Scarcely had the soul of Queen Elizabeth taken farewell of her body when a distant cousin of the great sovereign, Sir Robert Carey, posted to Scotland, being...

A Popular History of England, From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria; Vol. IV King James had abandoned England, fleeing from the storm which he had raised, obstinate in his ideas and holding persistently to the hope of a return, which...

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times - A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions "The Arabs Had Decamped Silently in the Night."195 Charlemagne Presiding at the School of The Palace246 He Remained There a Long While, and his Eyes Were...

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 CHAPTER I.GAUL. CHAPTER II. THE GAULS OUT OF GAUL. CHAPTER III.THE ROMANS IN GAUL. CHAPTER IV.GAUL CONQUERED BY JULIUS CAESAR. CHAPTER V.GAUL UNDER ROMAN DOMINION. CHAPTER VI.ESTABLISHMENT OF CHRISTIANITY IN GAUL. CHAPTER VII.THE...

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 CHAPTER XVII.THE CRUSADES, THEIR DECLINE AND END. CHAPTER XVIII.THE KINGSHIP IN FRANCE. CHAPTER XIX.THE COMMUNES AND THE THIRD ESTATE. CHAPTER XX.THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR.PHILIP VI. AND JOHN II. CHAPTER XXI.THE STATESGENERAL OF THE...

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 CHAPTER XXIII.THE HUNDRED YEARS WARCHARLES VI. AND THE DUKES OF BURGUNDY CHAPTER XXIV.THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR.CHARLES VII. AND JOAN OF ARC (1422-1461) CHAPTER XXV.LOUIS XI. (1461-1483.) CHAPTER XXVI.THE WARS OF ITALY. CHARLES VIII....

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 CHAPTER XXVIII.FRANCIS I. AND CHARLES V. CHAPTER XXIX.FRANCIS I. AND THE RENAISSANCE. CHAPTER XXX.FRANCIS I. AND THE REFORMATION. CHAPTER XXXI.HENRY II. (1547-1559.) CHAPTER XXXII.FRANCIS II., JULY 10, 1559DECEMBER 5, 1560. CHAPTER XXXIII.CHARLES IX....

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 CHAPTER XXXV.HENRY IV., PROTESTANT KING. (1589-1593.) CHAPTER XXXVI.HENRY IV., CATHOLIC KING. (1593-1610.) CHAPTER XXXVII.REGENCY OF MARY DE MEDICI. (1610-1617.) CHAPTER XXXVIII.LOUIS XIII., CARDINAL RICHELIEU, AND THE COURT. CHAPTER XXXIX.LOUIS XIII., CARDINAL RICHELIEU, AND...

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 CHAPTER XLIX.LOUIS XIV. AND HIS COURT. CHAPTER L.LOUIS XIV. AND DEATH. 1711-1715. CHAPTER LI.LOUIS XV., THE REGENCY, AND CARDINAL DUBOIS. 1715-1723. CHAPTER LII.LOUIS XV., THE MINISTRY OF CARDINAL FLEURY., 1723-1748. CHAPTER LIII.LOUIS XV.,...

How Africa's most notorious tyrant made his oppressive regime seem both necessary and patriotic Idi Amin ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979, inflicting tremendous violence on the people of the country. How did Amin's regime survive for eight calamitous years? Drawing on recently uncovered...

A 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...

A 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...

A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 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...