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Travels in Southern Europe and the Levant, 1810-1817Travels in Southern Europe and the Levant, 1810-1817 - The Journal of C. R. Cockerell, R.A.My father, Charles Robert Cockerell, whose travels the following pages record, was the second son of Samuel Pepys Cockerell, a man of some means, architect to the East India...
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La vie privée d'autrefois Arts et métiers, modes, moeurs, usages des parisiens du XIIe au XVIIIe siècle. Les soins de toilette Le savoir-vivreLa vie privée d'autrefois; Arts et métiers, modes, moeurs, usages des parisiens du XIIe au XVIIIe siècle. Les soins de toilette; Le savoir-vivreJusqu'au milieu du dix-septime sicle, tout barbier tait en mme temps chirurgien. Dans sa boutique, obscure et sale, il rasait et saignait,...
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In Tamal LandIn Tamal Land To the average tourist there are few states in the Union which offer more attractions than California. Though its mild climate, fertile valleys, and scenic beauties are counted among its chief assets, still they are not its sole possessions, for, linked...
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Old Crosses and LychgatesOld Crosses and Lychgates IN pursuance of the Christian policy of instituting an innocent practice to take the place of each of the old, vicious customs of heathendomthe substitution of the festival of Christmas for the former orgies of the Saturnalia is perhaps the...
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Les trois mousquetaires, Volume 1 (of 2)Les trois mousquetaires, Volume 1 (of 2)Se souvient-on encore, dans le monde o tu es, des choses de notre monde, ou cette seconde vie, ternelle, nexiste-t-elle que dans notre imagination, enfante, au milieu de nos reproches lexistence, par notre terreur de ne plus tre?...
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Jewish PortraitsJewish PortraitsThe papers which form this volume have already appeared in the pages of Good Words, Macmillans Magazine, The National Review, and The Spectator, and are reprinted with the very kindly given permission of the editors. The Frontispiece is reproduced through the kindness of...
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Colección de Documentos Inéditos Relativos al Descubrimiento, Conquista y Organización de las Antiguas Posesiones Españolas de Ultramar. Tomo 1, Isla de CubaColección de Documentos Inéditos Relativos al Descubrimiento, Conquista y Organización de las Antiguas Posesiones Españolas de Ultramar. Tomo 1, Isla de CubaEn las cifras en nmeros romanos impresas en versalita en el original, el tamao de la letra U (1000) es mayor al del...
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Cleopatra: A StudyCleopatra: A StudyNous venons de recevoir votre chque, et nous vous envoyons en change, par la prsente lettre, tant en notre nom quau nom de lauteur, lautorisation exclusive de publier aux Etats-Unis, une traduction de ltude de Mr. Henry Houssaye sur Cloptre. Nous saisissons...
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Castillo de San MarcosCastillo de San Marcos - A Guide to Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, FloridaCastillo de San Marcos National Monument is located in the longest continuously inhabited community founded by Europeans in the United States. This handbook tells the intercultural story of the long...
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Rock-climbing in the English Lake DistrictRock-climbing in the English Lake District - Third EditionSome eight years ago chance led me to the Lake District for the first time, and a kindly acquaintance whom I then met at Wastdale taught me something of the joys of rock-climbing. Since that occasion...
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Port Arthur: A Monster HeroismPort Arthur: A Monster HeroismThe sea attack on Port Arthur began on February 9th, 1904, at noon. The land isolation occurred on May 26th, when the Second Army, under General Oku, took Nanshan Hill. Four grand series of Russian defenses from Nanshan down the...
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Lincoln's Plan of ReconstructionLincoln's Plan of ReconstructionSo closely blended with the essential principles of our federal system of government were the causes of the Civil War that a clear understanding of its results appears to require some account of the origin, the independence and the permanent union...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 7 (of 9)The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 7 (of 9) - Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private (final form sigma) in the middle of a word has been normalized to . Greek diacritics were normalized to be all...
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Old Virginia and Her Neighbours, Vol. 2 (of 2)Old Virginia and Her Neighbours, Vol. 2 (of 2)These things that follow in this ensuing relation are certified by divers letters from Virginia, by men of worth and credit there, written to a friend in England, that for his own and others satisfaction was...
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The Romance of the HaremThe Romance of the Harem"Truth is often stranger than fiction," but so strange will some of the occurrences related in the following pages appear to Western readers, that I deem it necessary to state that they are also true. Most of the stories, incidents,...
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The Achievement of the British Navy in the World-WarThe Achievement of the British Navy in the World-WarWhen King George returned from the visit he paid to the Grand Fleet in June, 1917, he sent a message to Admiral Sir David Beatty, who had succeeded Sir John Jellicoe in the command, in which...
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Vienna 1683Vienna 1683 - The History and Consequences of the Defeat of the Turks before Vienna, September 12, 1683, by John Sobieski, King of Poland, and Charles Leopold, Duke of LorraineThe historical scholar will find nothing new in the following pages; but I have thought...
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Ein Sommer im OrientEin Sommer im OrientDas Original wurde in Frakturschrift gesetzt; diese wird hier in Normalschrift dargestellt. Antiquaschrift wird in der vorliegenden Ausgabe kursiv dargestellt. Abhngig von der im jeweiligen Lesegert installierten Schriftart knnen die im Original gesperrt gedruckten Passagen gesperrt, in serifenloser Schrift, oder aber...
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Old Virginia and Her Neighbours, Vol. 1 (of 2)Old Virginia and Her Neighbours, Vol. 1 (of 2)In the series of books on American history, upon which I have for many years been engaged, the present volumes come between "The Discovery of America" and "The Beginnings of New England." The opening chapter, with...
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Marsena, and Other Stories of the WartimeMarsena, and Other Stories of the WartimeIt was not alone his flowing black hair, and his broad shirt-collars turned down after the ascertained manner of the British poets, which stamped him in our humble minds as a living brother to "The Corsair," "The Last...
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