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Carleton's Condensed Classical DictionaryCarleton's Condensed Classical DictionaryBEING BRIEF BUT SUCCINCT INFORMATION CONCERNING THE PROMINENT NAMES IN CLASSICAL HISTORY AND MYTHOLOGY, TOGETHER WITH THE MOST CONSPICUOUS INCIDENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THEM. CAREFULLY PREPARED AND EDITED BY GEORGE W. CARLETON, AUTHOR OF Our Artist in Cuba, Peru, Algiers and Spain....
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Red and White: A Tale of the Wars of the RosesRed and White: A Tale of the Wars of the RosesTitle: Red and White A Tale of the Wars of the Roses Author: Emily Sarah Holt Release Date: December 18, 2013 [EBook #44463] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 It is a proverbial truth...
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Lee and Longstreet at High Tide: Gettysburg in the Light of the Official RecordsLee and Longstreet at High Tide: Gettysburg in the Light of the Official RecordsI am glad to write an introduction to a memoir of Lieutenant-General Longstreet. If it be thought strange that I should write a preface to a memoir of a conspicuous adversary,...
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Basutoland: Its Legends and CustomsBasutoland: Its Legends and CustomsSome time ago, during a conversation about Basutoland, you suggested that I should write an account of the country and its inhabitants, and were kind enough to give me many valuable hints as to how I should collect and arrange...
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NoémiNoémiNow only did Jean look up, and what he saw made him drop his half-finished shaft and forget it. What Jean saw was this: a girl at some distance above him on the face of the rock, swaying a long-handled hammer, with which she...
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Chroniques de J. Froissart, tome 1/13, 1re partieChroniques de J. Froissart, tome 1/13, 1re partieFroissart est un monde. Au triple point de vue historique, littraire, philologique, on pourrait mme ajouter romanesque et potique, le chroniqueur de Valenciennes reprsente peu prs seul pour le commun des lecteurs un sicle presque entier, et...
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A Company of TanksA Company of Tanks"The words of an eye-witness, flowing naturally from first impressions, are frequently more expressive, and convey ideas more just than studied descriptions; though the language may often be such as it would scarcely be allowable in other persons to write." The...
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Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 2 of 2)Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 2 of 2) - With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present ConditionPausanias1 appears to have had great interest in the history of the Messenians; for his history of their wars is more minute and animated...
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The Queen of the Savannah: A Story of the Mexican WarThe Queen of the Savannah: A Story of the Mexican WarIf the reader will have the kindness to take a glance at a numerous cavalcade, which is debouching from a canyon and scaling at a gallop the scarped side of a rather lofty hill,...
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The War with Mexico, Volume 2 (of 2)The War with Mexico, Volume 2 (of 2)Right-side page headers contained descriptions of the current topic covered by the two open pages. These were retained and are placed as marginal notes. The choice of that position is not always obvious and should be regarded...
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The War with Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2)The War with Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2)As every one understands, our conflict with Mexico has been almost entirely eclipsed by the greater wars following it. But in the field of thought mere size does not count for much; and while the number of...
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Myths of the RhineMyths of the Rhine Primitive Times.The First Settlers on the Rhine.Masters going to School.Sanskrit and Breton.An Idle God.Microscopic Deities.Tree Worship.Birth-Trees and Death-Trees.....003 The Druids and their Creed.Esus.The Holy Oak.The Pforzheim Lime Tree.A Rival Plant.The Mistletoe and the Anguinufh.The Oracle at Do-dona.Immaculate Horses.The Druidesses.A late...
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A Tour Through the PyreneesA Tour Through the Pyrenees The Publishers take pleasure in acknowledging their indebtedness to Mr. Henry Blackburn for valuable hints in the arrangement of this volume. This, my dear Marcelin, is a trip to the Pyrenees; I have been there, and that is a...
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The Days of Chivalry Or, The Legend of CroquemitaineThe Days of Chivalry; Or, The Legend of CroquemitaineIN translating LEpines charming legend, I have felt it my duty to adhere as closely as possible to the text. Adaptations and versions, whether presented on the stage or set down in black and white, seem...
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Italian Days and WaysItalian Days and Ways Your most interesting letter, Sir Philosopher, reached me at Gibraltar, and served to give me a homelike feeling in that alien land of Spain. Any one who can write letters as interesting as yours, from your library, with the mercury...
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The Cradle of Mankind Life in Eastern KurdistanThe Cradle of Mankind; Life in Eastern KurdistanIt requires at least four persons to compound a salad sauce, say the Spaniards. The requisite incompatibilities can never co-exist in one. A spendthrift should squander the oil, and a miser dole out the vinegar. A wise...
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A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv WritingsA Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings - On Moral, Historical, Political, and Literary SubjectsThe headings in the table of contents do not always match the headings in the text. The subsections do not have their own heading, but refer to the page where...
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A Thousand Years of Jewish HistoryA Thousand Years of Jewish History - From the days of Alexander the Great to the Moslem Conquest of SpainThe dual purpose of the revision of this work has been simplification and amplification. The language has been recast in parts and there have been...
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Singapore, Malacca, JavaSingapore, Malacca, Java. - Reiseskizzen von F. Jagor.Die Absicht des Verfassers ist, in den vorliegenden Reiseskizzen, welche achtzehn Monate einer fast fnfjhrigen Reise umfassen, kurze Schilderungen der hervorragendsten Gegenstnde zu geben; die rein persnlichen Erlebnisse und rein wissenschaftlichen Einzelnheiten sind daher in der Regel...
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At the Court of the Amîr: A NarrativeAt the Court of the Amîr: A NarrativeIn Afghanistan however, difficult of access, and hence comparatively unknown, there have been, since that strong man Amr Abdurrahman ascended the Throne, such remarkable changes in the administration of the country, and such strides towards civilization, that...
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