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The Bull-Run RoutThe Bull-Run Rout - Scenes Attending the First Clash of Volunteers in the Civil WarA little paper written years ago by a lately deceased brother of mine[1] describing the rout of the battle of Bull Run as he saw it with the eyes of...
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L'Illustration, No. 3734, 26 Septembre 1914L'Illustration, No. 3734, 26 Septembre 1914Pour tous ceux qui ne se battent pas, pour tous ceux qui, loin des armes, se nourrissent d'angoisses et vivent aux aguets de la prochaine nouvelle, il n'y a qu'un passe-temps, un travail, un remde: la carte. On la...
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The Red City: A Novel of the Second Administration of President WashingtonThe Red City: A Novel of the Second Administration of President WashingtonAbout five in the afternoon on the 23d of May, 1792, the brig Morning Star of Bristol, John Maynard, master, with a topgallant breeze after her, ran into Delaware Bay in mid-channel between...
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First Annual Report of the Bureau of EthnologyFirst Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology - to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-1880, Government Printing Office 1881Syllable stress is represented by an acute accent either on the main vwel or after the syllable; inconsistencies are unchanged. Except for the special...
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The Young Colonists: A Story of the Zulu and Boer WarsThe Young Colonists: A Story of the Zulu and Boer WarsAs a rule the minor wars in which this country has been from time to time engaged, have been remarkable both for the admirable way in which they were conducted and for the success...
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The Induna's WifeThe Induna's WifeTwilight was fast closing in upon the desolate site of the old Kambla Camp, and the short, sharp thunderstorm which at the moment of outspanning had effectually drenched the scant supply of fuel, rendering that evenings repast, of necessity, cold commons, had...
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John Ames, Native Commissioner: A Romance of the Matabele RisingJohn Ames, Native Commissioner: A Romance of the Matabele RisingThe kraal, a large one, surrounded by an oval ring-fence of thorn, contained some seventy or eighty huts. Three or four smaller kraals were dotted around within a mile of it, and the whole lay...
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Through South AfricaThrough South Africa - His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, NatalThis little volume consists of the letters I wrote from Bulawayo, Johannesburg and Pretoria for the journal South Africa, which is exclusively devoted to matters relating to the region whence it derives...
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The Ruined Cities of ZululandThe Ruined Cities of ZululandNo one ever reads prefaces now-a-days; why, therefore, should I write one? may be fairly asked. Simply, I reply, to tell the reader that the tale imperfectly related in these volumes is not a mere work of fiction. It is...
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Villa Eden: The Country-House on the RhineVilla Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine"Be patient a few: minutes longer! There's a man beckoning to go with us," said the boatman to his passengers, two women and one man. The man was gray-haired, of slender form, rubicund face, and blue eyes of...
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'Tween Snow and Fire: A Tale of the Last Kafir War'Tween Snow and Fire: A Tale of the Last Kafir WarThe dog is some fifty yards behind the buck. The Kafir is about the same distance behind the dog, which distance he is striving right manfully to maintain; not so unsuccessfully, either, considering that...
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Women of AmericaWomen of America - Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10)The present volume completes the story of woman as told in the series of which it forms part. The history of nations is, in its ultimate analysis, largely that...
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Paris, From the Earliest Period to the Present Day Volume 2Paris, From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2NE of the grandest institutions of ancient France was the Parlement de Paris, and its history and that of the prvts would constitute a history of the capital, while that of the fitful and...
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Reflections upon Two Pamphlets Lately PublishedReflections upon Two Pamphlets Lately Published - One called, A Letter from Monsieur de Cros, concerning the Memoirs of Christendom, and the Other, An Answer to that Letter.I Was very glad when I heard that one Monsieur de Cros had published an Answer to...
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Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892FATHER OHRWALDER's JOURNEY TO THE SUDAN. Description of Kordofan and Dar NubaThe Mission Station at Delen. I left Cairo on the 28th of December, 1880, as full of bright hopes for a happy future as any young...
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Portugal perante a revolução de HespanhaPortugal perante a revolução de Hespanha - Considerações sobre o futuro da politica portugueza no ponto de vista da democracia ibericaHa dois mezes que admiramos a revoluo de Hespanha: ser tempo talvez de tratarmos de a entender. O enthusiasmo bom, porque eleva o espirito;...
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With Ring of ShieldWith Ring of Shield In these days, when the air is filled with the irritating, peevish sounds of chattering gossips, which tell of naught but the scandals of a court, where Queens are as faithless as are their lives brief, methinks it will not...
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Factos Notaveis da Historia Portugueza e Biographia do Marquez de PombalFactos Notaveis da Historia Portugueza e Biographia do Marquez de PombalA ex.ma sr. D. Josephina Pinto Carneiro Perestrello vae lanar-se na turbulenta atmosphera da litteratura. S. ex. no se estreia com assumptos banaes. O seu livro fructo de profundos e aprimorados estudos. Seduziu-a o...
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Liga Patriotica do NorteLiga Patriotica do NorteO torpe e prepotente ultimatum de 11 de janeiro de 1890, apresentado ao nosso paiz pela Inglaterra, a nossa fiel alliada de tantissimos annos, medrada e engrandecida por essa alliana e desde que ella em m hora para ns comeou, custa...
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The Cruise of the Elena Or, Yachting in the HebridesThe Cruise of the Elena; Or, Yachting in the HebridesThe lateI had almost written the lastImperial ruler of France was wont to sayindeed, it was his favourite maximEverything comes to him who waits. It was not exactly true in his case. Just as he...
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