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Louise de la ValliereLouise de la Valliere In the months of March-July in 1844, in the magazine Le Siecle, the first portion of a story appeared, penned by the celebrated playwright Alexandre Dumas. It was based, he claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier...
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ColombaColomba Early in the month of October, 181-, Colonel Sir Thomas Nevil, a distinguished Irish officer of the English army, alighted with his daughter at the Hotel Beauveau, Marseilles, on their return from a tour in Italy. The perpetual and universal admiration of enthusiastic...
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The History of Herodotus — Volume 1The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 331 (return) [ See the remarks of P.-L. Courier (on Larcher's version) in the preface to his specimens of a new translation of Herodotus (OEuvres compltes de P.-L. Courier, Bruxelles, 1828).] 332 (return) [ Mr. Woods, for...
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Chronicles of America series v. 12Washington and His Comrades in Arms: A Chronicle of the War of Independence Volume 12 of the Chronicles of America Series Allen Johnson, Editor Assistant Editors Gerhard R. Lomer Charles W. Jefferys The author is aware of a certain audacity in undertaking, himself a...
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The Argonauts of North LibertyThe Argonauts of North Liberty The bell of the North Liberty Second Presbyterian Church had just ceased ringing. North Liberty, Connecticut, never on any day a cheerful town, was always bleaker and more cheerless on the seventh, when the Sabbath sun, after vainly trying...
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The Lion's SkinThe Lion's Skin THE LION'S SKIN CHAPTER I. THE FANATIC CHAPTER II. AT THE ADAM AND EVE CHAPTER III. THE WITNESS CHAPTER IV. Mr. GREEN CHAPTER V. MOONSHINE CHAPTER VI. HORTENSIA'S RETURN CHAPTER VII. FATHER AND SON CHAPTER VIII. TEMPTATION CHAPTER IX. THE CHAMPION...
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Ten Years LaterTen Years Later In the months of March-July in 1844, in the magazine Le Siecle, the first portion of a story appeared, penned by the celebrated playwright Alexandre Dumas. It was based, he claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in...
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The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 2The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 2Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this....
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The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2Thomas Holcroft, the translator of these Memoirs of Baron Trenck, was the author of about thirty plays, among which one, The Road to Ruin, produced in 1792, has kept its place upon the stage. He was...
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The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 1The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 1There were two cousins Von der Trenck, who were barons descended from an ancient house in East Prussia, and were adventurous soldiers, to whom, as to the adventurous, there were adventures that lost nothing in the...
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Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, DampierEarly Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, DampierIn the days of Plato, imagination found its way, before the mariners, to a new world across the Atlantic, and fabled an Atlantis where America now stands. In the days of Francis Bacon, imagination of the English found its...
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The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 7: 1863-1865The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 7: 1863-1865 In June last a division was substantially lost at or near Winchester, Va. At the time, it was under General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at...
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The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862 MY DEAR SIR:Your letter introducing Mr. Faree was duly received. There was no opening to nominate him for Superintendent of Public Instruction, but through him Egypt made a most valuable contribution to the...
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The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 4: The Lincoln-Douglas DebatesThe Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 4: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:It will be very difficult for an audience so large as this to hear distinctly what a speaker says, and consequently it is important that as profound silence be...
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The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6: 1862-1863The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6: 1862-1863 The Secretary of the Treasury and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue will please see Mr. Talcott, one of the best men there is, and, if any difference, one they would like better than...
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The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 3: The Lincoln-Douglas DebatesThe Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 3: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates POLITICAL SPEECHES & DEBATES of LINCOLN WITH DOUGLAS In the Senatorial Campaign of 1858 in Illinois SPEECH AT SPRINGFIELD, JUNE 17, 1858 [The following speech was delivered at Springfield, Ill., at...
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The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858 DEAR SPEED:Yours of the 9th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a "bore," but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In...
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Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the GrayCaptains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter began the third and greatest modern civil war fought by English-speaking people. This war was quite as full of politics...
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The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843 Immediately after Lincoln's re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows:...
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Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 2Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 2While occupying the ground between Clifton and Berryville, referred to in the last chapter of the preceding volume, I felt the need of an efficient body of scouts to collect information regarding...
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