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Aladdin en de wonderlamp (Verhaal uit de duizend en een nacht)In een zeer rijke en groote hoofdstad van China, welker naam ik mij op t oogenblik niet herinner, leefde een kleermaker, Moestafa genaamd, die zich van andere menschenkinderen door niets anders onderscheidde dan door...

The Memorials of the Hamlet of Knightsbridge - with Notices of its Immediate NeighbourhoodIn presenting the Memorials of Knightsbridge to the public, apology must be made for the delay in its appearance since the announcement of its intended publication. This was occasioned by the...

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 423, January 1851Whoever has examined with attention the past annals of mankind, must have become aware that the greatest and most important revolutions that have occurred in human affairs have originated in the variations which from time to...

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 408, October 1849Adieu, thou beautiful land! Canaan of the exiles, and Ararat to many a shattered ark! Fair cradle of a race for whom the unbounded heritage of a future, that no sage can conjecture, no prophet divine,...

Histoire d'Henriette d'AngleterreHenriette de France[96], veuve de Charles Ier, roi d'Angleterre, avoit t oblige par ses malheurs de se retirer en France[97], et avoit choisi pour sa retraite ordinaire le couvent de Sainte-Marie de Chaillot. Elle y toit attire par la beaut du lieu,...

The Mystery of Space - A Study of the Hyperspace Movement in the Light of the Evolution of New Psychic Faculties and an Inquiry into the Genesis and Essential Nature of SpaceExplanatory Notes The following interpretation of words, phrases and notions occurring in the...

Jack the Young Trapper: An Eastern Boy's Fur Hunting in the Rocky Mountains Jack the Young Cowboy Jack the Young Trapper Jack the Young Canoeman Jack the Young Explorer Jack in the Rockies Jack Among the Indians Jack the Young Ranchman Pawnee Hero Stories...

The Arrival of Jimpson, and Other Stories for Boys about BoysThe rain fell in a steady, remorseless drizzle upon the rain-coats and umbrellas of the throng that blocked the sidewalks and overflowed on to the car-tracks; but the fires of patriotism were unquenchable, and...

The adventures of Kimble Bent: A story of wild life in the New Zealand bushThis book is not a work of fiction. It is a plain narrative of real life in the New Zealand bush, a true story of adventure in a day not...

Friendship and Folly: A NovelThere was one large wicker chair on the piazza, and in the chair sat a girl. It was a spacious piazza, the roof of which was supported by gnarled tree-trunks, the bark and the knots carefully preserved so as to...

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 68, No 422, December 1850WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, 45 GEORGE STREET; AND 37 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. In spite of all his Machiavellian wisdom, Dr Riccabocca had been foiled in his attempt to seduce Leonard Fairfield into his service, even though...

Mr. Poskitt's Nightcaps: Stories of a Yorkshire FarmerEveryone who has had the pleasure of Mr. Poskitt's acquaintance knows that that estimable Yorkshireman is not only the cheeriest of hosts, but the best of companions. Those of us who have known the Poskitt High Tea...

My Mamie Rose: The Story of My RegenerationThe map on the left shows how small a fraction of Manhattan Island (only a small part of New York City in itself) this world-famous district is. In this small section, called by Mr. Kildare "The Highway...

The Wonder-Child: An Australian StoryThe big girl arbitrated instantly. Certainly Bartie had a sister who made hundreds and hundredsmore shame to her. Peter had better go home and read the papers, if he did not believe it. 'That's the sort of paper your sister...

Gray youth: The story of a very modern courtship and a very modern marriageA girl of seventeen, with a knitted tam-o-shanter cap and a thick cable of red-bronze hair hanging down her back, walked along a gallery of the Louvre, looking for her aunt....

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (7 of 9) - Henrie the Seauenth, Sonne to Edmund Earle of Richmond, Which Edmund was Brother by the Moothers Side to Henrie the SixtKing Henrie hauing thus got the victorie at Bosworth, and...

Flying the Coast Skyways; Or, Jack Ralston's Swift PatrolBetter get out of the habit of making such crazy cracks, brotherwhat if any one overheard you, and took a notion in his head you might be somebody other than just a Down-in-Dixie product from Alabama,raised...

Les grandes chroniques de France (5/6) - selon que elles sont conservées en l'Eglise de Saint-Denis en FranceANNE 1270 [1]Nous avons du bon roy Loys, de louenge digne, expos au mieux que nous poons les fais et la grant bont qui estoit en luy,...

Tales of the CovenantersScotland is indeed a land of romance. Her mouldering ruins are linked with legends and historical associations which must ever enhance their interest in the eyes of those who love to gaze on these the and the pages of her history...

Popular AmusementsThe subject of which this book treats"Popular Amusements"is one of grave interest to the Church and to society in general. The Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church has always required its members and probationers, as an evidence of religious earnestness, to refrain from...