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Blood Brothers: A Medic's Sketch BookBlood Brothers: A Medic's Sketch Book By "For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life!" Of his First Guerrilla...
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Mohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His PaladinsMohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins. - Final Memoirs of a Staff Officer Serving in Virginia. from the Mss. of Colonel Surry, of Eagle's Nest. On the wall over the mantel-piece, here in my quiet study at Eagles-Nest, are two...
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What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the NileWhat Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile of the In offering this short connected history of my first two explorations in Africa, I must state that I have been urged to do so by friends desirous of knowing what led...
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Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 - France and the Netherlands, Part 1The tourist bound for France lands either at Cherbourg, Havre, or Boulogne. At Cherbourg, he sees waters in which the "Kearsarge" sank the "Alabama"; at Havre a shelter in which, long...
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Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4Although art had, under French influence, become unnatural, bombastical, in fine, exactly contrary to every rule of good taste, the courts, vain of their collections of works of art, still emulated each other in the patronage of the...
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The Short Line WarThe Short Line War His great-grandfather, Ashbel Weeks, was born in Connecticut in 1748; he migrated to New York in '70, and settled among the Oneida Indians on the Upper Mohawk. It was the kind of life he was built for; he sniffed at...
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Cuba in War TimeCuba in War TimeThese illustrations were made by Mr. Frederic Remington, from personal observation while in Cuba, and from photographs, and descriptions furnished by eye-witnesses, and are here reproduced through the courtesy of Mr. W. R. Hearst. After my return from Cuba many people...
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Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General LafayetteMemoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette Respectfully to collect and scrupulously to arrange the manuscripts of which an irreparable misfortune has rendered them depositaries, have been for the Family of General Lafayette the accomplishment of a sacred duty. To publish those manuscripts without...
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The Belgian Curtain: Europe after CommunismThe Belgian Curtain: Europe after CommunismSaturday's vote in Ireland was the second time in 18 months that its increasingly disillusioned citizenry had to decide the fate of the European Union by endorsing or rejecting the crucial Treaty of Nice. The treaty seeks to revamp...
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Wars and EmpireWars and Empire You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of receipt of the...
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Three Years in Tristan da CunhaThree Years in Tristan da CunhaI desire gratefully to acknowledge to Mr. Casper Keytel of Monille Point, Cape Town, his very kind permission to use the excellent photographs taken by him; and also my indebtedness to my husband for help in the revision of...
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Actes et Paroles, Volume 1Actes et Paroles, Volume 1Toute l'eloquence humaine dans toutes les assemblees de tous les peuples et de tous les temps peut se resumer en ceci: la querelle du droit contre la loi. Cette querelle, et c'est la tout le phenomene du progres, tend de...
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Fountains in the Sand: Rambles Among the Oases of TunisiaFountains in the Sand: Rambles Among the Oases of TunisiaLikely enough, I would not have remained in Gafsa more than a couple of days. For it was my intention to go from England straight down to the oases of the Djerid, Tozeur and Nefta,...
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The Ghost KingsThe Ghost Kings The Zulus about here have a strange story of a white girl who in Dingaans day was supposed to hold the spirit of some legendary goddess of theirs who is also white. This girl, they say, was very beautiful and brave,...
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An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2 The form of legal governments. Sir Alexander Cumming sent out to treat of peace with the Indians. Brings with him to England seven Cherokees. Who enter...
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An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1The author of the following performance presents it to the public, not from any great value he puts upon it, but from an anxious desire of contributing...
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Kéraban-Le-Têtu, Volume IIKéraban-Le-Têtu, Volume II * * * * * On s'en souvient sans doute, Van Mitten, dsol de n'avoir pu visiter les ruines de l'ancienne Colchide, avait manifest l'intention de se ddommager en explorant le mythologique Phase, qui, sous le nom moins euphonique de Rion,...
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History of AstronomyHistory of Astronomy An attempt has been made in these pages to trace the evolution of intellectual thought in the progress of astronomical discovery, and, by recognising the different points of view of the different ages, to give due credit even to the ancients....
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Kéraban-Le-Têtu, Volume IKéraban-Le-Têtu, Volume ICe jour-l, 16 aot, six heures du soir, la place de Top-Han, Constantinople, si anime d'ordinaire par le va-et-vient et le brouhaha de la foule, tait silencieuse, morne, presque dserte. En le regardant du haut de l'chelle qui descend au Bosphore, on...
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Recollections of My Childhood and YouthRecollections of My Childhood and Youth Our House--Its Inmates--My Paternal Grandfather--My Maternal Grandfather --School and Home--Farum--My Instructors--A Foretaste of Life--Contempt for the Masters--My Mother--The Mystery of Life--My First Glimpse of Beauty--The Head Master--Religion--My Standing in School--Self-esteem --An Instinct for Literature--Private Reading--Heine's Buch der Lieder--A...
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