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The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3)The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3) - or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of...
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Lord LawrenceLord LawrenceJohn Laird Mair Lawrence was born in 1811 and died in 1879, being sixty-eight years of age. Within that time he entered the Civil Service of the East India Company, governed the Punjab then the most difficult province in India, took a very...
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Famous Assassinations of History from Philip of Macedon, 336 B. C., to Alexander of Servia, A. D. 1903Famous Assassinations of History from Philip of Macedon, 336 B. C., to Alexander of Servia, A. D. 1903THE thirty-one assassinations, famous in history, which are narrated in this volume, have never before had their stories told in a collected form in any language. The...
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The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3)The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) - Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the...
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The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3)The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) - or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of...
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The Pilgrim StoryThe Pilgrim Story - Being largely a compilation from the documents of Governor Bradford and Governor Winslow, severally and in collaboration; together with a list of Mayflower passengers.No phase of early American history presents a finer example of faith, fortitude and determination of purpose...
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The Corset and the CrinolineThe Corset and the Crinoline - A Book of Modes and Costumes from Remote Periods to the Present TimeThe subject which we have here treated is a sort of figurative battle-field, where fierce contests have for ages been from time to time waged; and,...
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A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809 - From the Treaty of Fontainbleau to the Battle of CorunnaIt is many years since an attempt has been made in England to deal with the general history of the Peninsular War. Several interesting and...
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Horton GenealogyHorton Genealogy - or Chronicles of the Descendants of Barnabas Horton, of Southold, L. I., 1640.We give Barnabas Horton as the Preface and Introduction to this little volume of Chronicles. He was probably the son of Joseph Horton, of Leicestershire, England, and born in...
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The Lusitania's Last VoyageThe Lusitania's Last Voyage - Being a narrative of the torpedoing and sinking of the R. M. S. Lusitania by a German submarine off the Irish coast, May 7, 1915Being a Narrative of the Torpedoing and Sinking of the R. M. S. Lusitania by...
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Gallant Little Wales: Sketches of its people, places and customsGallant Little Wales: Sketches of its people, places and customsAs a guide-book this volume will be found to contain too few unpronounceable Welsh place-names to be adequate, but as an introduction to the North Welsh land, its customs, its village life, its little churches,...
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Historical Sketches of Colonial FloridaHistorical Sketches of Colonial FloridaThe inducement to write this book was to supply, in a slight measure, the want of any particular history of British rule in West Florida. With that inducement, however, the effort would not have been made but for the sources...
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The King Country; or, Explorations in New ZealandThe King Country; or, Explorations in New Zealand - A Narrative of 600 Miles of Travel Through Maoriland.That portion of the North Island of New Zealand known as the King Country extends (as near as the boundary can be defined) from lat. 38 to...
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The Scouring of the White Horse Or, The Long Vacation Ramble of a London ClerkThe Scouring of the White Horse; Or, The Long Vacation Ramble of a London ClerkThe great success of the festival (or pastime, as it is called in the neighbourhood) which was held on White Horse Hill on the 17th and 18th of September, 1857,...
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Ancient Streets and Homesteads of EnglandAncient Streets and Homesteads of England IT cannot with truth be said that monumental history is treated in our day with scanty regard. Never, perhaps, were such permanent and forcible memorials of the past as the Arch of Titus in Rome, the Pont du...
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The History of Bread: From Pre-historic to Modern TimesThe History of Bread: From Pre-historic to Modern TimesIt seems extraordinary, but it is, nevertheless, a fact, that, up to this present time, there has not been written, in the English language, a History of Bread, although it is called the Staff of Life,...
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CanterburyCanterburyList of Illustrations (In certain versions of this etext [in certain browsers] clicking on this symbol , or directly on the image, will bring up a larger version.) As we stand upon the summit of Bell Harry Towermore happily called the Angel Steepleof Canterbury...
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The Story of the Scottish Covenants in OutlineThe Story of the Scottish Covenants in OutlineThis short sketch was written as an Introduction to the recent edition of the late Rev. J. H. Thomsons Martyr Graves of Scotland. The publishers having now resolved to issue my sketch separately as a convenient summary...
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William Jennings Bryan: A Concise But Complete Story of His Life and ServicesWilliam Jennings Bryan: A Concise But Complete Story of His Life and ServicesThe author of this little volume, in giving it to the reading public, feels called on for a few words by way of explanation and apology. The book is written because there...
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The History of Parliamentary Taxation in EnglandThe History of Parliamentary Taxation in EnglandIn a chapter of Halls Chronicle having to do with the mid-reign history of Henry VIII occurs an instance of popular protest against arbitrary taxation. The people are complaining against the Commissions, says the Chronicler, bodies appointed by...
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