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Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1.During a period of forty years I was intimately acquainted with Colonel Burr, and have reason to suppose that I possessed his entire confidence. Some time after his return from Europe in 1812, on different occasions, he suggested casually...
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Jewish History : An Essay in the Philosophy of HistoryJewish History : An Essay in the Philosophy of History The English translation of Mr. Dubnow's Essay is based upon the authorized German translation, which was made from the original Russian. It is published under the joint auspices of the Jewish Publication Society of...
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American Prisoners of the RevolutionAmerican Prisoners of the Revolution The writer of this book has been interested for many years in the subject of the sufferings of the American prisoners of the Revolution. Finding the information she sought widely scattered, she has, for her own use, and for...
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Niels Henrik AbelNiels Henrik AbelNIELS HENRIK ABEL [Note: Niels Henrik Abel. En Skildring af hans liv og videnskabelig virksomhed, par C. A. Bjerknes. Nordisk Tidskrift, 1880. Traduit en un vol. in 8 , Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1855. Festskrift ved hundredaars jubilaeet for Niels Henrik Abels foedsel, Kristiania,...
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Hereward, the Last of the EnglishHereward, the Last of the English The heroic deeds of Highlanders, both in these islands and elsewhere, have been told in verse and prose, and not more often, nor more loudly, than they deserve. But we must remember, now and then, that there have...
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The War Romance of the Salvation ArmyThe War Romance of the Salvation ArmyI wish I could give you a picture of Commander Evangeline Booth as I saw her first, who has been the Source, the Inspiration, the Guide of this story. I went to the first conference about this book...
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A Boy's RideA Boy's RideIt was the last of May in the north of England, in the year 1209. A very different England from what any boy of to-day has seen. A chilly east wind was blowing. The trees of the vast forests were all in...
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Birch Bark Legends of NiagaraBirch Bark Legends of NiagaraGOV. CLINTON, in a discourse delivered before the New York Historical Society, says: "Previous to the occupation of this country by the progenitors of the present race of Indians, it was inhabited by a race of men much more populous...
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Leonardo Da VinciLeonardo Da Vinci "Leonardo," wrote an English critic as far back as 1721, "was a Man so happy in his genius, so consummate in his Profession, so accomplished in the Arts, so knowing in the Sciences, and withal, so much esteemed by the Age...
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History of CaliforniaHistory of California This book is an attempt to present the history of California in so simple and interesting a way that children may read it with pleasure. It does not confine itself to the history of one section or period, but tells the...
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Les Quarante-Cinq — Tome 1Les Quarante-Cinq — Tome 1A dix heures trois quarts, une garde de vingt Suisses, qu'on reconnaissait leur uniforme pour tre des Suisses des petits cantons, c'est--dire des meilleurs amis du roi Henri III, alors rgnant, dboucha de la rue de la Mortellerie et s'avana...
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Les Quarante-Cinq — Tome 3Les Quarante-Cinq — Tome 3En effet, beaucoup de calvinistes assistaient le duc d'Anjou, non point par sympathie pour le susdit duc, mais pour tre aussi dsagrables que possible l'Espagne, et aux catholiques de France et d'Angleterre; ils se battaient donc plutt par amour-propre que...
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Les Quarante-Cinq — Tome 2Les Quarante-Cinq — Tome 2M. de Mayenne, dont on s'occupait tant au Louvre, et qui s'en doutait si peu, partit de l'htel de Guise par une porte de derrire, et tout bott, cheval, comme s'il arrivait seulement de voyage, il se rendit au Louvre,...
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The Last of the Barons — CompleteThe Last of the Barons — Complete This was the first attempt of the author in Historical Romance upon English ground. Nor would he have risked the disadvantage of comparison with the genius of Sir Walter Scott, had he not believed that that great...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 12The Last of the Barons — Volume 12Edward and his army reached St. Alban's. Great commotion, great joy, were in the Sanctuary of Westminster! The Jerusalem Chamber, therein, was made the high council-hall of the friends of York. Great commotion, great terror, were in...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 11The Last of the Barons — Volume 11The Chronicles inform us, that two or three days after the entrance of Warwick and Clarence,namely, on the 6th of October,those two leaders, accompanied by the Lords Shrewsbury, Stanley, and a numerous and noble train, visited the...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 10The Last of the Barons — Volume 10Fair are thy fields, O England; fair the rural farm and the orchards in which the blossoms have ripened into laughing fruits; and fairer than all, O England, the faces of thy soft-eyed daughters! From the field...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 09The Last of the Barons — Volume 09Hilyard was yet asleep in the chamber assigned to him as his prison, when a rough grasp shook off his slumbers, and he saw the earl before him, with a countenance so changed from its usual open...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 07The Last of the Barons — Volume 07"And what news?" asked Hastings, as he found himself amidst the king's squires; while yet was heard the laugh of the tymbesteres, and yet gliding through the trees might be seen the retreating form of Sibyll. To...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 08The Last of the Barons — Volume 08It was some weeks after the date of the events last recorded. The storm that hung over the destinies of King Edward was dispersed for the hour, though the scattered clouds still darkened the horizon: the Earl...
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