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Richard Carvel — Volume 08Richard Carvel — Volume 08L. Farewell to Gordon's LI. How an Idle Prophecy came to pass LII. How the Gardener's Son fought the Serapis LIII. In which I make Some Discoveries LIV. More Discoveries. LV. The Love of a Maid for a Man LVI....
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Richard Carvel — Volume 06Richard Carvel — Volume 06XXXIV. His Grace makes Advances XXXV. In which my Lord Baltimore appears XXXVI. A Glimpse of Mr. Garrick XXXVII. The Serpentine XXXVIII. In which I am roundly brought to task XXXIX. Holland House XL. Vauxhall The next morning I began...
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Richard Carvel — Volume 05Richard Carvel — Volume 05XXVI. The Part Horatio played XXVII. In which I am sore tempted XXVIII. Arlington Street XXIX. I meet a very Great Young Man XXX. A Conspiracy XXXI. "Upstairs into the World" XXXII. Lady Tankerville's Drum-major XXXIII. Drury Lane The bailiff's...
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Richard Carvel — Volume 07Richard Carvel — Volume 07XLII. My Friends are proven XLIII. Annapolis once more XLIV. Noblesse Oblige XLV. The House of Memories XLVI. Gordon's Pride XLVII. Visitors XLVIII. Multum in Parvo XLIX. Liberty loses a Friend Mr. Dix was indeed in possession of my rooms,...
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Richard Carvel — Volume 02Richard Carvel — Volume 02VIII. Over the Wall IX. Under False Colours X. The Red in the Carvel Blood XI. A Festival and a Parting XII. News from a Far Country Dorothy treated me ill enough that spring. Since the minx had tasted power...
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Richard Carvel — Volume 01Richard Carvel — Volume 01My sons and daughters have tried to persuade me to remodel these memoirs of my grandfather into a latter-day romance. But I have thought it wiser to leave them as he wrote them. Albeit they contain some details not of...
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Richard Carvel — Volume 04Richard Carvel — Volume 04XIX. A Man of Destiny XX. A Sad Home-coming XXI. The Gardener's Cottage XXII. On the Road XXIII. London Town XXIV. Castle Yard XXV. The Rescue I was picked up and thrown into the brigantine's long-boat with a head and...
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Richard Carvel — Volume 03Richard Carvel — Volume 03XIII. Mr. Allen shows his Hand XIV. The Volte Coupe XV. Of which the Rector has the Worst XVI. In which Some Things are made Clear XVII. South River XVIII. The Black Moll XIX. A Man of Destiny So Dorothy's...
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If I Were KingIf I Were KingIf I were kingah love, if I were king! What tributary nations would I bring To stoop before your sceptre and to swear Allegiance to your lips and eyes and hair. Beneath your feet what treasures I would fling: The stars...
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Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South WalesJournals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South WalesThe general appearance of the country of New South Wales and the magnitude of the Macquarie River, as seen on the return of the expedition in 1817, had caused the most sanguine expectation to...
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"Miss Lou""Miss Lou"A great, rudely built stone chimney was smoking languidly one afternoon. Leaning against this chimney, as if for protection and support, was a little cabin gray and decrepit with age. The door of the cabin stood wide open, for the warm spring was...
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Travels in the Interior of Africa — Volume 02Travels in the Interior of Africa — Volume 02The first of the two volumes which contain Mungo Parks Travels in the Interior of Africa brought him through many perils to the first sight of the Niger, and left him sick and solitary, stripped of...
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Travels in the Interior of Africa — Volume 01Travels in the Interior of Africa — Volume 01Mungo Park was born on the 10th of September, 1771, the son of a farmer at Fowlshiels, near Selkirk. After studying medicine in Edinburgh, he went out, at the age of twenty-one, assistant-surgeon in a ship...
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The Voyage of VerrazzanoThe Voyage of Verrazzano - A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in AmericaThe following pages, intended to show the claim of discovery in America by Verrazzano to be without any real foundation, belong to a work, in hand, upon the earliest...
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The Long VacationThe Long Vacation If a book by an author who must call herself a veteran should be taken up by readers of a younger generation, they are begged to consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for the sake of...
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Travels in England in 1782Travels in England in 1782Charles P. Moritzs Travels, chiefly on foot, through several parts of England in 1782, described in Letters to a Friend, were translated from the German by a lady, and published in 1795. John Pinkerton included them in the second volume...
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Sejanus: His FallSejanus: His Fall The greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben...
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Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2[With the year 1870 comes another turning-point in Huxley's career. From his return to England in 1850 till 1854 he had endured four years of hard struggle, of hope deferred; his reputation as a zoologist...
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The Famous Missions of CaliforniaThe Famous Missions of California On the 1st of July, 1769a day forever memorable in the annals of Californiaa small party of men, worn out by the fatigues and hardships of their long and perilous journey from San Fernandez de Villicat, came in sight...
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Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi delivered during the summer of 1858Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi; delivered during the summer of 1858. On Fourth of July, 1858, at Sea. At Serenade, at Portland, Maine. At Portland Convention, Maine. At Belfast Encampment, Maine. At Belfast Banquet, Maine. At Portland Meeting, Maine. At Fair...
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