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China and the ManchusChina and the ManchusIt is impossible to give here a complete key to the pronunciation of Chinese words. For those who wish to pronounce with approximate correctness the proper names in this volume, the following may be a rough guide: a as in alms....
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Ben-Hur: A tale of the ChristBen-Hur: A tale of the Christ The Jebel es Zubleh is a mountain fifty miles and more in length, and so narrow that its tracery on the map gives it a likeness to a caterpillar crawling from the south to the north. Standing on...
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Extracts from the Diary of William BrayExtracts from the Diary of William BrayMr. Bray was born at Shere, on the 15th of November, 1736. He was the youngest of the three sons who survived their father Edward Bray, Esq. George the eldest, who was in the Church, and the second...
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Chinese SketchesChinese Sketches The following Sketches owe their existence chiefly to frequent peregrinations in Chinese cities, with pencil and note-book in hand. Some of them were written for my friend Mr. F. H. Balfour of Shanghai, and by him published in the columns of the...
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The Daughter of an EmpressThe Daughter of an Empress No, Natalie, weep no more! Quick, dry your tears. Let not my executioner see that we can feel pain or weep for sorrow! Ivan, said she, we will forget, forget all, excepting that we love each other, and thus...
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An Account of EgyptAn Account of Egypt HERODOTUS was born at Halicarnassus, on the southwest coast of Asia Minor, in the early part of the fifth century, B. C. Of his life we know almost nothing, except that he spent much of it traveling, to collect the...
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Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 We have observed in our last book that the Directors of the East India Company in Holland had sent out in March last, on purpose to seek a passage to China by northeast or northwest, a skilful English pilot,...
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The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran ArabsThe Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran ArabsTHE work entitled "The Albert N'yanza Great Basin of the Nile," published in 1866, has given an account of the equatorial lake system from which the Egyptian river derives its source. It...
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A Record of Buddhistic KingdomsA Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms - Being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline Life of F-Hien; Genuineness and Integrity of the Text of his Narrative; Number of...
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History of Friedrich II of Prussia — AppendixHistory of Friedrich II of Prussia — Appendix This Piece, it would seem, was translated sixteen years ago; some four or five years before any part of the present HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH got to paper. The intercalated bits of Commentary were, as is evident,...
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History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 The Twelve Hercules-labors of this King have ended here; what was required of him in World-History is accomplished. There remain to Friedrich Twenty-three Years more of Life, which to Prussian History are as full of...
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History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 There were yet, to the world's surprise and regret, Three Campaigns of this War; but the Campaign 1760, which we are now upon, was what produced or rendered possible the other two;was the crisis of...
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History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 Friedrich has now climbed the heights, and sees himself on the upper table-land of Victory and Success; his desperate life-and-death struggles triumphantly ended. What may be ahead, nobody knows; but here is fair outlook that...
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History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 The posting of the Five Armies this WinterFive of them in Germany, not counting the Russians, who have vanished to Cimmeria over the horizon, for their months of restis something wonderful, and strikes the picturesque...
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History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 While this Subsidy Treaty is getting settled in England, Duke Ferdinand has his French in full cackle of universal flight; and before the signing of it (April 11th), every feather of them is over the...
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History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 17History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 17 The ill-informed world, entirely unaware of what Friedrich had been studying and ascertaining, to his bitter sorrow, for four years past, was extremely astonished at the part he took in those French-English troubles; extremely provoked...
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History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 Friedrich's own Peace being made on such terms, his wish and hope was, that it might soon be followed by a general European one; that, the live-coal, which had kindled this War, being quenched, the...
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History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 Schlesien, what we call Silesia, lies in elliptic shape, spread on the top of Europe, partly girt with mountains, like the crown or crest to that part of the Earth;highest table-land of Germany or of...
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History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 Battle being once seen to be inevitable, it was Friedrich's plan not to wait for it, but to give it. Thanks to Friedrich Wilhelm and himself, there is no Army, nor ever was any, in...
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History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 13History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 13 Part, is now perhaps conceivable to readers. But as to the Second, the Germanic or Pragmatic Part,articulate History, after much consideration, is content to renounce attempting these; feels that these will remain forever inconceivable to...
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