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Les Dernières Années du Marquis et de la Marquise de BombellesNote sur la transcription: Les erreurs clairement introduites par le typographe ont t corriges. L'orthographe d'origine a t conserve et n'a pas t harmonise. Les numros des pages blanches n'ont pas t repris. Les...

Sir William Wallace'The ignorance of some otherwise well-informed persons respecting the claims of Wallace as a national patriot,' wrote Dr. Charles Rogers, 'is deplorable.' The documentary authorities are, indeed, fragmentary, and exceptionally perplexing. Some are clearly trustworthy; many are conflicting, dissimulatory, falsified, false, biassed...

Fifty Notable Years - Views of the Ministry of Christian Universalism During the Last Half-Century; with Biographical SketchesEvery intelligent reader of that expressive line of Longfellow, "Let the dead past bury its dead," understands that if "the dead past" may be buried, as it...

The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 4The Grand Tour of Former DaysThe only Grand Tour leftRound the World in Eighty DaysFresh-water Sailors and Nautical LadiesModern Steamships and their SpeedThe OrientRivalsRoutes round the GlobeSir John Mandeville on the SubjectDifficulties in...

The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties - First Edition[p001] A tree has been defined as a woody plant that produces naturally and in its native place one principal erect stem with a definite crown of foliage. A plant thus attaining to the...

Journal de Jean Héroard - Tome 1 - Sur l'enfance et la jeunesse de Louis XIII (1601-1610)Aprs avoir, la fin de l'anne 1599, obtenu la dissolution de son mariage avec Marguerite de Valois, Henri IV s'tait alli, un an plus tard, la princesse de...

A.B.C. of Snap Shooting: Sporting, Exhibition, and Military My object in publishing this little book is to explain a method of teaching Snap Shooting, by using the rifle in practice, which, by its economy, ease, quickness, and fascination, will recommend itself to any who...

On the Yukon Trail - Radio-Phone Boys Series, #2Curlie Carson sat before an alcohol stove. Above and on all sides of him were the white walls of a tent. The constant bulging and sagging of these walls, the creak and snap of ropes, told...

The Boy Scouts on the Trail; or, Scouting through the Big Game CountryAuthor of The Boy Scouts First Camp Fire, The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge, The Boy Scouts on the Trail, The Boy Scouts in the Maine Woods, The Boy Scouts In...

Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales 1. Description of the MSS. The existing MSS. of the 'Astrolabe' are still numerous. I have been successful in...

The Four Corners AbroadIt was at Passy that a little party of American girls were discussing the afternoon's plans one day in July. The three older girls were most interested; the two younger were too much engrossed in a game of Diabolo to notice...

Imperial Federation: The Problem of National Unity'I tell you that when you study English history you study not the past of England only, but her future. It is the welfare of your country, it is your whole interest as citizens that is in question...

A Boy Trooper with Sheridan More than He Bargained forThe War Fever and How it Affected the BoysA Disbanded CavalrymanGoing to School in UniformCousin Tom from Shiloh?Running Away to EnlistThe DraftIn the Griswold CavalryHabeas Corf used. N the local columns of the Troy (N....

The Pictorial Grammar Alfred Henry Forrester, whose nom de plume was "Alfred Crowquill," was born in London, 1806. He practised as a Notary, which his family had followed for years. Early in life he began to furnish articles for the Magazines, and soon became...

Bernard Brooks' Adventures: The Experience of a Plucky Boy Thank you for the compliment, Mr. Snowdon. Let me suggest, however, that wuss is hardly correct English. The speaker was fifteen years of age, but as tall as most boys of seventeen. He had a...

Jack the Giant Killer 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 Divining Rod: Virgula Divina—Baculus Divinatorius (Water-Witching) My Essay on the "Divining Rod," (vulgus, "Water-Witching,") having proved interesting to a number of my friends, I have concluded to give it to the public, with the hope that some useful practical results may be derived...

The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) - A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: VertebrataCambridge: PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A. AND SON, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND PROFESSOR OF ANIMAL MORPHOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. London:...

The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 2 (of 4) - A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: InvertebrataMy aim in writing this work has been to give such an account of the development of animal forms as may prove useful both to students and to...

Het boek van Siman den Javaan - Een roman van rijst, dividend en menschelijkheidDe auteur stelt er prijs op, te verklaren dat elk dtail in zijn verhaal, hetwelk van invloed kan zijn op de strekking ervan, waar is. Voor overdrijving heeft hij zich zorgvuldig...