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Sentimental Education Or, The History of a Young Man. Volume 1Sentimental Education; Or, The History of a Young Man. Volume 1 Chapter I. A PROMISING PUPIL Chapter II. DAMON AND PYTHIAS Chapter III. SENTIMENT AND PASSION Chapter IV. THE INEXPRESSIBLE SHE! Chapter V. "LOVE KNOWETH NO LAWS" Chapter VI. BLIGHTED HOPES Chapter VII. CHANGE...
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Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the StatesMemoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States A number of publications have appeared, first and last, concerning the author and his career, as was naturally to have been expected. The Alabama was the first steamship in the history of the worldthe...
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London Days: A Book of ReminiscencesLondon Days: A Book of Reminiscences I was fresh from New England, and had left Boston, my native city, seventeen days before, embarking at New York on the Anchor liner Alsatia three days later; disembarking at Tilbury after a turbulent voyage that lasted two...
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Les grandes chroniques de France (2/6)Les grandes chroniques de France (2/6) - selon que elles sont conservées en l'Eglise de Saint-Denis * * * * * L'auteur des Gesta Dagoberti est le dernier historien des rois Mrovingiens. Ce n'est pas qu'il ait crit long-temps avant le second continuateur de...
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What was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story Tested by Original EvidenceWhat was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story Tested by Original EvidenceThe following study of the Gunpowder Plot has grown out of the accidental circumstance that, having undertaken to read a paper before the Historical Research Society, at Archbishop's House, Westminster, as the day...
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Vasco Nuñez de BalboaVasco Nuñez de BalboaWhile Vasco Nuez de Balboa may be reckoned among the greatest of the minor explorers, yet less has been written of him, perhaps, than of any other in his class except Juan Ponce de Leon. Both names are familiar to every...
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Lachesis Lapponica Or, A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1Lachesis Lapponica; Or, A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1The biographers of Linnus have often mentioned the Journal of his Lapland Tour, to which he himself has frequently adverted, in various parts of his voluminous works, under the title of Lachesis Lapponica. The publication of...
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Nooks and Corners of CornwallNooks and Corners of CornwallAt first sight it seems incongruous to speak of the Nooks and Corners to be found in so rugged a land as Cornwall. The masses of rock at Tintagel, Tol-Pedn, and the Lizard, the sheer drop of the High Cliff...
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The Outlook: Uncle Sam's Place and Prospects in International PoliticsThe Outlook: Uncle Sam's Place and Prospects in International PoliticsIT is exactly a year and a day since Oswego, responding to the President's call, sent away her modest quota of citizen-soldiery to the war with Spain. A novel and inspiring scene, whose meaning, perhaps,...
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O Romance da Rainha MercedesO Romance da Rainha MercedesQue secreto mobil determina as evolues da humanidade atravez dos tempos? Que mysteriosa lei regula os destinos das sociedades no discorrer dos seculos? Eis o grande problema que ha duzentos annos preoccupa o espirito humano. a Providencia: diz Bossuet. As...
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Romantic Spain: A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I)Romantic Spain: A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I)THIS simple recital of personal haps and mishaps in perturbed Spain from the abdication of Amadeus to the entry of Don Carlos, puts forward no claim to the didactic or dogmatic. Its chief aim is to...
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The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 2The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 2When in the course of human events, my boy, it becomes necessary for a chap of respectable parentage to write a full and graphic account of a great battle, without exasperating the press-censor by naming the locality of...
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A Sketch of the Life and Labors of George WhitefieldA Sketch of the Life and Labors of George WhitefieldThere are some men in the pages of history, whose greatness no person of common sense thinks of disputing. They tower above the herd of mankind, like the Pyramids, the Parthenon, and the Colosseum, among...
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The Hidden Force: A Story of Modern JavaThe Hidden Force: A Story of Modern JavaThe Hidden Force gives a picture of life in the Dutch East Indies in the last year of the nineteenth and the first year of the twentieth century. Conditions have altered slightly since thenDutch ladies no longer...
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We Were There at the Oklahoma Land RunWe Were There at the Oklahoma Land RunThousands of land-hungry people edged the Oklahoma border that April day in 1889, awaiting the signal that would send them across! What was in store for them? Wild riding! Possibly danger. Certainly adventure. And young Alec Simpson...
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A Short History of English LiberalismA Short History of English LiberalismNo rational man ever did govern himself by abstractions and universals.... A statesman differs from a professor in an university; the latter has only the general view of society.... A statesman, never losing sight of principles, is to be...
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The Life of Roger Langdon, Told by himself. With additions by his daughter EllenThe Life of Roger Langdon, Told by himself. With additions by his daughter Ellen. THE writing of this foreword to the biography of the late Mr. Roger Langdon should have devolved upon one of the notable personages who had an admiration for him and...
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Dorothy Payne, Quakeress: A Side-Light Upon the Career of 'Dolly' MadisonDorothy Payne, Quakeress: A Side-Light Upon the Career of 'Dolly' MadisonMinor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Printer errors have been changed, and they are indicated with a mouse-hover and listed at the end of this book. All other inconsistencies are as in...
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English Pharisees and French CrocodilesEnglish Pharisees French Crocodiles, and Other Anglo-French Typical CharactersYou are a dear friend and a delightful fellow. You are on the road that will safely lead you to the discovery of everything that can insure the prosperity of the land of which you are...
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Jonathan and His Continent: Rambles Through American SocietyJonathan and His Continent: Rambles Through American SocietyAs for the book, since you wish it, here it is. But I must warn you that if ever you should fancy you see in this little volume a deep study of your great country and of...
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