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The Pilgrim StoryThe Pilgrim Story - Being largely a compilation from the documents of Governor Bradford and Governor Winslow, severally and in collaboration; together with a list of Mayflower passengers.No phase of early American history presents a finer example of faith, fortitude and determination of purpose...
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The Corset and the CrinolineThe Corset and the Crinoline - A Book of Modes and Costumes from Remote Periods to the Present TimeThe subject which we have here treated is a sort of figurative battle-field, where fierce contests have for ages been from time to time waged; and,...
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A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809 - From the Treaty of Fontainbleau to the Battle of CorunnaIt is many years since an attempt has been made in England to deal with the general history of the Peninsular War. Several interesting and...
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Horton GenealogyHorton Genealogy - or Chronicles of the Descendants of Barnabas Horton, of Southold, L. I., 1640.We give Barnabas Horton as the Preface and Introduction to this little volume of Chronicles. He was probably the son of Joseph Horton, of Leicestershire, England, and born in...
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The Lusitania's Last VoyageThe Lusitania's Last Voyage - Being a narrative of the torpedoing and sinking of the R. M. S. Lusitania by a German submarine off the Irish coast, May 7, 1915Being a Narrative of the Torpedoing and Sinking of the R. M. S. Lusitania by...
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Gallant Little Wales: Sketches of its people, places and customsGallant Little Wales: Sketches of its people, places and customsAs a guide-book this volume will be found to contain too few unpronounceable Welsh place-names to be adequate, but as an introduction to the North Welsh land, its customs, its village life, its little churches,...
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Historical Sketches of Colonial FloridaHistorical Sketches of Colonial FloridaThe inducement to write this book was to supply, in a slight measure, the want of any particular history of British rule in West Florida. With that inducement, however, the effort would not have been made but for the sources...
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The King Country; or, Explorations in New ZealandThe King Country; or, Explorations in New Zealand - A Narrative of 600 Miles of Travel Through Maoriland.That portion of the North Island of New Zealand known as the King Country extends (as near as the boundary can be defined) from lat. 38 to...
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The Scouring of the White Horse Or, The Long Vacation Ramble of a London ClerkThe Scouring of the White Horse; Or, The Long Vacation Ramble of a London ClerkThe great success of the festival (or pastime, as it is called in the neighbourhood) which was held on White Horse Hill on the 17th and 18th of September, 1857,...
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Ancient Streets and Homesteads of EnglandAncient Streets and Homesteads of England IT cannot with truth be said that monumental history is treated in our day with scanty regard. Never, perhaps, were such permanent and forcible memorials of the past as the Arch of Titus in Rome, the Pont du...
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The History of Bread: From Pre-historic to Modern TimesThe History of Bread: From Pre-historic to Modern TimesIt seems extraordinary, but it is, nevertheless, a fact, that, up to this present time, there has not been written, in the English language, a History of Bread, although it is called the Staff of Life,...
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CanterburyCanterburyList of Illustrations (In certain versions of this etext [in certain browsers] clicking on this symbol , or directly on the image, will bring up a larger version.) As we stand upon the summit of Bell Harry Towermore happily called the Angel Steepleof Canterbury...
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The Story of the Scottish Covenants in OutlineThe Story of the Scottish Covenants in OutlineThis short sketch was written as an Introduction to the recent edition of the late Rev. J. H. Thomsons Martyr Graves of Scotland. The publishers having now resolved to issue my sketch separately as a convenient summary...
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William Jennings Bryan: A Concise But Complete Story of His Life and ServicesWilliam Jennings Bryan: A Concise But Complete Story of His Life and ServicesThe author of this little volume, in giving it to the reading public, feels called on for a few words by way of explanation and apology. The book is written because there...
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The History of Parliamentary Taxation in EnglandThe History of Parliamentary Taxation in EnglandIn a chapter of Halls Chronicle having to do with the mid-reign history of Henry VIII occurs an instance of popular protest against arbitrary taxation. The people are complaining against the Commissions, says the Chronicler, bodies appointed by...
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Life of James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2)Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2)Notwithstanding the proverbial tendency of biographers to contract what Macaulay has called the disease of admiration, no one who can lay claim to any strength of mind need allow the fear...
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Colección de Documentos Inéditos Relativos al Descubrimiento, Conquista y Organización de las Antiguas Posesiones Españolas de Ultramar. Tomo 3, De Las Islas Filipinas, IIColección de Documentos Inéditos Relativos al Descubrimiento, Conquista y Organización de las Antiguas Posesiones Españolas de Ultramar. Tomo 3, De Las Islas Filipinas, IIEl mtodo seguido en esta publicacin designa el primer lugar en el presente tomo la relacin del viaje del patache San...
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Betrayed ArmeniaBetrayed ArmeniaGod shall enlarge Japhet and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant. For the interpretation of this blessing of Noahs to his eldest son, and of how it may or may not have met with its...
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In the Royal Naval Air ServiceIn the Royal Naval Air Service - Being the war letters of the late Harold Rosher to his family{3} Harold Rosher was born at Beckenham on the 18th November, 1893, and was educated at The Dene, Caterham, and subsequently at Woodbridge. Although as a...
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The Standard BearerThe Standard BearerIn this fresh and charming story, which in some respects recalls The Lilac Sunbonnet, Mr. Crockett returns to Galloway and pictures the humor and pathos of the life which he knows so well. In no one of his books does Mr. Crockett...
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