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A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy LanguageA History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy LanguageThe new era which the series of splendid works, called the Waverly Novels, created in literature, produced, among other effects, that of directing attention to that singular anomaly in civilizationthe existence of a race...
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The Hansa TownsThe Hansa TownsIn bringing before the public what I believe to be the first History of the Hanseatic League, it gives me pleasure to think that the impetus to write it came from the United States. The work was suggested to me by my...
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Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay TerritoryEthnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory - Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1894, pages 159-350If the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you...
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Through the Outlooking GlassThrough the Outlooking GlassAlice was half-way through her cereal when the Red Knight came in and picked out a place at the same table facing her. He flung his coat over two hooks on the wall upside down. He then took a piece of...
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History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. IIIHistory of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. IIIIn the sensitive condition of Europe the effect of events was felt beyond their natural consequence. The death of Catherine of Arragon led to the renewal of the war between...
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Histoire des Musulmans d'Espagne, t. 1/4Histoire des Musulmans d'Espagne, t. 1/4 - jusqu'à la conquête de l'Andalouisie par les Almoravides (711-1100)PAR R. D O Z Y Commandeur de l'ordre de Charles III d'Espagne, membre correspondant de l'acadmie d'histoire de Madrid, associ tranger de la Soc. asiat. de Paris, professeur...
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Historical materialism and the economics of Karl MarxHistorical materialism and the economics of Karl Marx1. Scope of essay: Labriola's book implies that historical materialism is not a philosophy of history: Distinction between a philosophy of history and philosophising about history: Reason why two have been confused: Materialistic theory of History as...
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SwitzerlandSwitzerlandIn Switzerland, above all other lands of Europe, is the greatness of Nature manifest. But not even the Alps can overshadow the story of her gallant people. The Swiss are more interesting even than Switzerland. In this volume thereforea volume intended to give the...
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Kashmir, described by Sir Francis Younghusband, painted by Major E. MolyneuxKashmir, described by Sir Francis Younghusband, painted by Major E. Molyneuxvii When Major Molyneux asked me to combine with him in the production of a book on Kashmir I could not resist the temptation to describe what he had so faithfully depicted, though my...
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Kuningas Henrik Neljäs IIKuningas Henrik Neljäs IIKuningas HENRIK NELJS. HENRIK, Walesin prinssi, | THOMAS, Clarencen herttua, | kuninkaan pojat. JUHANI, Lancasterin prinssi, | HUMPHREY, Glosterin prinssi, | WARWICKin kreivi, | WESTMORELANDin kreivi, | SURREYn kreivi, | kuninkaan puoluelaisia. GOWER, | HARCOURT, | Ylituomari kuninkaallisessa ylioikeudessa. Virkamies ylituomarin...
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Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1865Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1865TO THE SECOND EDITION. In deciding to bring out this book I have had in mind the many letters to my father from men of war times urging him to put in writing his recollections of Lincoln. Among them is...
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History of Llangollen and Its VicinityHistory of Llangollen and Its Vicinity - Including a Circuit of About Seven MilesThe attraction of North Wales, by its romantic scenery, the antiquity of its language, and the well authenticated records of its desperate struggle for independence, renders every part of the Principality...
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Constantinople, painted by Warwick Goble, described by Alexander Van MillingenConstantinople, painted by Warwick Goble, described by Alexander Van MillingenA volume which will take high rank amongst the many works which have for their special object to recall Rome to those who have seen it, and to give some notion of its many attractions...
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The Jenolan Caves: An Excursion in Australian WonderlandThe Jenolan Caves: An Excursion in Australian WonderlandTHE following historical and descriptive account of the Jenolan (formerly called the Fish River) Caves was written for the Sydney Morning Herald. By the kind permission of the proprietors of that journal (Messrs. John Fairfax and Sons)...
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The Life and Adventures of Bruce, the African TravellerThe Life and Adventures of Bruce, the African TravellerThe following work is one of no ordinary interest. It presents such an example of heroic fortitude, constancy, and perseverance under trials and difficulties, as cannot fail to excite in us the highest admiration. Few individuals...
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The Life of a ConspiratorThe Life of a Conspirator - Being a Biography of Sir Everard Digby by One of His DescendantsThe chief difficulty in writing a life of Sir Everard Digby is to steer clear of the alternate dangers of perverting it into a mere history of...
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The Magic of the Middle AgesThe Magic of the Middle AgesThis highest and immovable heaven, enveloping all the others and constituting the boundary between created things and the void, infinite space beyond, is the Empyrean, the heaven of fire, named also by the Platonizing philosophers the world of archetypes....
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The American IndiansThe American Indians - Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and ManuscriptsIt is now twenty-six years since I first entered the area of the Mississippi valley, with the view of exploring its then but imperfectly known features, geographical and geological. Twenty-two years...
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The Public Life of Queen VictoriaThe Public Life of Queen VictoriaFrederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony, the Protector of LutherStaunch Protestantism of the Queens Saxon ForefathersHouse of Saxe-CoburgA Saxon Desperado of the Middle AgesA Fighting Hero of the Eighteenth CenturyThe Queens Grandmother a Woman of Extraordinary ExcellenceGreat Alliances in...
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Spanish artsThe Industrial Arts in SpainThis Volume, forming one of the Series of Art Handbooks issued under the authority of the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education, has been prepared by Seor Juan F. Riao, of Madrid, whose Catalogue of Art Objects of...
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