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Enoni: muistoja Napoleonin ajoiltaEnoni: muistoja Napoleonin ajoiltaOlin lukenut enoni kirjeen jo sataankin kertaan, niin ett muistin sen ulkoa. Vaan sittenkin otin sen taskustani ja, istuessani laivan laitamalla, luin sen uteliaana, aivan kuin olisin ensi kertaa sen avannut. Ksiala oli varovaista ja kulmikasta, niin kuin sopikin odottaa miehelt,...
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The Touchstone of FortuneThe Touchstone of Fortune - Being the Memoir of Baron Clyde, Who Lived, Thrived, and Fell in the Doleful Reign of the So-called Merry Monarch, Charles IIGoddess Fortune seems to delight in smiling on a man who risks his all, including life, perhaps, on...
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The Lure of the NorthThe Lure of the NorthDinner was nearly over at the big red hotel that stands high above the city of Quebec, and Thirlwell, sitting at one of the tables, abstractedly glanced about. The spacious room was filled with skilfully tempered light that glimmered on...
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Over Strand and Field: A Record of Travel through BrittanyOver Strand and Field: A Record of Travel through BrittanyWe walked through the empty galleries and deserted rooms where spiders spin their cobwebs over the salamanders of Francis the First. One is overcome by a feeling of distress at the sight of this poverty...
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Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long BeforeSamoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before Samoa is the native name of the group of volcanic islands in central Polynesia long known as the "Navigators Islands." They are situated about 3000 miles from Sydney, and stand on the charts between the parallels...
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The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of ChemistryThe Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of ChemistryThe Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry is very interesting in itself. It is also a pregnant example of the contrast between the scientific and the emotional methods of regarding nature; and it admirably...
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The Helmet of NavarreThe Helmet of Navarre"No fear of that; my house has a good name. There is no fairer inn in all Paris. And your chamber is a good chamber, though you will have larger, doubtless, when you are Minister of Finance." The laugh was turned...
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St. George's Cross Or, England Above AllSt. George's Cross; Or, England Above AllThe following little tale is neither pure fiction nor absolute historic truth; being, indeed, little more than an attempt to show a picture of Channel Island life as it was some two centuries ago. For the background we...
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Three Months of My LifeThree Months of My LifeIn the early morning of Midsummer's-day, 1868, I might have been seen slowly wending my way towards the office of the Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals, at Peshawurfor the purpose of appearing before the standing Medical Committee of the station,...
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In het bergland van TripolisIn het bergland van Tripolis - De Aarde en haar Volken, 1906Mijn eerste onderzoekingstocht in Tripolis in 1901 was maar zeer onbeteekenend geweest door opgekomen politieke moeilijkheden. Gelukkig heb ik daarna nog twee reizen kunnen doen, namelijk in 1903 en 1904, waarbij ik een...
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Van Toledo naar GranadaVan Toledo naar Granada - De Aarde en haar Volken, 1906De aanblik van Castili.De rondtrekkende kudden.De Mesta.De Taag en haar dichters.De Cuesta del Carmel.De Cristo de la Luz.De hydraulische machine van Juanilo Turriano.De Zocodover.Oude paleizen en antieke synagogen.De Joden van Toledo.Een herinnering aan de...
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The Living PresentThe Living PresentIf this little book reads more like a memoir than a systematic study of conditions, my excuse is that I remained too long in France and was too much with the people whose work most interested me, to be capable, for a...
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France in the Nineteenth CenturyFrance in the Nineteenth Century The sources from which I have drawn the materials for this book are various; they come largely from private papers, and from articles contributed to magazines and newspapers by contemporary writers, French, English, and American. I had not at...
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Love Romances of the AristocracyLove Romances of the AristocracyMy object in writing this book has been to present as many phases as possible of the strangely romantic story of the British Peerage, so that those who have not the time or facilities for exploring the library of books...
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In Oostenrijk—StiermarkenIn Oostenrijk—Stiermarken - De Aarde en haar Volken, 1906Waarde medereizigers. Wij zullen Stiermarken binnengaan langs den weg, dien in 1797 het roemvol fransch leger volgde, nadat het lauweren geoogst had in den schitterenden italiaanschen veldtocht. Nadat Bonaparte zonder resultaat aan aartshertog Karel den philosofischen...
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Malta en de Maltezer OrdeMalta en de Maltezer Orde - De Aarde en haar Volken, 1906Van Syracuse naar Malta.La Valette en de stichting door den Grootmeester der Orde.Aankomst in de groote haven.Aanzien van de stad.Koetsiers en schippers.De witte steenen huizen.Terrasvormige daken.Mannen en vrouwen van Malta.Het huiselijk leven.Het gezelschapsleven.De...
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The Romanization of Roman BritainThe Romanization of Roman BritainThe following paper was originally read to the British Academy in 1905, and published in the second Volume of its Proceedings (pp. 185-217) and in a separate form (London, Frowde). The latter has been sometime out of print, and, as...
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In het Balkanbergland van BulgarijeIn het Balkanbergland van Bulgarije - De Aarde en haar Volken, 1906Algemeene beschrijving van het Balkanbergland.De West-Balkan en de kloven van de Isker.De Midden-Balkan en de zone der kalkformatie.Dronovo en zijn houtsnijders.Trevna.Radevtsi en de mijnen.Een schilderachtig steenkolenbekken.Het groote Balkanwoud.Kleurrijke dorpstooneelen.De herberg Boroesjtitsa en het...
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Westways: A Village ChronicleWestways: A Village ChronicleThere will be many people in this book; some will be important, others will come on the scene for a time and return no more. The life-lines of these persons will cross and recross, to meet once or twice and not...
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Le vieux muet, ou, Un héros de ChâteauguayLe vieux muet, ou, Un héros de ChâteauguayUn roman n'a gure besoin de prface; et, quand il en a une, ce n'est pas d'ordinaire un prtre qui la signe. On sait pourquoi. Depuis soixante ans le roman est un des pins excrables dissolvants de...
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