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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 9 (of 9) - Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and PrivateThe General Index contains links to Volumes 1-8 of this nine volume work. The links are designed to work when the book...

Adrian Savage: A Novel TO GABRIELLE FRANCESCA LILIAN MARY THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED. UPON HER BIRTHDAY. AS A LOVE-TOKEN BY LUCAS MALET THE ORCHARD, EVERSLEY AUGUST 28, 1911 I will ask my readers kindly to understand that this book is altogether a work of...

Legends of Fire Island Beach and the South SideThese stories embody only a small part of the folk-lore and tradition that pertained to the Great South Bay. They were told by a class of men now gone. Fact, imagination, and superstitioneach contributed its part....

Poems from the Inner LifeFOURTEENTH EDITION. BOSTON: COLBY & RICH, PUBLISHERS, 9 Montgomery Place. {ii} Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863 by E L I Z A B E T H D O T E N, In the Clerks Office...

Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 6, June 1847It was a lovely autumnal morning. The air was fresh, with just enough of frost about it to give ruddiness to the cheek and brilliancy to the eye. The rays of the sun streamed brightly up the...

NahkarattiYstvni Lionel Dacre asui Avenue de Wagramin varrella Pariisissa. Hnen pieni rauta-aidan ja ruohokentn ymprim talonsa sijaitsi Riemuportin vasemmalla puolella. Luulen, ett se sijaitsi siin jo ennenkuin avenue'a oli olemassakaan, sill harmaat kivilaatat olivat sammaltuneet ja muurit ajan vaikutuksesta iknkuin valkoisen homeen peitossa. Kadulta...

Water Wonders Every Child Should Know - Little Studies of Dew, Frost, Snow, Ice, and RainOne of the most interesting and instructive phenomena in the lessons of nature is the falling of the dewa seeming miracle which begins with the setting of the sun,...

The Birth of Civilization in the Near EastA full description of the birth of civilization in the Near East would require a work many times the size of the present book. We have concentrated on the social and political innovations in which the great...

Breaking into the moviesWere the average man suddenly called upon to assemble all the women in his town who looked like Mary Pickford, he might find himself at a loss as to how to commence. In fact, he might even doubt that there were...

The Right Honourable Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe P.C., D.C.L., F.R.S. - A Biographical SketchThis sketch of the life and activities of Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe is based, to a large extent, upon an obituary notice prepared at the request of the Councils of the...

Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 5, May 1847The world-renowned city of Paris, always gay, was, perhaps, never more so than in the autumn of the year 1776. Most prominent among the exciting topics of its excitable populace, at that period, was the American war....

Samling af Swenska Ordspråk - i ordning ställde efter alfabetet, med tillägg af någre utur Latinen och andre Språk, liklydande eller motswarandeAt Swenska Folket frn urldriga tider haft en srdeles smak och fallenhet fr mrka och gt-lika talestt, fwen som korta Ord- och Sedosprk,...

First Love: A Novel. Vol. 2 of 3During the day, Lord Borrowdales attentions to Julia were public and unremitting, while the infatuated, unhappy Edmund witnessed it all in growing sorrow of heart. Had he then, he asked himself, already yielded to a passion so...

Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 4, April 1847In the Revolutionary war the plan of operations adopted by the British Ministry for the close of the year 1777 was as follows. General Howe, with a portion of the troops, was to occupy New York, and...

JaquelinaThis story was first serialized in the New York Family Story Paper as Jaquelina; or, The Outlaw's Bride during 1882. The text used in this edition comes from a later reprint, part of Street & Smith's Eagle Series no. 192, in which it was...

Her Sailor: A Love StoryMiss Marshall Saunderss first published work was issued in England in 1889, under the title, My Spanish Sailor. In the present volume, while not materially altering the plot or action, Miss Saunders has added a number of new incidents, and,...

Kidnapped (Illustrated) - Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751If you ever read this tale, you will likely ask yourself more questions than I should care to answer: as for instance how the Appin murder has come to fall...

In het Hol van den Leeuw: Reisschetsen uit Sovjet-Rusland's Avonds aan het station Charlottenburg, Berlijn. Om 8.40 moet de trein naar Oost-Pruisen vertrekken, ik ben er al om acht uur, maar geen denken aan om een kaartje te krijgen, er staan nog wel een...

Waterways and Water Transport in Different Countries - With a description of the Panama, Suez, Manchester, Nicaraguan, and other canals.It would probably be difficult to name any subject that is of more importance to the material interests of a country than adequate means of...

Lähtevien laivojen kaupunki"Olimme kuudenkymmenen matruusin kanssa saapuneet muutamaan Vironmaan rantapitjn. Pitj, josta tulimme, oli ollut kapinan kaikkein pahimpia pespaikkoja, melkein kaikki aatelismoisiot olivat tuhkana; olimme senthden mekin puolestamme kyttneet kaikkea mahdollista ankaruutta. Olimme suoraan sanoen vsyneet nkemn verta, niin matruusit kuin ylipllikkmmekin, minusta puhumattakaan....