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Looking Forward: A Dream of the United States of the Americas in 1999The author respectfully submits it as his firm and immovable conviction, that the United States of America, in years to come, will govern the entire Western Hemisphere. The Stars and Stripes which...

Beaver: An Alphabet of Typical Specimens - Together with Notes and a Terminal Essay on the Manners and Customs of Beavering MenThough the sport is deservedly popular in the Service, it is attended by infinite risk should the specimen be of higher rank than...

Näyttäymättömät: Huvi-näytelmä kolmessa näytöksessäMatti: Te ette kosi itse ettek toisen kautta, ja yht kaikki olette Te kihloissa, kenps noin oudon puheen selittisi. Juurihan se on yht kuin jos sanoisin: "min en koskaan paikkaa housujani itse enk korjuuta niit toisella ja kuitenki tulevat ne korjatuksi."...

The First Afghan WarThe following pages pretend to give nothing more than a short summary of events already recorded by recognised authorities. [1] It was in the year 1808, when the power of Napoleon was at its height, that diplomatic relations were first opened...

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 05L'averse, toute la nuit, avait sonn contre les carreaux et les toits. Le ciel bas et charg d'eau semblait crev, se vidant sur la terre, la dlayant en bouillie, la fondant comme du sucre. Des rafales...

A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne - Quickened With Metrical Illustrations, Both Morall and Divine, Etc.There be, no doubt, some faults committed by the Printer, both Literall and Materiall, and some Errors of the Gravers in the Figures, (as in the Tetragrammaton; in...

Alfred Kihlman: Elämän kuvaus. 2 (of 2) L. Stenbck. Antaessaan lukijan ksiin jlkimmisen osan Alfred Kihlmanin elmkertaa pyyt tekij kytt tss tarjoutuvaa tilaisuutta tehdkseen vasta ilmestyneist lhteist muutamia oikaisuja ja lisyksi teoksen edelliseen osaan. Kuukausia sen jlkeen kuin kirja oli painettu, tapahtui net, ett...

Philosophical StudiesAll the papers contained in this volume, except the two ethical ones (VIII and X), have been previously published; and of those which have been previously published all, except that on "External and Internal Relations" (IX), are here re-printed without change. They were...

The Story of the Thirty-second Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry - Whence it came; where it went; what it saw, and what it didTHIS book is not a history of the civil war, nor even of the Army of the Potomac; but merely the story of...

A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Perfumery - Comprising directions for making all kinds of perfumes, sachet powders, fumigating materials, dentrifices, cosmetics, etc., etc., with a full account of the volatile oils, balsams, resins, and other natural and artificial perfume-substances, including the manufacture...

Doomsday EveIn the midst of the warthat terrible conflict that threatened humanity's total destructionthe "new people" suddenly appeared. Quietly performing incredible deeds, vanishing at will, they were an enigma to both sides. Kurt Zen was an American intelligence officer among the many sent to...

Narrative of the Battle of Cowan's Ford, February 1st, 1781 - and Narrative of the Battle of Kings MountainHaving seen the following most valuable and interesting narrative quoted very often in Kings Mountain and its Heroes, written by Lyman C. Draper, L.L.D., of Wisconsin,...

Die Oberheudorfer in der Stadt - Allerlei heitere Geschichten von den Oberheudorfer Buben und MädelnAuf den Stufen, die zu der altersgrauen Stadtkirche von Feldburg emporfhrten, saen drei Kinder: zwei Buben und ein Mdel. Es war just um die Zeit, da es die Blumen schrecklich...

Saaristosta: Kuvia suomalaisten saaristolaisten elämästäTm keskustelu tapahtui ern talviaamuna muutaman Suomenlahden ulkosaaristolaiskyln kuuluvan talon pihalla. Nuori mies korjaili siin, jo matkapuvussa ja laukku olalla, suksiensa nystimi juuri hiihtmn lhtiessn. Vanha kalastaja hnt varoitteli lhtemst; muu talonvki seisoi viluissaan siin ymprill. Kaikkien katseet thtsivt lumenpeittoiselle...

Running the Blockade - A Personal Narrative of Adventures, Risks, and Escapes During the American Civil WarA German admiral has remarked that the most valuable naval history lies in the despatches and logs of naval officers. Our own Navy Record Society by the line...

The Dunwich Horror"Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimerasdire stories of Celno and the Harpiesmay reproduce themselves in the brain of superstitionbut they were there before. They are transcripts, typesthe archetypes are in us, and eternal. How else should the recital of that which we know...

The River Motor Boat Boys on the Colorado; Or, The Clue in the RocksThe motor boat Rambler lay pulling at her anchor-chain in the muddy waters of the Gulf of California. To the North opened the wide, shallow mouth of the Colorado river, with...

The Marbeck Inn: A Novel IT falls to some to be born, as they say, with a silver spoon in their mouths, and the witty have made play with the thought that the wise child chooses rich parents. Sam Branstone lacked the completeness of...

The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity Feeling anxious to preserve for future reference an account of the part which the Negro took in suppressing the Slaveholders Rebellion, I have been induced to write this work. In doing so, it...

Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories - With Illustrations OME, Sam, tell us a story, said I, as Hariet and I crept to his knees, in the glow of the bright evening firelight; while Aunt Lois was busily rattling the tea-things, and grandmamma, at the...