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Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840Paris, January 2, 1836.M. de Talleyrand is working hard to advance the claims of M. Mol to a seat in the French Academy. He is supported alike by M. Royer-Collard and...
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The Dare Boys with General GreeneThe Dare Boys with General GreeneStephen Angus Cox, the author of the Dare Boys Series is specially equipped through long study and research to write upon the life and adventures of these two daring sons of the revolutionary period. Every item of historical reference...
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SwedenSwedenThe kingdom of Sweden occupies the eastern and larger part of the Scandinavian peninsula, covering an area of one hundred and seventy thousand six hundred and sixty square miles, with a population of somewhat more than five millions. Sweden is of nearly the same...
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The Indians of the Painted Desert Region: Hopis, Navahoes, Wallapais, HavasupaisThe Indians of the Painted Desert Region: Hopis, Navahoes, Wallapais, HavasupaisWild, weird, and mystic pictures are formed in the mind by the very namethe Painted Desert. The sound itself suggests a fabled rather than a real land. Surely it must be akin to Atlantis...
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Mary of Plymouth: A Story of the Pilgrim SettlementMary of Plymouth: A Story of the Pilgrim Settlement The purpose of this series of stories is to show the children, and even those who have already taken up the study of history, the home life of the colonists with whom they meet in...
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Siam: Its Government, Manners, Customs, &cSiam: Its Government, Manners, Customs, &c.In giving these pages to the public the author has no ambition to make a book. Having been invited by the Principal of Milnwood Academy, at Shade Gap, Pa., to deliver in that Institution a series of lectures, or...
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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)This book is a translation of Babur Padshahs Autobiography, made from the original Turki text. It was undertaken after a purely-Turki manuscript had become accessible in England, the Haidarabad Codex (1915) which, being in Baburs ipsissima verba, left...
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The Northfield Tragedy; or, the Robber's RaidThe Northfield Tragedy; or, the Robber's Raid - A Thrilling Narrative; A history of the remarkable attempt to rob the bank at Northfield, Minnesota; the Cold-Blooded Murder of the Brave Cashier and an Inoffensive Citizen. The Slaying of Two of the Brigands. The Wonderful...
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Beyond the Marne: Quincy, Huiry, Voisins before and during the battleBeyond the Marne: Quincy, Huiry, Voisins before and during the battleMademoiselle Henriette Cuvru-Magot, who, since the early months of the war, has been nursing the wounded at the Auxiliary Hospital of l'Union des Femmes de France, at Quincy, near Meaux, lives in the picturesque...
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Martha of California: A Story of the California TrailMartha of California: A Story of the California Trail The author of this series of stories for children has endeavored simply to show why and how the descendants of the early colonists fought their way through the wilderness in search of new homes. The...
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Explanatory Notes of a Pack of Cavalier Playing Cards, Temp. Charles IIExplanatory Notes of a Pack of Cavalier Playing Cards, Temp. Charles II. - Forming a Complete Political Satire of the CommonwealthThrough the courtesy of Lord Nelson, the very curious Pack of Cards here presented in facsimile was placed at the disposal of the Aungervyle...
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John Inglesant: A Romance (Volume 2 of 2)John Inglesant: A Romance (Volume 2 of 2)Inglesant travelled to Marseilles, and by packet boat to Genoa. The beauty of the approach by sea to this city, and the lovely gardens and the country around gave him the greatest delight. The magnificent streets of...
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John Inglesant: A Romance (Volume 1 of 2)John Inglesant: A Romance (Volume 1 of 2)During my second year at Oxford I became acquainted with a Roman Catholic gentleman, the eldest son of a family long resident on the borders of Shropshire towards Wales. My friend, whose name was Fisher, invited me...
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Diplomatic DaysDiplomatic Days The letters which form this volume were written in a period of delightful leisure, when I was receiving my first impressions of Mexico. The might and beauty of the great Spanish civilization, set in a frame of exceeding natural loveliness, kindled new...
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Slavery in PennsylvaniaSlavery in Pennsylvania - A Dissertation Submitted to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Conformity with the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1910SUBMITTED TO THE BOARD OF UNIVERSITY STUDIES OF THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY IN CONFORMITY...
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A Comprehensive History of NorwichA Comprehensive History of NorwichSome account of the sources of information should be given in the preface to a history, in order to assure the reader of the authenticity of the narrative. No one can have turned over a booksellers catalogue of local historical...
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A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and ArtA History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and ArtI have felt some difficulty in selecting a title for the contents of the following pages, in which it was, in fact, my design to give, as far as may be done within such moderate...
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History of the Kingdom of SiamHistory of the Kingdom of Siam - and of the revolutions that have caused the overthrow of the empire, up to A. D. 1770Turpin's History of Siam, published at Paris in the year 1771 consists of two volumes, the first of which deals merely...
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An Unsentimental Journey through CornwallAn Unsentimental Journey through CornwallI believe in holidays. Not in a frantic rushing about from place to place, glancing at everything and observing nothing; flying from town to town, from hotel to hotel, eager to "do" and to see a country, in order that...
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The Hammer: A Story of the Maccabean TimesThe Hammer: A Story of the Maccabean TimesIt is not so very long since the Apocrypha was found in almost every copy of the English Bible, but in the present day it is seldom printed with it, and very seldom indeed read. One or...
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