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Whitman's Ride Through Savage Lands, with Sketches of Indian LifeWhitman's Ride Through Savage Lands, with Sketches of Indian LifeNo character in Sir Walter Scott's tales appeals more directly to my heart than "Old Mortality." He had a high and noble mission, to make live again the old-time worthies, and to keep in remembrance...
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ArethusaArethusaCarlo Zeno, gentleman of Venice, ex-clerk, ex-gambler, ex-soldier of fortune, ex-lay prebendary of Patras, ex-duellist, and ex-Greek general, being about twenty-nine years of age, and having in his tough body the scars of half-a-dozen wounds that would have killed an ordinary man, had resolved...
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A Collection of Rare and Curious Tracts on Witchcraft and the Second SightA Collection of Rare and Curious Tracts on Witchcraft and the Second Sight - With an Original Essay on WitchcraftIf we wish to form a just estimate of the human character in its progress through the various stages of civilization, from ignorance and barbarism,...
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Renaissance in Italy, Volume 2 (of 7)Renaissance in Italy, Volume 2 (of 7) - The Revival of LearningThis volume on the 'Revival of Learning' follows that on the 'Age of the Despots,' published in 1875, and precedes that on the 'Fine Arts,' which is now also offered to the public....
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The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 2 of 2)The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 2 of 2)No work accomplished since the American occupation is of more fundamental and far-reaching importance than that of the Bureau of Education. In order to appreciate it one must gain some familiarity with the conditions which prevailed...
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The Australian Army Medical Corps in EgyptThe Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt - An Illustrated and Detailed Account of the Early Organisation and Work of the Australian Medical Units in Egypt in 1914-1915The experience of the Australian Army Medical Service, since the outbreak of war, is probably unique in...
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The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume 1 (of 2)The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume 1 (of 2)This book has been written for those who seek in Paris something more than a city of shows or a huge bazaar, something better than the cabaret wherein Franois I. found entertainment, and...
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Travels Through North America, During the Years 1825 and 1826. v. 1-2Travels Through North America, During the Years 1825 and 1826. v. 1-2This text uses UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding. If the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. First, make sure that your...
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Introducing the American SpiritIntroducing the American SpiritDas ist ganz Americanish. Whenever a German says this, he means that it is something which is practical, lavish, daringly reckless or lawless. It means a short cut to achievement, a disregard of convention, an absence of those qualities which have...
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Chitta RanjanChitta RanjanEncircled by the rivers Padma and Meghna lies the famous land of Bikrampur, once the pride of Eastern Bengal and the cynasure of the whole of Hindusthan. In its days of prosperity it not only supplied many fashionable articles of fine taste to...
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Automobile BiographiesAutomobile Biographies - An Account of the Lives and the Work of Those Who Have Been Identified with the Invention and Development of Self-Propelled Vehicles on the Common Roads An Account of the Lives and the Work of Those Who Have Been Identified with...
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Changing ChinaChanging China Our interest in China was first aroused by a letter from an old school-fellow, Arthur Polhill, who, with heroic self-denial, has spent the best part of his life in China as a missionary. Subsequently I joined the China Emergency Committee, who in...
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The Lure of the MississippiThe Lure of the MississippiThe story opens in the spring of 1861. The Civil War has begun. Lincoln has called for 75,000 volunteers, while to regiments and batteries of the small regular army orders have been issued to hurry to Washington as fast as...
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Ιστορία του Ιωάννου Καποδιστρίου Κυβερνήτου της ΕλλάδοςΙστορία του Ιωάννου Καποδιστρίου Κυβερνήτου της ΕλλάδοςNote: The tonic system has been changed from polytonic to monotonic, otherwise the spelling of the book has not been changed. Footnotes have been converted to endnotes and their numbers are included in ().// : , . ()....
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The CloudThe CloudUp on the crest of Carmel a man stood watching. Before him lay the blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea, to the North the curving Bay of Acre, while to the south the white surf was breaking on the reefs of Philistia. At...
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The Spirit of AmericaThe Spirit of AmericaThere is an ancient amity between France and America, which is recorded in golden letters in the chronicles of human liberty. In one of the crowded squares of New York there stands a statue of a young nobleman, slender, elegant, and...
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The Red Rugs of Tarsus: A Woman's Record of the Armenian Massacre of 1909The Red Rugs of Tarsus: A Woman's Record of the Armenian Massacre of 1909When I was a Freshman at Bryn Mawr I decided I should "write something." My girlhood was uneventful and joyousthe girlhood of the lucky American who has a wholesome good time....
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The Ornithology of ShakespeareThe Ornithology of Shakespeare - Critically examined, explained and illustratedBEFORE proceeding to examine the ornithology of Shakespeare, it may be well to take a glance at his knowledge of natural history in general. Pope has expressed the opinion that whatever object of nature or...
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Court Beauties of Old Whitehall: Historiettes of the RestorationCourt Beauties of Old Whitehall: Historiettes of the RestorationIF we may believe so eminent an authority as M. Emile Bourgeois, whose "Le Grand Sicle," is a fascinating proof of his statement, "the age we live in delights in inquiry into the private lives of...
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With the Judæans in the Palestine CampaignWith the Judæans in the Palestine CampaignIn the darkest days of the War, the British Cabinet decided that it would be good policy to create a Jewish Regiment, and accordingly, in August, 1917, the first Jewish Battalion was formed. From that day forth, as...
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