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The Audacious WarThe Audacious WarThe Scotch have this proverb: "War brings poverty. Poverty brings peace. Peace brings prosperity. Prosperity brings pride. And pride brings war again." Shall the world settle down to the faith that there is no redemption from an everlasting round of pride, war,...
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The Beginner's American HistoryThe Beginner's American HistoryIts object is to present clearly and accurately those facts and principles in the lives of some of the chief founders and builders of America which would be of interest and value to pupils beginning the study of our history. Throughout...
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Georges Guynemer: Knight of the AirGeorges Guynemer: Knight of the Air June 27th, 1918. My dear M. Bordeaux: I count the American people fortunate in reading any book of yours; I count them fortunate in reading any biography of that great hero of the air, Guynemer; and thrice over...
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History of the Expedition to RussiaHistory of the Expedition to Russia - Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812I have undertaken the task of tracing the History of the Grand Army and its Leader during the year 1812. I address it to such of you as the...
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Jean-nu-pieds, Vol. 2Jean-nu-pieds, Vol. 2 - chronique de 1832 1876 Il serait bien difficile d'tablir quel architecte exotique a pu dessiner le plan de ce monument ridicule. Mais la religion prte ces ogives grotesques je ne sais quel aspect artistique plus grand que les pierres tailles...
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Lettres de Marie BashkirtseffLettres de Marie Bashkirtseff - Préface de François CoppéeJe trouvai l une compagnie trs sympathique: rien que des dames et des jeunes filles, toutes parlant merveille le franais, avec ce peu d'accent qui donne notre langue, dans la bouche des Russes, on ne sait...
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"Contemptible", by "Casualty""Contemptible", by "Casualty"No cheers, no handkerchiefs, no bands. Nothing that even suggested the time-honoured scene of soldiers leaving home to fight the Empire's battles. Parade was at midnight. Except for the lighted windows of the barracks, and the rush of hurrying feet, all was...
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 - 1630-34 More than half of this volume is occupied with the concluding installment of Juan de Medinas early Augustinian history. He recounts the leading events therein, from one provincialship to another, and furnishes biographical...
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Roads from RomeRoads from RomeThree of the papers in this volume have already appeared in The Atlantic Monthly: "A Poet's Toll," "The Phrase-Maker," and "A Roman Citizen." The author is indebted to the Editors for permission to republish them. The illustration on the title page is...
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Schetsen uit de Indische VorstenlandenSchetsen uit de Indische Vorstenlanden - De Aarde en haar volken, 1873Op het eiland Java bestaanhet zal niemand onder onze lezers onbekend zijnnog twee zoogenoemd zelfstandige staten: het keizerrijk van Solo of Soerakarta, de rune van het eenmaal zoo machtige rijk van Mataram; en...
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History of the Girondists, Volume IHistory of the Girondists, Volume I - Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French RevolutionWe have not re-produced, with the minute elaboration of an annalist, the numerous parliamentary and military details of all the events of these forty months. Two or three times...
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Historic Doubts Relative To Napoleon BuonaparteHistoric Doubts Relative To Napoleon BuonaparteThe first author who stated fairly the connexion between the evidence of testimony and the evidence of experience, was Hume, in his Essay on Miracles; a work abounding in maxims of great use in the conduct of life.Edinburgh Review,...
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Normandy PicturesqueNormandy PicturesqueIn issuing the Travelling Edition of "Normandy Picturesque," the publishers deem it right to state that the body of the work is identical with the Christmas Edition; but that the Appendix contains additional information for the use of travellers, some of which is...
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Soldier Silhouettes on Our FrontSoldier Silhouettes on Our Front Some human experiences that one has in France stand out like the silhouettes of mountain peaks against a crimson sunset. I have tried in this book to set down some of those experiences. I have had but one object...
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Five Years in New ZealandFive Years in New Zealand - 1859 to 1864The islands of New Zealand, discovered by the Dutch navigator, Tasman, in 1642, and surveyed and explored by Captain Cooke in 1769, remained unnoticed until 1814, when the first Christian Missionaries landed, and commenced the work...
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Columbus: De ontdekker van AmerikaColumbus: De ontdekker van AmerikaIn de prachtige zeestad Genua, de trotsche bijgenaamd, werd omstreeks het jaar 1435 een knaapje geboren, dat nu in alle landen als Christophorus Columbus bekend is. Het juiste jaar zijner geboorte kent men niet. Hij was de zoon van geringe...
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Spanish Life in Town and CountrySpanish Life in Town and CountryIt has been thought well to include Portugal in this volume, so as to embrace the entire Iberian Peninsula. Though geographically contiguous, and so closely associated in the popular mind, the Spanish and Portuguese nations offer in fact the...
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The Diary of an EnnuyéeThe Diary of an EnnuyéeCalais, June 21.What young lady, travelling for the first time on the Continent, does not write a "Diary?" No sooner have we slept on the shores of Franceno sooner are we seated in the gay salon at Dessin's, than we...
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Dio's Rome, Volume 1Dio's Rome, Volume 1 - An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius...
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A General Sketch of the European War: The First PhaseA General Sketch of the European War: The First PhaseIt is the object of this book, and those which will succeed it in the same series, to put before the reader the main lines of the European War as it proceeds. Each such part...
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