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A Voyage to AbyssiniaA Voyage to AbyssiniaThe following relation is so curious and entertaining, and the dissertations that accompany it so judicious and instructive, that the translator is confident his attempt stands in need of no apology, whatever censures may fall on the performance. The Portuguese traveller,...
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Trooper Peter Halket of MashonalandTrooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (A photographic plate at the front of the book shows three people hanging from a tree by their necks. Around them stand eight men, looking not at all troubled by their participation in the scene. Of this event all...
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Mrs. Lirriper's LegacyMrs. Lirriper's LegacyAh! Its pleasant to drop into my own easy-chair my dear though a little palpitating what with trotting up-stairs and what with trotting down, and why kitchen stairs should all be corner stairs is for the builders to justify though I do...
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Mrs. Lirriper's LodgingsMrs. Lirriper's LodgingsWhoever would begin to be worried with letting Lodgings that wasnt a lone woman with a living to get is a thing inconceivable to me, my dear; excuse the familiarity, but it comes natural to me in my own little room, when...
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The Soul of the Far EastThe Soul of the Far East The boyish belief that on the other side of our globe all things are of necessity upside down is startlingly brought back to the man when he first sets foot at Yokohama. If his initial glance does not,...
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The Natural History of SelborneThe Natural History of Selborne See, Selborne spreads her boldest beauties round The varied valley, and the mountain ground, Wildly majestic ! What is all the pride, Of flats, with loads of ornaments supplied ? Unpleasing, tasteless, impotent expense, Compared with Natures rude magnificenee....
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The Ruins Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of NatureThe Ruins; Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature If books were to be judged of by their volume, the following would have but little value; if appraised by their contents, it will perhaps be reckoned among the most...
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A Straight Deal Or, The Ancient GrudgeA Straight Deal; Or, The Ancient Grudge Publish any sort of conviction related to these morose days through which we are living and letters will shower upon you like leaves in October. No matter what your conviction be, it will shake both yeas and...
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The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far WestThe Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West 1. -- State of the fur trade of theRocky MountainsAmerican enterprisesGeneralAshley and his associatesSublette, a famous leaderYearly rendezvous among the mountains Stratagems and dangers of the tradeBands of...
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Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce...
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Historical Lectures and EssaysHistorical Lectures and EssaysBjarne Grimolfson was blown with his ship into the Irish Ocean; and there came worms and the ship began to sink under them. They had a boat which they had payed with seals blubber, for that the sea-worms will not hurt....
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RussiaRussia The first edition of this work, published early in January, 1877, contained the concentrated results of my studies during an uninterrupted residence of six years in Russiafrom the beginning of 1870 to the end of 1875. Since that time I have spent in...
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The Chignecto Isthmus and Its First SettlersThe Chignecto Isthmus and Its First SettlersFor some years past I, in common with many others, have felt that all letters of interest and accessible facts in connection with the early history of the Truemans should be collected and put in permanent form, not...
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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis BonaparteThe Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is one of Karl Marx most profound and most brilliant monographs. It may be considered the best work extant on the philosophy of history, with an eye especially upon the history of...
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Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce...
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ShelleyShelley In the case of most great writers our interest in them as persons is derived from out interest in them as writers; we are not very curious about them except for reasons that have something to do with their art. With Shelley it...
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Shelley: An EssayShelley: An EssayThe Church, which was once the mother of poets no less than of saints, during the last two centuries has relinquished to aliens the chief glories of poetry, if the chief glories of holiness she has preserved for her own. The palm...
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The Ancien RégimeThe Ancien RégimeThe rules of the Royal Institution forbid (and wisely) religious or political controversy. It was therefore impossible for me in these Lectures, to say much which had to be said, in drawing a just and complete picture of the Ancien Rgime in...
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The Crisis in RussiaThe Crisis in Russia THE characteristic of a revolutionary country is that change is a quicker process there than elsewhere. As the revolution recedes into the past the process of change slackens speed. Russia is no longer the dizzying kaleidoscope that it was in...
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Twenty Years at Hull House with Autobiographical NotesTwenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical NotesEvery preface is, I imagine, written after the book has been completed and now that I have finished this volume I will state several difficulties which may put the reader upon his guard unless he too postpones...
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