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The Modern Regime, Volume 1The Modern Regime, Volume 1 Neither lips nor heart are capable of pronouncing the above invigorating and conclusive phrase after a silence of 30 years. That local society ought to be a private association, does not interest those who are concerned, while the legislator...
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The Modern Regime, Volume 2The Modern Regime, Volume 2 "To treat of the Church, the School, and the Family, describe the modern milieu and note the facilities and obstacles which a society like our own encounters in this milieu, such was the program of the last5101 section of...
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The French Revolution - Volume 2The French Revolution - Volume 2 In this volume, as in those preceding it and in those to come, there will be found only the history of Public Authorities. Others will write that of diplomacy, of war, of the finances, of the Church; my...
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The French Revolution - Volume 3The French Revolution - Volume 3 "In Egypt," says Clement of Alexandria,1101 "the sanctuaries of the temples are shaded by curtains of golden tissue. But on going further into the interior in quest of the statue, a priest of grave aspect, advancing to meet...
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The French Revolution - Volume 1The French Revolution - Volume 1 This second part of "Les Origines de la France Contemporaine" will consist of two volumes.Popular insurrections and the laws of the Constituent Assembly end in destroying all government in France; this forms the subject of the present volume.A...
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The Ancient RegimeThe Ancient Regime In 1849, being twenty-one years of age, and an elector, I was very much puzzled, for I had to nominate fifteen or twenty deputies, and, moreover, according to French custom, I had not only to determine what candidate I would vote...
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Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton TicinoAlps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton TicinoMost men will readily admit that the two poets who have the greatest hold over Englishmen are Handel and Shakespearefor it is as a poet, a sympathiser with and renderer of all estates and conditions whether...
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The Caged LionThe Caged LionWhen the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. In the present case, it...
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Two Men of Sandy Bar: A DramaTwo Men of Sandy Bar: A Drama MISS MARY MORRIS.. The schoolmistress of Red Gulch, in love with Sandy, and cousin of Alexander Morton, sen. ALEXANDER MORTON ("SANDY").First dress: Mexican vaquero; black velvet trousers open from knee, over white trousers; laced black velvet jacket,...
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PeacePeace The 'Peace' was brought out four years after 'The Acharnians' (422 B.C.), when the War had already lasted ten years. The leading motive is the same as in the former playthe intense desire of the less excitable and more moderate-minded citizens for relief...
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A Plea for Captain John BrownA Plea for Captain John Brown - Read to the citizens of Concord, Massachusetts on Sunday evening, October thirtieth, eighteen fifty-nine I trust that you will pardon me for being here. I do not wish to force my thoughts upon you, but I feel...
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Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the PhilippinesWanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the PhilippinesIn a book of this kind it is often the custom to begin by making apologies. In my case I feel it to be a sheer necessity. In the first place what is here...
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Memoirs of the Comtesse Du BarryMemoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry - With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV Up to the time of the Du Barry the court of France had been the stage where the whole political and human drama of that...
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Jeanne D'Arc: Her Life And DeathJeanne D'Arc: Her Life And Death JEANNE D'ARC CHAPTER I FRANCE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 1412-1423. CHAPTER II DOMREMY AND VAUCOULEURS. 1424-1429. CHAPTER III BEFORE THE KING. FEB.-APRIL, 1429. CHAPTER IV THE RELIEF OF ORLEANS. MAY 1-8, 1429. CHAPTER V THE CAMPAIGN OF THE...
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The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 - The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature CHAPTER XXI. THE MOLUCCASTERNATE. CHAPTER XXII. GILOLO. CHAPTER XXIII. TERNATE TO THE KAIOA ISLANDS AND BATCHIAN. CHAPTER XXIV....
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The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 - The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature My readers will naturally ask why I have delayed writing this book for six years after my return;...
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The Memoirs of Victor HugoThe Memoirs of Victor Hugo This volume of memoirs has a double characterhistorical and intimate. The life of a period, the XIX Century, is bound up in the life of a man, VICTOR HUGO. As we follow the events set forth we get the...
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A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its TributariesA Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries - And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864It has been my object in this work to give as clear an account as I was able of tracts of...
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Lincoln's Yarns and StoriesLincoln's Yarns and Stories - A Complete Collection of the Funny and Witty Anecdotes That Made Lincoln Famous as America's Greatest Story Teller Dean Swift said that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before serves well of his...
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Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth CenturyRedgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century The Jacobite enthusiasm of the eighteenth century, particularly during the rebellion of 1745, afforded a theme, perhaps the finest that could be selected for fictitious composition, founded upon real or probable incident. This civil war and its...
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