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Une grande dame de la cour de Louis XV: La duchesse d'Aiguillon (1726-1796)Cest elle, cest aux documents darchives familiales dont sa bienveillance nous ouvrit le trsor, que nous avons d de mieux connatre, de mieux apprcier les vertus de son illustre aeule, la duchesse...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 109, Vol. III, January 30, 1886A recent writer remarks that the practice of letters is miserably harassing to the mind. To find the right word is so doubtful a success, and lies so...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 108, Vol. III, January 23, 1886I am once more at the waters edge. It is the Tweed, silver-voiced, musical, its ripples breaking into liquid crystals as the rushing stream leaps into the breast...

An Attempt to Investigate the Seat of Animal Life ... The spacious earth, And all the teeming regions of the world, Hold not an object to the curious flight Of knowledge, half so tempting, or so fair, As man to man. AKENSIDE. Actuated by...

Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 14DR. WALTER SIEMERS (Counsel for Defendant Raeder): Admiral, yesterday we finished with the somewhat involved Document C-32, and we had got as far as Point 11....

An Index to the First Thirty-Three Volumes of the Yale Literary Magazine - February, 1836-July 1868Roman and Arabic numerals in succession refer respectively to volume and page. Brackets indicate the second issue of 1864. The numerals after each Editors name respectively, signify the year...

The Young Continentals at LexingtonThe Young Continentals at Lexington begins with that vital period of our countrys history when the great forces that made the Revolution were slowly coming together. The port of Boston was closed; an army under Gage occupied the city; Massachusetts...

Wanderings in Three ContinentsBURTON was a many-sided man. The following volume of posthumous essays reveals him in the aspect in which he was best known to the worldas a traveller and explorer. It will add comparatively little to the knowledge of the Burton student;...

Dr. Moreau szigete: Regény1888. janur 5-n, teht tizenegy hnap s ngy nap mulva rakadtak nagybtymra, Prendick Ede magnzra, a ki Callaoban szllt a Lady Vain fdlzetre, s a kirl azt hittk, hogy a tengerbe veszett. A dli szlessg 53 s a nyugati hosszsg 101...

Historical Record of the Seventy-Third Regiment - Containing an account of the formation of the Regiment from the period of its being raised as the Second Battalion of the Forty-Second Royal Highlanders in 1780 and of its subsequent services to 1851OF THE SEVENTY-THIRD REGIMENT....

Fabre's Book of InsectsA goatherd, perhaps, amuses himself by counting little pebbles and doing sums with them. He becomes an astoundingly quick reckoner, and in the end is a professor of mathematics. Another boy, at an age when most of us care only for...

Az időgépAz idjr (legjobb, ha igy nevezzk) titokzatos fejtegetsekbe mlyedt. Szrke szeme csillogott, meg-megvillant, s arcza, mely rendszerint spadt volt, kipirult, megelevenedett. A tz vidman gett s az ezstlliomokbl sugrz lgy, fehr fny keresztlszrdtt a poharainkban gyngyz s elenysz buborkokon. Szkeink az idjr szabadalmai...

Rubber Hand Stamps and the Manipulation of Rubber - A practical treatise on the manufacture of India rubber hand stamps, small articles of India rubber, the hektograph, special inks, cements, and allied subjectsThe present work hardly needs a preface. The object is to present...

Plantation Echoes: A Collection of Original Negro Dialect PoemsThe music of the American negro, the fresh and spontaneous expression of a good and care-free heart, has long been one of the most pleasing features of American life. It is human nature in its first...

Cactus and Rattlers Heres a real thriller for youa double-action, big-caliber novelette of adventure in the West, by a writing man who knows his business, the distinguished author of Sixteen Miles, Bromes Luck, Shadows of Saffron, and other noted stories. At least twice a...

Trois Églises - Eaux-fortes originales de Ch. JouasCest Victor Hugo, Montalembert, Viollet-le-Duc, Didron, que nous devons le rveil de louanges dont se pare maintenant lart gothique, si mpris par le dix-septime et le dix-huitime sicles, en France. A leur suite, les chartistes sen sont...

Saul: Murhenäytelmän mukainen runoelma viidessä näytöksessäSaul, Israelin kuningas. Jonathan, hnen poikansa. Samuel, profeeta ja tuomari Israelissa. David, sankari. Agag, Amalekin vangittu kuningas. Abner, Saulin sotapllikk. Joab, | Abisai, | Zerujan pojat, Davidin seuraajat. Asahel, | Abjatar, pappi, Ahimelekin poika. Doeg, Ebomealainen, Saulin palvelija ja...

Historical Record of the Seventy-Second Regiment, or the Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders - Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1778, and of its subsequent services to 1848The natives of Britain have, at all periods, been celebrated for innate courage...

The Law of Hotel Life; or, the Wrongs and Rights of Host and GuestThe author knows as well as did old Burton that "books are so plentiful that they serve to put under pies, to lap spice in, and keep roast meat from burning,"...

Memories and AdventuresI was born on May 22, 1859, at Picardy Place, Edinburgh, so named because in old days a colony of French Huguenots had settled there. At the time of their coming it was a village outside the City walls, but now it...