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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 51, 1801-1840 - Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those...

La Divina ComediaNota del Transcriptor: Se ha respetado la ortografa y la acentuacin del original. Errores obvios de imprenta han sido corregidos. Pginas en blanco han sido eliminadas. La portada fue diseada por el transcriptor y se considera dominio pblico. UE es pues la...

Spirits Do ReturnThis book was written through the inspirational spirit of the well-known writer, Samuel L. ClemensMark Twain. As I have never before written a book, the reader will see that I have had help from an unseen forcefrom the Spirit World. I was...

The Luck of the Dudley Grahams - As Related in Extracts from Elizabeth Graham's DiaryWe are the Dudley Grahams,four children and a mother. We are very poor and keep a boarding-house; not because we like boarders, but because when dear father died a three...

The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 12, December, 1887Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretaries; those relating to the collecting fields, to Rev. James Powell, D.D., or to the District Secretaries; letters for The American Missionary,...

The Peak DistrictIn Peakland one marvels most at the strange variety of sceneryillustrations of all English inland beauty seem to have been grouped there for mans delight. There are tender meadows, streams such as must have meandered through Arcady, fantastical hillocks, mountains that cut...

Scott Burton, ForesterHello, Scotty, have you decided yet which one it will be? Dick Bradshaw called, eagerly, as he ran up the walk to the old Burton home. He had been away for two weeks, and when he left, the selection of a forest...

Veiled WomenAt the corner of a lofty housetop overlooking a great part of Cairo, a woman stood with arms uplifted and solemnly addressed a crow which seemed about to settle. The bird, as if the meaning of the chant had reached him, turned in...

Under Lock and Key: A Story. Volume 3 (of 3)"Five minutes later, Captain Ducie and your hopeful son slunk out of Bon Repos like the br> we were, and treading the gravelled pathway as carefully as two Indians on the war-trail might have done,...

Under Lock and Key: A Story. Volume 2 (of 3)On entering Lady Pollexfen's room for the second time, Janet found that the mistress of Dupley Walls had completed her toilette in the interim, and was now sitting robed in stiff rustling silk, with an...

Under Lock and Key: A Story. Volume 1 (of 3)In justice to himself the author thinks it requisite to state that the entire plan of this story was sketched out, and several of the chapters written, before the first lines of Mr. Wilkie Collins's...

Ein livländisch Herz: Katharina I. von Russland; geschichtlicher RomanDie festen breiten Hnde stieen den Spaten mit verbissenem Eifer in den angefrorenen Boden. Der Oktober ging zu Ende. Seit einem Monat lag er vor der schwedischen Festung, und der leichte Sieg, den er sich erhofft...

Echoes From The Orient: A Broad Outline of Theosophical DoctrinesEchoes from the Orient was written by Mr. Judge sixteen years ago (1890) as a series of papers for a well known periodical. The author wrote under the name of "Occultus," as it was intended...

Keys to Fungi on DungCoprophilous fungi are highly satisfactory for demonstrating the diversity and morphology of a group of related organisms within an ecological system. Representative genera of most major groups of fungi can usually be guaranteed to appear on dung after a period...

The Draughtsman's Handbook of Plan and Map Drawing - Including instructions for the preparation of engineering, architectural, and mechanical drawings.The main purpose of the present work is to be a handy book of reference for draughtsmen engaged chiefly in Topographical Drawings. But to have...

Studies in Irish History, 1603-1649 - Being a Course of Lectures Delivered before the Irish Literary Society of London. 2d Series.These words were written in an appeal for justice, or even the formality of a trial, by one who was betrayed by the English...

Indians of the Mesa VerdeFor almost seven centuries it has stood there looking out across the canyon toward the setting sun. Proudly, almost haughtily, it has resisted the heavy tread of those slow centuries. Like a giant with a shawl of everlasting stone pulled...

The Diary of a French Private: War-Imprisonment, 1914-1915I had the honour three years ago to write the Preface to M. Gaston Rious first book, Aux coutes de la France qui vient. It was full of fire, impetus, and passion; it was a heart-beat. I...

Käy laatuunMuistojen Porvoossa tapaamme Runebergin kodissa, hnen puolisonsa tyhuoneen seinll, suuren himmen kuvan, josta katsojaan iskeytyy kaksi lpitunkevaa ruskeaa silm, kaarevan otsan alta, tummantuuheasta kiharametsst. Ollen kodin harvoja maalattuja muotokuvia nerokkaan C.J.L. Almqvistin todella "elv taulu", kyttksemme erst kirjailijan sanontatapaa tm on todistuksena siit...

Uroita: Kreikkalaisia sankaritarujaOli kerran kaksi kuninkaan poikaa, jotka olivat kaksoset. Heidn nimens olivat Akrisios ja Proitos, ja he elivt kaukana Hellaassa, Argoksen lempess laaksossa. Heill oli hedelmllisi niittyj ja viinitarhoja, lampaita ja hrki, suuria hevoslaumoja Lernan rmeill ja kaikkea, mit ihminen: tarvitsee ollakseen onnellinen....