Yemen history books
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Arabic Authors - F. F. Arbuthnot
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| It has been the most famous and influential of China's Seven Military Classics, and "for the last two thousand years it remained the most important military treatise in Asia, where even the common people knew it by name. It has had an influence on Eastern and Western military thinking, business tactics, legal strategy and beyond. |
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The Art of War - Sun Tzu
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| It is object of this book to trace the story of Japan from its beginnings to the establishment of constitutional government. Concerned as this story is with the period of vague and legendary antiquity as well as with the disorders of mediaeval time and with centuries of seclusion, it is plain that it is not an easy task to present a trustworthy and connected account of the momentous changes through which the empire has been called to pass. |
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Japan - David Murray
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| The book gives an insight of the French Revolution from 1789 to the height of the Reign of Terror (1793–94) and culminates in 1795. Thus it is considered to be an authoritative account of the early course of the Revolution. |
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The French Revolution - Thomas Carlyle
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| The story from the landing of Hengest, 449 To the Death of Elizabeth I, 1610. "Milton's couplet from the Sonnet to Cromwell might well describe Green's monumental work, the aim of which is so aptly defined by its full title, A Short History of the English People. This story of our island race from the year 449 to 1960 concentrates, more on the generations that have made up the realm than on a chronicle of its kings and battles" |
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History of the English People, Volume II - John Richard Green
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| If I had been guided by my judgment alone it is not probable that these notes of the debates in the Conference, held upon the invitation of Virginia, at Washington, in the month of February, 1861, would have been made public. From the commencement of its sessions, a portion of the members were in favor of the daily publication of the proceedings. I was disposed to go farther and have the sessions open to the public; but this proposition was opposed by a large majority. |
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A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention - Lucius Eugene Chittenden
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| The book appears originally to have been written for boys, and, indeed, the chapters are called "Lessons". However, it is a very readable history and provides a fascinating insight into both London's past and the government of the City at the time the book was written |
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The History of London - Walter Besant
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| This book is a novel by Victor Hugo about Napoleon III's takeover of France. |
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The History of a Crime - Victor Hugo
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| These letters are really a must read. They are short and really important to history. Henry VIII hated writing letters with a passion, and here he is writing to Anne, often signing "your loving Sovereign and friend":). This can be treated as the short essays of history. |
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The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn - King of England Henry VIII
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| This book about the history of beginning of the nineteenth century when Western Europe in turn submitted and struggled against a sub lieutenant who made himself an emperor, who at his pleasurre made kings and destroyed kingdoms, the ancient eastern part of the contient. |
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Ali Pacha - Alexandre Dumas
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| Beyond the question of certainty is the question of detachment. The process by which principles are discovered and appropriated is other than that by which, in practice, they are applied; and our most sacred and disinterested convictions ought to take shape in the tranquil regions of the air, above the tumult and the tempest of active life.  For a man is justly despised who has one opinion in history and another in politics, one for abroad and another at home, one for opposition and another for office. History compels us to fasten on abiding issues, and rescues us from the temporary and transient. Politics and history are interwoven, but are not commensurate. Ours is a domain that reaches farther than affairs of state, and is not subject to the jurisdiction of governments. |
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A Lecture on the Study of History - John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton
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| He remembered how it had seemed to him to him, a priest sweet to die if he might die clasping unrebuked this woman in his arms. The blood throbbed in his temples as he recalled the wild thoughts that had swirled in a mad throng through his brain in those moments which had seemed like hours; the blood throbbed, too, in his wounded arm, so that a groan forced itself through his parched lips. He was constantly throwing himself to and fro as if to escape from some teasing thought, always to be by the sharp pang in his wound brought to a sense of his condition. The whole night passed in an agony of mind and body. |
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
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| The increase of the towns of Manhattan, as, for the sake of convenience, we shall term New York and her adjuncts, in all that contributes to the importance of a great commercial mart, renders them one of the most remarkable places of the present age. Within the distinct recollections of living men, they have grown from a city of the fifth or sixth class to be near the head of all the purely trading places of the known world. That there are sufficient causes for this unparalleled prosperity, will appear in the analysis of the natural advantages of the port, in its position, security, accessories, and scale. |
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New York - James Fenimore Cooper
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| Written by a prominent 19th-century Baptist missionary and abolitionist, this guide to the area from Ohio to Arkansas provides contemporary information about life in cities and prairies, industry and commerce, geography, politics, and more. |
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A New Guide for Emigrants to the West - John Mason Peck
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| This book gives a great historical snapshot of New York in its early growth in the 1860s. Written from a religious and rather puritanical viewpoint it nevertheless paints a fascinating picture of the "big city" before it became the "gigantic city". |
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The Secrets of the Great City - James Dabney McCabe
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| Es un estracto- De orden de V. A. he visto con gusto la Relación historial de los indios que llaman Chiquitos, etc., y me persuado que el ministro evangélico que fuere menos fervoroso, la leerá con sentimiento y rubor, comparando el apostólico celo de aquellos incomparables misioneros con su tibieza, y sólo sentirá alivio en su dolor pidiendo á Dios que por su infinita piedad se compadezca de los años que ha mal empleado en ociosidad. |
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Relación historial de las misiones de indios chiquitos que en el Paraguay tienen los padres de la Compañía de Jesús - Juan Patricio Fernández
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| A Short History of the English People, which appeared in 1874, and at once gave him an assured place in the first rank of historical writers. |
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History of the English People, Index - John Richard Green
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| In December 1812, I found a schooner fitting out of Salem as a privateer. She had only four carriage guns and ninety men. By the fifth of January, 1813, she was ready to sail and only wanted some young man to go as assistant surgeon of her. The offer was made to me, when without much reflection or consultation of friends, I stepped on board her in that capacity, with no other ideas than that of a pleasant cruise and making a fortune. With this in view we steered for the coast of Brazil, which we reached about the first of February. Our first land-fall was not the most judicious, for we made the coast in the night, and in the morning found ourselves surrounded with breakers. Fortunately for us a Portuguese schooner was outside of us, and we hoisted out our boat and went on board her and received from her commander and officers directions for clearing ourselves from these dangerous breakers. We were then about sixty miles below Cape St. Roque. The captain of the Portuguese vessel kindly informed us where to get water, in a bay then before us. We had English colours flying, and all this time passed for a British vessel. |
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A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. - Benjamin Waterhouse
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| "It is but a step from Confucius to confusion", said I, in a brief discussion of the Chinese question. "Then let us take it by all means", replied the artist, who had been an indulgent listener for at least ten minutes. We were strolling upon the verge of the Chinese Quarter in San Francisco, and, turning aside from one of the chief thoroughfares of the city, we plunged into the busiest portion of Chinatown. From our standpoint the corner of Kearny and Sacramento Streets we got the most favorable view of our Mongolian neighbors. Here is a goodly number of merchant gentlemen of wealth and station, comfortably, if not elegantly, housed on two sides of a street that climbs a low hill quite in the manner of a tea box landscape. A few of these gentlemen lodge on the upper floors of their business houses, with Chinese wives, and quaint, old fashioned children gaudily dressed, looking like little idols, chatting glibly with one another, and gracefully gesticulating with hands of exquisite slenderness. Confucius, in his infancy, may have been like one of the least of these. There are white draymen and porters in the employ of these shrewd and civil merchants, and the outward appearance of traffic, as conducted in the immediate vicinity, is rather American than otherwise. |
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A Bit of Old China - Charles Warren Stoddard
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| The struggle by which the Thirteen Colonies on the Atlantic seaboard of North America won independence from Great Britain and became the United States. It is also called the American War of Independence. This book describes the causes and the history of the war. |
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The American Revolution - John Fiske
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| David Hume brings the history to life with just the details needed to remember leaders & events as well as the general condition of society during each era. . |
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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. - David Hume
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| A Short History of the English People, which appeared in 1874, and at once gave him an assured place in the first rank of historical writers. |
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History of the English People, Volume VIII - John Richard Green
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| This book deals with the enlightment of English history. A very detailed and researched historic book that covers the historical events and phases of England written in a unique writing style. |
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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. - David Hume
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| Although I can not yet congratulate you on the reestablishment of peace in Europe and the restoration of security to the persons and properties of our citizens from injustice and violence at sea, we have, nevertheless, abundant cause of gratitude to the source of benevolence and influence for interior tranquillity and personal security, for propitious seasons, prosperous agriculture, productive fisheries, and general improvements, and, above all, for a rational spirit of civil and religious liberty and a calm but steady determination to support our sovereignty, as well as our moral and our religious principles, against all open and secret attacks. |
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State of the Union Address - John Adams
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| Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia is a historical book. A life terminating before it had reached its meridian, can scarcely be expected to furnish materials for an extended biography. But the important position held by my late son, as second in command in what is now so well known as the Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition across the Island Continent of Australia; the complicated duties he undertook as Astronomer, Topographer, Journalist, and Surveyor; the persevering skill with which he discharged them, suggesting and regulating the march of the party through a waste of eighteen hundred miles, previously untrodden by European feet; his courage, patience, and heroic death; his self denial in desiring to be left alone in the desert with scarcely a hope of rescue, that his companions might find a chance for themselves; these claims on public attention demand that his name should be handed down to posterity in something more than a mere obituary record, or an official acknowledgment of services. A truthful, though brief, memoir of my son's short career, may furnish a stimulating example, by showing how much can be accomplished in a few years, when habits of prudence and industry have been acquired in early youth. He fell a victim to errors not originating with himself; but he resigned his life without a murmur, having devoted it to science and his country. His death, with the circumstances attending it, furnishes an application of the lines of a favourite poet, which he often quoted with admiration. |
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Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia - William John Wills
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| The revenue of France was near twenty millions when Lewis XVI. , finding it inadequate, called upon the nation for supply. In a single lifetime it rose to far more than one hundred millions, while the national income grew still more rapidly; and this increase was wrought by a class to whom the ancient monarchy denied its best rewards, and whom it deprived of power in the country they enriched. As their industry effected change in the distribution of property, and wealth ceased to be the prerogative of a few, the excluded majority perceived that their disabilities rested on no foundation of right and justice, and were unsupported by reasons of State. They proposed that the prizes in the Government, the Army, and the Church should be given to merit among the active and necessary portion of the people, and that no privilege injurious to them should be reserved for the unprofitable minority. Being nearly an hundred to one, they deemed that they were virtually the substance of the nation, and they claimed to govern themselves with a power proportioned to their numbers. They demanded that the State should be reformed, that the ruler should be their agent, not their master. |
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Lectures on the French Revolution - John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton
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| Contains short articles about French history, starting with the earlier Kings up to the French Revolution and its outcomes. |
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History of France - Charlotte Mary Yonge
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| The story from the landing of Hengest, 449 To the Death of Elizabeth I, 1610. "Milton's couplet from the Sonnet to Cromwell might well describe Green's monumental work, the aim of which is so aptly defined by its full title, A Short History of the English People. This story of our island race from the year 449 to 1960 concentrates, more on the generations that have made up the realm than on a chronicle of its kings and battles" |
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History of the English People, Volume I - John Richard Green
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| It is a social history book. These and many other causes conspired to unite the nations of Europe in a more intimate connexion and a more constant intercourse, and of consequence made the regulation of their intercourse more necessary, and the law that was to govern it more important. In proportion as they approached to the condition of provinces of the same empire, it became almost as essential that Europe should have a precise and comprehensive code of the law of nations, as that each country should have a system of municipal law. |
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A Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations - James Mackintosh
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| It may seem surprising that an American House of Representatives should have been so ignorant of the meaning of a common word as to apply the term "commerce" to the carrying trade, when in the session of 1869 it commissioned Hon. John Lynch, of Maine, and his associated committee "to investigate the cause of the decadence of American commerce", and to suggest a remedy by which it might be restored. |
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Free Ships: The Restoration of the American Carrying Trade - John Codman
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| This is is history book. The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work, which followed his very successful History of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Written for a wider audience than Revolt, it is a vivid history, colored by Schiller’s own interest in the question of human freedom and his rationalist optimism. Volume 1 covers the background of the war, through the Battle of Prague in late 1620. |
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The History of the Thirty Years' War - Friedrich Schiller
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| We are accustomed to regard the Reign of Charles II. as one of the most inglorious periods of English History; but this was far from being the case. It is true that the extravagance and profligacy of the Court were carried to a point unknown before or since, forming, —by the indignation they excited among the people at large, —the main cause of the overthrow of the House of Stuart. |
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When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire - George Alfred Henty
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| The 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, contrary to the general vein of his countrymen, has amused his reader with no romantic absurdities or incredible fictions; whatever he relates, whether true or not, is at least probable; and he who tells nothing exceeding the bounds of probability has a right to demand that they should believe him who cannot contradict him. |
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A Voyage to Abyssinia - Jeronimo Lobo
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| This book contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. |
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Poems on Slavery - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| It is a history book. We may hold that the historian should confine himself to giving a record of the objective facts, which can be fully given in dates, statistics, and phenomena seen from outside. But if we allow ourselves to contemplate a philosophical history, which shall deal with the causes of events and aim at exhibiting the evolution of human society--and perhaps I ought to apologise for even suggesting that such an ideal could ever be realised--we should also see that the history of literature would be a subordinate element of the whole structure. The political, social, ecclesiastical, and economical factors, and their complex actions and reactions, would all have to be taken. |
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English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century - Leslie Stephen
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| Surveys the land and people of Egypt before taking the development of the nation through historic chapters. Told in a level of detail to rival Breasted's classic work on Egypt, this earlier study makes fascinating reading. |
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Ancient Egypt - George Rawlinson
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| This is a short chronicle from the first memory of things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great. |
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The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended - Isaac Newton
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| Antoine-Henri Jomini's The Art of War, which is the foundation of professional military education in the Western world." - from the new introduction .Antoine Henri de Jomini's The Art of War is considered by many to be the definitive work on military strategy and tactics. His impact on professional military thinking, doctrine and vocabulary is unparalleled by any other military theoretician. |
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The Art of War - Henri Jomini
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| On the one hand the judiciary was pronounced to be stripped of its capacity to enforce the laws; crimes which reached the very existence of social order were perpetrated without control; the friends of Government were insulted, abused, and overawed into silence or an apparent acquiescence; and to yield to the treasonable fury of so small a portion of the United States would be to violate the fundamental principle of our Constitution, which enjoins that the will of the majority shall prevail. |
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State of the Union Address - George Washington
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| Herodotus wrote a nine volume series called The Histories. An Account of Egypt or Euterpe is the second in the series. This is an eyewitness account of life in Egypt written in a simple style which is pleasing to read. |
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An Account of Egypt - Herodotus
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| This book is set in the sixteenth century, at the beginning of the Reformation. The action is in the Weald of Kent, a hugely forested area that extended as far as Hampshire. The family at the centre of the story had been converted to Protestantism, but still outwardly clung to Catholicism. This meant that the local priest, through hearing confessions, knew something of what was going on, and carried the information to the Bishop. One of the younger women of the family had been particularly advanced in her Protestant action and beliefs. She is taken before the Bishop, and is condemned to jail, where she is very badly treated, sleeping on straw, without change of clothing, and fed only on bread and water. The place where she was kept was changed for the better, after she had been brought for further interview before the Bishop. But this was only because she was to be burnt alive, in the manner of Holy Church of those days. |
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All's Well - Emily Sarah Holt
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| Account of a Voyage of Discovery is a Historical book. The book contains a Narrative of the Voyage to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo choo Island. H. M. S. Alceste and Lyra leave the Yellow Sea on a Voyage of Discovery--Sir James Hall's Group on the Coast of Corea--Unsociable Character of the Natives--Hutton's Island--Interesting geological Structure--Anchor near the Main Land--Corean Chief's Visit--Objections made to Strangers landing--Distress of the Chief--His Character--Departure from Basil's Bay--Clusters of Islands--Murray's Sound--Deserted Corean Village--View from the Summit of a high Peak--Interview with the Coreans--Peculiarities of their Character--Language--Erroneous geographical Position of this Coast--Leave Corea. |
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Account of a Voyage of Discovery - Basil Hall
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| A book which describes the Lectures on Modern History delivered by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton in his ordinary course as Professor in the academical years 1899- 1900 and 1900-01. The Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History. |
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Lectures on Modern history - John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton
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| Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901), was an English novelist, known for her huge output. She was devoted to the Church of England, and much influenced by John Keble, a near neighbour and one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement. Her novels reflected the values and concerns of Anglo-Catholicism. She began writing in 1848, and published during her long life about 100 works, chiefly novels. Her first commercial success, The Heir of Redclyffe (1854), provided the funding to enable the schooner Southern Cross to be put into service on behalf of George Selwyn. Similar charitable works were done with the profits from later novels. She was also editor, for nearly forty years, of a magazine for young ladies, the Monthly Packet. Among the best known of her works are Heartsease; or, The Brother's Wife (1854), The Daisy Chain; or, Aspirations (1856), A History of Christian Names (1863, revised 1884), A Book of Golden Deeds (1864), The Dove in the Eagle's Nest (1866), Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands (1873) and Hannah More (1888). |
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Young Folks' History of England - Charlotte Mary Yonge
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| These volumes provides a truly comprehensive account of sea and land voyages, from the time of Alfred the Great in the ninth century to the great voyages of Captain Cook at the end of the eighteenth century. The discovery of Iceland by the Norwegians, the early discovery of America by the Icelandic peoples in the year 1001, the journey of Contarini into Persia, the voyages and travels into Egypt, Syria, Arabia, Persia and India by Ludovico Verthema, the voyages of the East India Company, the discovery of Florida, the voyages to Newfoundland and Canada by Jacques Cartier, and an historical account of the early circumnavigations of the globe are among the many accounts included. The eighteen volumes cover Europe, Africa, Asia, America, Polynesia and Australia and include a particularly fine account of Captain Cook's voyages. Kerr includes accounts of travel and exploration not easily obtained elsewhere as well as rendering into English for the first time others previously unavailable in the English tongue. |
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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 - Robert Kerr
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| 由我国东汉时期的历史学家班固编撰,是中国第一部纪传体断代史.全书主要记述了上起西汉的汉高祖元年(公元前206年),下至新朝的王莽地皇四年(公元23年),共230年的史事。 |
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漢書 - 班固
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| This is a history book. Pascal who said that the last thing an author does in making a book is to discover what to put at the beginning. This discovery is easily made in the present instance, I wish to state that the range of this book, as its title implies, is mainly restricted to the salient points of the historical sketch it attempts to pourtray. To have written a complete History of the Insane in the British Isles would have necessitated the narration of details uninteresting to the general reader. Hence, as the periods and the institutions of greatest importance have alone been brought into prominence, others have been inevitably thrown into the shade. |
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Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles - Daniel Hack Tuke
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| Emancipation Proclamation summary: The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as the country entered the third year of the Civil War. It declared that "all persons held as slaves … shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free"—but it applied only to states designated as being in rebellion, not to the slave-holding border states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri or to areas of the Confederacy that had already come under Union control. The careful planning of this document, with Lincoln releasing it at just the right moment in the war, ensured that it had a great positive impact on the Union efforts and redefined the purpose of the war. The Emancipation Proclamation continues to be a symbol of equality and social justice. |
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The Emancipation Proclamation - Abraham Lincoln
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| The continent of America, if the stony records of the Past are read aright, claims to be the oldest instead of the newest portion of the globe. Bowing to this opinion of geologists till they see cause to express a different one, in consequence, commence the survey of the world and its inhabitants with the Western Hemisphere. |
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The Western World - William Henry Giles Kingston
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| Covering 55 B.C. through the late Middle Ages, Gardiner’s massive work introduces all the major figures, wars, and other important historical events of this period. |
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History of England - Samuel Rawson Gardiner
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| In this book the country south of this chain comprehended all that in ancient times was regarded as Greece or Hellas proper, but it also comprehended something more. |
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The Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography - Samuel Butler
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| Discovery of Iceland by the Norwegians. Voyages of Ohthere to the White Sea and the Baltic. Remarks on the situation of Sciringe-heal and Haethum, by J. R. Forster. |
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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 - Robert Kerr
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| This is Alcott's account of her experiences as a nurse during the Civil War in a Washington D.C. hospital. The sketches are taken ""from letters hastily written in the few leisure moments of a very busy life,"" and so maintain the immediacy and force of their author. |
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Hospital Sketches - Louisa May Alcott
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| This book of letters by eighteenth-century English philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft constitutes both a travel narrative of her time in Scandanavia and a record of her ideas on various philosophical concepts. This 1889 volume is a reprint of a book that was first published in 1796. |
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Letters on Sweden - Mary Wollstonecraft
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| Horrible death is a dark stain upon Charles's character, and no laurel wreath will ever so conceal the deed that posterity will not discover it on the tablets of history. |
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Tales from the German. Volume I. - Carl Franz Velde
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| The astonishing period of political history upon which our days have fallen, robs all former times of wonder, wearies expectation, sickens even hope! while the occurrences of every passing minute have such prevalence over our minds, that public affairs assume the interest of [Pg 2]private feelings, affect domestic peace, and occupy not merely the most retired part of mankind, but even mothers, wives, and children with solicitude irresistible. |
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Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy - Fanny Burney
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| Mr. Henty here gives an account of the struggle between Britain and France for supremacy in the North American continent. The fall of Quebec decided that the Anglo-Saxon race should predominate in the New World; and that English and American commerce, the English language, and English literature, should spread right round the globe. |
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With Wolfe in Canada - George Alfred Henty
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| This book tells how Pompeii was like when it was being excavated over 100 years ago. |
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The Wonders of Pompeii - Marc Monnier
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| Nuevo plan de fronteras de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Proyectado en 1816 con informe sobre la necesidad de establecer una guardia en los Manantiales de Casco o Laguna de Palantelen, lo que lo convierte en referente de la zona fronteriza. |
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Nuevo plan de fronteras de la provincia de Buenos Aires, proyectado en 1816 - Pedro Andrés García
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| This is a novel written about the author's memories of his early days in California. To which is added the story of his attempted assassination by a former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State, David S. Terry. Terry was shot and killed by Field's bodyguard. |
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Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State - George Congdon Gorham
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| A great work written by Therese Albertine portraying Medieval to Early Modern History. |
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Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic - Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob Robinson
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| It is a novel book. During the last glacial period, and up until about 9000 years ago, most of Ireland was covered with ice, most of the time. Sea levels were lower and Ireland, like Great Britain, formed part of continental Europe. By 12,000 BC, rising sea levels due to ice melting caused Ireland to become separated from Great Britain. Later, around 5600 BC, Great Britain itself became separated from continental Europe. There is no evidence of any humans being in Ireland before Mesolithic people arrived by boat from Britain between 8000 BC and 7000 BC. From about 4500 BC Neolithic settlers arrived introducing cereal cultivars, a housing culture (similar to those of the same period in Scotland) and stone monuments. A more advanced agriculture was to develop. At the Céide Fields, preserved beneath a blanket of peat in present-day County Mayo, is an extensive field system, arguably the oldest in the world, dating from not long after this period. Consisting of small divisions separated by dry-stone walls, the fields were farmed for several centuries between 3500 BC and 3000 BC. Wheat and barley were the principal crops imported from the Iberian Peninsula. |
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About Ireland - Elizabeth Lynn Linton
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| It is a sketch of the French Capital pre-revolution and post-revolution. It also brings the comparison of the French capital. |
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Paris as It Was and as It Is - Francis W. Blagdon
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| This historical book inlcudes the joyous meeting between Waife and Sophy. I pass over George's account to his fair cousin of the scene he and Hartopp had witnessed, in which Waife's innocence had been manifested and his reasons for accepting the penalties of guilt had been. |
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What Will He Do with It? — Volume 11 - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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| The book is the great educational advantages that the people of Canada now enjoy and more especially in the premier Province of Ontario as the splendid exhibit recently made at Paris and Philadelphia has proved to the world are the results of the legislation of a very few years. A review of the first two periods of our political history affords abundant evidence that there existed in Canada as in Europe much indifference in all matters affecting the general education of the country. Whatever was accomplished during these early times was owing in a great measure to the meritorious efforts of ecclesiastical bodies or private individuals. |
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The Intellectual Development of the Canadian People - John George Bourinot
| Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central Australia, And Overland From Adelaide To King George's Sound, In The Years 1840-1 is an 1845 book written by Edward John Eyre and illustrated by Samuel Thomas Gill. It comprises the edited journals of Eyre's explorations in Australia. The journals were effectively written during Eyre's explorations. Eyre prepared them for publication while en route to London by ship in 1844. The following year, they were published in two volumes by T & W Boone. |
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Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Volume 02 - Edward John Eyre
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| Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia (or Ethiopia), grows dissatisfied with the unceasing pleasures of his utopian home in the Happy Valley. According to Ethiopian tradition, the children of royalty were confined to an edenic valley, secluded from the harsh realities of the outside world. Rather than being seen as a paradise by Rasselas, Happy Valley is instead considered to be a prison, harboring boredom and tediousness. So, accompanied by his teacher, his sister, and her lady-in-waiting, Rasselas escapes his idyllic homeland to experience the outside world and search out the way of life most likely to lead to lasting happiness. |
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Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia - Samuel Johnson
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| In this little book the attempt has been to trace Greek History so as to be intelligible to young children. In fact, it will generally be found that classical history is remembered at an earlier age than modern history, probably because the events are simple, and there was something childlike in the nature of all the ancient Greeks. I would begin a child’s reading with the History of England, as that which requires to be known best; but from this I should think it better to pass to the History of Greece, and that of Rome (which is in course of preparation), both because of their giving some idea of the course of time, and bringing p. 4Scripture history into connection with that of the world, and because little boys ought not to begin their classical studies without some idea of their bearing. |
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Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History - Charlotte Mary Yonge
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| This book about the portrays India, specially, the Vedic India, as an epitome of virtuosity and morality, whose glory is equal if not greater to the classical Greek or Roman Civilizations. Author urges the Westerners to come out of their supreme colonial mindset and admire and adopt the multi-dimensional efficacy that is inherent in India. Author espouses an amazing depth of love and reverence for India, and highlights such positive aspects about her that it compels the reader to look at his or her own country in a different positive light. |
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India: What can it teach us? - Friedrich Max Müller
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| On his way toward modern times, Stockton stops to take in the most interesting and colorful tales from city and country - such as that of Penelope Stout, shipwrecked and then attacked by a party of natives, who then manages to survive within a hollowed-out tree - or that of the schoolmaster who discovers his one-room schoolhouse is turning into a gambling house in the dead of night. |
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Stories of New Jersey - Frank Richard Stockton
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| To begin with the first that is known about it, or rather that is guessed.  A part of a Roman road has been traced in Otterbourne Park, and near it was found a piece of a quern, one of the old stones of a hand mill, such as was used in ancient times for grinding corn; so that the place must have been inhabited at least seventeen hundred years ago.  In the last century a medallion bearing the head of a Roman Emperor was found here, sixteen feet beneath the surface.  It seems to be one of the medallions that were placed below the Eagle on the Roman Standards, and it is still in the possession of the family of Fitt, of Westley. |
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Old Times at Otterbourne - Charlotte Mary Yonge
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| L'instruction publique, et spécialement l'instruction primaire, était, depuis la révolution de 1830, l'une des questions dont les Chambres et le public se préoccupaient le plus vivement. La Charte de 1830 avait promis, dans son article final, une loi à ce sujet. Le 24 octobre 1831, le comte de Montalivet, comme ministre de l'instruction publique et des cultes, présenta à la Chambre des députés un projet de loi sur l'instruction primaire qui n'arriva pas jusqu'à la discussion. Peu après l'ouverture de la session de 1832, le 17 décembre 1832, quatre députés, MM. Eschasseriaux, Laurence, Eusèbe Salverte et Taillandier, firent, sur le même sujet, une proposition formelle et détaillée. Dès mon entrée au ministère de l'instruction publique, je m'occupai de la préparation d'un nouveau projet de loi. J'ai dit, dans mes Mémoires 1, au milieu de quelles circonstances, politiques et domestiques, j'accomplis ce premier travail et quelles idées y présidèrent. Je présentai le projet de loi à la Chambre des députés, le 2 janvier 1833; M. Renouard, député de la Somme, en fit le rapport, le 4 mars suivant, au nom de la commission qui avait été chargée de l'examiner. La discussion s'ouvrit le 29 avril et dura jusqu'au 3 mai. Le projet de loi, adopté dans la Chambre des députés par 249 voix contre 7, fut présenté le 6 mai à la Chambre des pairs. M. Cousin en fit le rapport le 21 mai, et la Chambre des pairs l'adopta le 28 mai, à la majorité de 114 voix contre 4, en y faisant quelques amendements. Reporté le 1er juin à la Chambre des députés, le projet de loi amendé y fut, sur le rapport qu'en fit, le 12 juin, M. Dumon, député de Lot-et-Garonne, l'objet d'une nouvelle discussion qui dura du 14 au 18 juin. Les amendements de la Chambre des pairs furent, les uns acceptés, les autres repoussés par la Chambre des députés, où le projet de loi fut de nouveau voté par 219 voix contre 57; et il retourna, le 20 juin, à la Chambre des pairs qui, sur un second rapport de M. Cousin, l'adopta purement et simplement, le 22 juin, à 86 voix contre 11. |
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Histoire parlementaire de France, Volume II. - François Guizot
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| As a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps during the War of 1812 assigned to Marine Corps headquarters, English sailed to the Mediterranean, and was among the first citizens of the United States known to have visited Egypt. Shortly after arriving in Egypt he resigned his commission, converted to Islam and joined Isma'il Pasha in an expedition up the Nile River against Sennar in 1820, winning distinction as an officer of artillery. |
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A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar - George Bethune English
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| This book is a detailed guide to Rouen, the historical capital city of Normandy, in northwestern France on the River Seine, and currently the capital of the Haute-Normandie (Upper Normandy) region. Once it was one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, and the seat of the Exchequer of Normandy in the middle Ages. It was one of the capitals of the Anglo-Norman dynasties, which ruled both England and large parts of modern France from the 11th century to the 15th century. It was in Rouen where Joan of Arc was burnt in 1431. People from Rouen are called Rouennais. |
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Rouen, It's History and Monuments - Théodore Licquet
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| According to the author’s introduction, this 1891 book offers “a brief sketch of Britain under the early English conquerors, rather from the social than from the political point of view.” |
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Anglo-Saxon Britain - Grant Allen
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| This book covers the history of seven great monarchies. The series goes in the following order: -Chaldaea -Assyria -Media -Babylon -Persia -Parthia -Sassanian Empire. |
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The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon - George Rawlinson
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| Writings of the first Quakers, even minor writings, often kindle in us today an ardor to seek what they sought and to find what they found. The excellent book by Luella M. Wright entitled "The Literary Life of the Early Friends, 1650-1725" is a pleasant and convenient introduction to these numerous and often lengthy productions of which 2600 have been listed for the first 75 years. Among them all, Luella Wright singles out one allegory; the only one, and it remained unpublished fully two decades after its composition. Why was this? Was it because, though the author was as sound a thinker and as persuasive an author as any among the followers of George Fox, an imaginary pilgrimage was inherently suspect, while the record of actual experiences in the form of a journal was not? Be this as it may, the slight loosening of standards with the opening of the eighteenth century allowed the "Second Day's Morning Meeting". which then censored Quaker manuscripts, to approve for printing "A Short History of a Long Travel from Babylon to Bethel". It was put out in 1711. How entertaining it would be to know the number of copies that were printed in that first edition |
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A Short History of a Long Travel from Babylon to Bethel - Stephen Crisp
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| The government of the savages dependent on Cape Breton exacts a particular attention. All these savages go under the name of Mickmakis. Before the last war they could raise about six hundred fighting men, according to an account given in to his most Christian majesty, and were distributed in several villages established on Cape Breton island, island of St. John, on both the coasts of Acadia (Nova Scotia) and on that of Canada. All, or most of the inhabitants of these villages have been instructed in the Christian religion, by missionaries which the king of France constantly maintains amongst them. It is customary to distribute every year to them presents, in the name of his majesty, which consist in arms, ammunition of war, victuals, cloathing, and utensils of various sorts. And these presents are regulated according to the circumstances of the time, and to the satisfaction that shall have been given to the government by the conduct of these savages. In the last war they behaved so as to deserve our approbation, and indeed have, on all occasions, given marks of their attachment and fidelity. Since the peace too, they have equally distinguished themselves in the disturbances that are on foot on the side of Acadia. |
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An Account of the Customs and Manners of the Micmakis and Maricheets Savage Nations, Now Dependent on the Government of Cape-Breton - Antoine Simon Maillard
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| A book of criticism by the English dramatic critic and author, Edward Dutton Cook, in which he criticizes the transactions of the British theatre. The book includes collections and records of the histrionic life and every other thing related to the theatre. |
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A Book of the Play - Dutton Cook
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| The investigator's regard should embrace all the sides of the subject, and perseveringly pursue all its phases. It is the race-week in Humberston, a county town far from Gatesboro', and in the north of England. The races last three days: the first day iso. |
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What Will He Do with It? — Volume 04 - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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| It will be seen that the title of this little pamphlet implies more than it contains. As war is now the order of the day, only a small portion of the political part of the work on "Texas" is here presented. It is hoped and believed that enough is unfolded to convince the most incredulous that the colonists of Texas have been forced into this contest with the mother country, by persecutions and oppressions, as unremitting as they have been unconstitutional. That it is not a war waged by them for cupidity or conquest, but for the establishment of the blessings of liberty and good government, without which life itself is a curse and man degraded to the level of the brute. If the time-hallowed principle of the Declaration of Independence, namely, "that governments are instituted for the protection and happiness of mankind, and that whenever they become destructive of these ends it is the right, nay it is the duty of the people to alter or abolish them." If this sacred principle is recognised and acted upon, all must admit that the colonists of Texas have a clear right to burst their fetters, and have also a just claim for recognition as an independent nation, upon every government not wholly inimical to the march of light and liberty, and to the establishment of the unalienable rights of man. |
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Texas : a Brief Account of the Origin, Progress and Present State of the Colonial Settlements of Texas; Together with an Exposition of the Causes which have induced the Existing War with Mexico - William Harris Wharton
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| The Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago. When a man poses before the world even the Canadian world in the role of an author he is expected to step up to the footlights and explain his purpose in presenting himself before the public in that capacity. The settlement of Ontario, known up to the time of Confederation as the Province of Upper Canada, or Canada West, began in 1784, so that at the date I purpose to make a brief survey of the condition and progress of the country, it had been settled forty-six years. During those years--no insignificant period in a single life, but very small indeed in the history of a country the advance in national prosperity and in the various items that go to make life pleasant and happy had been marvellous. The muscular arm of the sturdy pioneer hand hewn its way into the primeval forest, and turned the gloomy wilderness into fruitful fields. |
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Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago - Canniff Haight
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| The South Downs of England descend at about eight miles from the sea into beds of clay, diversified by gravel and sand, and with an upper deposit of peaty, boggy soil, all having been. |
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John Keble's Parishes - Charlotte Mary Yonge
| Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central Australia, And Overland From Adelaide To King George's Sound, In The Years 1840-1 is an 1845 book written by Edward John Eyre and illustrated by Samuel Thomas Gill. It comprises the edited journals of Eyre's explorations in Australia. The journals were effectively written during Eyre's explorations. Eyre prepared them for publication while en route to London by ship in 1844. The following year, they were published in two volumes by T & W Boone. |
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Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Volume 01 - Edward John Eyre
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| Cyprus, as authorities already exist that are well known, but were generally neglected until the British occupation rescued them from secluded bookshelves. Even had I presumed to write as a historian, the task would have been impossible, as I am at this moment excluded from the world in the precincts of the monastery of Trooditissa among the heights of ancient Olympus or modern Troodos, where books of reference are unknown, and the necessary data would be wanting. I shall recount my personal experience of this island as an independent traveller, unprejudiced by political considerations, and unfettered by the responsible position of an official. Having examined Cyprus in every district, and passed not only a few days, but winter, spring, and summer in testing the climatic and geographical peculiarities of the country, I shall describe "Cyprus as I saw it in 1879". expressing the opinions which I formed upon the spot with the results of my experience. |
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Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 - Samuel White Baker
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| Thomas Hariot made only one expedition, around 1585-86, and spent some time in the New World visiting Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina, expanding his knowledge by improving his understanding of the Carolina Algonquian language. As the only Englishman who had learned Algonkin prior to the voyage, Harriot was vital to the success of the expedition. His account of the voyage, named A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, was published in 1588 (probably written a year before). The Report contains an early account of the Native American population encountered by the expedition; it proved very influential upon later English explorers and colonists. |
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A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia - Thomas Hariot
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| Gathered round the fire at the Maypole Inn, in the village of Chigwell, on an evening of foul weather in the year 1775, are John Willet, proprietor of the Maypole, and his three cronies. One of the three, Solomon Daisy, tells a stranger at the inn a well-known local tale of the murder of Reuben Haredale which had occurred 22 years ago that very day. |
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Barnaby Rudge - Charles Dickens
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| To the people who lived four centuries ago in Europe only a very small portion of the earth's surface was known. Their geography was confined to the regions lying immediately around the Mediterranean, and including Europe, the north of Africa, and the west of Asia. Round these there was a margin, obscurely and imperfectly described in the reports of merchants; but by far the greater part of the world was utterly unknown. Great realms of darkness stretched all beyond, nd closely hemmed in the little circle of light. In these unknown lands our ancestors loved to picture everything that was strange and mysterious. They believed that the man who could penetrate far enough would find countries where inexhaustible riches were to be gathered without toil from fertile shores, or marvellous valleys; and though wild tales were told of the dangers supposed to fill these regions, yet to the more daring and adventurous these only made the visions of boundless wealth and enchanting loveliness seem more fascinating. |
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History of Australia and New Zealand - Alexander Sutherland
| Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central Australia, And Overland From Adelaide To King George's Sound, In The Years 1840-1 is an 1845 book written by Edward John Eyre and illustrated by Samuel Thomas Gill. It comprises the edited journals of Eyre's explorations in Australia. The journals were effectively written during Eyre's explorations. Eyre prepared them for publication while en route to London by ship in 1844. The following year, they were published in two volumes by T & W Boone. |
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Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete - Edward John Eyre
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| In May 1787 a fleet of ships carrying convicts left England bound for Botany Bay, New South Wales, where they were to establish a settlement. One of the crew on board the Charlotte was Watkin Tench (c. 1758–1833), who wrote about the voyage of what was later known as the First Fleet. He remained in New South Wales, living in Port Jackson (part of present-day Sydney) from 1788 to 1791, and in this work, published in 1793; he gives a vivid, first-hand account of the early years of British settlement. The chapters are chronologically organized and discuss the many challenges settlers in the fledgling colony faced in staying alive, such as illness and lack of food and other provisions. He also recounts the often violent encounters and 'unabated animosity' between the settlers and the aboriginal people, making this work an important source on the colonization of Australia. |
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A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson - Watkin Tench
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| They take as their material the behaviour and decisions that led to the decay and eventual fall of the Roman Empire in the East and West, offering an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell. |
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
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