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By: Philip Thicknesse (1719-1792) | |
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A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume 2 |
By: Philip Van Ness Myers | |
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General History for Colleges and High Schools |
By: Philip [Editor] Nichols | |
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Sir Francis Drake Revived | |
By: Philippe-Paul Ségur (1780-1873) | |
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The Two Great Retreats of History |
By: Pierce Egan (1772-1849) | |
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Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis |
By: Pierre Alexandre Édouard Fleury de Chaboulon (1779-1835) | |
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Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I |
By: Pierre Esprit Radisson (1636-1710) | |
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Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson |
By: Pierre Loti (1850-1923) | |
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War
Pierre Loti [Julien Viaud] (1850-1923) was a French naval officer and novelist. The present book is one of his few works of non-fiction, a small collection of letters and diary entries that describe his views and experiences in the wars and military operations in which he participated. Besides World War I, he also sheds light upon his views and involvement in the preparations for the Turkish Revolution of 1923, for which until today a famous hill and popular café in Istanbul are named after him. | |
Egypt (La Mort de Philae) |
By: Pierre Nicole (1625-1695) | |
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An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams |
By: Pilgrim Fathers | |
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The Mayflower Compact |
By: Plato (428/427 BC - 348/347 BC) | |
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Phaedo
Plato's Phaedo is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the death of Socrates, is also Plato's seventh and last dialogue to detail the philosopher's final days (the first six being Theaetetus, Euthyphro, Sophist, Statesman, Apology, and Crito).In the dialogue, Socrates discusses the nature of the afterlife on his last day before being executed by drinking hemlock. Socrates has been imprisoned and sentenced to death by an Athenian jury for not believing in the gods of the state and for corrupting the youth of the city... | |
Laws
Νόμοι (Laws) is Plato's final dialogue written after his attempt to advise the tyrant Dionysius II of Syracuse. The dialogue takes place between: an Athenian Stranger (Socrates? A god in human form?); the quiet Lacedaemonian Megillus; and the Cretan Cleinias. The Stranger asks whether humans live to be more effective at waging war or if there is something more important a legislator should seek to achieve. During their pilgrimage Cleinias discloses his role in the establishment of a new colony... |
By: Pleasant A. Stovall (1857-1935) | |
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Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage |
By: Porter Lander MacClintock (1873-1939) | |
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Song and Legend from the Middle Ages |
By: Prescott Holmes | |
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Young Peoples' History of the War with Spain |
By: Preserved Smith (1880-1941) | |
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The Age of the Reformation |
By: Price Collier (1860-1913) | |
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Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View |
By: Princess Der Ling | |
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Two Years in the Forbidden City
THE author of the following narrative has peculiar qualifications for her task. She is a daughter of Lord Yu Keng, a member of the Manchu White Banner Corps, and one of the most advanced and progressive Chinese officials of his generation. she became First Lady-in-Waiting to the Empress Dowager, and while serving at the Court in that capacity she received the impressions which provide the subject-matter of this book. Her opportunity to observe and estimate the characteristics of the remarkable woman who ruled China for so long was unique, and her narrative throws a new light on one of the most extraordinary personalities of modern times... |
By: Prosper-Olivier Lissagary (1838-1901) | |
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History of the Commune of 1871 |
By: Punahou School | |
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The Oahu College at the Sandwich Islands |
By: Queen Marguerite (1553-1615) | |
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Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois |
By: Queen of Great Britain Victoria (1819-1901) | |
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The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 |
By: R. (Robert) Van Bergen | |
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The Story of Russia |
By: R. A. (Rolfe Arnold) Scott-James (1878-) | |
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Personality in Literature |
By: R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936) | |
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A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 |
By: R. B. Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane) Haldane (1856-1928) | |
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Before the War |
By: R. C. (Robert Cooper) Seaton (1853-1915) | |
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Six Letters From the Colonies |
By: R. Cross | |
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The Voyage of the Oregon from San Francisco to Santiago in 1898 |
By: R. E. Cholmeley | |
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John Nicholson The Lion of the Punjaub |
By: R. F. Dearborn | |
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Saratoga and How to See It |
By: R. G. (Roderick George) MacBeth (1858-1934) | |
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Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police |
By: R. Hugh (Reginald Hugh) Knyvett (-1918) | |
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"Over There" with the Australians |
By: R. J. (Robert J.) Creswell | |
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Among the Sioux A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas |
By: R. Lewis | |
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Over the top with the 25th Chronicle of events at Vimy Ridge and Courcellette |
By: R. Talbot (Robert Talbot) Kelly (1861-1934) | |
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Burma Peeps at Many Lands |
By: R. Talbot Kelly (1861-1934) | |
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Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt
A short travelogue of Egypt, this book was written as part of an early 20th century series of travelogues on exotic destinations. |
By: R. Thurston (Robert Thurston) Hopkins (1884-1958) | |
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War and the Weird |
By: Rabindranath Tagore | |
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The Home and the World
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo religionist, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He became Asia’s first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Home and the World is a 1916 novel, set in the estate of the rich Bengali noble Nikhil. He lives happily with his beautiful wife Bimala until the appearance of his friend and radical revolutionist, Sandip... |
By: Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950) | |
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Scaramouche
“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad!” The wonderful opening lines of this 1921 novel set the tone for the rest of this delightful story of an adventurer and romantic who dons several roles in his colorful life. Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini is an historical novel set in the turbulent times of the French Revolution. The plot describes Andre-Louis Moreau, a young lawyer adopted by his godfather who cannot reveal his parentage. Moreau inadvertently stumbles into political events and becomes a wanted man based on the evil machinations of a sinister Marquis... | |
The Tavern Knight
Follow the exploits of Sir Crispin Galliard, also known as The Tavern Knight, in his defence of the King of England against Cromwell and his Puritan Entourage. | |
The Life of Cesare Borgia | |
The Historical Nights' Entertainment | |
Love-at-Arms | |
The Trampling of the Lilies | |
Bardelys the Magnificent | |
The Shame of Motley | |
The Strolling Saint | |
The Suitors of Yvonne |
By: Raffaello Carboni (1817-1885) | |
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The Eureka Stockade |
By: Rajah of Sarawak James (1803-1868) | |
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The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy |
By: Ralph Bignell Ainsworth | |
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The Story of the 6th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry France, April 1915-November 1918 |
By: Ralph Birdsall (1871-1918) | |
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The Story of Cooperstown |
By: Ralph Keeler (1840-1873) | |
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Vagabond Adventures
Ralph Keeler failed as a novelist, but this autobiography reflects a life well-lived with humor and adventure. Keeler was in the same literary circle as satirist Bret Harte, novelist Charles Warren Stoddard, editor Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and essayist William Dean Howells. He so impressed Mark Twain that Twain wrote an essay about him called "Ralph Keeler". In 1873, on his way to Cuba, he reportedly was thrown overboard by a Spanish loyalist who objected to his backing of the revolutionary, anti-Spanish movement. - Summary by John Greenman |
By: Ramsay Muir (1872-1941) | |
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The Expansion of Europe The Culmination of Modern History |
By: Randall Davies (1866-1946) | |
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Six Centuries of Painting |
By: Randall Parrish (1858-1923) | |
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My Lady of the North | |
My Lady of Doubt |
By: Raphaël Petrucci (1872-1917) | |
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Chinese Painters A Critical Study |
By: Ray Vaughn Pierce | |
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The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser In Plain English, Or, Medicine Simplified. By R.V. Pierce, M.D. INTRODUCTORY WORDS. Health and disease are physical conditions upon which pleasure and pain, success and failure, depend. Every individual gain increases public gain. Upon the health of its people is based the prosperity of a nation; by it every value is increased, every joy enhanced. Life is incomplete without the enjoyment of healthy organs and faculties, for these give rise to the delightful sensations of existence... |
By: Reginald Grant | |
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S.O.S. Stand to! |
By: Reginald R. Sharpe (1848-1925) | |
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London and the Kingdom - Volume I |
By: René Rapin (1621-1687) | |
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De Carmine Pastorali (1684) |
By: Reuben Gold Thwaites (1853-1913) | |
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Afloat on the Ohio
Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo.There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife, our Boy of ten and a half years, the Doctor, and I. My object in going—the others went for the outing—was to gather "local color" for work in Western history. The Ohio River was an important factor in the development of the West. I wished to know the great waterway intimately in its various phases,—to see with my own eyes what the borderers saw; in imagination, to redress the pioneer stage, and repeople it. ( From the Preface ) |
By: Rex Beach (1877-1949) | |
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Flowing Gold
Unfairly given a dishonorable discharge from the army, Calvin Gray goes to Dallas, where he manages to win the trust of a jeweler and is able to sell a number of diamonds to the newly oil rich Briskows. He makes friends with the family and helps them adjust to their newly found riches. The Briskows, in turn, help him prove false the charges that caused his dismissal from the army. |
By: Rex Ellingwood Beach (1877-1949) | |
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Heart of the Sunset |
By: Rice S. Eubank | |
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The story of Kentucky |
By: Richard B. (Richard Biddle) Irwin (1839-1892) | |
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History of the Nineteenth Army Corps |
By: Richard B. Morris (1904-1989) | |
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Jeffersonians, 1801-1829
In this short work, Morris and Woodress present a selection of fascinating source materials to survey key events which occurred during the presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and John Quincy Adams. As the authors state in their preface, "The early part of the last century was an exciting time to live in America. The signers of the Declaration of Independence and the framers of the Constitution, mostly old men by now, saw that their experiment in republican government had turned out to be a success... |
By: Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-1886) | |
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English Past and Present |
By: Richard D. Blackmore (1825-1900) | |
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Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War |
By: Richard Darlington | |
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A Full Description of the Great Tornado in Chester County, Pa. |
By: Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny (1857-1915) | |
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Town Life in Australia |
By: Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) | |
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-madinah and Meccah
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 – 1890) was an English explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hypnotist, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia and Africa as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian, and African languages.Burton's best-known achievements include traveling in disguise to Mecca, The Book of One Thousand Nights and A Night, an... | |
First Footsteps in East Africa |
By: Richard Haigh (1895-) | |
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Life in a Tank
Richard Haigh was an Infantry lieutenant in the 2nd Royal Berkshire Infantry Regiment serving in the Somme area in 1916. Shortly after Tanks were first used in battle in September of 1916 the British Army asked for volunteers, Lieutenant Haigh signed up and was accepted in December of 1916. He describes the training and actions he participated in until the war ended in 1918. He was awarded MC in 1916 as Lt. (acting Capt.) Richard Haigh, Royal Berkshire Regiment. He was commissioned from the RMC (Sandhurst) to the Berkshires 16th Feb 1915; on resigning his commission in 1919, he joined the General Reserve of Officers. |
By: Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) | |
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Discovery of Muscovy |
By: Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) | |
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Notes of a War Correspondent
Experiences and observations of the journalist in the Cuban-Spanish War, the Greek-Turkish War, the Spanish-American War, the South African War, and the Japanese-Russian War, accompanied by "A War Correspondent’s Kit." | |
Men of Zanzibar
This is the story of Hemingway, who, after a hunting trip in Uganda, settles in Zanzibar for a while to live among the English-speaking expatriate community on that island. While keeping his true identity well to himself, he falls in love with Ms. Polly Adair, the American Belle of the little society. But when he asks her to marry him, it seems that Ms. Adair has a secret... | |
Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis | |
With the French in France and Salonika | |
With the Allies |
By: Richard Henry Bonnycastle (1791-1847) | |
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Canada and the Canadians Volume I | |
Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 |
By: Richard Henry Dana (1815-1882) | |
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To Cuba and Back |