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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...elovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of romantic dramas. Alas, reality was a lot... ...5/25e.htm Armenian Genocide The Armenian massacres in Turkey started in the 19th century and continued well after the Armenian genocide of 1915 i... ...er of Armenian fatalities at 200-300,000 at the most. Towards the end of the 19th century, the Armenians formed guerrilla movements in eastern Van... ...ated on March 21 in perpetuity. But, according to the Julian calendar, in the 17th century it arrived on March 11th, in the 18th century on March 1... ...rding to the Julian calendar, in the 17th century it arrived on March 11th, in the 18th century on March 10th, in the 19th century on March 9th, an... ...mpire (21 million), Germany (14 million), Spain (11 million), Britain (10 million), Ireland and the USA (c. 5 million each). Data for these countr... ...rkey (71,374,700), Germany (81,947,100), Spain (41,197,900), Britain (59,751,900), Ireland (3,917,300), USA (288,212,300). http://www.infotoday.com...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair: Volume Two (Chapters Twenty-six through Fifty) by ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...lly mingled with fat and lean, there was no country like England.” “Except Ireland, where all your best mate comes from,” said the Major’s lady; proce... ... after the completion of the general mourning. About three weeks after the 18th of June, Mr. Osborne’s acquaintance, Sir William Dobbin, called at Mr.... ...s a constant demand for them during the first fifteen years of the present century. Under the memorial in question were emblazoned the well- known and... ...sq., late a Captain in his Majesty’s —th regiment of foot, who fell on the 18th of June, 1815, aged 28 years, while fighting for his king and country ... ... seemed eligible. She had been engaged to be married a half-score times in Ireland, besides the clergyman at Bath who used her so ill. She had flirted... ...o notice his predecessor, though they had lived near each other for near a century past. In the midst of these intrigues and fine parties and wise and...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melan... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...lities that command confidence and re- spect. The middle of the nineteenth century was a time when England might well be proud of her Judges. There wa... ...ersion of the New T estament was made (as all agree) early in the sec- ond century, if not at the end of the first, and thus is the very best exponent... ...d by circum- stances on the spot. To Mr. Edward Coleridge he writes on the 18th of March:—‘I have many and delightful talks with Mr. Martin on our lan... ...ivering Melanesians’ before Easter, and the ‘Southern Cross’ sailed on the 18th. Patteson took with him a good store of coffee, sugar, and biscuits, b... ... nice indeed.’ The question of the Bishopric began to come forward. On the 18th of January a letter to Sir John Patteson, after speak- ing of a playfu... ..., described as a usage of the early Christians. ‘In our English nineteenth century life such practices could hardly be reintroduced with benefit. Yet ...

...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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The Young Step-Mother; Or a Chronicle of Mistakes

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes by Charlotte ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... handsome, though in the late style, and a good deal misused by eighteenth-century taste; and Albinia was full of admiration as Mr. Kendal conducted h... ... ‘T o the memory of Lucy, the beloved wife of Edmund Kendal. Died February 18th, 1845, aged 35 years. Edmund Meadows Kendal, born January 20th, 1834. ... ...of every species of female ornamental handiwork in vogue for the last half century, and the lun- cheon-tray in the middle of all, ready for six people... ... brother. But he and his wife were taking a holiday among their kindred in Ireland, and for once Albinia could have echoed the aunts’ lamenta- tion th... ... make cheerful, innocent con- versation, she began to talk of her visit to Ireland and the 92 Yo n g e beautiful Galway coast, and the O’Mores of Bal... ...you will be interested. You know the family at Hadminster Hall in the last century were Roman Catholics, and a daughter had pro- fessed at a convent i...

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The Devil‘S Legacy- to Earth Mortals. Being the Key Note to Black Arts!! Witchcraft, Devination , Omens, Forewarnings, Apparitions, Sorcery, Daemonology, Dreams, Predictions, Visions, And Compacts with the Devil!! with the Most Authentic History of Salem Witchcraft!

By: M. Young

... NEW YORK: M. YOUNG, PUBLISHER, 173 GREENWICH STREET. ACT IV. A Cavern. In the Middle, a Boiling Cauldron. Thunder. Enter the three Witches.... ...ier cries, – ‗t is time, ‗t is time. First Witch. Round about the cauldron go; In the poison‘d entrails throw. Toad, that under the cold stone Day... ...ouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. Second Witch. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake: Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of... ...kstone‘s ―Commentaries,‖ book iv. Chapter 4, p. 61. An anonymous seventeenth-century writer reasons as follows: -- ―To know things aright and per... ... put on record that at the period of the Reformation, and during the succeeding century, the power of casting out devils was claimed exclusively by t... ...ble to you, if I relate two other occurrences of similar nature: – ―On the 18th of August, 1776, I dreamed I was walking in the vicinity of the ... ... EXTRAORDINARY FOREWARNING, AS IT REALLY OCCURRED IN LORD TYRONE‘S FAMILY, IN IRELAND. Lord Tyrone and Lady Beresford were born in Ireland; t... ...re now in the possession of Lady ---, by whom the above narrative is stated, in Ireland; who together with the Tyrone family, will be fonnd to atte... ...ole in the flesh, the Princess Bertha von Rosenberg, who lived in the fifteenth century died in the odor of sanctity, bequeathed a gift to the poor a...

...narch, or god of the whole clan of Hell; justly distinguished by the term, The Devil, or as the Scots call him, the muckle-horned Dee‘l, or as others in a wilder dialect, The Devil of Hell, that is to say, The Devil of a devil; or (better still) as the Scriptures expresses it, by way of emphasis, the great red dragon, the Devil, and Satan....

...The power of these witches as we find in their earliest records originated in their intercourse with familiar spirits, invisible beings who must be supposed to be enlisted in the armies of the prince of darkness. We do not read in these ancient memorials of any l...

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Love and Life an Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...LOVE AND LIFE An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume By CHARLOTTE M. YONGE A Penn State Electronic... ...LOVE AND LIFE An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume By CHARLOTTE M. YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Love and Life by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...portunity university. 3 Yo n g e LOVE AND LIFE An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume By CHARLOTTE M. YONGE PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE C... ...e legends of such universal property that it was quite fair to put it into 18th century English costume. Some have seen in it a remnant of the custom ... ...ends of such universal property that it was quite fair to put it into 18th century English costume. Some have seen in it a remnant of the custom of so... ...nnounced that a rain of blood had fallen on the Macgillicuddy mountains in Ireland, testified to by numerous respectable Protestant wit- nesses, and a... ...d-laced joseph [A long riding coat with a small cape, worn by women in the 18th century.— D.L.], stout, rubicund, and hearty, to whom Aurelia was intr...

...ond Edition. The first edition of this tale was put forth without explaining the old fable on which it was founded--a fable recurring again and again in fairy myths, though not traceable in the classic world till a very late period, when it appeared among the tales of Apuleius, of the province of Africa, sometimes called the earliest novelist. There are, however, fragments...

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ........................................... 206 CHAPTER X: FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND, AND SECOND REBELLION............ 227 CHAPTER XI: TRAVELLING.......... ...the fourteen last years, I have received from many quarters in England, in Ireland, in the British colonies, and in the United States, a series of let... ...ginality as ought not to have been left open to any body in the nineteenth century. 3. CICERO.—This is not, as might be imagined, any liter- ary valua... ...S TES 1 “Next to the bible in currency.”—That is, next in the fif- teenth century to the Bible of the nineteenth century. The diffusion of the “De Im... ...nity. 5 “Solitary road.”—The reader must remember that, until the seventh century of our era, when Mahometanism arose, there was no collateral histor... ...s, by the awful apparition which at three o’clock in the afternoon, on the 18th of June, 1815, the mighty contest at Waterloo must have assumed to eye...

...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some t...

...APTER IX: FIRST REBELLION.......................................................................................... 206 CHAPTER X: FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND, AND SECOND REBELLION............ 227 CHAPTER XI: TRAVELLING.................................................................................................... 243 CHAPTER XII: MY BROTHER ...............................

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The Life of John Sterling

By: Thomas Carlyle

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total o...

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The C‘Sars

By: Thomas de Quincey

...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. THE CÆSARS By Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...e sceptre. Amongst modern empires, doubtless, the Spanish of the sixteenth century, and the British of the present, can- not but be admired as prodigi... ...nd other enfranchised slaves from the conquered nations;”—“these in half a century had sunk so low, that Tiberius pronounced her very senators to be h... ...fly by means of cords and strings. This art was much practised in the 17th century; and Casaubon describes one, which existed in his early days somewh... ...on, or brother. And when he died, in the sixty-first year of his life (the 18th of his reign), he was *Because the most effectual extinguishers of all... ...d, in combination with the manufacturing system (as in England,) or (as in Ireland) under the stimulus of idle habits, cheap subsistence, and a low st... ...nies in some measure resembled the English Pale, as existing at one era in Ireland. This mode of service, it is true, became obsolete in process of ti...

...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever rivaled this astonishing metropolis in the gran...

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Chantry House

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

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...makes the memory of what once filled it a treasure to be brought forward with joy and thankfulness. Nor would it be well that some of those mentioned in the coming narrative should be wholly forgotten, and their place know them no more....

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The Voyage Out

By: Virginia Woolf

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Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency

By: The Duke of Saint Simon

...e of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Du... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ace at the commencement of this year the first (most extraordinary) on the 18th February the other a month after. CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHA... ...Prince of Wales, whom he would recognise as King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The few English who were there threw themselves upon their knees, ... ...ad results as had taken place after Ramillies. Chamillart came back on the 18th of September. No battle had been fought, but M. de Vendome felt sure, ... ...and profited by this scheme, it may be said that there has scarcely been a century which has produced one more mysterious, more daring, better arrange... ... in the royal vaults. His funeral services were said at Saint-Denis on the 18th of the following June, and at Notre Dame on the 3rd of July. As the pr... ...well made, of that ancient and grand family of Horn, known in the eleventh century among the little dynasties of the Low Countries, and afterwards by ...

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Waverley or Tis Sixty Years Since

By: Sir Walter Scott

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...t Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...f nomad herder-hunters unite under Genghis Khan and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. M... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...h allowed for the unprecedented expansion of publishing in the twentieth century before he led his paper‘s switch to digital phototype. My own p... ...after civilization. —brad bradford Preface Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ―printing press.‖ More t... ...spoke the Celtic tongue. Crossing over from central Europe to Britain and Ireland, their Celts ancestors had laid the Indo-European seedbed for the ... ...HISTORIC Adam’s apple Hunter-gatherers Homo sapiens dominates earth 18TH CENTURY BC Pictograph, logographic, syllabic First City-States Mes... ...lish King Richard national icon Sun Never Sets on the British Empire 18TH CENTURY Democracy blossoms 19TH and 20TH CENTURIES Linotype and D...

...irst Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books. This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves ...

...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL ................................................................. ...mer‘s tale of Troy, which would have actually occurred in about the 12 th Century BCE, was not made into a poem by Homer for another 400 years. He c... ...ohammed support every jihad which has been called for by the 20th and 21st century mullahs and terrorists? Would Abraham have blessed each transgress... ...―Hey Ray, is it true that God is really an Englishman of the early 17 th Century? Did God speak to Moses as an Englishman, using ‗ye‘ and ‗thou‘ and... ...rewards from God. The so-called ‗freethinkers ‗of England in the 17th and 18th centuries were the major protagonists. They wanted to believe in a cr... ...s only 2/3s of the U.S. rate and Holland was only fifth in Europe, behind Ireland, France, the Czech Republic and the UK. And the Irish are the most... ... are not even close to knowing! ―Estonia recently moved ahead of Ireland in the State of World Liberty Index in economic and political free...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ... the sun actually came out from behind the moon. The mistake made almost a century ago by Einstein was subtle: a slight miscalculation, but deva... ... drawing an imaginary line and splitting up countries into two segments… like Ireland? Or the American Civil War? Or South and North Korea? Or Nor... ...most powerful military weapon had been the horse-archer. Up until the 14 th Century, the superior mobility, speed and long-range killing power of ... ... few thousand years to become mostly obsolete. Iron-Age tools took less than century to become mostly obsolete. Steel-Age tools took only a few de... ...kly became meaningless and absurd. This evolution of thought happened in the 18th and 19 th century in Europe. Once European Philosophy and Relig... ... He was the English King who had the cunning idea of settling Scots in Ulster Ireland. Creating an ulcerous sore in Ireland… arousing the Ire of th...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...OMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. A PENN STA... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Qu... ...the office of their pastor. It arose in the dis- orders of the seventeenth century; but in practice it is gener- ally admitted to have sunk into a mer... ...ally admitted to have sunk into a mere formality throughout the eighteenth century; and the very position which it holds in the succession of steps, n... ...s the law, had grown up variously during the troubles of the seven- teenth century. In many places political reasons had dictated 14 Theological Essa... ..., in the middle of the 8th century, than Napoleon in the latter end of the 18th. Charlemagne was, in fact, the most accomplished man of his age; Napol... ...sing it familiarly and fluently in conversation. Now, as to the man of the 18th century, Greek was to him as much a sealed language as Chinese; and, e... ...gislative body, dissolved the Directory and effected the revolution of the 18th Brumaire. That revolution it was which raised him to the Consular powe...

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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, the Pennsylvania S... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...eastplates, jackets, and other contrivances in vogue during the eighteenth century. Captain Nemo and one of his companions (a sort of Hercules, who mu... ...CHAPTER XVII FOUR THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE PACIFIC THE NEXT MORNING, the 18th of November, I had quite recov- ered from my fatigues of the day befor... ...ething hap- pened to recall us to the strangeness of our situation. On the 18th of January, the Nautilus was in 105@ long. and 15º S. lat. The weather... ...s is slow, M. Aronnax.” “It is true,” I answered; “your boat is at least a century before its time, perhaps an era. What a misfortune that the secret ... ...ax. Would you like to know the opinion of a chroni- cler of the fourteenth century?” “Willingly.” “This fanciful writer pretends that its name was giv... ...hores of Greece, we had crossed the Straits of Gibraltar by sunrise on the 18th. It was plain to me that this Mediterranean, enclosed in the midst of ...

...phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several Sta...

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Love and Friendship and Other Early Works Also Spelled Love and Freindship a Collection of Juvenile Writings

By: Jane Austen

...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Love and Friendship by Jane Austen, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ur Mother has so often solicited me to give you. My Father was a native of Ireland and an inhabitant of Wales; my Mother was the natural Daughter of a... ...ed; which was the Marriage and Removal of your Mother to a distant part of Ireland. Adeiu Laura. 17 Jane Austen Letter 11t h Laura in continuation “I... ...FIFTH Miss MARGARET LESLEY to Miss CHARLOTTE LUTTERELL Lesley-Castle March 18th On the same day that I received your last kind letter, Matilda receive... ...r, I cannot help foresee- ing that he will be equalled in this or the next Century by one who tho’ now but young, already promises to answer all the a... ...t he was beheaded on the 25th of Feb, after having been Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, after having clapped his hand on his sword, and after performing m...

...Excerpt: Deceived in Friendship and Betrayed in Love.? Letter the First From Isabel to Laura How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have y...

...Contents LOVE AND FREINDSHIP................................................. 4 AN UNFINISHED NOVEL IN LETTERS ................................................................................................................ 34 LESLEY CASTLE .......................................................................................

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The Whole History of Grandfathers Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmis sion, in any way. The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from N... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...made them far less powerful than they had formerly been. For nearly half a century after the arrival of the English the red men showed themselves gene... ...sea than by seeking for a ship that had lain beneath the waves full half a century. They broke out in open mutiny; but were finally mastered by Phips,... ... had written a Latin Accidence, which was used in schools more than half a century after his death; so that the good old man, even in his grave, was s... ...negroes from Africa, but Indians from South America, and white people from Ireland. These last were sold, not for life, but for a certain number of ye... ...sts had collected there. They set out on their march on the evening of the 18th of April, 1775. The next morning the general sent Lord’ Percy with nin...

...Preface: In writing this ponderous tome, the author?s desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style that the young may make acquaintance with them of their own accord. ...

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