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Old St Paul Cathedral
[english | 1902]William Benham
Excerpts: [... a MS. of the Hours of the Virgin. British Museum, Harl. 2971. SEALS OF THE DEAN AND CHAPTER. From Casts in the Library of St. Paul's Cathedral. ORGAN ...... William also at the same time gave him the manor and castle of Bishop Stortford, thus making him a baronial noble. There was need for haste, for the ...... great changes, it will be well to go back and take note of the ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 154
Old Cookery Books And Ancient Cuisine
[english | 1902]William Carew Hazlitt
Summary: [Old Cookery Books And Ancient Cuisine William Carew Hazlitt by William Carew Hazlitt. excerpt from the book... William of Malmesbury particularly dwells on the broad line of distinction still existing between the southern English and the folk of the more northerly districts in his day twelve hundred years after the visit of Caesar. He says that they were then about A.D. 1150 as different as if ...]
Genres: [cooking | history] Downloads: 350
A Daughter Of Raasay
[english | 1902]William Macleod Raine
Excerpts: [... to a worthless cause, care has been taken to make the story agree with history. The writer does not of course indorse the view of Prince Charles' ...... the four assailants who hemmed him against the wall, his point flashing here and there with swift irregularity to daunt their valiancy. At the moment ...... grows late. The lady will lose her beauty sleep. Shall you and I go ...]
Genres: [history | fiction and literature] Downloads: 365
History Of The Constitutions Of Iowa
[english | 1902]Benjamin Shambaugh
Excerpts: [... have been little more than noticed in chapters XIX and XX. An adequate discussion of these subjects would have transcended the limits set for this volume ...... were known as communities or neighborhoods. They were the original social and political units out of the integration of which the Commonwealth was ...... of laws. It is here that the real spirit and purpose of the pioneer ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 67
Les Parsis
[english | 1902]D Menant
Excerpts: [... College and her home, and these two sufficed. Born in December, 1869, she was a girl of sixteen when she entered upon her studies for her ...... Dwarka in Kathyawar is probably of a much later date (Reinaud, Mmoire sur l'Inde, 391-397). Another link, and this time of an entirely political nature, ...... to represent the embassy of Noshirwan to Pulikesi, king of Badami, in the ...]
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Marching On Niagara
[english | 1902]Edward Stratemeyer
Excerpts: [... we are on our way home, Dave. I certainly saw the hoof-prints down by the salt lick this morning. That proves they can't be far off. My idea is that ...... let us go on without delay.. It was easy to say this, but how to proceed without being noticed was a problem. Henry's deer lay behind the fallen ...... shed he has been building. Come on we'll soon know.. Henry now set off on a ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature | young readers | history] Downloads: 130
The Origin Of The Family Private Property And The State
[english | 1902]Frederick Engels
Summary: [The Origin of the Family Private Property and the State: in the light of the researches of Lewis H. Morgan is a historical materialist treatise written by Friedrich Engels and published in 1884. It is partially based on notes by Karl Marx to Lewis H. Morgans book Ancient Society.]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 240
Hampstead And Marylebone
[english | 1902]Geraldine Edith Mitton
Summary: [Hampstead And Marylebone 1902 by Geraldine Edith Mitton. This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks notations marginalia and flawed pages.]
Genres: [history | travel] Downloads: 448
Maid Sally
[english | 1902]Harriet Cheever
Excerpts: [... Mistress Cory Ann Brace, after being lifted almost into the clouds, and having a tiny peep into Fairy Town. Could she come back to earth again, and ...... were great square rooms with painted floor and home-made mats in abundance. Bedsteads, with high posts and testers, or canopies overhead. Furniture, ...... as sweetly under the quiet stars as though she had been on her small husk ...]
Genres: [young readers | history | fiction and literature] Downloads: 335
Chignecto Isthmus First Settlers
[english | 1902]Howard Trueman
Summary: [Chignecto Isthmus First Settlers by Howard Trueman. The discovery of America added nearly a third to the then known land surface of the earth and opened up two of its richest continents. If such an extent of territory were thrown into the world s market to-day the rapidity with which it would be exploited and explored and its wealth made tributary to the world s requirements would astonish if ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 45
The Little Tea Book
[english | 1903]A Herbert Gray
Summary: [40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin Intelligent Design God OxyContin and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania is a 2007 non fiction book about the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial of 2005. Author Matthew Chapman a journalist screenwriter and director (and the great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin) reported on the trial for Harpers magazine]
Genres: [history | cooking | poetry] Downloads: 407
Bears I Have Met And Others
[english | 1903]Allen Kelly
Excerpts: [... his disposition has been maligned ever since the female of his species came out of the woods to rebuke irreverence to smooth-pated age. Every man's hand ...... up and liberally sprinkled with blood for yards around. The men carried Jabine to the nearest mining camp, whence others went to bring in the body ...... up formidably in the dusk of an evening when I saw him feasting, forty ...]
Genres: [nature | history | adventure] Downloads: 312
Hetty Wesley
[english | 1903]Arthur Thomas Quiller Couch
Excerpts: [... corner, who sat on his backer's knee, shoeless, stripped to the buff, with an angry red mark on the right breast below the collar-bone a slight boy ...... been too hard for Hetty. He followed her up the stairs to his mother's room, and entering commanded his sisters with a gesture to sing the hymn to ...... in time to snatch the oar as it slipped over the side. But it had snapped ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature | history | religion] Downloads: 433
The Food Of The Gods
[english | 1903]Brandon Head
Excerpts: [... AND FLOWER OF THE CUCA SHRUB 10. GATHERING CACAO: SANTA CRUZ, TRINIDAD to face 11. PURE DECORTICATED COCOA, MAGNIFIED 12. ADULTERATED COCOA, ...... for human milk as an infant's food, to supplement what other milk may be available incomparable as a family drink for breakfast or supper, when ...... rendered possible by the presence in the bean of a large proportion of fatty matter ...]
Genres: [non fiction | history] Downloads: 298
The French Impressionists 1860 1900
[english | 1903]Camille Mauclair
Excerpts: [... Rysselberghe, the other forty-nine engravings illustrating this volume I owe to the courtesy of M. Durand-Ruel, from the first the friend of the Impressionist ...... It is known that Turner worshipped Claude for the very same reasons. The Impressionists in their turn, consider Turner as one of their masters ...... these works which seem to be painted with crushed jewels, with ...]
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The Negro Farmer
[english | 1903]Carl Kelsey
Summary: [Reprint of the 1903 ed. published by Jennings]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 76
History Of The United States Volume 5
[english | 1903]E Benjamin Andrews
Summary: [History Of The United States Volume 4 by E Benjamin Andrews. Excerpt PERIOD IV. CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION Continued 1860-1868 CHAPTER V. THE STRUGGLE FOR THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY The North conducted the war upon three great lines of campaign 1. The Western campaigns to clear the Mississippi River and thus divide the Confederacy. 2. The campaigns in the centre to reach the sea at Mobile Savannah ...]
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Algonquin Indian Tales
[english | 1903]Egerton Ryerson Young
Excerpts: [... TALES. COLLECTED BY EGERTON R. YOUNG. AUTHOR OF BY CANOE AND DOG-TRAIN, THE APOSTLE OF THE NORTH, THREE BOYS IN THE WILD NORTH LAND, ETC. [Illustration: ...... lived, solitary and alone, in a little bark wigwam. One day, when out shooting in his canoe, he was caught in some treacherous rapids and carried over ...... aside to gather the brilliant wild flowers. A scream of pain from ...]
Genres: [myth | history] Downloads: 345
Hero Stories From American History
[english | 1903]Francis Ball
Excerpts: [... the fur traders, for fear of discovery. At the landing place, the army was joined by a band of American hunters who had just come from the French settlements. ...... British crown. When peace came, a few years later, the boundary lines of the United States were the Great Lakes on the north, and on the west the Mississippi ...... so many popguns. The redcoats kept up the bloodless ...]
Genres: [history | young readers | instructional] Downloads: 24