Books published in 1851
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A Grandmother Recollections
[english | 1851]Ella Rodman
Summary: [A Grandmothers Recollections by Ella Rodman Church. The best bed-chamber with its hangings of crimson moreen was opened and aired--a performance which always caused my eight little brothers and sisters to place themselves in convenient positions for being stumbled over to the great annoyance of industrious damsels who armed with broom and duster endeavored to render their reign as arbitrary as ...]
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A Letter To The Hon Samuel Eliot
[english | 1851]H Irving Hancock
Excerpts: [... they persisted in speaking and writing against you. Anxious to relieve yourself from the load of obloquy by which you were oppressed, in an evil hour ...... of detail, for the purpose of reducing them to the form of a Constitution. In these resolutions, there was not the most distant allusion to fugitive ...... understand the cunning wickedness of this clause, it must be ...]
Genres: [politics] Downloads: 483
Alonzo And Melissa
[english | 1851]Daniel Jackson
Excerpts: [... part of the state. Melissa was received with joyful tenderness by her friends. Edgar soon recovered from his fall, and cheerfulness again assumed ...... and inconsistently, should I depart from it. Beauman will be here to-morrow, and-. Al. To-morrow, madam. Mel. He will be here to-morrow, ...... with which they were to be surrounded. They took tea at the inn, and prepared to return....]
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American Institutions And Their Influence
[english | 1851]Alexis De Tocqueville
Excerpts: [... of the community at large for if such were the case, virtues of a high order might become useless, and talents might be turned to a bad account. I ...... described by others, and adverted to by myself, that I shall not enlarge upon it beyond the addition of a few facts. An erroneous notion is generally ...... give it a preponderating importance which it does not really possess. It ...]
Genres: [politics | non fiction] Downloads: 243
Andre
[french | 1851]George Sand
Summary: [Many scenes of this play were used again in the authors Glory of Columbia. Cf. Coads William Dunlap.]
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Anecdotes For Boys
[english | 1851]Harvey Newcomb
Summary: [Anecdotes For Boys by Harvey Newcomb. Anecdotes for Boys is presented here in a high quality kindle edition. This popular classic work by Harvey Newcomb is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Harvey Newcomb then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.]
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Ange Pitou Tome I Les Memoires Dun Medecin
[french | 1851]Alexandre Dumas
Summary: [Suite du cycle Les mmoires dun mdecin. Gilbert llve de Jean-Jacques Rousseau et lami de Balsamo que lon croyait mort (voir Joseph Balsamo) revient en France aprs un sjour en Amrique o il a mis au service de la libert ses talents de philosophe et de mdecin. peine arriv au Havreil se fait arrter alors que dans le mme temps on vole un coffret lui appartenant et quil avait confi au fermier Billot de ...]
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Ange Pitou Tome Ii Les Memoires Dun Medecin
[french | 1851]Alexandre Dumas
Summary: [Suite du cycle Les mmoires dun mdecin. Gilbert llve de Jean-Jacques Rousseau et lami de Balsamo que lon croyait mort (voir Joseph Balsamo) revient en France aprs un sjour en Amrique o il a mis au service de la libert ses talents de philosophe et de mdecin. peine arriv au Havreil se fait arrter alors que dans le mme temps on vole un coffret lui appartenant et quil avait confi au fermier Billot de ...]
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Arthur Hamilton And His Dog
[english | 1851]Anonymous
Excerpts: [... the mother's heart, was hers also. The conviction had been forced upon her, that she must separate the children, and find other homes for such as were ...... will bless you wherever you are. Always remember He watches over you, and loves you. I think Mr. and Mrs. Martin will be kind to you, and I hope you ...... new ones), and John had made him a nice box, in which they were all ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature | religion | young readers] Downloads: 332
Cranford
[english | 1851]Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Summary: [Cranford is a witty portrait of small town life in early-Victorian England. The story unfolds through the eyes of Mary Smith a young woman who observes the comedic struggles of two middle aged sisters in their efforts to maintain a level of refined dignity amid poverty.]
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De Omwenteling Van 1830
[dutch | 1851]Hendrik Conscience
Summary: [Henri Hendrik Conscience (December 3 1812 Antwerp - September 10 1883 Elsene) was a Belgian writer. He was a pioneer in writing in Dutch after the secession from the Netherlands in 1830 left Belgium a mostly French speaking country. He was the son of a Frenchman Pierre Conscience from Besanon who had been chef de timonerie in the navy of Napoleon Bonaparte and who was appointed ...]
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Die Jdin Von Toledo
[german | 1851]Franz Grillparzer
Summary: [Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer (15 January 1791 - 21 January 1872) was an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas.]
Genres: [drama] Downloads: 61
Equinoctial Regions Of America Vol 1
[english | 1851]Alexander Von Humboldt
Excerpts: [... ascended the Andes, contributed by their discoveries and collections to augment the vegetable riches of the Old World. But, in their time, geology ...... to La Victoria, and the valleys of Aragua. This road is cut out of a talcose gneiss* in a state of decomposition. (* The direction of the strata ...... half every second. The equinoctial current is felt, though feebly, even beyond ...]
Genres: [nature | non fiction] Downloads: 175
Equinoctial Regions Of America Vol 2
[english | 1851]Alexander Von Humboldt
Excerpts: [... in 1788 one of those monastic revolutions, of which it is difficult to form a conception in Europe, according to the ideas that prevail of the peaceful ...... set free. The curare is sold in little calabashes but its preparation being in the hands of a few families, and the quantity of poison attached to each ...... A hunter preserves the same blow-tube during his whole life, and ...]
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Equinoctial Regions Of America Vol 3
[english | 1851]Alexander Von Humboldt
Excerpts: [... determining the position of several points in latitude and longitude during the passage from Batabano to Trinidad of Cuba and to Carthagena. It would ...... governors, Diego Velasquez and Pedro de Barba. The oppression of the natives dates from the arrival of the cruel Hernando de Soto about the year 1539. ...... of refined sugar furnished by the island of Cuba for its own ...]
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Ghost Stories Of Chapelizod
[english | 1851]Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Excerpts: [... up, we believe, to the period at which that corps was disbanded, the headquarters of the Royal Irish Artillery, gave it also a consequence of an humbler, ...... more profoundly than he was feared. Upon more than one occasion he had deliberately forced quarrels upon men whom he had singled out for the exhibition ...... pleasantly by the name of chancery, he held him firmly, while ...]
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Histoire Du Vritable Gribouille
[french | 1851]George Sand
Excerpts: [... le pre Bredouille. Le pre et la mre avaient six autres enfants, trois garons et trois filles, ce qui faisait sept, en comptant Gribouille qui tait le ...... donnez point. J'aime mieux rester bte et conserver ma bont. -Et que veux-tu faire de ta bont parmi les mchants. reprit le gros monsieur d'une voix ...... car je veux faire sa fortune. L-dessus il tait sorti, sans s'expliquer ...]
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Israel Potter
[english | 1851]Herman Melville
Summary: [Herman Melville (August 1 1819 - September 28 1891) was an American novelist short story writer essayist and poet whose work is often classified as part of the genre of dark romanticism. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd. His first three books gained much attention the first becoming a bestseller but after a fast-blooming literary success in the late ...]
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La Case De Loncle Tom
[french | 1851]Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
Summary: [Au XIXe sicle dans le Kentucky tat sudiste Mr Shelby riche planteur et son pouse Emily traitent leurs esclaves avec bont. Mais le couple craint de perdre la plantation pour cause de dettes et dcide alors de vendre deux de leurs esclaves: Oncle Tom un homme dge moyen ayant une pouse et des enfants et Harry le fils dEliza servante dEmily. Cette ide rpugne Emily qui avait promis sa servante que ...]
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Le Monete Dei Possedimenti Veneziani Di Oltremare E Di
[italian | 1851]Vincenzo Lazari
Summary: [Le Monete Dei Possedimenti Veneziani Di Oltremare E Di Terraferma 1851 Italian Edition by Vincenzo Lazari. This Book Is In Italian.]
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