257 books (13 pages) in this category
A Brief and Popular History of the Hospital of God's House, Southampton
by J. Aston Whitlock
<p>My obligations and thanks are due to the following gentlemen for kindly help and sugges tions: the Librarians at the British Museum, the Librarian at Hatfield House, the Librarian at Lambeth Palace, the Librarian at the Hartley Institute, the
ISBN: 9780259641209
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eBookby Alfred Perceval Graves
<p>I have called this volume of verse a Celtic Psaltery because it mainly consists of close and free translations from Irish, Scotch Gaelic, and Welsh Poetry of a religious or serious character. The first half of the book is concerned with Irish
ISBN: 9786050388084
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eBookPoems and Stories of Kashmir
by Lalita Pandit Hogan & Frederick Luis Aldama
<p>A COUNTRY WITHOUT BORDERS, POEMS AND STORIES OF KASHMIR is the debut collection of Lalita Pandit Hogan, an expatriate Kashmiri scholar and poet who shares with readers the loss of identity and home, culture, migration, womanhood, otherness ...
ISBN: 9781940939582
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eBookHow a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
by Don Kulick
<p><strong>One of <em>Time</em>’s 32 Books You Need to Read This Summer</strong></p> <p><strong>“A profoundly human story about a seemingly exotic and strange place that really isn't so strange at all.” —Carl Hoffman, author of <em>The Last ...
ISBN: 9781616209476
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eBookby George Catlin
<p>Tm: following are a few of the very numerous eulogiums which the Press has passed upon the merits of this Collection, in England, France, and the United States, where it has been exhibited.</p> ...
ISBN: 9780243686056
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eBookA Discourse on the Religion of the Indian Tribes of North America
Delivered Before the New-York Historical Society, December 20, 1819
by Samuel F. Jarvis
<p>In surveying those portions of American history, from which I might select a subject for the present occasion, it appeared to me, that the religion of the Indian tribes of North America, had not been viewed with that largeness of observation,
ISBN: 9780259625100
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eBookA Foreign View of England in the Reigns of George I.& George II
The Letters of Monsieur Cesar De Saussure to His Family
by Van Muyden
<p>César de Saussure wrote several other volumes, amongst them a history of France and one of Switzerland, and also an account of the Emperor Joseph's journey in 1777, with a notice of his visit to Lausanne. I may add that the translator of ...
ISBN: 9780259640288
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eBookA History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art
by Thomas Wright
<p>The contents of the following pages, in which it was, in fact, my defign to give, as far as may be done within fuch moderate limits, and in as popular a manner as fach information can eafily be imparted, a general view of the Hifiory of Comic
ISBN: 9780243683987
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eBookWith Notes on the Other Sparkling Wines of France
by Henry Vizetelly
<p>The numerous illustrations scattered throughout the present volume have been derived from every available source that suggested itself. Ancient mss., early-printed books, pictures and pieces of sculpture, engravings and caricatures, all of ...
ISBN: 9780243781041
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eBookA History of the Valley of Virginia
by Samuel Kercheval
<p>It appears that at a very early period of the colony, they were desirous of cultivating a friendly understanding with the natives of the country. Unfortunately, however, for our ancestors, and for the Indians themselves, this friendly ...
ISBN: 9780243659715
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eBookHistorical Notices of the Forest and Its Purlieus During the Nineteenth Century
by William Crossing
<p>The valleys which shelter them give promise of plenty, for Nature there is smiling, and it is only when the visitor gains a glimpse of the sombre old Moor that he recollects she can sometimes wear a frown.</p> ...
ISBN: 9780259715719
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eBookA Journal of Voyages and Travels in the Interior of North America
Between the 47th and 58th Degrees of North Latitude, Extending From Montreal Nearly to the Pacific Ocean, a Distance of About 5000 Miles
by Daniel Williams Harmon
<p>Harmon was a Vermont lad, who entered the servrce of the Northwest Company m 1800, and was sent west For the next nlneteen years he dld not come east of Fort Wllham, not trll May, 1819, did he turn hls back on the west, and return to h1s ...
ISBN: 9780243811786
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eBookA Modern Crusade in the Turkish Empire
by Florence A. Fensham & Mrs. H. B. Humphrey
<p>The Modern Traveller...Josiah Conder.<br /> Our New Protectorate...J.C. McCoan.<br /> Turkey and Turks...W.S. Munroe.<br /> In the Palace of the Sultan...Dodd.<br /> Races of European Turkey...Edson Clark.<br /> Islamism, Its Rise and ...
ISBN: 9780243718368
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eBookby Jonathan Swift
<p>A Modest Proposal written by Jonathan Swift.This book will tell you about economy troubles by selling children as food for rich guys.</p> ...
ISBN: 1230001131611
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eBookDuring a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound; With an Account of the Manners, Mode of Living, and Religions Opinions of the Natives
by John Rodgers Jewitt
<p>Adam Siddle, of Hull, Do. Philip Brown, of Cambridge, (313535 John of Situate, Do. Abraham Waters, of Philadelphia; Francis Dta?ield, of Penton, Gang.) John Virginia, William Caldwell, of Boston, Joseph Miner, 1 of Newbu William ...
ISBN: 9780243815326
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eBookA Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner
Interpreter at the Saut De Ste, During Thirty Years Residence Among the Indians in the Interior of North America
by John Tanner
<p>Among the most active of the extraneous causes which have produced this conspicuous and deplorable change, must be reckoned the trade for peltries, which has been pushed among them from the earliest occupation of the country by the 'whites. ...
ISBN: 9780259663508
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eBookChief Big Eagle's Story of the Sioux Outbreak of 1862
by Minnesota Historical Society
<p>All these things made many Indians dislike the whites. Then a little while before the outbreak there was trouble among the Indians themselves. Some of the Indians took a sen.</p> ...
ISBN: 9780259716891
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eBookA Social History of Ancient Ireland
Treating of the Government, Military System, and Law; Religion, Learning, and Art; Trades, Industries, and Commerce; Manners, Customs, and Domestic Life, of the Ancient Irish People
by P. W. Joyce
<p>Fig. 3. — Sculpture over a doorway. Cormac's Chapel, Cashel; Centaur shooting at a lion. (from Petrie's Round Towers).</p> ...
ISBN: 9780243652808
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eBookA Social History of Ancient Ireland
Treating of the Government, Military System, and Law; Religion, Learning and Art; Trades, Industries and Commerce; Manners, Customs and Domestic Life of the Ancient Irish People
by P. W. Joyce
<p>The fact that the husband paid the bride-price did not prevent the bride bringing goods or valuables of her own, if she had them. Any number of cases might be cited where the young woman brought jewels, or gold, or herds, or land: and after ...
ISBN: 9780259713555
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eBookA Tahitian and English Dictionary
With Introductory Remarks on the Polynesian Language, and a Short Grammar of the Tahitian Dialect
by H. J. Davies
<p>Other words, such as the numerals, the personal and possessive pronouns, are nearly the same in all the groups, and probably the same may be said of the use of the adjectives, and of the conjugation of verbs.</p> ...
ISBN: 9780243804184
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