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epub |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Gustav Freytag [Freytag, Gustav]

CHAPTER VII. GERMAN PRINCES AT THE IMPERIAL DIET. (1547.) Luther was dead. Over his grave raged the Smalkaldic war. Charles V. made a triumphal progress through humiliated Germany. Only once ...
( Category: Nonfiction March 4,2023 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Gustav Freytag [Freytag, Gustav]

CHAPTER X. THE PERIOD OF RUIN. (1800.) Again did evil arise from France, and again did a new life spring from the struggle against the enemy. It was not the ...
( Category: Nonfiction March 4,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Helen Davenport Gibbons [Gibbons, Helen Davenport]

CHAPTER XX THE PROBLEM OF HOUSING WHEN you are in Paris without children you can get along in a hotel or a pension: and you can probably live as cheaply ...
( Category: Nonfiction March 4,2023 )
epub |eng | 1871-01-15 | Author:Curtis Guild [Guild, Curtis]

One can easily imagine that Louis XIV. nearly bankrupted the French nation in his magnificent expenditures on the palace and parks of Versailles, everything about them is upon such a ...
( Category: Nonfiction March 3,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-04-26 | Author:Queensland [Queensland]

So late as twenty years ago, much of the butter consumed in Queensland came from the Southern States. The local product was inferior in quality, although an agreeable change from ...
( Category: Nonfiction March 3,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-20 | Author:Blanche Willis Howard [Howard, Blanche Willis]

OHENSCHWANGAU AND NEU SCHWANSTEIN. It pains me to think that the king of Bavaria, or any other fine-looking young gentleman, would deliberately scowl at an inoffensive party of ladies who ...
( Category: Nonfiction March 3,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-04 | Author:Joseph Corry [Corry, Joseph]

* * * CHAPTER VIII. What the Author conceives should be the System of Establishment to make effectual the Operations from Cape Verde to Cape Palmas.—Reasons for subjecting the Whole ...
( Category: Nonfiction March 3,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-11-22 | Author:Frank H. Severance [Severance, Frank H.]

I have been much too long in getting Mr. Lay to London, to go about much with him there. And yet the temptation is great, for to an American of ...
( Category: Nonfiction March 3,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-21 | Author:Charles Hardwick [Hardwick, Charles]

To which boast Clifford replies:— And from thy burgonet I'll rend thy bear, And tread it underfoot with all contempt, Despite the bearward that protects the bear. Warwick, in the ...
( Category: Nonfiction March 3,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-03-16 | Author:Benjamin Waugh [Waugh, Benjamin]

III. There are many other things yet to be changed, both in the laws and in the customs of this country, before child life in it will be what it ...
( Category: Nonfiction March 3,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-13 | Author:J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie [Ritchie, J. Ewing]

DR JOHNSON’S TAVERN. Leigh Hunt, Barry Cornwall, and the Times are all eloquent in the praise of alcohol. It lifts us above this dull earth, it fires our genius, it ...
( Category: Nonfiction March 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2006-09-13 | Author:Charles Nordhoff [Nordhoff, Charles]

A Saw-Mill Port on Puget Sound A Saw-Mill Port on Puget Sound Click Thumbnail for full-size Illustration Of the population of Califoraia when the census of 1870 was taken, 49,310 ...
( Category: Nonfiction March 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-06 | Author:Lucien Wolf [Wolf, Lucien]

DOCUMENTS. Art. XIV.—Treaty of Carlowitz between the Emperor and the Grand Sultan, Jan. 26, 1699.[93] XIV. Trade shall be free for the Subjects of both Partys, in all the Kingdoms ...
( Category: Nonfiction March 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-15 | Author:Thomas, Sir Browne [Thomas, Sir Browne]

[75] The smallest of the genus Gasterosteus, or Stanstickles, is G. pungitius, the ten-spined Stickleback, but this fish is two inches long when full grown. All the species seem to ...
( Category: Nonfiction March 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-02-24 | Author:C. A. (Catharine Amy) Dawson Scott [Scott, C. A. Dawson]

China Clay Tregoning Hill, a little south of Godolphin, was the place where Wm. Cookworthy, a druggist, discovered in 1745 a clay from which porcelain could be made, and from ...
( Category: Nonfiction March 2,2023 )