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Chronicles of Canada Volume 18 - The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay
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Agnes C. Laut
The fur hunters were explorers who had blazed a trail across a continent and penetrated to the uttermost reaches of a northern empire the si…
Sätze aus der höhern Welt- und Menschenkunde
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François Vi. De La Rochefoucauld
Sätze aus der höhern Welt- und Menschenkunde (Maximes) von La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), veröffentlicht 1678; übersetz…
A History of the Four Georges in Four Volumes, Volume 2
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Justin Mccarthy
Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), liberal member of Parliament and historian. He brings the great 18th Century personalities to life: Walpole and…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 1: Joan of Naples
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Alexandre Dumas
The celebrated crimes committed during the life of Joan (Joanna I) of Naples span from personal misdeeds (adulteries and mariticide) to regi…
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
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Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
This book is a popular science book written in the late 1600s. It is written as a series of conversations between a gallant philosopher and …
History of Farming in Ontario
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C. C. James
This is a paper on the history of farming in Ontario. It take the reader through the early settlement from 1783 to the modern period of 1888…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 19 - Pathfinders of the Great Plains
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Lawrence J. Burpee
This is volume 19 of The Chronicles of Canada series. This is the account of La Verendryes' quest for an overland route to the Pacific Ocean…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 03 - Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain
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Charles W. Colby
For Canada, Champlain is not alone a heroic explorer of the seventeenth century, but the founder of Quebec; and it is a rich part of our her…
Catherine De' Medici
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Honoré de Balzac
The Philosophical Studies from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine) are a series of works that are intended as a reflection on history in p…
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 1
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Benvenuto Cellini
Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as h…
A Half Century of Conflict
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Francis Parkman, Jr.
Francis Parkman (1823-1893) is one of the great nineteenth century United States historians along with William Prescott, John Lothrop Motley…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 04 - Jesuit Missions: A Chronicle of the Cross in t…
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Thomas Guthrie Marquis
These little books were designed to cover Canadian history in a scholarly and readable fashion. This volume, as suggested in the title, foll…
Frederic the Great
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Macaulay's review essay on Frederick the Great of Prussia is found in vol. iii of his Critical and Historical Essays, and concentrates prima…
The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. III: Great Britain - I
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William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey and Various,William Jennings Bryan
In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 13 - The United Empire Loyalists: A Chronicle of th…
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W. Stewart Wallace
Volume 13 of The Chronicles of Canada Series. This volume sheds light on the often misunderstood Americans who chose to remain loyal to the …
Benjamin Franklin
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Robin Mckown
This biography of Franklin was written for young people, but can be enjoyed by anyone. The author Robin McKown, is known for her young adul…
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Version 2)
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George Berkeley
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (commonly called Treatise when referring to Berkeley's works) is a 1710 work, in Eng…
Letters of John Huss
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Jan Hus
Personal correspondence of Bohemian religious reformer John Huss (Jan Hus) from 1411 when he was exiled from Prague through his death by bur…
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 3
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Niccolò Machiavelli
In "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius", posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful…
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 2
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Niccolò Machiavelli
In "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius", posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful…