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The Girls' Book of Famous Queens

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Lydia Hoyt Farmer

In the annals of history, women have played an important part; and among the famous sovereigns of the world, queens, as well as kings, have …

Don Sebastian; or, The House of the Braganza: An Historical Romance, Volume 4

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Anna Maria Porter

Now living peacefully with his young family as an anonymous exile, Don Sebastian has just received word that the queen of England will back …

The Territorial Development of the United States, by Frederick Jackson Turner

In Lectures on the Harvard Classics

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Charles William Eliot

The Lecture Series on the contents of The Harvard Classics ought to do much to open that collection of literary materials to many ambitious …

Chapters XXXIX–XLIV

In Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln: The Story of a Picture

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Francis Bicknell Carpenter

This memoir by painter Francis Bicknell Carpenter includes observations he made during his time at the White House from February-July 1864, …

Jungle

In A Moment of Time

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Richard Hughes

British author Richard Hughes is perhaps most well-known for his sea-faring adventure novel A High Wind in Jamaica, but a dive into his shor…

Cat Pranks

In Daisy: the Autobiography of a Cat

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Miranda Elliot Swan

"I was born in a clothes-basket, and do not feel ashamed of my birthplace, though fire and the swill man long ago removed all trace of …

Defeat of the Young Pretender at Culloden, AD 1746, by Justin McCarthy

In The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13

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Charles F. Horne

A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…

Emotions as Directed to Animate Objects Part 3

In The Emotions

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James McCosh and James Mccosh

I am not satisfied with the account which has been given of the feelings and emotions in our books of mental science, and thence transferred…