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The American Missionary - Volume 52, No. 2

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The outlook for the American Missionary Association while hopeful, yet appeals most earnestly for increased contributions. The debt has been steadily reduced. At the Annual Meeting in 1895, it was rep..

The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes

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The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes contains Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection contributed by various authors...

The Best Ghost Stories

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Good ghost stories have been told for millennia in some form or another, and no matter how old you are, they never go out of style. This is a collection from 1919 of various ghost stories by a range o..

Original Narratives of Early American History

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Although, in the narrative of the Gentleman of Elvas, the translation by Buckingham Smith has been followed, some corrections have been made in the text, and pains have been taken to set right, in acc..

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844

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The Englishman who, however well inclined to defer to the wisdom "of former ages," should throw a glance at the stern realities of the past, as connected with the history of his country, will be littl..

The Arena, Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897

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The twenty-seven respectable citizens of New York who, in 1792, met under a buttonwood tree in front of the premises now known as Number 60 Wall Street, and formed an association for the purchase and ..

The Arena, Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897

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This the age of evolution. The word is used by many men in many senses, and still oftener perhaps in no sense at all. By some it is spoken with a haunting dread as though it were another name for the ..

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859

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Late in the autumn of 1836, an Austrian brig-of-war cast anchor in the harbor of New York; and seldom have voyagers disembarked with such exhilarating emotions as thrilled the hearts of some of the pa..