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The American Missionary - Volume 52, No. 2
Various AuthorsThe 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
Various AuthorsThe Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes contains Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection contributed by various authors...
The Best Ghost Stories
Various AuthorsGood 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
Various AuthorsAlthough, 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
Various AuthorsThe 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
Various AuthorsThe 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
Various AuthorsThis 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
Various AuthorsLate 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..