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Title: Addresses delivered at the inauguration of the professors of Middlebury College, March 18, 1839.Author: C B AdamsPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts o...

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Excerpt from The American Historical Review, Vol. 2: October, 1896 to July, 1897The introduction of the new body is, I believe, usually attrib uted to Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, but on what authority I know not. Still the reform almost certainly took place in his time, and it was under him the tertias made their reputation. As we have seen, Ferretti, Savorgnano, and Adriano, all writing about 1560, knew nothing of the tertia and still d...

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Excerpt from Catalogue of Shells Collected at Panama, 1852: With Notes on Their Synonymy, Station, and Geographical DistributionFor other valuable assistance, especially in the preparation of Indices, I have been indebted to thomas bland, Esq.Some of the sheets having been issued while the work was in press, the dates at the bottom of the first page of each sheet may be taken for the dates of the publication of the new species.About the Publis...

Excerpt from Catalogue of the Genera and Species of Recent ShellsSome Algerian shells have been included in Part I, and the West Indian spe cies are included in Part II. Those, which were collected by the Author in the Island of Jamaica, have the letter] annexed to their names.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an import...

Excerpt from Maryland's Influence in Founding a National Commonwealth: Or the History of the Accession of Public Lands, by the Old Confederation, A Papers Read, Before the Maryland Historical Society, April 9, 1877France to Spain, at the close Of the above-men tioned war, in compensation for losses sustained by the latter in aiding France against England, and ceded back again to France in 1800, through the in¿uence of Napoleon, these lands bey...

The authors conceive of the humanities not as fields of study so much as modes of study, believing that every course in a university can appropriately embody the humanistic ideal and can thus inculcate attitudes and habits of approach characteristic of informed and mature persons. This series of essays traces the development of humanistic studies and attitudes at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Originally published in 1945.A UN...

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Minister to Britain John Adams was unable to enforce the peace treaty of 1783 and renew Anglo-American commerce. But he saved U.S. credit, petitioned to release impressed sailors, saw the Prussian-American treaty ratified, and laid the groundwork for negotiations with the Barbary States.

Adams, with Franklin and Jefferson, formed a joint commission to conclude commercial treaties with the nations of Europe and North Africa. As minister to the Netherlands he raised a new Dutch loan to save America from financial ruin. For the first time since 1778, Adams was no longer engaged in "militia diplomacy.

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John Adams reached Paris on October 26, 1782, for the final act of the American Revolution: the peace treaty. This volume chronicles his role in the negotiations and the decision to conclude a peace separate from France.

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