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Excerpt from An Introductory Lecture Delivered Before the Institute of Arts and Sciences, Pittsburgh, on the 20th December, 1836Gentlemeivz - There are principally three things which make a city prosperous, advantage of situation, commerce, and manufactures. Peculiar states of society may nour.sh a town into great splendor independent of these, but these are the permanent parents of prosperity, which never fail of suc cess. Ancient Rome grew g...

Excerpt from Gettysburg, 1920: A SurveyThe Story of the Civil War, by John C. Ropes, continued by Col. W. R. Livermore, in 4 volumes (the last one of which, Book 2 of Part 3, includes the Gettysburg campaign), is complete, well arranged and minutely indexed. Its numer ous maps are admirable, and its critical comments useful to the close student, though the detail is too great for the limited time of the average tourist.About the PublisherForgo...

Excerpt from Fifty Years Among Shorthorns: With Over 300 Pen Pictures of Notable SiresMY first acquaintance with Shorthorns was made more than fifty years ago, when three animals I then saw made a strong impression upon me. These animals, in the Broadland herd, were the bull Orbliston calved 1847, and the two cows, Jenny Lind by. Jacob calved 1845, and Young Louisa by Major a bull calved in 1840. All the three animals attracted my attention, e...

Excerpt from A Voice From the Australian BushHaving, at different times of my life, so far forgotten myself as to perpetrate rhymes on various subjects, I like others af¿icted with the same incurable malady, became desirous that I should not be the only sufferer, so, in¿icted a small edition on my friends, the people of South Australia, and the critics of the said Province having been very merciful, (i was going to say just and merciful) and t...

Excerpt from The Senior Quarterly, for the Advanced Pupils: For Sunday-Schools at the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church of America, The First Quarter of the Year of 1901, For the Months of January, Febuary and MarchSchool. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even forever.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ...

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Excerpt from Discourses on Various Points of Christian Doctrine and PracticeTraining up of Children. That on the Signs of the Times was delivered before the Associate Synod a good many years ago, and that on Brotherly Love about 1818, when there were some serious disturbances in the Asso ciate Presbyterian Congregation of Pittsburgh. That on the Divinity of Christ was principally composed to complete the contemplated arrange ment of this volum...

Excerpt from Re-Echoes From CoondamboTroop 03 into the forest near of eucalypts primeval, Like swart, uncanny, brood of him - the Father of all evil.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 important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original ...

Excerpt from Apostolic Order and UnityIn both those lands I found missionaries of non Episcopal Churches, in Great Britain and America, doing just as great and good a work for Christ as we were doing, and, so far from being able to look down on them as in any way inferior to myself, I esteemed it a privilege to sit at the feet of a Duff in Calcutta, a Wilson in Bombay, a Newton in the Punjab, and many others, and seek to learn of them the best...

Excerpt from Education Free From the Creeds Control of Priests and Churches: An Address Delivered at the Autumnal Meeting of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, Nottingham, on Tuesday, October 9th, 1888I deny myself the pleasure of taking up other questions which some of you might regard as of equal if not greater importance, and which might have excited more enthusiasm than the practical one which I propose to discuss.Strong is the...

Excerpt from Echoes From CoondamboThe miscellaneous poems and rhyming sketches I now present to your notice have nearly all appeared before, either in newspaper or book form, and I therefore have named the present volume Echoes from Coondambo. I may say that I have crossed the Equator five times in sailing vessels - in three instances before the mast - and six times in steamers, and I have been engaged in squatting pursuits for thirty-five yea...

Excerpt from The Way to True Peace and Rest: Delivered at Edinborough in XVI Sermons, on the Lords Supper, Hezechiahs Sicknesse, and Other Select ScripturesSheweth the definition and dieterfe aheeptiom ofthe ward Secret ment, what the figne: in the Sacrament are why the] are (aged.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 im...

Excerpt from Waltham High School Class of 1944We, the Class of 1944 of Waltham High School, dedicate this Commencement Issue of the Mirror to Mr. George S. Woodman, who is now serving in the United States Army. As faculty manager of the Business Staff of the Mirror, he contributed no small part towards its success. Few were aware of his many responsibilities and of the long hours and untiring efforts he gave. We want to express our deep apprec...

Excerpt from Waltham High School Class of 1944We, the Class of 1944 of Waltham High School, dedicate this Commencement Issue of the Mirror to Mr. George S. Woodman, who is now serving in the United States Army. As faculty manager of the Business Staff of the Mirror, he contributed no small part towards its success. Few were aware of his many responsibilities and of the long hours and untiring efforts he gave. We want to express our deep apprec...

Excerpt from Gettysburg: A Survey, From the Standpoints of Topography and the Highways, of the Military Operations Which Culminated at Gettysburg in the Summer of 1863It is said that whereas most of those from the Conestoga country went to Pittsburgh or beyond the Ohio river, those manufactured in Gettysburg found their principal sale in Maryland and Vir ginia. The earliest commercial affiliations of this section were with points south rather ...

Excerpt from The Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania Square: Old Philadelphia-Pittsburgh PikeWithin convenient distance of the start of this trip across Pennsylvania are several of the most historic buildings in the United States, a priceless inheritance from the colonial and revolutionary periods. They are grouped fairly close together in the old residence and business center, on or about Chestnut, Market and Arch streets, within a few squares of...