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Excerpt from Fifty Years Among Shorthorns: With Over 300 Pen Pictures of Notable Sires In an extensive intercourse with breeders of Shorthorns throughout the world, I receive numerous enquiries respecting animals of byegone days, and many friends have urged me to put on record, in a form handy for reference, the particulars in my possession of the many sires I have seen, and which are continually appearing in present-day pedigrees. This I hav...

Excerpt from The National Road: Most Historic Thoroughfare in the United States, and Strategic Eastern Link in the National Old Trails Ocean-to-Ocean Highway Peter Cooper hauled the first train with Tom Thumb, the pioneer American locomotive. Later, when that railway became a large, wide spreading system, the route through Relay, Laurel and Washington was made its main line to and from the West.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishe...

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 A Voice From the Australian Bush Having, 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...

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

Excerpt from Sermons Robert bruce, Minister of the Gospel at Edinburgh, was one of the most distinguished men whom Scotland has ever produced, and rendered invaluable services to his Church and country. His la bours as a preacher of the Gospel were signally blessed to the sal vation of souls, he took a prominent and in¿uential part in the important contest which the Church of Scotland carried on against King James, in defence of her rights an...

Excerpt from Gettysburg, 1920: A Survey About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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 format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the ...

Excerpt from Apostolic Order and Unity A residence of thirty-five years (1858-1893) as a missionary of the Church Missionary Society, in the Punjab and Persia, has naturally taught me to regard the differences of ecclesiastical organisation between various Christian Churches as of trifling importance, compared with the gulf which separates Christendom from Heathendom. In both those lands I found missionaries of non-Episcopal Churches, in Gre...

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, 1888 The very kind indulgence and generous appreciation you extended to me in May have lessened my fears but increased my responsibility on the present occasion. Having gained your confidence and esteem I am anxious not to lose them, but...

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Offers all students of military history a new insight into the physical reality of the Great War as experienced by the man in the ranks. Detailed sequences show the seven classic automatic weapons in close-up accompanied by illustrated accounts of each weapon's historical and technical background. Superbly illustrated with 250 color photographs. Robert Bruce is an internationally published author, lecturer and authority on military small arms,...

The result of a decade of study with the blessing and help of Bell's descendants, this is undoubtedly the most comprehensive and handsomely researched biography of Bell since C. D. MacKenzie's 1928 work. The author is no stylist but he has assimilated a massive amount of material into a coherent view of the man and his accomplishment. Bell's Scots forebears were strenuously devoted to the study of the spoken word. Grandfather Bell was a teache...

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Excerpt from The Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania Square: Old Philadelphia-Pittsburgh Pike Within 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 ...