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Excerpt from Pirates Time, though a good Collector, is not always a reliable Historian. That is to say, that although nothing of interest or importance is lost, yet an affair may be occasionally invested with a glamour that is not wholly its own. I venture to think that Piracy has fortuned in this particular. We are apt to base our ideas of Piracy on the somewhat vague ambitions of our childhood, and I suppose, were such a thing possible, the...

Excerpt from Newton's Interpolation Formulas It is believed that no previous translation of this little work has been published. Although the "Methodus Differentialis" was not printed until the year 1711, it was composed many years earlier. In the Latin preface (from which I translate), William Jones says: "The book is brought to a graceful close by the addition of a little tract entitled 'Methodus Differentialis', which I have transcribed ...

Excerpt from History of the War in Bosnia: During the Years 1737-8 and 9 Bosnia, or Bosna, was included anciently in Pannonia Inferior, and in the fourth century formed a part of that vast district called Illyricum, which comprehended, under this general appellation, Rhætia, Noricum, Pannonia, Dalmatia, Moesia or Mysia, Thracia, Macedonia, and Greece, and which afterwards was divided into two provinces, viz. Liburnia and Dalmatia. About the ...

When Jevin, a young historian, challenges the leaders of his village, he finds himself banished to an unknown wilderness. Soon, both he and his friend Myrell will suddenly be thrown into a life and death struggle that will pit them against the subjects of their worst nightmares and threaten to destroy everything they had ever known. ~ "There in the forest stood a horrible, grotesque abstract of a human, towering several feet above them in heig...

The Saved chronicles the story of a young man, named Jevin, who takes it upon himself to challenge corruption and, overnight, finds himself banished from his home and in a struggle to survive as he searches for his destiny. Both he and his friend, Myrell, will soon find themselves locked in battle with an evil that threatens not only their own lives but that of the home they have sworn to protect. With the discovery of long forgotten relics Je...

When Jevin, a young historian, challenges the leaders of his village, he finds himself banished to an unknown wilderness. Soon, both he and his friend Myrell will suddenly be thrown into a life and death struggle that will pit them against the subjects of their worst nightmares and threaten to destroy everything they had ever known. ~ "There in the forest stood a horrible, grotesque abstract of a human, towering several feet above them in heig...

If men could see us as we really are, they would be amazed', wrote Charlotte Bronte, the outwardly conventional parson's daughter who had rarely met any men beyond those of the church or classroom by the time Jane Eyre was published in 1847.

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Excerpt from Jonathan: A NovelAaron Falk is in the gig, holding the reins loosely, Bess the mare is taking her time, going from side to side to make the little hill less, and Ben the boy is walking along whistling behind his master, and ¿icking the heads ofi' the 16rds and ladies with his whip.There is one other living thing in the still picture. At the top of a rising mound to which the hyacinths have climbed, a girl's figure is moving among ...

Excerpt from Western Australian Year-Book, Vol. 7: For 1892-1893 One branch of its contents had already received attention in earlier editions, but not the care desired, and that was the short History of the Discovery and first Settlement of the Colony. 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 wor...

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This book is the first on the small vertebrates of the early Mesozoic and features contributions by internationally renowned experts.

Includes accounts for the years 1471-1473, 1510-1512, 1555-1557, 1596-1618, 1622, 1624-1625, preceded by an introduction to the Durham Quarter Session, Commissions of the Peace and Business in Quarter Sessions.

The documents _ provide illustrations of the practical difficulties of life in the north of England during the fourteenth century.' Each section has a short historical introduction and each petition, in French, is preceded by acalendar of its contents and followed by its approximate date and an editorial comment on its relation to other known material. Areas covered include trade, defence, compensation, war damage, franchises, legal petitions,...

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