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Excerpt from The Story of Rolf, and the Vikings BowFor the Icelanders were a wonderful people. To escape the tyranny of kings they settled a new land, and there built up the laws and customs in which we see the promise of modern civilization. Few early peoples had such a body of laws, few developed such manhood. N 0 better pictures of a law-abiding, rural, and yet valiant race have ever been made than in the tales which the Icelanders had the ...

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Excerpt from The Siege of BostonIt will be observed that the siege cannot satisfactorily be considered as a distinct series of military or semi-military events, abruptly beginning and still more abruptly ending. Such a view would reduce the siege to a mere matter of local history, having little connection with the larger movements of the American Revolution, and appearing almost as an accident which might have happened at any other centre of s...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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Excerpt from Old ConcordThe points of chief interest in the historical and literary associations of Old Concord, may also be depended upon for its accuracy. Its historical mat ter I have drawn from the Concord histories of Lemuel Shattuck (1835) and Charles H. Walcott from the Concord Social Circle Memoirs, from the writings of Grindall Reynolds, and from the publications of the Concord Antiquarian Soci ety, chie¿y those by the late George Tol...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The BarrierHe had been a contrast to Ellis in the Openness of his methods and the rapidity of his success. To organise all the street-railways of his city, to force his person ality upon the stockholders of three lines, and to weld the old clumsy systems into one efficient whole - that was George Mather's achievement. To be head and shoulders above all others of his years as the street railway president, yes, and as the man in who...

Excerpt from The Day of Concord and Lexington, the Nineteenth of April, 1775About 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 format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare c...

Excerpt from Sir Marrok: A Tale of the Days of King ArthurAbout 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 format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfect...

Excerpt from The Colonials: Being a Narrative of Events Chiefly Connected With the Siege and Evacuation of the Town of Boston in New EnglandOR ages the great lakes Of North America lay in their gloomy soli tudes, the garb Of nature Clothing their endless shores. Upon the waters Of those inland seas, within the depths Of the enormous forests, the petty mutterings Of barbaric wars were lost. Though the record Of savage migra tions remained in hu...

Excerpt from The Hiding-Places: A NovelShe and Margery and I had been sitting on the wide stone wall that runs above the South Farms lower mowing. It IS a very old wall, with its orig inal central portion buttressed and widened by the stone ploughed out of the adjoining fields. Sitting on one side of it, with the girls on the other, while we were chatting I had carelessly pried up a broad ¿at stone that lay in the middle, between us three. The...

Excerpt from The Story of Grettir the StrongValuable as are the classic tales, there is to be drawn from them no such lesson of manliness as the north ern stories teach. If I wished a lad to learn from his reading the quality of steadfast courage, I would put into his hands these two Icelandic sagas, with the Morte d'arthur and even the Niebelungen Lied, rather than the Iliad, the Odyssey, or the zeneid. There is only one book whose tales surp...

Excerpt from The Book of Vegetables and Garden Herbs: A Practical Handbook and Planting Table for the Vegetable GardenerFig. I. The old-style vegetable bed. And the back-breaking process of weeding. Nowadays vegetables are grown in rows.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...

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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...