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Excerpt from Lecture on Christianity and the Civil Laws About the 20th of March last, some half dozen of the supposed pirated Africans, that had been smuggled into the country by the "Wanderer, " were brought within the hearing of the church bells of Columbus and offered for sale. This excited the disgust and indignation of many of our citizens. The author of this Lecture, fearing that some of his friends, being uninformed of the true moral c...

Sixteen-year-old Amanda Littlejohn looses her parents and travels to Scotland as ward of court of her uncle Alexander in his castle at the start of the twentieth century unaware of the awful legacy that awaits her. Mysterious happenings in the past return to haunt the young heroine and draw her into conflict with her maternal ancestors with terrible consequences.

This colorful account of Bertolt Brecht's move from Germany to America during the Hitler era explores his activities as a Hollywood writer, a playwright determined to conquer Broadway, a political commentator and activist, a social observer, and an exile in an alien land.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguish...

This collection of true life hunting and wilderness stories gives a telling insight into a period of the American West that had a philosophy and humor all its own. A time that has faded and will soon be lost forever. "Shorty" Lyon, a widely-published writer, is best known as a hunter/trapper/philosopher but he was also a pioneer, homesteader, miner, mill hand, woodcutter, forester, conservationist, rancher, hunting guide, farmer and an honored...

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Excerpt from The Elements of Harmony The object of this short work is to explain, as simply and concisely as possible, the elements of harmony, and to help the student to overcome difficulties which are. 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 technolog...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

In the first systematic analysis of the Celan and Heidegger's troubled relationship between 1951 and 1970, Lyon describes how the poet and the philosopher read and responded to each other's work throughout the period.

Hier stellt ein ambitionierter Waffensammler, Hobby-Historiker und Sportschütze die bekanntesten Revolver und Pistolen des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts vor. Dabei werden keinesfalls nur Besonderheiten ihrer Technik und Entwicklung aufgezeigt, sondern die Waffen finden sich in ihre Zeit, also in Geschichte, Literatur und Medien, eingebettet. Schließlich war es beispielsweise die tragende Rolle der Colts in unzähligen Western, die bei vielen erst da...