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Excerpt from Reform Government in the Dominion: The Pic-Nic Speeches Delivered in the Province of Ontario During the Summer of 1877We have no desire that the measures of the Government should not be subjected to the fullest examination and discussion, nor do we for a moment underrate the importance and usefulness of an Opposition which discharges its functions fairly and within parliamentary and constitutional limits but we hold that the reput...

Excerpt from Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, Famous American Naval Hero, Victor of the Battle of Lake Erie: His Life and AchievementsSubsequently to this cruise, young Perry entered on board a privateer, bound on a cruise on the enemy's own coast. He was, however, again captured, and confined in prison in Ireland during eighteen months, at the end of which time he effected his escape, and, having passed in a British vessel to the island of St. ...

Excerpt from The Life of Flora Macdonald, and Her Adventures With Prince Charles: With a Life of the Author, and an Appendix Giving the Descendents of the Famous HeroineHer Life by her grand-daughter, Mrs. Wylde, is admittedly a romance in which fiction predominates and the general reader is quite unable to separate the fiction from the facts.The Rev. Author of this narrative had opportunities of Obtaining information which enabled him to make...

Excerpt from History of the Frasers of Lovat: With Genealogies of the Principal Families of the Name, To Which Is Added Those of Dunballoch and PhopachyDavochmaluag, who was the only gentleman there at the time, and who is Lord Seaforth's great Tutor, used the two gentlemen very civilly, and said that he was very glad that the affair was taken away for the good of both the kindred, and Lord Seaforth sent the man that struck him a crown to drin...

Excerpt from Myths of China and JapanIsles of the Blest in the Eastern Ocean, they were not alone in Asia in believing in a Western Paradise situated among the mountains.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, pre...

Excerpt from Historical Tales and Legends: Of the HighlandsThese tales and legends were very favourably received by a Wide circle of readers, and by the Press generally, as they appeared from month to month in the Celtic Magazine. They are now pub lished in a collected form at the request of many who have previously perused them. I would like to present the. Public with the names of their authors, but as one of them - the Norman and Torquil of...

Excerpt from The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer: Coinneach Odhar FiosaicheFifty Large paper copies are thrown off, printed on thick Crown Quarto, giving a handsome margin, and making altogether a handsome unique volume for the Library, or the Drawing-room table, of a work which the Seatsman, and all the press of the country. Recommended to the lovers Of the marvellous as a sweet morsel.On the roth of October, 1881, the author of the Appendix on...

Excerpt from History of the Mackenzies: With Genealogies of the Principal Families of the NameThe original edition of this work appeared in 1879, fifteen years ago. It was well received by the press, by the clan, and by all interested in the history of the Highlands. The best proof of this is the fact that the book has for several years been out of print, occasional second-hand copies of it coming into the market selling at a high premium on t...

Excerpt from The Macdonalds of GlengarryIt is, however, much more difficult to decide which of the other leading claimants are entitled to that high and distinguished honour.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,...

Excerpt from Voyages From Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793: With an Account of the Rise and State of the Fur TradeOn presenting this Volume to my Country, it is not necessary to enter into a particular account of those voyages whose journals form the principal part of it, as they will be found, I trust, to explain themselves. It appears, however, to be a duty, which the Public ha...

Excerpt from The Life of Paul Jones, Vol. 1Being a new Inquiry into the true Dates of the Birth and Death of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: including an original Harmony of the Gospels, now first arranged in the Order of Tune.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-...

Excerpt from The Isle of Skye in 1882-1883: Illustrated by a Full Report of the Trials of the Braes and Glendale Crofters, at Inverness and Edinburgh, And an Introductory Chapter, Also a Full Report of the Trial of Patrick SellarAll that I have written, and much more, about the Braes has been corroborated by the witnesses examined before the Commission, and the factor for Lord Macdonald, Mr. Alexander Macdonald, has not, in his long and - from...

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