The History of Twenty-five Years: 1856-1865

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Longmans, Green, and Company, 1904

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Page 28 - THE ROOTS OF THE MOUNTAINS, wherein is told somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale, their Friends, their Neighbours, their Foemen, and their Fellows-in-Arms.
Page 52 - Ah God, for a man with heart, head, hand, Like some of the simple great ones gone For ever and ever by, One still strong man in a blatant land, Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat — one Who can rule and dare not lie.
Page 31 - Roget.— THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES. Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and assist in Literary Composition.
Page 31 - HOMES WITHOUT HANDS: A Description of the Habitations of Animals, classed according to their Principle of Construction.
Page 54 - When a Mammonite mother kills her babe for a burial fee, And Timour-Mammon grins on a pile of children's bones, Is it peace or war ? better, war! loud war by land and by sea, War with a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones.
Page 35 - Our Place among Infinities: A Series of Essays contrasting our Little Abode in Space and Time with the Infinities Around us.
Page 31 - STRANGE DWELLINGS: a Description of the Habitations of Animals, abridged from ' Homes without Hands '. With 60 Illustrations.
Page 14 - Vol. II. MOOR AND MARSH. By LORD WALSINGHAM and Sir RALPH PAYNEGALLWEY, Bart. With Contributions by LORD LOVAT and Lord CHARLES LENNOX KERR. With 8 Plates and 57 Illustrations in the Text. Crown...
Page 18 - Hume. — THE PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS OF DAVID HUME. Edited by TH GREEN and TH GROSE. 4 vols. 8vo..
Page 7 - May. — THE CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND since the Accession of George III. 1760-1870. By Sir THOMAS ERSKINE MAY, KCB (Lord Farnborough). 3 vols.

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