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In the year of Our Lord 1492, thirty-nine years after the taking of Constantinople by the Turks and eighteen years after the establishment of Caxton's printing press, one Christopher Columbus, an Italian sailor, set sail from Spain with the laudable object of converting the Kh...
Most of us were familiar in our youth with a sort of game or problem which consisted in taking a number, effecting a series of additions, multiplications, subtractions, etc., an...
9. Chapter 9It is a significant fact that the news of Lincoln's election which caused so much dismay and searching of heart throughout the Southern and Border States was received with defia...
8. Chapter 8The Compromise of 1850, though welcomed on all sides as a final settlement, failed as completely as the Missouri Compromise had succeeded. It has already been said that the faul...
5. Chapter 5I have spoken of Jefferson's election as if it had been a direct act of the people; and morally it was so. But in the actual proceedings there was a certain hitch, which is of i...
10. Chapter 10The surrender of Lee and his army was not actually the end of the war. The army of General Johnstone and some smaller Confederate forces were still in being; but their suppressi...
2. Chapter 2Such was roughly the position of the thirteen English colonies in North America when in the year 1764, shortly after the conclusion of the Seven Years' War, George Grenville, wh...
6. Chapter 6During the "era of good feeling" in which the Virginian dynasty closed, forces had been growing in the shadow which in a few short years were to transform the Republic. The addi...
7. Chapter 7The extent of Jackson's more than monarchical power is well exemplified by the fact that Van Buren succeeded him almost as a king is succeeded by his heir. Van Buren was an apt...
3. Chapter 3An account of the American Revolution which took cognizance only of the armed conflict with England would tell much less than half the truth, and even that half would be mislead...
4. Chapter 4The compromises of the Constitution, on whatever grounds they may be criticized, were so far justified that they gained their end. That end was the achievement of union; and uni...
1. Chapter 1In the year of Our Lord 1492, thirty-nine years after the taking of Constantinople by the Turks and eighteen years after the establishment of Caxton's printing press, one Christ...
15. Chapter 15=SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLAND.= A series of volumes illustrative of the life, thought, and letters of England in the time of Shakespeare. =Robert Laneham's Letter=, describing part of...
13. Chapter 13=The SHAKESPEARE CLASSICS.= Small crown 8vo, quarter-bound antique grey boards, _2s. 6d._ net per vol.; those marked + may also be had in velvet persian at _4s._ net; and those...
14. Chapter 14=THE LAMB SHAKESPEARE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.= With Illustrations and Music. Based on MARY AND CHARLES LAMB'S TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE, and edited by Professor I. GOLLANCZ, who has inse...
12. Chapter 12=The Old-Spelling SHAKESPEARE.= Edited by F. J. FURNIVALL, M.A., D. Litt., and F. W. CLARKE, M.A. Demy 8vo, cl., _2s. 6d._ net each Play. Of some of the plays a Library Edition...