Men of the time ... or Sketches of living notables

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1865

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Side 604 - With a, full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Side 422 - North American Herpetology • or a Description of the Reptiles inhabiting the United States.
Side 22 - A Letter to the Rev. Thomas Chalmers, DD, on the Present Position of Church Affairs in Scotland, and the Causes which have led to it.
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Side 500 - Euphrates, to which history and tradition point as the birthplace of the wisdom of the West. Most travellers, after a journey through the usually frequented parts of the East, have the same longing to cross the great river, and to explore those lands which are separated on the map from the confines of Syria by a vast blank stretching from Aleppo to the banks of the Tigris.
Side 579 - Mechi was for many years a member of the Council of the Society of Arts, and was a juror in the Department of Art and Science at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and at the Industrial Exhibition at Paris in 1854, to which he was specially sent by her Majesty's Government. In 1858 he published an account of his improved agricultural system, of which, in 1864, a new and enlarged edition was issued under the title of
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Side 401 - Sonlouque was after this outhreak principally occupied in re-conquering the Spanish part of the island, erected into the Dominican Republic, when he was proclaimed Emperor. The constitution was immediately put into harmony with the new order of things. Such as it is at present, it guarantees the essential rights of citizens, and leaves, in appearance, little latitude to arbitrary proceedings. Unfortunately here, as elsewhere, practice continually contradicts theory.
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