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Fortification for officers of the army and students of military history - Page 1
by sir Henry Yule - 1851
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Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the Past Half-century in Six Lectures

David Macbeth Moir - English poetry - 1851 - 398 pages
...and within a few years found innumerable readers in every part of the globe. There is no book extant that treats so well of the period to the illustration...plan. The History of Europe from the commencement ofthe French Revolution to the Battle of Waterloo is a valuable and Indispensable addition to the histories...
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On the Truths Contained in Popular Superstitions: With an Account of Mesmerism

Herbert Mayo - Ghosts - 1851 - 288 pages
...and within a few years found innumerable readers in every part of the globe. There is no book extant that treats so well of the period to the illustration...how much soever writers hereafter, profiting by Mr Ahson's toil, may improve upon his plan. The History of Europe from the commencement o/tfie French...
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Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social, Volume 1

James Finlay Weir Johnston - Agriculture - 1851 - 468 pages
...and within a few years found innumerable readers in every part of the globe. There is no book extant that treats so well of the period to the illustration...to the subject, how much soever writers hereafter, profiling by Mr Alison's toil, may improve upon his plan. The History of Europe from the. commencement...
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The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir, Volume 1

David Macbeth Moir - 1852 - 414 pages
...and within a few years found innumerable readers in every part of the globe. There is no book extant that treats so well of the period to the illustration...to the subject, how much soever writers hereafter, profiling by Mr Alison's toil, may improve upon his plan. The History of Europe from the commencement...
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History of Europe: From the Fall of Napoleon, in 1815, to the ..., Volume 1

Sir Archibald Alison - Europe - 1852 - 656 pages
...and within a few years found innumerable readers in every part of the glol* . There is no book extant that treats so well of the period to the illustration...men living could have done greater justice to the sul'ject, how much soever writers hereafter, profiting by Mr Alison's toil, may improve upon h^ plan....
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The Life of John, Duke of Marlborough: With Some Account of His ..., Volume 2

Archibald Alison - Great Britain - 1852 - 550 pages
...innumerable readers fn every part of the globe. There is no book extant that treats so well of the perind to the illustration of which Mr Alison's labours have been devoted. It exhibits grvai knowledge, patient research, indefatigable industry, and v;ist power. Few men living could have...
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Advanced Text-book of Geology, Descriptive and Industrial

David Page - Geology - 1859 - 428 pages
...and within a few years found innumerable readers in every part of the globe. There is no book extant that treats so well of the period, to the illustration...could have done greater justice to the subject."— Die Times, Sept. 7, 1850. By the same Author. History of Europe, from the Fall of Napoleon to the Accession...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture, Volume 1

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1859 - 422 pages
...and within a few years found innumerable readers in every part of the globe. There is no book extant that treats so well of the period, to the illustration...research, indefatigable industry, and vast power. Feiv men living could have done greater justice to the subject."— The Times, Sept. 7, 1850. By the...
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Essays in History and Art

Robert Hogarth Patterson - Art - 1862 - 580 pages
...and within a few years found innumerable readers in every part of the globe. There in no book extant that treats so well of the period to the illustration...research, indefatigable industry, and vast power." Edinburgh Review. " There is much in Mr Alison's history of the French Revolution against which we...
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The Invasion of the Crimea: Transactions which brought on the war. 3d ed. 1863

Alexander William Kinglake - Crimean War, 1853-1856 - 1863 - 600 pages
...and within a few years found innumerable readers in every part of the globe. There is no book extant that treats so well of the period to the illustration...research, indefatigable industry, and vast power." Edinburgh Review. " There is much in Mr Alison's history of the French Revolution against which we...
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