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Title: Tales of the fireside.Author: Rebecca Warren BrownPublisher:
Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed
bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926
contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works
about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early
1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery
and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil
War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03393200CollectionID:
CTRG00-B1418PublicationDate: 18270101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Collation: 225 p.; 20 cm
Title: Great Events of the World, in poetry and prose. Arranged
chronologically. With illustrations. Edited by R. W.
Brown.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY &
DRAMA collection includes books from the British Library digitised
by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and changing role of
literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian
verse. Containing many classic works from important dramatists and
poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage
and verse. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Brown, Rebecca Warren;
1888 xii, 302 p.; 8 . 9009.i.9.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:
ORATION, DELIVERED /JV BOSTON, MARCH 6, 1775, DR. JOSEPH WARREN, IN
COMMEMORATION OF THE EVENING OF THE FIFTH OF MARCH, 1770; WHEN A
NUMBER OF CITIZENS WERE KILLED BY A PARTY OF BRITISH TROOPS,
QUARTERED AMONG THEM IN A TIME OF PEACE. MY EVER HONORED FELLOW
CITIZENS, It is not without the most humiliating conviction of my
want of ability that I now appear before you; but the sense I have
of the obligation I am under to obey the calls of my country at all
times, together with an animating recollection of your indulgence,
exhibited upon so many occasions, has induced me, once more,
undeserving as I am, to throw myself upon that candor which looks
with kindness on the feeblest efforts of an honest mind. You will
not now expect the elegance, the learning, the fire, the
enrapturing strains of eloquence which charmed you when a Lovell, a
Church, or a Hancock spake; but you will permit me to say, that
with a sincerity, equal to theirs, I mourn over my bleeding
country: with them I weep at her distress, and with them deeply
resent the many injuries she has received from the hands of cruel
and unreasonable men. That personal freedom is the natural right of
every man; and that property, or an exclusive right to dispose of
what he has honestly acquired by his own labor, necessarily arises
therefrom, are truths which common sense has placed beyond the
reach of contradiction. And no man, or body of men can, without
being guilty of flagrant injustice, claim a right to dispose of the
persons or acquisitions of any other man, or body of men, unless it
can be proved that such a right has arisen from some compact
between the parties in which it has been explicitly and freely
granted. If I may be indulged in taking a retrospective view of the
first settleme...
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