The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I
Lodge
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- NEW YORK AND LONDONSample
- JOHN SMITH
- HIS STORY OF POCAHONTAS
- THE PILGRIMS LAND AND MEET THE INDIANS
- Preface
- HOW HE COURTED MADAM WINTHROP
- IN PRAISE OF JOHN ELIOT
- AT THE HOME OF COLONEL SPOTSWOOD
- OF LIBERTY AND MORAL AGENCIES
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
- HIS FIRST ENTRY INTO PHILADELPHIA
- WARNINGS BRADDOCK DID NOT HEED
- HOW TO DRAW LIGHTNING FROM THE CLOUDS
- THE WAY TO WEALTH
- Preface
- GEORGE WASHINGTON
- OF HIS ARMY IN CAMBRIDGE
- Chapter
- JOHN ADAMS
- AN ESTIMATE OF FRANKLIN
- THOMAS PAINE
- WHEN THE BASTILE FELL
- THE FUTILITY OF DISPUTES
- OF BLACKS AND WHITES IN THE SOUTH
- HIS ACCOUNT OF LOGAN'S FAMOUS SPEECH
- GOUVERNEUR MORRIS
- THE OPENING OF THE FRENCH STATES-GENERAL
- OF THE EXECUTION OF LOUIS XVI
- OF THE FAILURE OF CONFEDERATION
- HIS REASONS FOR NOT DECLINING BURR'S CHALLENGE
- Preface
- JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
- OF HIS MOTHER
- THE MORAL TAINT INHERENT IN SLAVERY
- OF GREATNESS IN NAPOLEON
- WHERE THE MOCKING-BIRD DWELLS
- WASHINGTON IRVING
- THE AWAKENING OF RIP VAN WINKLE
- AT ABBOTSFORD WITH SCOTT
- JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
- HIS FATHER'S ARRIVAL AT OTSEGO LAKE
- RUNNING THE GANTLET
- LEATHER-STOCKING'S FAREWELL
- AN OCTOBER DAY IN FLORENCE
- THE FATE OF EGMONT AND HOORNE
- GEORGE BANCROFT
- THE FATE OF EVANGELINE'S COUNTRYMEN
- THOREAU'S BROKEN TASK
- THE INTELLECTUAL HONESTY OF MONTAIGNE
- HIS VISIT TO CARLYLE AT CRAIGEN-PUTTOCK
- NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
- OCCUPANTS OF AN OLD MANSE
- ARTHUR DIMMESDALE ON THE SCAFFOLD
- OF LIFE AT BROOK FARM
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