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pubOne.info present you this new edition. In 1479, on All Saints' day, the moment at which this history begins, vespers were ending in the cathedral of Tours. The archbishop Helie de Bourdeilles was rising from his seat to give the benediction himself to the faithful. The sermon had been long; darkness had fallen during the service, and in...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. My book is ready for the printer, and as I begin this preface my eye lights upon the crowd of Russian peasants at work on the Neva under my windows. With pick and shovel they are letting the rays of the April sun into the great ice barrier which binds...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. It all came to me one election day. It was on a warm California afternoon, and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon from the ranch to the little village to vote Yes and No to a host of proposed amendments to the Constitution of the State of...

Although the immediate results of the Battle of Hastings may have   been of less importance to the world than were those of some other   great battles, the struggle has, in the long run, had a greater   influence upon the destiny of mankind than any other similar event   that has ever taken place. That admixture of Saxon, Danish, and   British...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. One side of the street glittered like a brilliant eruption with the light from a row of shops; the other, lined with houses, was almost deserted, for the people, drawn like moths by the glare, crowded and jostled under the lights....

pubOne.info present you this new edition. The commercial traveller, a personage unknown to antiquity, is one of the striking figures created by the manners and customs of our present epoch. May he not, in some conceivable order of things, be destined to mark for coming philosophers the great transition which welds a period of material enterprise to...