These speeches touch the pulse of a nation like no other documents in history. Compiled herein are the stepping stones of Liberty as delivered by each President of the United States of America. In this volume: Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt. more »

Il naquit sans doute dans la Grande-Bretagne en 1603, à 1'avènement de Jacques Ier, plusieurs individus qui ne moururent qu'en 1688, à la chute de Jacques II : ainsi tout l'empire des Stuarts en Angleterre ne fut pas plus long que la vie d'un vieil homme. Quatre-vingt-cinq ans suffirent à la disparition ... more »

These speeches touch the pulse of a nation like no other documents in history. Compiled herein are the stepping stones of Liberty as delivered by each President of the United States of America. In this volume: Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, William J. Clinton ... more »

Am 8. 2.1587 wurde Maria Stuart wegen der angeblichen Beteiligung an einem Mordkomplott gegen Elisabeths I. hingerichtet. Dies war das Ende einer langen Reihe an Intrigen und Verbrechen, die in diesem Buch beleuchtet werden. Nicht nur im 16. Jahrhundert faszinierte Maria Stuart die Autoren ihrer Zeit ... more »

The subject discussed in the following pages is one of great importance, and especially so to the people of this country. The views presented for consideration differ widely from those generally entertained, both as regards the cause of evil and the mode of cure; but it does not follow necessarily that ... more »

The rules of the Royal Institution forbid (and wisely) religious or political controversy. It was therefore impossible for me in these Lectures, to say much which had to be said, in drawing a just and complete picture of the Ancien Regime in France. The passages inserted between brackets, which bear ... more »

In 1898, as the Spanish-American War was escalating, Theodore Roosevelt assembled an improbable regiment of Ivy Leaguers, cowboys, Native Americans, African-Americans, and Western Territory land speculators. This group of men, which became known as the Rough Riders, trained for four weeks in the Texas ... more »

Humphrey Angell came swinging along through the silent aisles of the vast primeval forest, his gun in the hollow of his arm, a heavy bag of venison meat hanging from his shoulders. A strange, wild figure, in the midst of a strange, wild scene: his clothes, originally of some homespun cloth, now patched ... more »

Ce n'est pas au très-grand roi d'une nation guerriere que je l'adresse, c'est à l'homme éclairé qui n'a pas besoin d'une couronne pour être quelque chose par lui-même ; c'est au héros philosophe, qui, après avoir donné des leçons de politique aux rois, et de science militaire aux guerriers, en donnerait ... more »

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Published when Theodore Roosevelt was only twenty-three years old, The Naval War of 1812 was immediately hailed as a literary and scholarly triumph, and it is still considered the definitive book on the subject. It caused considerable controversy for its bold refutation of earlier accounts of the war ... more »

In Homer and the Epic, ten or twelve years ago, I examined the literary objections to Homeric unity. These objections are chiefly based on alleged discrepancies in the narrative, of which no one poet, it is supposed, could have been guilty. The critics repose, I venture to think, mainly on a fallacy ... more »