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Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations With a Sketch of Their Popular Poetry

Talvj, 1797-1870; Robinson, Edward, 1794-1863 [Author of introduction, etc.]

Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations With a Sketch of Their Popular Poetry — English source edition. Subject: Slavic liter...

Slavic literature -- History and criticismSlavic languages -- HistoryFolk songs, Slavic
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History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Complete

Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805; Eastwick, Edward Backhouse, 1814-1883 [Translator]; Morrison, A. J. W. (Alexander James William), 1806-1865 [Translator]

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Netherlands -- History -- Eighty Years' War, 1568-1648Huguenots
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 1 (of 3) Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of Later Date

Percy, Thomas, 1729-1811 [Editor]; Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin), 1838-1917 [Editor]

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 1 (of 3) Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of...

English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700Ballads, English -- TextsRomances, English -- History and criticism
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 2 (of 3) Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of Later Date

Percy, Thomas, 1729-1811 [Editor]; Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin), 1838-1917 [Editor]

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 2 (of 3) Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of...

English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700Ballads, English -- TextsRomances, English -- History and criticism
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 3 (of 3) Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of Later Date

Percy, Thomas, 1729-1811 [Editor]; Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin), 1838-1917 [Editor]

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 3 (of 3) Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of...

English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700Ballads, English -- TextsRomances, English -- History and criticism
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The Boys' and Girls' Herodotus Being Parts of the History of Herodotus, Edited for Boys and Girls

Herodotus, 481? BCE-421? BCE; White, John S. (John Stuart), 1847-1922 [Editor]

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History, Ancient -- Juvenile literatureGreece -- History -- Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C. -- Juvenile literatureGreece -- History -- To 146 B.C. -- Juvenile literature
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The Chemical History of a Candle

Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867; Crookes, William, 1832-1919 [Editor]

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