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Lays of Ancient Rome

Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859

Explore Lays of Ancient Rome through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Rome -- History...

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 05

Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 [Editor]; Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916 [Editor]; Runkle, Lucia Gilbert (Lucia Isabella Gilbert), 1844-1922 [Editor]; Warner, George H., 1833-1919 [Editor]

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 05 — English source edition. Subject: Literature -- Collections.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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The Ancient East

Hogarth, D. G. (David George), 1862-1927

The Ancient East — English source edition. Subject: Middle East -- History.

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The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries

Menzies, Sutherland, active 1840-1883; Wilton, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton, Countess of, 1801-1858 [Editor]

The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries — English source edition. Subject: Tape...

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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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The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great

Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727

The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by...

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The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems

Nuttall, Zelia, 1858-1933

The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and C...

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The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time

Tombs, Robert Charles, 1842-1923

The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the an...

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