Rossiter Johnson: 24 books

It is not necessary to visit the Bay of Naples in order to witness a beautiful sunset. Our own atmosphere and our own waters produce those that are quite as gorgeous, while our own mountains and woodlands give them as worthy a setting as any in the world.

Published in 1915, this book presents a cogent and engaging biography of the English explorer who was saved by the Native American woman, Pocahontas—then established settlements in her country shortly after. Johnson effectively sifts through many of the apocryphal tales of Smith’s youth, while detailing...

Volume 7 of the Great Events of World History, featuring: DANTE COMPOSES THE "DIVINA COMMEDIA", by Richard Church THIRD ESTATE JOINS IN THE GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE, by Henri Martin WAR OF THE FLEMINGS WITH PHILIP THE FAIR OF FRANCE, by Eyre Crowe FIRST SWISS STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY, by F. Baker...

The offender, says an Italian proverb, never forgives; and it is a singular fact that the deepest resentments and the most implacable hatreds are not those arising from a sense of injuries received, but from injuries inflicted. The victim of a deliberate wrong seldom treasures up a purpose of revenge,...

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The Great Events of World History, Volume 11! Featuring: HENRY HUDSON EXPLORES THE HUDSON RIVER, by Henry Cleveland GALILEO OVERTHROWS ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY, by Oliver Lodge BEGINNING OF BRITISH POWER IN INDIA, by Beckles Willson DUTCH SETTLEMENT OF NEW YORK, by David Valentine HARVEY DISCOVERS THE CIRCULATION...

pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. So vast and wonderful a construction was the Roman world, so different from our own, that we are apt to imagine it as an arrangement far more deliberately planned, far more mechanically complete, than it appeared to its own inhabitants.

The counterculture of the 1960s refers to an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed first in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) and then spread throughout much of the Western world between the early 1960s and the mid-1970s, with London, New York City, and San Francisco...

An Outline Narrative of the Great Events CHARLES F. HORNE

The Great Events of World History, Volume 10! Featuring: ENGLAND LOSES HER LAST FRENCH TERRITORY – BATTLE OF ST. QUENTIN, by Charles Knight REIGN OF ELIZABETH, by Henry Cleveland JOHN KNOX HEADS THE SCOTTISH REFORMERS, by P. Brown & Thomas Carlyle MARY STUART: HER REIGN AND EXECUTION, by Algernon...

An Outline Narrative of the Great Events CHARLES F. HORNE Origin and Progress of Printing (A.D. 1438) HENRY GEORGE BOHN John Hunyady Repulses the Turks (A.D. 1440-1456) ARMINIUS VAMBERY Rebuilding of Rome by Nicholas V, the Builder-pope (A.D. 1447-1455) MRS. MARGARET OLIPHANT Mahomet II Takes Constantinople...

The epic masterpiece of world history continues with Volume 2! Featuring: INSTITUTION AND FALL OF THE DECEMVIRATE IN ROME, BY Henry Liddell PERICLES RULES IN ATHENS, by Plutarch GREAT PLAGUE AT ATHENS, by George Grote DEFEAT OF THE ATHENIANS AT SYRACUSE, by Edward Creasy RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND...