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These journals, containing as they do a carefully detailed account of Irving's travels, experiences, and observations during the development and productive periods of his genius, may be regarded as having an important bearing upon American literature, entirely apart from their historic significance or their value as records of travel. That Irving was a draughtsman of some talent is proven by the facsimiles of his numerous sketches scatered throughout this work.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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The Shelf2Life Literature and Fiction Collection is a unique set of short stories, poems and novels from the late 19th to early 20th centuries.From tales of love, life and heartbreaking loss to humorous stories of ghost encounters, these volumes captivate the imaginations of readers young and old.Included in this collection are a variety of dramatic and spirited poems that contemplate the mysteries of life and celebrate the wild beauty of nature.The Shelf2Life Literature and Fiction Collection provides readers with an opportunity to enjoy and study these iconic literary works, many of which were written during a period of remarkable creativity. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored."  Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books.

There are now 65,000  titles available  (that's an incredible 25 million pages) of material ranging from works by famous names such as  Dickens, Trollope and Hardy as well as many forgotten literary gems , all of which can now be printed on demand and purchased right here on Amazon.

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Title: The Upper Ward of Lanarkshire Described and Delineated. the Archæological and Historical Section by G.v. Irving. the Statistical and Topographical Section by A. MurrayGeneral Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1864Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: NAME.Eglismalesoch, Eglismalescok, Carneluk, Carluik, Carlouk, Carluke, Forest Kirk.We have here three distinct and separate names, the first being the designation of the church in the fourteenth century; the second, that which it obtained in the succeeding one; and the third, which, however, is never found in any legal document, a merely popular appellation derived from a large portion of the parish being included in the royal forest of Mauldeslie. Chalmers derives the early name from the Celtic: Eglwys, a church; Moel, bald shaved, in a secondary sense a saint; and Luac, Luke; and explains it as the church of St Luke. To sustain this hypothesis, he is obliged to read the word Eglismaluak, for which there is no authority whatever, the two forms given above being the only ones in which it appears, and in them the termination can in no way be supposed to refer to St Luke, who we have no reason to suppose was the patron saint of this church, while there is strong evidence that it was dedicated to St Andrew. The name is certainly of Celtic origin, but its signification is merely matter of conjecture, more especially as it seems to have reached us in a corrupted form; the most probable conjecture being that Malesoch, or something similar, was the name of the original founder of the church. Chalmers is, however, correct in stating that in the fourteenth century, when the church itself retained the older designation, its subsequent o... ... Read more

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The Washington family is of an ancient English stock, the genealogy of
which has been traced up to the century immediately succeeding the
Conquest. At that time it was in possession of landed estates and manorial
privileges in the county of Durham, such as were enjoyed only by those, or
their descendants, who had come over from Normandy with the Conqueror, or
fought under his standard.
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