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Common Sense (Optimized for Kindle Viewing) Words of our Fathers: Declarations of Freedom (Contains some of our countries most important documents) Uplifting Publications AN ACCOUNT OF THE BRITISH SURRENDER r THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE r DECLARATION OF THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS r DECLARATION OF THE SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS r DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND OF THE CITIZEN r FAREWELL ADDRESS r GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH r GETTYSBURG ADDRESS r INAUGURAL SPEECH--JOHN ADAMS r INAUGURAL SPEECH--THOMAS JEFFERSON r LETTER PRESENTING THE CONSTITUTION r RESOLUTIONS OF THE STAMP ACT CONGRESS r SPEECH ON THE STAMP ACT r THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION r THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION r THE RIGHTS OF THE COLONISTS r UNITED STATES BILL OF RIGHTS r The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Product Description r An Excerpt from the book- r r ST CLAIRS DEFEAT 1791 r r The Westward March of the Backwoodsman r r The backwoods folk the stark hunters and tree-fellers and the war-worn r regulars who fought beside them in the forest pushed ever westward the r frontier of the Republic Year after year each group of rough settlers r and rough soldiers wrought its part in the great epic of wilderness r conquest r r The people that for one or more generations finds its allotted task in r the conquest of a continent has before it the possibility of splendid r victory and the certainty of incredible toil suffering and hardship r The opportunity is great indeed but the chance of disaster is even r greater Success is for a mighty race in its vigorous and masterful r prime It is an opportunity such as is offered to an army by a struggle r against a powerful foe only by great effort can defeat be avoided but r triumph means lasting honor and renown r r As it is in the battle so it is in the infinitely greater contests r where the fields of fight are continents and the ages form the measure r of time In actual life the victors win in spite of brutal blunders and r repeated checks r r The Grimness and Harshness of Frontier Life r r Watched nearby while the fight stamps to and fro the doers and the r deeds stand out naked and ugly We see all too clearly the blood and r sweat the craft and dunning and blind luck the raw cruelty and r stupidity the shortcomings of heart and hand the mad abuse of victory r Strands of meanness and cowardice are everywhere shot through the warp r of lofty and generous daring There are failures bitter and shameful r side by side with feats of triumphant prowess Of those who venture in r the contest some achieve success others strive feebly and fail ignobly r r Only a Mighty Race Fit for the Trial The Winning of the West, Volume 3 Product Description r An Excerpt from the book- r r THE INRUSH OF SETTLERS 1784-1787 r r At the beginning of 1784 peace was a definite fact and the United r States had become one among the nations of the earth a nation young and r lusty in her youth but as yet loosely knit and formidable in promise r rather than in actual capacity for performance r r The Western Frontier r r On the western frontier lay vast and fertile vacant spaces for the r Americans had barely passed the threshold of the continent predestined r to be the inheritance of their children and childrens children For r generations the great feature in the nations history next only to the r preservation of its national life was to be its westward growth and r its distinguishing work was to be the settlement of the immense r wilderness which stretched across to the Pacific But before the land r could be settled it had to be won r r The valley of the Ohio already belonged to the Americans by right of r conquest and of armed possession it was held by rifle-bearing backwoods r farmers hard and tenacious men who never lightly yielded what once r they had grasped North and south of the valley lay warlike and powerful r Indian confederacies now at last thoroughly alarmed and angered by the r white advance while behind these warrior tribes urging them to r hostility and furnishing them the weapons and means wherewith to fight r stood the representatives of two great European nations both bitterly r hostile to the new America and both anxious to help in every way the r red savages who strove to stem the tide of settlement The close r alliance between the soldiers and diplomatic agents of polished r old-world powers and the wild and squalid warriors of the wilderness was r an alliance against which the American settlers had always to make head r in the course of their long march westward The kings and the peoples of r the old world ever showed themselves the inveterate enemies of their r blood-kin in the new they always strove to delay the time when their r own race should rise to wellnigh universal supremacy In mere blind r selfishness or in a spirit of jealousy still blinder the Europeans r refused to regard their kinsmen who had crossed the ocean to found new r realms in The Winning of the West, Volume 2 Product Description r An Excerpt from the book- r r In the fall of 1776 it became evident that a formidable Indian war was r impending At Detroit great councils were held by all the northwestern r tribes to whom the Six Nations sent the white belt of peace that they r might cease their feuds and join against the Americans The r later councils were summoned by Henry Hamilton the British r lieutenant-governor of the northwestern region whose head-quarters were r at Detroit He was an ambitious energetic unscrupulous man of bold r character who wielded great influence over the Indians and the conduct r of the war in the west as well as the entire management of frontier r affairs was intrusted to him by the British Government Footnote r Haldimand MSS Sir Guy Carleton to Hamilton September 26 1777 He had r been ordered to enlist the Indians on the British side and have them r ready to act against the Americans in the spring Footnote Do r Carleton to Hamilton October 6 1776 and accordingly he gathered the r tribes together He himself took part in the war-talks plying the r Indians with presents and fire-water no less than with speeches and r promises The headmen of the different tribes as they grew excited r passed one another black red or bloody and tomahawk belts as tokens r of the vengeance to be taken on their white foes One Delaware chief r still held out for neutrality announcing that if he had to side with r either set of combatants it would be with the buckskins or r backwoodsmen and not with the red-coats but the bulk of the warriors r sympathized with the Half King of the Wyandots when he said that the r Long Knives had for years interfered with the Indians hunting and that r now at last it was the Indians turn to threaten revenge Footnote Am r Archives 1st Series Vol II p 517 There were several councils r held at Detroit during this fall and it is difficult--and not very r important--to separate the incidents that occurred at each Some took r place before Hamilton arrived which according to his brief account r was November 9th He asserts that he did not send out war parties until r the following June but the testimony seems conclusive that he was r active in instigating hostility from the time of his arrival Wisdom and Destiny Product Description r This essay on Wisdom and Destiny was to have been a thing of some r twenty pages the work of a fortnight but the idea took root r others flocked to it and the volume has occupied M Maeterlinck r continuously for more than two years It has much essential kinship r with the Treasure of the Humble though it differs therefrom in r treatment for whereas the earlier work might perhaps be described r as the eager speculation of a poet athirst for beauty we have here r rather the endeavour of an earnest thinker to discover the abode of r truth And if the result of his thought be that truth and happiness r are one this was by no means the object wherewith he set forth r Here he is no longer content with exquisite visions alluring or r haunting images he probes into the soul of man and lays bare all r his joys and his sorrows It is as though he had forsaken the canals r he loves so well--the green calm motionless canals that faithfully r mirror the silent trees and moss-covered roofs--and had adventured r boldly unhesitatingly on the broad river of life r r He describes this book himself in a kind of introduction that is r almost an apology as a few interrupted thoughts that entwine r themselves with more or less system around two or three subjects r He declares that there is nothing it undertakes to prove that there r are none whose mission it is to convince And so true is this so r absolutely honest and sincere is the writer that he does not shrink r from attacking qualifying modifying his own propositions from r advancing and insisting on every objection that flits across his r brain and if such proposition survive the onslaught of its r adversaries it is only because in the deepest of him he holds it r for absolute truth For this book is indeed a confession a naive r outspoken unflinching description of all that passes in his mind r and even those who like not his theories still must admit that this r mind is strangely beautiful r r About the Author r Belgian poet and playwright MAURICE MAETERLINCK 1862-1949 won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 Among his most famous works are the play The Blue Bird 1908 and his first volume of verse Les Cherres Chaudes Hot House Blooms 1899 A Winter Tour in South Africa The growth of the great Colonies of the British Empire is so phenomenal r and their development is so rapid and remarkable that if we are to r possess a correct knowledge of their actual state and condition from r year to year their current history requires to be constantly r re-written r r The writer of a decade since is to-day almost obsolete He has only r produced a current record of facts and places at the period he wrote r This is especially the case with South Africa r Winston of the Prairie It was a bitter night for the frost had bound the prairie in its iron r grip although as yet there was no snow Rancher Winston stood r shivering in a little Canadian settlement in the great lonely land r which runs north from the American frontier to Athabasca There was no r blink of starlight in the murky sky and out of the great waste of r grass came a stinging wind that moaned about the frame houses r clustering beside the trail that led south over the limited levels to r the railroad and civilization It chilled Winston and his furs r somewhat tattered gave him little protection He strode up and down r glancing expectantly into the darkness and then across the unpaved r street where the ruts were plowed a foot deep in the prairie sod r towards the warm red glow from the windows of the wooden hotel He r knew that the rest of the outlying farmers and ranchers who had ridden r in for their letters were sitting snug about the stove but it was r customary for all who sought shelter there to pay for their share of r the six oclock supper and the half-dollar Winston had then in his r pocket was required for other purposes SCARAMOUCHE A ROMANCE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION r A ROMANCE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION r r By Rafael Sabatini r r r r Contents r SCARAMOUCHE r BOOK I r r CHAPTER I r THE REPUBLICAN r CHAPTER II r THE ARISTOCRAT r CHAPTER III r THE ELOQUENCE OF M DE VILMORIN r CHAPTER IV r THE HERITAGE r CHAPTER V r THE LORD OF GAVRILLAC r CHAPTER VI r THE WINDMILL r CHAPTER VII r THE WIND r CHAPTER VIII r OMNES OMNIBUS r CHAPTER IX r THE AFTERMATH r r BOOK II r r CHAPTER I r THE TRESPASSERS r CHAPTER II r THE SERVICE OF THESPIS r CHAPTER II r THE COMIC MUSE r CHAPTER IV r EXIT MONSIEUR PARVISSIMUS r CHAPTER V r ENTER SCARAMOUCHE r CHAPTER VI r CLIMENE r CHAPTER VII r THE CONQUEST OF NANTES r CHAPTER VIII r THE DREAM r CHAPTER IX r THE AWAKENING r CHAPTER X r CONTRITION r CHAPTER XI r THE FRACAS AT THE THEATRE FEYDAU r r BOOK III r r CHAPTER I r TRANSITION r CHAPTER II r QUOS DEUS VULT PERDERE r CHAPTER III r PRESIDENT LE CHAPELIER r CHAPTER IV r AT MEUDON r CHAPTER V r MADAME DE PLOUGASTEL r CHAPTER VI r POLITICIANS r CHAPTER VII r THE SPADASSINICIDES r CHAPTER VIII r THE PALADIN OF THE THIRD r CHAPTER IX r TORN PRIDE r CHAPTER X r THE RETURNING CARRIAGE r CHAPTER XI r INFERENCES r CHAPTER XII r THE OVERWHELMING REASON r CHAPTER XIII r SANCTUARY r CHAPTER XIV r THE BARRIER r CHAPTER XV r SAFE-CONDUCT r CHAPTER XVI r SUNRISE r The Winning of the West, Volume 1 Product Description r An Excerpt from the book- r r In the year 1898 the United States finished the work begun over a r century before by the backwoodsman and drove the Spaniard outright r from the western world During the march of our people from the crests r of the Alleghanies to the Pacific the Spaniard was for a long period r our chief white opponent and after an interval his place among our r antagonists was taken by his Spanish-American heir Although during r the Revolution the Spaniard at one time became Americas friend in the r sense that he was Englands foe he almost from the outset hated and r dreaded his new ally more than his old enemy In the peace r negotiations at the close of the contest he was jealously eager to r restrict our boundaries to the line of the Alleghanies while even r during the concluding years of the war the Spanish soldiers on the r upper Mississippi were regarded by the Americans in Illinois as a r menace no less serious than the British troops at Detroit r r In the opening years of our national life the Western backwoodsman r found the Spanish ownership of the mouth of the Mississippi even more r hurtful and irksome than the retention by the British king of the r posts on the Great Lakes After years of tedious public negotiations r under and through which ran a dark woof of private intrigue the r sinewy western hands so loosened the Spanish grip that in despair r Spain surrendered to France the mouth of the river and the vast r territories stretching thence into the dim Northwest She hoped r thereby to establish a strong barrier between her remaining provinces r and her most dreaded foe But France in her turn grew to understand r that Americas position as regards Louisiana thanks to the steady r westward movement of the backwoodsman was such as to render it on the r one hand certain that the retention of the province by France would r mean an armed clash with the United States and on the other hand no r less certain that in the long run such a conflict would result to r Frances disadvantage Louisiana thus passed from the hands of Spain r after a brief interval into those of the young Republic There r remained to Spain Mexico and Florida and forthwith the pressure of r the stark forest riflemen began to be felt on the outskirts