The Case for Liberty
The Case for Liberty

Author: Helen Hill Miller

Publisher:

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13:

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Historical evolution of fundamental American freedoms outlined in the Bill of Rights, emphasizing their application to the civil rights issue.

Ten Burnt Offerings
Ten Burnt Offerings

Author: Louis MacNeice

Publisher:

Published: 1952

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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As the title indicates, this volume consists of ten long poems, of a new structure but in the idiom which is only MacNeice's, lyrical, scholarly, and colloquial, Irish in its bite and in its ability to express the most serious reflections in the most lighthearted manner. No living poet is more completely the antithesis of MacFlecknoe than MacNeice: the mantle of dullness can never descend upon him, and in his greatest extravagances he never deviates from sense.

Indian Paths of Pennsylvania
Indian Paths of Pennsylvania

Author: Paul A. W. Wallace

Publisher: Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission

Published: 2018-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780911124392

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With the advent of European settlement, the Indian foot trails that laced the Pennsylvania wilderness often became bridle paths, wagon roads, and eventually even motor highways. Most of the old paths were so well situated that there was little reason to forsake them until the age of the automobile. That the Indians, taking every advantage offered by the terrain, "kept the level" so well among Pennsylvania's mountains is an engineering curiosity. Just as remarkable is the complexity of the system and its adaptability to changing seasons and weather. Colonial travelers and Indians met frequently on the trail. Whether traveling to hunt, trade, war, negotiate, or visit, Native Americans demonstrated in these chance encounters that they were not the fiends some thought them to be. Indian Paths of Pennsylvania traces the Indian routes, reveals historical associations, and guides the motorist in following them today.

Francis Scott Key
Francis Scott Key

Author: Edward S. Delaplaine

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Published: 2012-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781585496853

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This book contains the most definitive biography of Francis Scott Key ever written; a portrait of "an unusual character-a lawyer, orator, churchman, statesman, and poet, who was deeply patriotic and deeply religious." "Certain it is that the fame of Francis Scott Key flowed almost entirely from the fact that he wrote The Star Spangled Banner. Yet his life is significant for many other reasons. For many years, from the time when he first appeared before Chief Justice Marshall to plead for the release of Aaron Burr's messengers, Key was one of the leaders of the American Bar. He defended Sam Houston in his dramatic trial in the House of Representatives; he figured in Peggy Eaton's quarrel; he opposed Nullification and the United States Bank; and he was Andrew Jackson's conciliator in Alabama in one of the most stirring episodes in the history of the State." Illustrations, poems, "all the important utterances of his known public speeches," a bibliography, and an index to full names, places and subjects enhance this exceptional work.

The Two Duchesses
The Two Duchesses

Author: Vere Foster

Publisher:

Published: 2018-06-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781781550151

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'The Two Duchesses' is family correspondence of and relating to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire, Earl of Bristol (Bishop of Derry), the Countess of Bristol, Lord Byron, the Earl of Aberdeen, Sir Augustus Foster and others 1777-1859, focusing on the period from America's independence to the fall of Napoleon. Single letters are also included from Gibbon; Sheridan; Fox; the Prince Regent; General Moreau and Alexander, Emperor of Russia. The Devonshires were one of the first families of the land they were highly connected with George, Prince of Wales being a regular visitor to Devonshire house along with James Fox, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and other politicians and celebrities of the day. They were at the centre of society and their interest to history is heightened by the celebrated ménage à trois and other affairs which led both duchesses--at separate times--to seek a quiet period abroad to bear illegitimate children; Georgiana's daughter Eliza Courtney was sired by Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, who later became prime minister; Elizabeth's children, Caroline St Jules and Augustus Clifford were sired by William, the 5th Duke of Devonshire, who she later married. Vere Foster, Elizabeth's grandson, had unique access to the papers and over a period of years produced accurate transcriptions of these historically important letters--often working from abdominal scrawl--to provide us with fascinating window into the pinnacle of society of the period.