THE MYSTERIES OF ALL NATIONS (ebook)

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  OLIVER ELLIS, OR, THE FUSILIERS

  JAMES GRANT

  Excerpt: ""In regard to prefaces," says the author of "Curiosities of Literature,"—"ladies consider them so much space for a love story lost, though the Italians call them la salsa del libra,—the spice of the book." Be this as it may, I must mention that many of the men whose names occur in these pages, bore the part ascribed to them during the operations of Sir Charles Grey's ...

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  PHILIP ROLLO, VOL. 1 AND VOL. 2

  JAMES GRANT

  Excerpt: "I was born in the year after King James VI. acquired the dominion of England, at my father's tower of Craigrollo, which overlooks the great bay of Cromartie. The youngest of four sons, I was (God knows why) a child of ill-omen from my birth; for, before that event came to pass, my mother had various remarkable dreams, which were darkly and mysteriously construed by ce...

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  DERVAL HAMPTON, A STORY OF THE SEA, VOLUME 1 AND VOL 2 COMPLETE

  JAMES GRANT

  Excerpt: "There was an air of great refinement in both husband and wife, an air that contrasted strongly and strangely with their plain attire and circumscribed dwelling. Greville Hampton's face was dark in complexion, aquiline in feature, a very handsome face, one quite warranted to claim the unmistakable admiration his wife had for it, and yet it was not a pleasing one. His b...

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  THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD

  JAMES GRANT

  Excerpt: "On the evening of the 22nd November, 1440, the report of a brass carthoun, or cannon-royale, as it pealed from the castle of Edinburgh, made all who were in the thoroughfares below raise their eyes to the grey ramparts, where the white smoke was seen floating away from the summit of King David's Tower, and then people were seen hastening towards the southern side of t...

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  ONE OF THE SIX HUNDRED

  JAMES GRANT

  Excerpt: "Regimental Orders.—Head-quarters, Maidstone, December 31st. "As the regiment is to be held in readiness for foreign service in spring, captains of troops will report to Lieutenant and Adjutant Studhome, for the information of the commanding officer, on the state of the saddlery, the holsters and lance-buckets; and the horses must be all re-shod under the immediate ins...

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  ADVENTURES OF AN AIDE-DE-CAMP, OR, A CAMPAIGN IN CALABRIA, VOLUME 1, 2, 3

  JAMES GRANT

  Excerpt: "On the evening of the last day of June 1806, the transports which had brought our troops from Sicily anchored off the Italian coast, in the Bay of St. Eufemio, a little to the southward of a town of that name. The British forces consisted of H. M. 27th, 58th, 78th, and 81st Regiments of the Line, the Provisional Light Infantry and Grenadier Battalions, the Corsican Ra...

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