Early Modern
Summa Theologica - 13 Tertia Pars, The Saviour: His Incarnation and His Salvifi…
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–127…
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 09
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Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassin…
Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany
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Agnes Arber
Eminent British botanist Agnes Arber provides an authoritative history of printed Herbals -- books widely used in early modern Europe to cat…
A History of the Four Georges in Four Volumes, Volume 1
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Justin Mccarthy
Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), liberal member of Parliament and historian. He brings the great 18th Century personalities to life: Walpole and…
History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Volume 2
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Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné
The History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, by Jean-Henri Merle d’Aubigné, is a classic work on the great events that re…
Summa Theologica - 11 Pars Secunda Secundae, Treatise on the Cardinal Virtues: …
Read by M.S.C. Lambert, LC
Saint Thomas Aquinas
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–127…
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 11
Read by Sibella Denton
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassin…
The Reign of Queen Anne, Volume I
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Justin Mccarthy
Anne Stuart (1665-1714), Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, succeeded William III to the throne in 1702. She was the daughter of the d…
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 10
Read by Sibella Denton
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassin…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 18 - The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay
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Agnes C. Laut
The fur hunters were explorers who had blazed a trail across a continent and penetrated to the uttermost reaches of a northern empire the si…
A History of the Four Georges in Four Volumes, Volume 2
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Justin Mccarthy
Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), liberal member of Parliament and historian. He brings the great 18th Century personalities to life: Walpole and…
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
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Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
This book is a popular science book written in the late 1600s. It is written as a series of conversations between a gallant philosopher and …
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 1: Joan of Naples
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Alexandre Dumas
The celebrated crimes committed during the life of Joan (Joanna I) of Naples span from personal misdeeds (adulteries and mariticide) to regi…
History of Farming in Ontario
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C. C. James
This is a paper on the history of farming in Ontario. It take the reader through the early settlement from 1783 to the modern period of 1888…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 19 - Pathfinders of the Great Plains
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Lawrence J. Burpee
This is volume 19 of The Chronicles of Canada series. This is the account of La Verendryes' quest for an overland route to the Pacific Ocean…
Catherine De' Medici
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Honoré de Balzac
The Philosophical Studies from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine) are a series of works that are intended as a reflection on history in p…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 03 - Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain
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Charles W. Colby
For Canada, Champlain is not alone a heroic explorer of the seventeenth century, but the founder of Quebec; and it is a rich part of our her…
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 1
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Benvenuto Cellini
Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as h…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 04 - Jesuit Missions: A Chronicle of the Cross in t…
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Thomas Guthrie Marquis
These little books were designed to cover Canadian history in a scholarly and readable fashion. This volume, as suggested in the title, foll…
A Half Century of Conflict
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Francis Parkman, Jr.
Francis Parkman (1823-1893) is one of the great nineteenth century United States historians along with William Prescott, John Lothrop Motley…