On Guard
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简介：The speaker was a tall, handsome lad, a plebe at the West Point Military Academy. At the moment he was gazing inquiringly out of the tent door at a small orderly....
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简介：Uncle Sam: Gentlemen, I have invited you to take part in one conversation a week upon the much-vexed and all-important question of a financial and banking system for my country. We shall continue thes...
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简介：I have finished work for the week. Ill see no one else were he as terse as Tacitus, cried Mr. Ferguson, the lawyer.It was six oclock on a Friday afternoon and a pleasant rustle of the plane trees in t...
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简介：Four cavalry regiments in the British Army have borne the number Nineteen.The first was raised in Ireland, in 1759, during the Seven Years War, and was known as Droghedas Horse. In 1763, its number wa...
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简介：Hannah was a small, squat woman, of a truly Irish type. Her nose was celestial, her mouth wide, her eyes dark, and sparkling with fun. She was dressed in a short, coarse serge petticoat, with what is ...
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简介：When narrating to friendly audiences my experiences in the early days of the Colony of Victoria in what may be termed the gold era, and some of the various incidents which occurred during my connectio...
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简介：What is slavery? A system under which the time and toil of one person are compulsorily the property of another. The power of life and death, and the privilege of using the lash in the master, are not ...
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简介：The opening up of a new frontier is world-wide in its operations. Minnesota entered the union as a State in 1858. The putting to practical use the Falls of St. Anthony was felt all over Europe. T...
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简介：Now, whoever knows the Alps, knows the Zillerthal well as the centre of all that is most Tyrolese in the Tyrol. From that beautiful green valley, softly smiling below, majestically grand and ice-clad ...
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简介：We sat late on the verandah last night, listening to the low trilling croon of the night-jar. It was a balmy evening, one of the few this summer; the sunset was lingering over the heather-clad moors, ...