The Busy Man's Hand-Book

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Introduction

3 pages

General Index

3 pages

CHAPTER I

The Antediluvian World.

CHAPTER II

From the Deluge, to the Settlement of the Jews in Canaan. AFTER the Flood had prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days, and had…

CHAPTER III

The Fabulous and Heroic Ages, to the Institution of the Olympic Games. We have already spoken, in the Introductory Remarks, of the…

CHAPTER IV

From the Institution of the Olympic Games to the Death of Cyrus. THE first recorded Olympiad belongs to the year 776. Of these games…

CHAPTER V

3 pages

CHAPTER VI

2 pages

CHAPTER VII

2 pages

CHAPTER VIII

2 pages

CHAPTER IX

3 pages

CHAPTER X

2 pages

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Highlights

My Dear Billy:

Congratulating a Friend on His Marriage.

Rules of Order

QUORUM. 1. A quorum is a sufficient number to legally transact business. A majority of the members of any association constitutes…

Dear Mabel:

My dearest Agnes, Your own, A Complaint.

Of the Romans

End of the English government in France. 1455 Pope Calixtus III. 1458 Battle of St. Albans, where Henry VI. is taken prisoner by…

Atlantic States:-

Tamaulipas.

Agreement for Part of a House

MEMORANDUM of an agreement entered into, the - day of , 1892, by and between A. B., of, and C. D., of etc., whereby the said A…

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