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The Path of the King is a 1921 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, presented as a loosely-coupled series of short stories.In a prologue to the novel, three men discuss around a campfire the notion that the 'spark' of masterful men may be transmitted down from generation to generation, and even though it may smoulder for generations and may seem lost, will reappear and flare up when the time is right. "I saw the younger sons carry the royal blood far down among the people, down even into the kennels of the outcast. Generations follow, oblivious of the high beginnings, but there is that in the stock which is fated to endure. The sons and daughters blunder and sin and perish, but the race goes on, for there is a fierce stuff of life in it. ... Some rags of greatness always cling to it, the dumb faith that sometime and somehow that blood drawn from kings it never knew will be royal again. Though nature is wasteful of material things, there is no waste of spirit. And then after long years there comes, unheralded and unlooked for, the day of the Appointed Time"

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J'achevais de déjeuner et je bourrais ma pipe lorsqu'on me remit la dépêche de Bullivant. Ceci se passait à Furling, la grande maison de campagne du Hampshire où j'étais venu terminer ma convalescence, après la blessure reçue à Loos. Sandy, qui s'y trouvait dans les mêmes circonstances que moi, était, à ce moment précis, à la recherche de la marmelade d'oranges. Je lui jetai le télégramme qu'il parcourut en sifflant. - Eh bien ! Dick, vous voilà à la tête d'un bataillon... À moins que vous ne soyez versé dans un état-major ! Vous allez devenir un sale embusqué et vous dédaignerez les malheureux officiers de troupe ! Quand je songe à votre manière de traiter les embusqués autrefois !

Sir Walter Ralegh: The Stanhope Essay, 1897. By John Buchan

19岁的大卫-克劳富德 从苏格兰前往南非，担任仓库管理员。 在航行中，他再次遇到了著名的祖鲁牧师约翰-拉普塔。 大卫在他的偏僻商店中找到了由部长领导的大规模起义的钥匙，该部长已获得了神职人员神父普雷斯特-约翰的头衔。19岁的大卫-克劳富德 从苏格兰前往南非，担任仓库管理员。 在航行中，他再次遇到了著名的祖鲁牧师约翰-拉普塔。 大卫在他的偏僻商店中找到了由部长领导的大规模起义的钥匙，该部长已获得了神职人员神父普雷斯特-约翰的头衔。19岁的大卫-克劳富德 从苏格兰前往南非，担任仓库管理员。 在航行中，他再次遇到了著名的祖鲁牧师约翰-拉普塔。 大卫在他的偏僻商店中找到了由部长领导的大规模起义的钥匙，该部长已获得了神职人员神父普雷斯特-约翰的头衔。

Prester John is a 1910 adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It tells the story of a young Scotsman named David Crawfurd and his adventures in South Africa, where a Zulu uprising is tied to the medieval legend of Prester John.

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When his local Member of Parliament decides to retire, Haystoun is persuaded to stand. Although he is liked and respected by his local tenants, he finds himself unable to speak wholeheartedly and with full conviction at the hustings and is beaten by his opponent, the ambitious and fluent social climber Albert Stocks. Following an initial meeting at a dinner party, both Haystoun and Stocks fall in love with Alice Wishart, the daughter of a rich city merchant. Miss Wishart initially favours Haystoun, but gradually becomes disenchanted with his apparent lack of ability to commit to anything. During a picnic on the moors, Miss Wishart slips and falls into a lake. Haystoun, standing beside her, hesitates just long enough to allow his rival to dive in and make the rescue. Haystoun is devastated, believes himself to be a coward and avoids Miss Wishart's company, pushing her more and more into the company of Stocks. Stocks asks her to marry him and, believing that Haystoun is not interested in her, she agrees. Rumours have reached the British Government of a possible danger to the Empire via an uncharted area of the northern Indian frontier. Haystoun has explored this area before, and when he is asked by a friend to go out again to reconnoitre in a semi-official capacity, he jumps at the chance to escape his situation and to prove his courage. The night before his departure, Haystoun and Miss Wishart meet and declare their mutual love for the first time. Although there would still be time for Miss Wishart to break her engagement, the pair feel that they have been 'set apart by the fates' and they separate to follow their own individual paths.

In this epic tale of a family torn asunder by a long-lasting feud, renowned action-adventure author John Buchan spins an engrossing account of two cousins locked in conflict - and the horrible toll that their bad blood begets. In the wake of the ultimate betrayal, will the Burnet clan ever be able to bridge the chasm that has been created?

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Hanney, an expatriated Scot, returns from a long stay in South Africa to his flat in London. One night he is buttonholed by an American who appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilise Europe, and claims to be in fear for his life. Hannay lets the American hide in his flat, and returns later to find that another man has been found shot dead in the same building, apparently a suicide. Four days later Hannay finds the American stabbed to death...

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Yale Law School LibraryCTRG97-B1081Includes indexes.London: Stevens and Sons, 1905. lxxxiv, 123 p.: forms; 23 cm

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""Greenmantle"" by John Buchan is a gripping espionage thriller that takes readers on an exhilarating journey through the treacherous world of international politics and espionage during World War I. The story follows Richard Hannay, a former soldier turned intelligence officer who is tasked with a top-secret mission to prevent a German plot that could change the course of the war.Hannay's mission takes him from the streets of London to the desolate landscapes of Turkey, where he encounters a web of intrigue, danger, and deception. As he races against time, Hannay must navigate through enemy lines, outsmart his adversaries, and uncover the truth behind the mysterious figure known as ""Greenmantle.""With its fast-paced action, intricate plot twists, and vivid descriptions, ""Greenmantle"" keeps readers hooked from start to finish. Buchan's masterful storytelling and his ability to create tension and suspense make this novel a timeless classic in the genre of espionage fiction.

Greenmantle is the second of John Buchan¿s novels to feature Richard Hannay, a Scottish intelligence office in the British army, and as such is the sequel to The Thirty-Nine Steps.The book gives the account of Hannay and his associate¿s separate journeys through war-torn Europe to Constantinople to thwart an uprising that is poised to throw the Middle East, India, and North Africa into disarray, changing the course of the war.The book was popular when first published and although it has never been made into a film, the director Alfred Hitchcock was said to prefer Greenmantle to The Thirty-Nine Steps, and considered filming it on several occasions.

Published in 1919, Mr. Standfast is a thriller set in the latter half of the First World War, and the third of John Buchan¿s books to feature Richard Hannay.Richard Hannay is called back from serving in France to take part in a secret mission: searching for a German agent. Hannay disguises himself as a pacifist and travels through England and Scotland to track down the spy at the center of a web of German agents who are leaking information about the war plans. He hopes to infiltrate and feed misinformation back to Germany. His journey takes him from Glasgow to Skye, onwards into the Swiss Alps, and on to the Western Front.During the course of his work he¿s again reunited with Peter Pienaar and John Blenkiron, who both appear in Greenmantle, as well as Sir Walter Bullivant, his Foreign Office contact from The Thirty Nine Steps.The title of the novel comes from a character in John Bunyan¿s Pilgrim¿s Progress to which there are many references in the book, not least of all as a codebook which Hannay uses to decipher messages from his allies.The book finishes with a captivating description of some of the final battles of the First World War between Britain and Germany in Eastern France.