F Colburn Adams: 8 books

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Francis Colburn Adams was an American miscellaneous writer, formerly living in Charleston, South Carolina, who wrote under various pseudonyms, including A Cavalryman, Justia, a Knownothing and Pheleg Van...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: YOU, my son, have heard, and perhaps read, how Rome was once saved by a goose. There were, as you know, my son, a great many geese abroad during the siege of Washington; but it was not through any act of...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Excerpt from Our World, or the Slaveholder's Daughter IN presenting this work to the public, we may be permitted to say, that we are fully conscious of the grave charges of misrepresenting society,...

Not more than a mile from the brisk little town of Nyack, on the Hudson river, and near where the road makes a sharp turn and winds up into the mountain, there lived, in the year 1803, an honest old farmer of the name of Hanz Toodleburg. Hanz was held in high esteem by his neighbors, many of whom...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: CAPE COD, you must know, gentle reader, is my bleak native home, and the birth-place of all the most celebrated critics. The latter fact is not generally known, and for the reason that the gentry composing...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: THE British brig Janson, Thompson, master, laden with sugar, pimento, &c. &c. left Kingston, Jamaica, in the early part of March, in the present year, bound for Glasgow. The skipper, who was a genuine...