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A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language - From the Semi-Saxon Period of A.D. 1250 to 1300The present publication may be considered as the foundation-stone of the Historical and Literary portion of the Philological Societys proposed English Dictionary. Its...

A Difficult Problem - 1900 I looked up and was at once impressed by the grace and beauty of the person thus introduced to me. She cast me a child-like look full of trust and candor as she seated herself in the chair I...

A Digit of the Moon: A Hindoo Love Story The better to illustrate how, in Hindoo mythology, the ideas of a beautiful woman, the Moon, and the Sea, dissolve and disappear into one another, I have placed on the fly-leaf of this edition a...

A Diplomat in Japan - The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account...

A Diplomat's Memoir of 1870 - being the account of a balloon escape from the siege of Paris and a political mission to London and ViennaIt is a record of a somewhat remarkable episode in a stormy and remarkable year. It describes, possibly not...

A Diplomatic AdventureNo man has ever been able to write the history of the greater years of a nation so as to include the minor incidents of interest. They pass unnoted, although in some cases they may have had values influential in determining the...

A Diplomatic Woman"Saints defend us!" I pettishly exclaimed. "Is there no one in the world with an atom of brains? I don't want to go as 'Night' or 'Morning,' nor as 'Marguerite' or 'Pierrette,' or 'Madame la Pompadour'; I want something original!" And I...

A Discourse Being Introductory to his Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language (1759)The text of this reprint of Sheridan's Discourse is reproduced from a copy in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. It has been a long time since all men,...

A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729)Between 1710 and 1729 Anthony Collins was lampooned, satirized, and gravely denounced from pulpit and press as Englands most insidious defiler of church and state. Yet within a year of his death he became the model...

A Discourse for the Time, delivered January 4, 1852 in the First Congregational Unitarian ChurchIn speaking from these words last Sunday morning, and in endeavoring to enforce the great truth which they express, I began with referring to certain facts which characterize that most...

A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason - and the Discovery of Truth in the SciencesThe Great DESCARTES (who may justly challenge the first place amongst the Philosophers of this Age) is the Author of this Discourse; which in the...

A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier This text uses utf-8 (unicode) file encoding. If the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. Make sure that the...

A Discourse on the Evils of Dancing Harrisburg, March 11, A. D. 1846. Rev. John F. MesickDear Sir: On last Sabbath evening, 8th inst., you preached a sermon to our congregation on "The Evils of Dancing." As this is a custom which is in...

A Discourse on the Life, Character and Writings of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - Delivered before the New-York Historical Society, May 17th, 1870At a special meeting of the New York Historical Society, held at Steinway Hall, on Tuesday evening, May 17, 1870, William Cullen Bryant...

A Discourse on the PlagueThis Book having at first been written only as a Plan of Directions for preserving our Country from the Plague[1] was then very short and concise. An Act of Parliament being immediately after made for performing Quarantaines &c. according to...

A Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and NationsBefore I begin a course of lectures on a science of great extent and importance, I think it my duty to lay before the public the reasons which have induced me to undertake...

A discourse on the theory of gunnery - Delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society, November 30, 1778Among the several experiments communicated to the society, during the course of the preceding year, none seeming so much to engage your attention, as those...

A Discourse on Trade, and Other Matters Relative to itOf Trade in general: Of the Trade of England: OfHusbandry, Feeding, Tillage,Corn, Fruit, Fish, Minerals,Trees, Manufactures, Sheep-Wool,Cotton-Wool, Hempand Flax: Glass, Earthen-Ware,Silk, Distilling: Thegreat Advantages of a universalNational Bankdemonstrated: Sugar-baking, Tobacco,Tanning, Clock-Work, Paper-Mills, Powder-Mills:Method to improve...

A Discourse Presented to the Most Serene Don Cosimo II., Great Duke of Tuscany, Concerning the Natation of Bodies Vpon, and Submersion In, the Water.All apparent printer's errors retained. Variation in punctuation are as in the original, but missing full stops at end of...

A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among MankindJean Jacques Rousseau was born at Geneva, June 28, 1712, the son of a watchmaker of French origin. His education was irregular, and though he tried many professionsincluding engraving, music, and teachinghe...