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Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Charles Bradlaugh You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within...

Introduction to the History of Religions - Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV1. It appears probable that primitive men endowed with their own qualities every seemingly active object in the world. Experience forced them to take note of the relations of all...

Mémoires de Mademoiselle Mars (volume I) - (de la Comédie Française)Dans le courant de 1829, la Revue de Paris, recueil alors la mode, publia une toute petite nouvelle de cinq pages, appele: Marie ou le Mouchoir bleu. Cette nouvelle obtint un vritable succs. Pour...

Mémoires de Mademoiselle Mars (volume II) - (de la Comédie Française)Monvel en Sude.Douleur de madame Mars.Gustave III. Ulrique et Amlie.Le lecteur du roi.La nourrice.Le palais de Stockholm.Le portrait voil.Causerie royale.Fragments de correspondance de Monvel Dsaides.L'Opra sudois et le Thtre-Franais.Vie de Monvel Stockholm.Particularits sur Gustave...

Merrie England in the Olden Time, Vol. 1 Youth is the season of ingenuousness and enjoyment, when we desire to please, and blush not to own ourselves pleased. At that happy period there is no affectation of wisdom; we look only to the bright...

Merrie England in the Olden Time, Vol. 2 My friends,continued Mr. Bosky, after an approving smack of the lips, and Thanks, my kind mistress! many happy returns of St. Bartlemy! had testified the ballad-singer's hearty relish and gratitude for the refreshing draught over which...

Om medeltidens skådespel - och deras fortgång till sednare tider, med särskildt fästadt afseende vid Finlands äldste dramatiske författare Jakob Pehrsson ChronanderKristendomen r lifsgrunden fr menniskoslgtets hgsta andeliga utveckling. P en tid d ett allmnt sedligt frfall hade genomtrngt det verldsbeherrskande romerska riket, d...

Animal Figures in the Maya CodicesThe various peoples inhabiting Mexico and Central America in early pre-Columbian times were accustomed to record various events, especially in regard to their calendar and the religious ceremonials in relation to it, on long strips of skin or bark....

Plague and pestilence in literature and artThis volume represents substantially the FitzPatrick Lectures which I had the privilege of delivering at the Royal College of Physicians in 1912. Originally I intended to do no more than gather together into a succinct record the various...

Religions of Primitive PeoplesOn the 24th of December, 1891, fifteen persons interested in promoting the historical study of religions united in issuing a circular-letter, inviting a conference in the Council Chambers of the Historical Society of Philadelphia, on the 30th of the same month,...

Shadows of the StageThe papers contained in this volume, chosen out of hundreds that the author has written on dramatic subjects, are assembled with the hope that they may be accepted, in their present form, as a part of the permanent record of our...

South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure The first part of this new volume of the American Fights and Fighters Series needs no special introduction. Partly to make this the same size as the other books, but more particularly because I...

Spanish America, Vol. 1 (of 2)In this enlightened age, Geography has assumed a form so new and interesting, that it has become the study, as well as, the amusement of all ranks of society; the philosopher peruses with admiring attention, the details of the...

Spanish America, Vol. 2 (of 2) Pages 27, line 18, for Angelo read Antonio. 28, 10, for converziones read conversaziones. 82, 22, for omomum read amomum. 127, 3, from bottom, for Tarmu read Tarma. 164, 8, for Uraguay read Uruguay. 182, 11, from bottom,...

Studies in Literature and HistoryIn the Second Series of his Asiatic Studies the late Sir Alfred Lyall republished a number of articles that he had contributed to various Reviews up to the year 1894. After that date he wrote frequently, especially for the Edinburgh...

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe IBorn in Numidia, Africa, in 354 a.d., died in 430; educated at Carthage; taught rhetoric at Carthage; removed to Rome in 383; going thence to Milan in 384, where he...

The Case of Mrs. CliveBIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The facsimile of The Case of Mrs. Clive (1744) is reproduced from a copy of the first edition (Shelf Mark: PN 2598. C45A2) in The Lilly Library, Indiana University. The total type-page (p. 9) measures 145 X 78...

The Daily Newspaper: The History of Its Production and DistibutionIn addition to the smaller premiums which we offer and which every body may get, there is a prize of a Lady's or Gentleman's Gold Watch, a Sewing Machine, Silver Watch, and a Small Patent...

The Elizabethan Stage (Vol 1 of 4)In 1903 I explained the origin of The Mediaeval Stage out of preliminary investigations for a little book on Shakespeare. That little book is still unwritten, and perhaps it was only a mirage, since working days have their...

The Elizabethan Stage (Vol 2 of 4)I have found it convenient, especially in Appendix A, to use the symbol < following a date, to indicate an uncertain date not earlier than that named, and the symbol > followed by a date, to indicate an...