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David BlaizeThere was a new class-room in course of construction for the first form at Helmsworth Preparatory School, and the ten senior boys, whose united ages amounted to some hundred and thirty years, were taken for the time being in the school museum. This...

Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 18 (of 20)February 8, 1870, Mr. Trumbull, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom had been referred a bill from the House for the admission of Mississippi to representation in Congress, with conditions the same as in...

Phaeton Rogers: A Novel of Boy LifeNothing is more entertaining than a morning canter in midsummer, while the dew is sparkling on the grass, and the robins are singing their joyful songs, and the east is reddening with the sunrise, and the world is...

Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik - Eine logische mathematische Untersuchung über den Begriff der Zahlkeine Definition ist, weil auf der einen Seite der bestimmte Artikel, auf der andern der unbestimmte steht, dass er nur besagt, die Zahl Eins gehre zu den Dingen, aber nicht, welches...

James Russell Lowell and His FriendsWhen my friend Mr. Howland, of the Outlook magazine, asked me if I could write for that magazine a Life of James Russell Lowell, I said at once that I could not. While there were certain periods of our...

Stephen H. Branch's Alligator, Vol. 1 no. 01, April 24, 1858James Gordon Bennett: We left New York amid the huzzas of friends, who bade us a most affectionate adieu. The passengers are from every section of the Union. There are men of talent and...

The Epic of PaulThe action of The Epic of Paul begins with that conspiracy formed at Jerusalem against the life of the apostle which in the sequel led to a prolonged suspension of his free missionary career. It embraces the incidents of his removal...

Orleans'in neitsyt: Romantillinen murhenäytelmäKaarlo VII, Franskan kuningas. Kuningatar Isabella, hnen itins. Agnes Sorel, hnen lemmittyns. Filip Hyv, Burgund'in herttua. Kreivi Dunois, Orleans'in Bastardi. La Hire, | kuninkaan upsierej. Du Chatel, | Rheims'in arkkipiispa. Chatillon, burgundilainen ritari. Raoul, lothringilainen ritari. Talbot, englantilaisten ppllikk. Lionel, |...

Genom Canada: Reseskildringar från 1904Canada r ett i allmnhet ganska obekant land, men det har p senare tider brjat att tilldraga sig en allt strre och strre uppmrksamhet bde i Frenta Staterna och i Europa. I svenska tidningar har man ofta talat om den...

Selected PoemsDay that I have Loved On the Death of Smet-Smet, the Hippopotamus-Goddess Second Best The Hill Sonnet ("Oh! Death will find me") Dust Song Kindliness The Voice Menelaus and Helen The Jolly Company Thoughts on the Shape of the Human Body Town and...

The Fleets Behind the Fleet - The Work of the Merchant Seamen and Fishermen in the WarWhat follows is not written to praise our merchant sailors and fishermen. They are indeed worthy of all praise. But we looked for nothing else than that they...

The Family at Misrule"To youth the greatest reverence is due." JUVENAL. She leaned her face on her hands, and stared sadly after the crisp, retreating frills and the shimmer of golden hair "done up." This was one of the days when Meg's desires to...

The Campaign of the Forty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia - "The Cadet Regiment"Not long after the return of the Forty-Fifth Massachusetts regiment from North Carolina, an informal meeting of some of the members of Company A was held in Boston, which resulted in the...

La enferma: novelaEste libro, publicado en 1896, es mi primera novela: afortunadamente, la prensa apenas habl de ella, la edicin fu corta y mi esfuerzo pas inadvertido. Aunque ogao la presento muy corregida, el lector sorprender en sus pginas candores y balbuceos de principiante,...

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Scientific American, Volume 56, No. 9, February 26, 1887Caloric engines have long been used by the Trinity Board to provide power for working siren fog signals in connection with their lighthouses in England. They have generally been in the past of the horizontal type,...

The Story of a HareWhilst few, if any, animals have more enemies than the hare, none perhaps is better endowed with instincts to outwit them. As that great medival hunter, the Master of Game, said in 1402: There is no man in this world...

Birds and All Nature, Vol. 7, No. 1, January 1900 - Illustrated by Color PhotographyTHIS miniature of Rallus elegans or king rail, is found throughout the whole of temperate North America as far as the British Provinces, south to Guatemala and Cuba, and winters...

A Soldier's Daughter, and Other StoriesOn the North-West frontier of India stood the little fort of Darlinger. It had been erected two years previous to the opening of this story, and was occupied by three companies of a Punjaubi regiment under the command of...

Linnet: A RomanceNow, whoever knows the Alps, knows the Zillerthal well as the centre of all that is most Tyrolese in the Tyrol. From that beautiful green valley, softly smiling below, majestically grand and ice-clad in its upper forks and branches, issue forth from...