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An Introduction to Psychology - Translated from the Second German Edition It is not the intention of this introduction to psychology to discuss the scientific or philosophical conceptions of psychology, or even to make a survey of the investigations and their results. What this...

Spring in a Shropshire AbbeyA day in the heart of winterI lie in bedMy books, my dogsMy daughter BessFlowers from MentoneCromwells cabinetMy dog MouseThe feeding of the birdsThe recollection of the beautiful garden at La MortolaThe violets thereThe Wenlock chimesMy curtain, its strange devicesColouring...

Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. Illustrated CHAPTER V OLIVER MINGLES WITH NEW ASSOCIATES. GOING TO A FUNERAL FOR THE FIRST TIME, HE FORMS AN UNFAVOURABLE NOTION OF HIS MASTERS BUSINESS CHAPTER X OLIVER BECOMES BETTER ACQUAINTED WITH THE CHARACTERS OF HIS NEW...

Stover at YaleDink Stover, freshman, chose his seat in the afternoon express that would soon be rushing him to New Haven and his first glimpse of Yale University. He leisurely divested himself of his trim overcoat, folding it in exact creases and laying it...

L'Illustration, No. 1590, 16 Août 1873TEXTE: Histoire de la semaine.--Courrier de Paris, par M. Philibert Audebrand.--Nos gravures.--La Cage d'or, nouvelle, par M. G. de Cherville (suite).--Histoire de la Colonne, par M. Jules Dementhe (premier article).-- Les Thtres.--Bigarrures anecdotiques: l'esprit de parti (suite).--Le Marchand de...

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (3 of 9) - Henrie the Sixt, Sonne and Heire to Henrie the Fift The formall recognisance or acknowledgement of the said homage. The bishop of Winchesters letter excusatorie. The articles of accusation and...

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (2 of 9) - Henrie the Fift, Prince of Wales, Sonne and Heire to Henrie the Fourth A copie of the said ded. A copie of the said letters patents. A copie of that...

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (11 of 12) - Edward the Third, Who Came to the Crowne by the Resignation of His Father Edward the Second The articles of agrement betwene the moonks of Burie and the inhabitants of...

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (10 of 12) - Edward the Second, the Sonne of Edward the FirstEdward, the second of that name, the sonne of Edward the first, borne at Carnaruan in Wales, began his reigne ouer England...

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (09 of 12) - Edward the First, Surnamed Longshanks, the Eldest Sonne of Henrie the Third The copie of the Charter in French. In English thus. The copie of the second charter touching the...

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (08 of 12) - Henrie the Third, the Eldest Sonne of King Iohn The earle of Penbroks short and swet oration as it is borrowed out of maister Fox. The confirmation of the charters,...

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 424, February 1851[The fires of Smithfield and the massacre of Bartholomew are truly events of little consequence in history, if they fail to convince us of the aggressive and unscrupulous policy of the Roman Catholic Church. The claim...

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 402, April, 1849The historical and critical essay is a species of literary composition which has arisen, and been brought to perfection, in the lifetime of a single generation. Preceding writers, indeed, had excelled in detached pieces of a...

William HarveyIt is not possible, nor have I attempted in this account of Harvey, to add much that is new. My endeavour has been to give a picture of the man and to explain in his own words, for they are always simple, racy,...

L'Antologia di Gian Pietro Vieusseux Lavoro migliore, cio pi degno di Lei, dovrebb'essere questo, perch potessi offrirlo senza rossore. Eppure ho la ferma speranza che l'avere io in esso discorso di quel Gian Pietro Vieusseux, dal quale come altri molti ancor Ella (e con...

The Story of ChartresAn excellent train, leaving the Gare S. Lazare at mid-day, runs through from Paris in one hour and a half. A good djeuner is served in the train on starting. Returning from Chartres, most of the trains run into the Montparnasse...

North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie StateNorth Dakota: a Guide to the Northern Prairie State is something new in this part of the country. For the first time North Dakotans and their guests have a concise but comprehensive survey of the State,...

Talleyrand: A Biographical StudySainte-Beuve, after an attempt that one cannot describe as successful, declared that it is hardly possible to write the life of M. de Talleyrand. Frdric Masson noticed the figure of the great diplomatist as he passed with a disdainful ce Sphinx....

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 68, No. 421, November 1850Mr Caxton."Why, indeed, Fielding says very justly that he is not bound to assign any reason; but he does assign a good many, here and thereto find which, I refer you to Tom Jones. I will...

"Sterminator Vesevo" (Vesuvius the great exterminator) - Diary of the Eruption of April 1906In translating this book by Matilde Serao, I have felt as if none of its beautiful local colour, of its warmly felt and vivid description should be altered by an attempt...