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KapinaHonor de Balzac syntyi toukokuun 16 pivn 1799 Toursin kaupungissa., Hnen isns Bernard-Franois Balzac oli Ludvig XVI:n aikana ollut asianajaja neuvostossa ja sai myhemmin hirmuvallan pivin toimen armeijan muonitusvirastossa. V. 1797 hn 51-vuotiaana nai ern esimiehens tyttren, 19-vuotiaan Anne-Charlotte-Laure Sallombier'n, jolla oli hyvin hermostunut...

Räfskinnet: Berättelse från trettioåriga krigetUngefr en mil norr om staden Prag lg vid tiden fr denna berttelse, r 1648, en liten by vid namn Reinau. Nu fr tiden finnes ej mera ngot spr af densamma, och om man frgar traktens innebyggare om den plats,...

Popular Scientific Recreations - in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc.WHAT CHEMISTRY ISTHE ELEMENTSMETALLIC AND NON-METALLICATOMIC WEIGHTACIDSALKALISBASESSALTSCHEMICAL COMBINATION AND STUDY. Chemistry is the science of phenomena which are attended by a change of the objects which produce them. We know that when...

A Confession of St. AugustineHEN we drove from the station up into the town, in the March of our first sojourn, and saw the palmettoes all along the streets, among the dim live-oaks and the shining magnolias, our doubting hearts lifted, and we said:...

Marie-Louise et la cour d'Autriche entre les deux abdications (1814-1815)Note sur la transcription: Les erreurs clairement introduites par le typographe ont t corriges. L'orthographe d'origine a t conserve et n'a pas t harmonise. Les numros des pages blanches n'ont pas t repris. MMOIRES POUR...

About ParisThe street that I knew best in Paris was an unimportant street, and one into which important people seldom came, and then only to pass on through it to the Rue de Rivoli, which ran parallel with it, or to the Rue Castiglione,...

Outo intohimo: Kertomus Ludvig XIV:n ajaltaErnst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, esill olevan teoksen kirjoittaja, on syntynyt tammikuun 24 pivn 1776 ja kuollut heinkuun 24 pivn 1822. Kotoisin oli hn Knigsbergist, mutta kuoli berlinilisen. Hn on omituisimpia kirjailijapersoonallisuuksia mit koskaan on elnyt. Hnen "virallinen" elmntarinansa on...

As It Was Written: A Jewish Musician's Story VERONIKA PATHZUOL was my betrothed. I must give some account of the circumstances under which she and I first met each other, so that my tale may be clear and complete from the beginning. For a...

Mademoiselle Miss, and Other Stories Paris is the gloomiest town in Christendom to-day,though it is a lovely day in April, and the breeze is full of softness, and the streets are gay with people,and the Latin Quarter is quite the dullest bit of Paris:...

Mrs Peixada ON more than one account the 25th of April will always be a notable anniversary in the calendar of Mr. Arthur Ripley. To begin with, on that day he pocketed his first serious retainer as a lawyer. He got down-town a little...

Comedies and Errors Every one who knew Rome fifteen or twenty years ago must remember Miss Belmont. She lived in the Palazzo Sebastiani, a merry little old Englishwoman, the business, the passion, of whose existence it was to receive. All the rooms of her...

Happy Island: A New "Uncle William" Story THE sunlight got in Uncle Williams eyes. He looked up from the map spread on the table before him. Then he got up slowly and crossed to the window and drew down the turkey-red curtaina deep glow...

The Chinese Coat Eleanor MORE walked away from the coat. She looked back at it across the glass case of fichus and ribbon bows, and went on down the aisle of show-cases to the coats and suits at the end. Stewarts was having a...

Kristus inkvisitorin edessäSeuraava kirjotelma on otettu Dostojevskin kuuluisasta romaanista nimelt "Veljekset Karamasoff", jonka hn kirjotti viimeiseksi ennen kuolemaansa. Se on vlikohtaus ja esiintyy keskusteluna kahden veljeksen Ivanin ja Aljooshan vlill. Nist on Aljoosha nuorempi, kristillinen mystikko, joka on kasvatettu luostarissa. Ivan taas on uudenaikainen...

Five Years in the AlleghaniesEntered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by the American Tract Society, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Southern District of the State of New York. 3 It is not in man that...

Joffre and His ArmyThis book is intended as a presentation card to the French army. It is a plain story for plain people, and there has been a deliberate avoidance of any technicalities. In it you will find references to the leading figures in...

The Blessed DamozelIt is sought to include in a group of compact little volumes the best Love Poems of the great British poets; and from time to time a volume of prose, or a volume of modern verse which may be considered of sufficient...

St. Paul the HeroIt was God, my dear little boy. Dont you remember the psalm we read in the synagogue last week: I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord who made...

Homeri Carmina et Cycli Epici Reliquiæ. Pars Secunda: OdysseaThe Latin translation presented in this work was transcribed from a Greek/Latin edition. It deliberately tries to stay as close as possible to the Greek original, not only to make the Greek text more accessible, but...

Homeri Carmina et Cycli Epici Reliquiæ. Pars Prima: IliasThe Latin translation presented in this work was transcribed from a Greek/Latin edition. It deliberately tries to stay as close as possible to the Greek original, not only to make the Greek text more accessible, but...