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On the Reception of the 'Origin of Species'On the Reception of the 'Origin of Species' To the present generation, that is to say, the people a few years on the hither and thither side of thirty, the name of Charles Darwin stands alongside of those of Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday;...
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Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 led to comprehend true affinities. My theory would give zest to recent & Fossil Comparative Anatomy: it would lead to study of instincts, heredity, & mind heredity, whole metaphysics, it would lead to closest examination...
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Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 In choosing letters for publication I have been largely guided by the wish to illustrate my father's personal character. But his life was so essentially one of work, that a history of the man could...
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The SlowcoachThe Slowcoach Once upon a time there was a nice family. Its name was Avory, and it lived in an old house in Chiswick, where the Thames is so sad on grey days and so gay on sunny ones. Mr.or rather CaptainAvory was dead;...
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Cyropaedia: The Education of CyrusCyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus A very few words may suffice by way of introduction to this translation of the Cyropaedia. Professor Jowett, whose Plato represents the high-water mark of classical translation, has given us the following reminders: "An English translation ought to be...
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The Way of All FleshThe Way of All FleshSamuel Butler began to write The Way of All Flesh about the year 1872, and was engaged upon it intermittently until 1884. It is therefore, to a great extent, contemporaneous with Life and Habit, and may be taken as a...
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In Search of the Castaways Or, The Children of Captain GrantIn Search of the Castaways; Or, The Children of Captain Grant THE next morning at daybreak a thick fog was clinging to the surface of the river. A portion of the vapors that saturated the air were condensed by the cold, and lay as...
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Memoirs of the Comtesse Du BarryMemoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry - With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV Up to the time of the Du Barry the court of France had been the stage where the whole political and human drama of that...
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The Blithedale RomanceThe Blithedale Romance The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street. As...
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The Flower of the MindThe Flower of the MindPartial collections of English poems, decided by a common subject or bounded by narrow dates and periods of literary history, are made at very short intervals, and the makers are safe from the reproach of proposing their own personal taste...
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From the Memoirs of a Minister of FranceFrom the Memoirs of a Minister of France Foreseeing that some who do not love me will be swift to allege that in the preparation of these memoirs I have set down only such things as redound to my credit, and have suppressed the...
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ThaisThais In those days there were many hermits living in the desert. On both banks of the Nile numerous huts, built by these solitary dwellers, of branches held together by clay, were scattered at a little distance from each other, so that the inhabitants...
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The NabobThe Nabob Daudet once remarked that England was the last of foreign countries to welcome his novels, and that he was surprised at the fact, since for him, as for the typical Englishman, the intimacy of home life had great significance. However long he...
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The Civilization of ChinaThe Civilization of China The aim of this work is to suggest a rough outline of Chinese civilization from the earliest times down to the present period of rapid and startling transition. It has been written, primarily, for readers who know little or nothing...
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Crotchet CastleCrotchet CastleThomas Love Peacock was born at Weymouth in 1785. His first poem, The Genius of the Thames, was in its second edition when he became one of the friends of Shelley. That was in 1812, when Shelleys age was twenty, Peacocks twenty-seven. The...
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The Civilisation of the Renaissance in ItalyThe Civilisation of the Renaissance in ItalyDR. Burckhardts work on the Renaissance in Italy is too well known, not only to students of the period, but now to a wider circle of readers, for any introduction to be necessary. The increased interest which has...
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The Valet's Tragedy, and Other StudiesThe Valet's Tragedy, and Other Studies These studies in secret history follow no chronological order. The affair of James de la Cloche only attracted the authors attention after most of the volume was in print. But any reader curious in the veiled intrigues of...
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MichaelMichael Though there was nothing visibly graceful about Michael Comber, he apparently had the art of giving gracefully. He had already told his cousin Francis, who sat on the arm of the sofa by his table, that there was no earthly excuse for his...
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Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners)Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners) It was about four in the afternoon when a young girl came into the salon of the little hotel at C in Switzerland, and drew her chair up to the fire. You are soaked through, said...
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To the Last ManTo the Last Man It was inevitable that in my efforts to write romantic history of the great West I should at length come to the story of a feud. For long I have steered clear of this rock. But at last I have...
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