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The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 08 (1820)There is nothing in which the honourable fame and steady prosperity of our country, and the best interests of its inhabitants, are more deeply involved, than in the promotion of agriculture. With one...

Summer Provinces by the Sea - A description of the Vacation Resources of Eastern Quebec and the Maritime Provinces of Canada, in the territory served by the Canadian Government RailwaysOne glance at a map of the Western Hemisphere is all that is needed to...

Calvary: A NovelI was born one evening in October at Saint-Michel-les-Htres, a small town in the department of Orne, and I was immediately christened by the name of Jean-Franois-Marie-Minti. To celebrate in a fitting manner my coming into this world, my godfather, who was...

The Poems of John Donne, Volume 2 (of 2) - Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous ManuscriptsTHE POETRY OF DONNE Donne's position among English poets, regarded from the historical and what we like to call scientific point of view, has been defined with...

Roman Legends: A collection of the fables and folk-lore of RomeA Franciscan friar was travelling on business of his order when he was overtaken by three brigands, who stole from him his ass, his saddle, and his doubloons. Moreover, they told him that if...

The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon, A.D. 1532-50, - contained in the first part of his Chronicle of PeruTHE work of Pedro de Cieza de Leon is, in many respects, one of the most remarkable literary productions of the age of Spanish...

Compendio di psicologia Degli intenti di questo compendio, che ho la fortuna di presentare nella traduzione italiana, parla a sufficienza la prefazione dellautore. Mi limito pertanto a dire qualche cosa della mia traduzione. Ad essa mi accinsi incoraggiato dal Dr Federico Kiesow, e la...

The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2Julian came to Antioch on his way to Persia in the autumn of 361 and stayed there till March, 362. The city was rich and important commercially, but in Julian's eyes her glory depended on two things,...

The Quest of Glory This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged unless indicated with a Transcribers Note....

The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 07 (1820)(From Parke's Chymical Essays.) The government of France, in the early part of the fourteenth century, took great pains to improve the manufacture of glass, and ordained that none but gentlemen, or the...

Der Sinn und Wert des LebensMit einer Behandlung der Frage nach dem Sinn und Wert des Lebens suche ich die inneren Probleme der Gegenwart jedem einzelnen mglichst nahe zu bringen und ihn zur Teilnahme daran zu gewinnen. Solche Fassung der Aufgabe zog der philosophischen...

Herra Oblomov: Romaani maaorjuuden ajoiltaJos Venjn kirjallista yleis huvittaisi merkit "Oblomovin" puolvuosisatainen olemassaolo, niin juuri nihin aikoihin sen siis olisi tuota riemujuhlaa viettminen. Sellainen sentn tuskin tulee kysymykseen. Ivan Gontsharovin "Oblomovin" olemassa-olo net pikemminkin antaisi aihetta jonkunlaiseen surujuhlaan, jollaisia optimistinen muotimailma ei erikoisesti suosi....

A Book of Giants: Tales of Very Tall Men of Myth, Legend, History, and Science.Man in his youth was so fond of giants that, not finding them large or plentiful enough, he created a bounteous supply. He gave them precedence of himself. In the...

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireDOUBLE CLICK ON THE "More Files" OPTION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PG CATALOG PAGE LISTING TO FIND THE "Files" DIRECTORY. DOUBLE CLICK ON THIS TO OPEN THE DIRECTORY OF THE AUDIO FILES. Let me...

Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic SourcesSo much interest has lately been awakened in, and centred round, Folklore, that it needs no apology to lay before the British reader additional information upon the subject. Interesting enough in itself, it has been rendered doubly interesting by...

The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 06 (1820)Numerous and important are the boasted advantages of our free government. Men and things are professedly estimated, in this region of sturdy republicanism, in exact accordance with their true character. Our just and...

The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 05 (1820)Spring, that delightful visiter, to whom beauty and melody, Zephyrus and Flora, pay their opulent but willing tribute, has once more arrived. Let us welcome the enchanting stranger with joyful hearts, and let...

France and England in North America, Part VII, Vol 2: A Half-Century of Conflict The Western Sea.Schemes for reaching it.Journey of Charlevoix.The Sioux Mission.Varennes de la Vrendrye: his Enterprise; his Disasters; visits the Mandans; his Sons; their Search for the Western Sea; their Adventures.The...

The Scientific Tourist through Ireland - in which the traveller is directed to the principal objects of antiquity, art, science & the picturesqueThis interesting country becoming every day more and more the subject of inquiry and personal investigation, an Hibernian Tourist's Guide consequently forms...

By Blow and Kiss: The Love Story of a Man with a Bad Name. - (Published serially under the title Unstable as Water).It was fiercely hot inside the hut, although the click and snap of the tin roof spoke of its cooling now that...