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Legends and Satires from Mediæval LiteratureTo create anew the walls and towers and gardens of the medival world is a comparatively easy task, now that we have so many aids to visualizing that departed age, but it is not so easy to make live...

Cleg Kelly, Arab of the City: His Progress and Adventures"Here are idylls, epics, dramas of human life written in words that thrill and burn.... All are set down in words that are fit, chaste, and noble. Each is a poem that has the immortal...

Samuel Pepys and the Royal NavyIn 1919 the writer was appointed by the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, Lees Knowles Lecturer in Military and Naval History for the academical year 1919-20, and the lectures are now printed almost exactly in the form...

Discorso sopra la calamita SOCIO ORDINARIO DELLA ACCADEMIA PONTIFICIA DE' NUOVI LINCEI SOCIO CORRISPONDENTE DELL'ACCADEMIA DELLE SCIENZE DELL'ISTITUTO DI BOLOGNA DELLE R. ACCADEMIE DELLE SCIENZE DI TORINO, E DI SCIENZE, LETTERE ED ARTI DI MODENA E SOCIO ONORARIO DELLA R. ACCADEMIA DELLE SCIENZE DI...

Wonder Tales from Many LandsTHERE was once a King who had one only son, and him he loved better than anything in the whole worldbetter even than his own life. The Kings greatest desire was to see his son married, but though the Prince...

Six Little DucklingsOLD MOTHER DUCK and her six little ducklings lived in a hollow tree down by the river, and here they were all as happy as the day was long. They had the whole of the broad bright river to swim about on,...

The religious and loyal subject's duty considered: with regard to the present Government and the Revolution - A sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, on Wednesday, January 30, 1722-3THERE is no need that I should acquaint any who are here present with...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 705, June 30, 1877The fire burns cheerily on the hearth, the great logs crackle and flare up the wide chimney, up which it is my wont to say you could drive a coach-and-four. I draw...

Amiens Before and During the War[A] The above information dates from, March 1st, 1919, and may no longer be exact when it meets the readers eye. Tourists are therefore recommended to consult the latest edition of the Michelin Guide to France (English or French),...

Merenneito: 5-näytöksinen näytelmäTohtori WANGEL, piirilkri. Rouva ELLIDA WANGEL, hnen toinen vaimonsa. BOLETTE | hnen tyttrin ensimisest HILDE, puolikasvuinen | avioliitosta. Yliopettaja ARNHOLM. LYNGSTRAND. BALLESTED. TUNTEMATON. KAUPUNGIN NUORTA VKE. TURISTEJA. KESVIERAITA. Tohtori Wangelin suurella umpinaisella verannalla varustettu asuinrakennus vasemmalla. Sen edustalla ja ymprill puutarha. Verannan...

Die Reden Gotamo Buddhos. Mittlere Sammlung, erster BandIn diesem Text werden fortlaufend Seitenzahlen aus dem Werk eines anderen Autors angegeben. Diese Verweise werden hier, fettgedruckt in geschweiften Klammern, am linken Rand auerhalb innerhalb des laufenden Textes wiedergegeben. Die in der Originalversion gesperrt gedruckten Passagen...

Benjamin of Ohio: A Story of the Settlement of MariettaThe author of this series of stories for children has endeavored simply to show why and how the descendants of the early colonists fought their way through the wilderness in search of new homes. The...

Clergymen and Doctors: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches.Clergymen and Doctors are so frequently associated, in connection with the most pleasant and the most grave necessities and occurrences of actual life, that if any apology is needed for uniting them on the present occasion, it...

Outlines of Zuñi Creation Myths - Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 321-448During the earlier years of my life with the Zui Indians of western-central New Mexico, from...

Gunshot Roentgenograms - A Collection of Roentgenograms Taken in Constantinople During the Turko-Balkan War, 1912-1913, Illustrating Some Gunshot Wounds in the Turkish ArmyThese roentgenograms are not presented as exhibiting a state of perfection in the art or method by which they were produced, although...

Reden an die deutsche NationAls eine Fortsetzung der Vorlesungen, die ich im Winter vor drei Jahren allhier an derselben Sttte gehalten, und welche unter dem Titel: Grundzge des gegenwrtigen Zeitalters gedruckt sind, habe ich die Reden,[1] die ich hiermit beginne, angekndigt. Ich hatte in...

Mr. Punch in Wig and Gown: The Lighter Side of Bench and BarDesigned to provide in a series of volumes, each complete in itself, the cream of our national humour, contributed by the masters of comic draughtsmanship and the leading wits of the age...

The Command in the Battle of Bunker Hill - With a Reply to "Remarks on Frothingham's History of the Battle, by S. Swett"The preparation of a History of Charlestownthe occupation of leisure hoursled to large collections relative to the military events which occurred in...

Her Lord and MasterI.A Reunion II.Birds of Passage III.On a Model Farm IV.Springtime V.Camp Indiana VI.Guests VII.The Weaver VIII.The World's Rest IX.In an Orchard of the Memory X.The Might of the Falls XI.A Moonlight Picnic XII.Leading to the Altar XIII.England XIV.Transplantation XV."I Shall Keep...

In Search of MademoiselleThere were no more vivid episodes in the colonization of the New World than those resulting from the attempts of the French people to gain a permanent foothold on our shores. This fact has long been recognized by sober historians as...