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Lectures on the rise and development of medieval architecture; vol. 1Only half of the following Lectures were delivered by me, as the Professor of Architecture, at the Royal Academy. The first seven were delivered while Professor Cockerell held the Chair; but, owing to his...

Transient"Moon in 14 Pisces," said the little perforated card. Henderson stepped back from the computer and scratched his hairy head. Nonsense again. He threw the card in the wastebasket and repeated his directions on another: "One hundred fifty cancer susceptible mice were injected in...

Journeys to the Planet Mars; or, Our Mission to EntoIn the Ento language, the accented A has the sound of ah. The horizontal line over E, gives it the long sound of a. The circumflex over and , closes them, and in certain words...

Csataképek a magyar szabadságharczbólAz emberek ilyenkor otthon szoktak lni, templomba jrnak, megksznik a napok urnak az elvett vet s ldst krnek az ismt jvre. Estenden belnek meleg szobikba, mulatnak, beszlgetnek, krtyznak, jflig eltelik bizalmas trfa kzt az id s az els ratst az j...

The Life of Abraham Lincoln for Young People, Told in Words of One SyllableNear five scores of years have gone by since a poor, plain babe was born in a log hut on the banks of a small stream known as the Big South...

History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe In 1820, at the time when the various faculties of the Acadmie de Paris and the Collge de France were recommencing their courses of lectures, several persons combined to establish a Journal des Cours Publiques,...

Dæmonologia Sacra; or, A Treatise of Satan's Temptations - In Three Partsit was only my design to endeavour a more full discovery, though every way short of the thing itself, of Satans Craft, because ye knowledge of this is so necessary, & withall others...

La terre du passéLa plupart de ces tudes, sinon toutes, ont paru d'abord sous vos bienveillants auspices. En inscrivant votre nom, je ne fais que m'acquitter d'une dette de reconnaissance envers le Journal des Dbats, comme je ne fais que remplir envers vous un...

Attila and His Conquerors: A Story of the Days of St. Patrick and St. Leo the GreatThe chief authorities for the history in this story are, the Latin Sermons and Epistles of St. Leo in the Acta Sanctorum, the writings of St. Patrick, Hodgkins...

The Prisoners of Hartling"You are still re-acting to the pernicious influences of that damnable war," he said. "You're hankering after the intoxication of saving wounded under fire; exciting stunts of that sort; Sbana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus. You've got to learn to be...

Sir Walter ScottIf all reading mankind had time to read Lockharts Life of Scott, a brief volume on Sir Walter would be a thing without excuse. I am informed, however, by the Editor of this Series that the appreciation of Time, in our age,...

Cosas que fueron: Cuadros de costumbresCUADROS DE COSTUMBRES POR D. PEDRO A. DE ALARCON. La noche-buena del poeta. Las ferias de Madrid.El pauelo.Si yo tuviera cien millones....Cartas mis muertos.Lo que se ve con un anteojo.El ao nuevo.La fea, autopsia.El ao madrileo.Visitas la Marquesa.El cometa...

The Snowbank OrbitThe pole stars of the other planets cluster around Polaris and Octans, but Uranus spins on a snobbishly different axis between Aldebaran and Antares. The Bull is her coronet and the Scorpion her footstool. Dear blowzy old bitch-planet, swollen and pale and...

The Winning of the MoonNext morning, before the sunlight exploded, the four of them donned their space suits and went and sat outside the dome, waiting. The sun rose with its bright, silent clap of radiance. Black pools of shadows lay in harsh contrast,...

The Pentateuch, in Its Progressive Revelations of God to Men IT is supposable that God might have made his entire written revelation of himself to men at once, through one inspired prophet and one only; in one definite locality (Eden or Jerusalem), and all...

History of Botany (1530-1860)I am gratefully sensible of the honourable distinction implied in the determination of the Delegates of the Clarendon Press to have my History of Botany translated into the world-wide language of the British Empire. Fourteen years have elapsed since the first...

Contes pour les bibliophilesCe m'est un plaisir,je pourrais et devrais mme dire un devoir,mon cher compagnon de plume et de crayon, d'inscrire votre nom sonore, ami de tous ceux qui aiment encore, en ce temps refroidi, la fantaisie et l'imagination agissantes, en tte de...

The Diary of Delia - Being a Veracious Chronicle of the Kitchen, with Some Side-Lights on the ParlourI got up at siven. Washed. Dressed. Made me bed. I set the kittle on the gas stove and then furyissly rung the brikfust bell. The famly...

Varastettu sotilassalaisuus: Bruce-Partington piirustukset Ent sitten? Se on samaa kuin nkisi kki maalaistiell raitiovaunun. Asuntonsa Pall Mallissa ja Diopenesklubi, Whitehall ne ovat hnen maailmansa. Yhden ainoan kerran hn on kynyt tll. Mit maailmassa hnelle on mahtanut tapahtuakaan? Niin, tiesin hyvin, ett sin hmmstyisit. Mycroft...

Emily of New MoonTHE house in the hollow was a mile from anywhereso Maywood people said. It was situated in a grassy little dale, looking as if it had never been built like other houses but had grown up there like a big, brown...