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Filosofiset mietelmätFilosofiset mietelmätNiin trket ja suuriarvoista kuin onkin se ty, mit tiedemiehet ja ajattelijat tekevt, joko kohottamalla ihmiskunnan aineellista hyvinvointia taikka etsimll vastausta niihin elmn arvoituksellisiin kysymyksiin, mitk ihmismielt jnnittvt, on heidn suhteensa olemassa se valitettava seikka, ett heidn heist useimpain esityksens ovat siksi vaikeatajuisia,...
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La TempestaLa Tempesta 1911 1911 Riservata la propriet letteraria della presente traduzione. C' stata un'epoca della mia vita in cui sono stato innamorato di Titania. Io ero allora un ragazzetto appena settenne e vivevo in una vecchia villa toscana, fra le giogaie petrose della Gonfolina...
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Three HatsThree Hats - A Farcical Comedy in Three ActsScene.Drawing-room; door, L., at back looking into hall; chimney piece R. centre; doors on R. side in second and third entrances; door on left second entrance; window left; small sofa and armchair towards front; escritoire front,...
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Past and PresentPast and Present - Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.The condition of England, on which many pamphlets are now in the course of publication, and many thoughts unpublished are going on in every reflective head, is justly regarded as one of the most ominous,...
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The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long AgoThe Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long AgoPontus, the Roman viceroy, sat in the atrium of his palatial villa by the Thames, and he looked with perplexity at the scroll of papyrus which he had just unrolled. Before him stood the...
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The Joyous Adventures of Aristide PujolThe Joyous Adventures of Aristide PujolIn narrating these few episodes in the undulatory, not to say switchback, career of my friend Aristide Pujol, I can pretend to no chronological sequence. Some occurred before he (almost literally) crossed my path for the first time, some...
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Hopes and FearsHopes and Fears - or, scenes from the life of a spinsterAmong the numerous steeples counted from the waters of the Thames, in the heart of the City, and grudged by modern economy as cumberers of the soil of Mammon, may be remarked an...
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Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and HistoricalCharacteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and HistoricalIn preparing for the press a new edition of this little work, the author has endeavored to render it more worthy of the approbation and kindly feeling with which it has been received; she cannot better express her...
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The Unicorn from the Stars and Other PlaysThe Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays About seven years ago I began to dictate the first of these Plays to Lady Gregory. My eyesight had become so bad that I feared I could henceforth write nothing with my own hands but verses,...
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Love at PaddingtonLove at Paddington Children had been sent off to Sunday school, and the more conscientious reached that destination; going in, after delivering awful threats and warnings to those who preferred freedom of thought and a stroll down Edgware Road in the direction of the...
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A Poor Man's HouseA Poor Man's House The substance of "A Poor Man's House" was first recorded in a journal, kept for purposes of fiction, and in letters to one of the friends to whom the book is dedicated. Fiction, however, showed itself an inappropriate medium. I...
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Maxims for RevolutionistsMaxims for RevolutionistsKings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. When the process is interrupted by adversity at a critical age, as in the case of Charles II, the subject becomes sane and never completely recovers his kingliness. A colonial Imperialist is...
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Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket CompanionRevolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion"No one can contemplate the present condition of the masses of the people without desiring something like a revolution for the better." Sir Robert Giffen. Essays in Finance, vol. ii. p. 393. A revolutionist is one who desires to discard...
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Happy DaysHappy DaysThis book is made up from my contributions to Puncha casual selection from the four hundred or so which have appeared in the last nine years. It is offered to the American public as a sample of that Punch humour (and perhaps, therefore,...
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Œuvres complètes de lord Byron, Tome 01Œuvres complètes de lord Byron, Tome 01 - avec notes et commentaires, comprenant ses mémoires publiés par Thomas MooreLord Byron et Walter Scott tiennent aujourd'hui dans la littrature la mme place que l'on assignait, dans le sicle dernier, Voltaire et J. J. Rousseau. Ces...
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Condemned as a Nihilist: A Story of Escape from SiberiaCondemned as a Nihilist: A Story of Escape from SiberiaThere are few difficulties that cannot be surmounted by patience, resolution, and pluck, and great as are the obstacles that nature and the Russian government oppose to an escape from the prisons of Siberia, such...
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A Son of Hagar: A Romance of Our TimeA Son of Hagar: A Romance of Our TimeIn my first novel, "The Shadow of a Crime," I tried to penetrate into the soul of a brave, unselfish, long-suffering man, and to lay bare the processes by which he raised himself to a great...
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A Coin of Edward VII: A Detective StoryA Coin of Edward VII: A Detective StoryThe Albany Evening Journal says: "Fully as interesting as his former books, and keeps one guessing to the end. The story begins with the murder of an old lady, with no apparent cause for the crime, and...
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MarjorieMarjorieWhat I have written may seem to some, who have never tossed an hour on salt water, nor, indeed, tramped far afield on dry land, to be astounding, and well-nigh beyond belief. But it is all true none the less, though I found it...
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Naomi eli Jerusalemin viimeiset päivätNaomi eli Jerusalemin viimeiset päivätAurinko vaipui hiljaksensa Sionin vuorta ymprivin komeiden rakennuksien taakse, heitten viimeisill steilln hohtavan loiston temppelin marmorimuureihin ja kullatuihin tornien huippuihin, kun nuori Naomi ja hnen ystvttrens Klaudia lhtivt pappi Sadokin asunnosta ja kulkivat pienen kauniin Siloe-joen vartta. He menivt Vesiportin...
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