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Vice Versa or, A Lesson to FathersVice Versa; or, A Lesson to FathersThere is an old story of a punctiliously polite Greek, who, while performing the funeral of an infant daughter, felt bound to make his excuses to the spectators for "bringing out such a ridiculously small corpse to so...
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Tom Brown at OxfordTom Brown at Oxford Prefaces written to explain the objects and meaning of a book, or to make any appeal, ad miseracordiam or other, in its favor, are, in my opinion, nuisances. Any book worth reading will explain its own objects and meaning, and...
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Viriatho: Narrativa epo-historicaViriatho: Narrativa epo-historicaA Alma portugueza caracterisa-se pelas manifestaes seculares persistentes do typo anthropologico e ethnico, que se mantm desde as incurses dos Celtas e luctas contra a conquista dos Romanos at resistencia diante das invases da orgia militar napoleonica. So as suas feies: O...
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A Pessimist in Theory and PracticeA Pessimist in Theory and PracticeI had seen and heard little of Hartman since our college days. There he was counted a youth of eminent promise: after that I knew that he had traveled, written something or other, and practised lawor professed it, and...
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The Dope on MarsThe Dope on MarsMy agent was the one who got me the job of going along to write up the first trip to Mars. He was always getting me things like thatappearances on TV shows, or mentions in writers' magazines. If he didn't sell...
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Where the Souls of Men are CallingWhere the Souls of Men are CallingThis particular Hillsdale is no less, no more, than the others. It contains the usual center of business activity clustering about a rather modern hotel. One of its livery stables has been remodelled into a moving-picture house, the...
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The Old Helmet, Volume IIThe Old Helmet, Volume IIEleanor could not stay away from the Wednesday meetings at Mrs. Powlis's house. In vain she had thought she would; she determined she would; when the day came round she found herself drawn with a kind of fascination towards the...
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A Red WallflowerA Red WallflowerThe story following is again in its whole chain of skeleton facts a true story. I beg to observe, in particular, that the denominational feeling described in both families, with the ways it showed itself, is part of the truth of the...
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The Old Helmet, Volume IThe Old Helmet, Volume IThe incidents and testimonies given in this work as matters of fact, are not drawn from imagination, but reported from excellent authoritythough I have used my own words. And in the cases of reported words of third parties, the words...
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La Demoiselle au Bois DormantLa Demoiselle au Bois DormantDe l'herbe, des saules pleureurs, des roses, une verdure intense et libre; et, parmi cette herbe longue, un peu couche, dans l'ombre lgre et tremblante des saules, sous les guirlandes sveltes des rosiers, de grandes dalles en pierre grise du...
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ValérieValérieJe me trouvais, il y a quelques annes, dans une des plus belles provinces du Danemark: la nature, tour tour sauvage et riante, souvent sublime, avait jet dans le magnifique paysage, que j'aimais contempler, l de hautes forts, ici des lacs tranquilles, tandis que...
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Caroline de LichtfieldCaroline de Lichtfield - ou Mémoires extraits des papiers d'une famille prussienneIl y a, ce me semble, beaucoup de prsomption et de tmrit offrir encore au public une nouvelle dition de cette Caroline de Lichtfield, dj si connue, qu'elle ne prsente plus aucun intrt....
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OurikaOurikaJ'tais arriv depuis peu de mois de Montpellier, et je suivais Paris la profession de la mdecine, lorsque je fus appel un matin au faubourg Saint-Jacques pour voir dans un couvent une jeune religieuse malade. L'empereur Napolon avait permis depuis peu le rtablissement de...
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Lettres écrites de LausanneLettres écrites de Lausanne[Transcriber's note: Madame de Charrire (Isabelle-Agns-Elisabeth Van Tuyll van Serooskerken dite Belle van Zuylen) (1740-1805), Lettres crites de Lausanne (1785) et Caliste ou suite des lettres crites de Lausanne (1787), dition en un volume de 1907. L'orthographe de l'dition suisse de...
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Le roman d'un jeune homme pauvre (Novel)Le roman d'un jeune homme pauvre (Novel)Voici la seconde soire que je passe dans cette misrable chambre regarder d'un oeil morne mon foyer vide, coutant stupidement les murmures et les roulements monotones de la rue, et me sentant, au milieu de cette grande ville,...
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Un coeur simpleUn coeur simplePour cent francs par an, elle faisait la cuisine et le mnage, cousait, lavait, repassait, savait brider un cheval, engraisser les volailles, battre le beurre, et resta fidle sa matresse, qui cependant n'tait pas une personne agrable. Elle avait pous un beau...
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Pompeijin viimeiset päivätPompeijin viimeiset päivät1. Kaksi pompeijilaista hienostelijaa 2. Sokea kukkastytt ja muotikaunotar Atenalaisen tunnustus. Puhutaan egyptilisest Arbakeesta 3. Glaukuksen ystvt. Pompeijilainen talo. Antiikkinen juhla 4. Isiksen temppeli. Pappi. Arbakeen luonnetta selitetn 5. Lis kukkastytst. Rakkauden edistysaskeleita 6. Pyydystj saa karanneen lintunsa jlleen kiinni ja heitt...
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Thespis (novelas cortas y cuentos)Thespis (novelas cortas y cuentos)Al volver Baco de las vendimias, seguale brillante squito de faunos y ninfas. Y los corifeos del dios ventrudo y coronado de pmpanos, del dios de los rboles frutales y las vias, cantaban su cancin bquica, narrando hechos y casos......
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Ringfield: A NovelRingfield: A NovelIn a country of cascades, a land of magnificent waterfalls, that watery hemisphere which holds Niagara and reveals to those who care to travel so far north the unhackneyed splendours of the Labrador, the noble fall of St. Ignace, though only second...
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CerebrumCerebrumThe trouble began in a seemingly trivial way. Connor had wanted to speak to Rhoda, his wife, wished himself onto a trunk line and then waited. "Dallas Shipping here, Mars and points Jupiterward, at your service," said a business-is-business, unwifely voice in his mind....
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