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Happiness as Found in Forethought Minus FearthoughtHow to be happy is the one desire common to all humanity. How to be happier is a better statement, for there is no one so miserable but has some degree of happiness at timesenjoys some moments when...

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 425, March, 1851"The apparent contradiction," says the Edinburgh Review, "between the vast amount of unrelieved misery in the country, and the vast amount of energetic benevolence now existing in this country, which strikes so many with despair, inspires...

Tea Drinking in 18th-Century America: Its Etiquette and Equipage - United States National Museum Bulletin 225, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology Paper 14, pages 61-91, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1961 United States National Museum Bulletin 225, Contributions from the Museum of...

The Mission of PoubalovIvan pulled aside the curtain and looked up at the sky. It was as clear as crystal, as blue as the eyes of his beloved, the promise fulfilled of a perfect day. On a window cornice across the street a tiny...

Pietro Mascagni, con nota delle opere e ritratto Ogni paese ha la sua lingua musicale, le cui peculiarit di concezione e di costruzione si formarono a poco a poco e furon tramandate pi o meno fedelmente dai musicisti. Cos, pi o meno interrottamente ebbe...

Across IcelandThese notes, besides describing a journey made during the summer of 1900 across Central Iceland from the north-east to the south-west, give an account of further travels by land in the west, and by sea along the coast and into the fjords of...

Comentarios a la Constitucion de los Estados Unidos de AméricaNota del Transcriptor: Errores obvios de imprenta han sido corregidos. Pginas en blanco han sido eliminadas. Las notas del traductor fueron movidas del final del libro hacia el lugar del libro donde son referidas. APESAR...

'Neath Verdun, August-October, 1914 The author of this work, Mr. Maurice Genevoix, is a second-year student at the Ecole Normale, Paris. Having finished the second year of his course and, incidentally, completed a study "on Maupassant," he was in a position to regard with...

Flower o' the Heather: A Story of the Killing TimesFIRST EDITION ...... October, 1922 Reprinted .......... October, 1922 Reprinted .......... December, 1922 Reprinted .......... January, 1923 Reprinted .......... November, 1923 Reprinted .......... January, 1925 Reprinted, 3s. 6d. . May, 1925 Reprinted .......... July, 1926...

Julius CæsarThe translator has been induced by the following considerations to publish what was begun as matter of amusement, and private occupation. The employment of translation, oral and written, as the best and readiest mode of acquiring a dead language, and of imbuing the...

Die Bekanntschaft auf der ReiseEs war ein schwler Tag. Die Sonne verbarg sich hinter graues Gewlk, das ein Gewitter verkndigte. Das feierliche Schweigen der Natur verwandelte sich pltzlich in einen frchterlichen Sturm, der den Staub der einsamen Landstrae, auf der ich reiste, als ein...

A Night in the LuxembourgA general, but necessarily inadequate, account of the personality and works of one of the finest intellects of his generation will be found in the Appendix. I am here concerned only with Une Nuit au Luxembourg, which, though it is...

L'Illustration, No. 0066, 1 Juin 1844Jacques Laffitte. Portrait de Jacques Laffitte; Obsques de Jacques Laffitte.--Histoire de le Semaine.--Exposition des produits de l'Industrie (6e article). Agriculture. Machine faucher de M. Gargan; Charrue de M. Le Bachelle; Crible plan inclin, Hache-Paille et Concasseur, par Quentin-Durand.--Chronique musicale....

The Birds of Washington (Volume 1 of 2) - A complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the stateLove of the birds is a natural passion and one which requires neither analysis nor defense. The birds live, we...

Michael Faraday, Man of Science"Tyndall, I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last." In these words, with which he replied to Professor Tyndall's urgent appeal to him to accept the Presidency of the Royal Society, we have a key-note to the character of...

Bessie and Her Friends Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by Robert Carter and Brothers, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. "Almost time, Jennie," answered Mrs. Richards,...

The Wheat PrincessIf you leave the city by the Porta Maggiore and take the Via Prnestina, which leads east into the Sabine hills, at some thirty-six kilometers distance from Rome you will pass on your left a grey-walled village climbing up the hillside. This...

Hints to Servants - Being a Poetical and Modernised Version of Dean Swift's Celebrated "Directions to Servants"[6] [9] [16] [21] [27] [36] [37] [51] [56] [57] [58] [59] [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] Transcriber's note: Only most obvious punctuation errors repaired. The opening...

Philosophic Nights in Paris - Being selections from Promenades Philosophiques Helvtius and the Philosophy of Happiness The Player's Illusion The Beyond The Question of Free Will The Insurrection of the Vertebrates The Pessimism of Leopardi The Colors of Life The Art of Seeing The...

Hurskas kurjuus: Päättynyt suomalainen elämäkertaToivolan Jussi, Juha, Janne kirkonkirjojen mukaan Johan Abraham Benjaminpoika oli vanha vastenmielisen nkinen ijnrahjus. Viimeisin vuosinaan hnell oli laajahko kalju, jota niskassa ja korvilla reunusti joskus maailmassa tasoitettu, lakin alta harittava hiuskiehkura. Kasvot olivat mys ruskean rakkimaisen takkukarvan peitossa, vain...