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The Green MillenniumThe world Phil Gish lived in was not a pretty one, and Phil didn't enjoy living in it. He was disillusioned, purposeless, hopeless, and haunted by the fear that a robot would take over his job. But then Phil was a timid...

Gabrielle de Bergerac My good old friend, in his white flannel dressing-gown, with his wig "removed," as they say of the dinner-service, by a crimson nightcap, sat for some moments gazing into the fire. At last he looked up. I knew what was coming....

A Sketch of Charles T. Walker, D.D., Pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church, Augusta, Ga.Charles Thomas Walker was born on the 11th day of January, 1858, at Hephzibah, Ga. Hephzibah is in Richmond county about 14 miles south-west of Augusta. He is the youngest of...

An Authentick Account of the Measures and Precautions Used at Venice - By the Magistrate of the Office of Health, for the Preservation of Publick HealthThe Office of Health is furnished with such ample Power and Authority, as makes it at once useful and...

Philosophumena; or, The refutation of all heresies, Volume IThe story of the discovery of the book here translated so resembles a romance as to appear like a flower in the dry and dusty field of patristic lore. A short treatise called Philosophumena, or Philosophizings,...

Freedom! Equality!! Justice!!! These Three; but the Greatest of These Is Justice - A Speech on the Impending Revolution, Delivered in Music Hall, Boston, Thursday, Feb. 1, 1872, and the Academy of Music, New York, Feb. 20, 1872Standing upon the apex of the nineteenth...

A Bounty Boy - Being Some Adventures of a Christian Barbarian on an Unpremeditated Trip Round the WorldThis perhaps should rather be called a prefatory note, since all the introduction to my book that I deem necessary is to say that in it I...

A List of English & American Sequel StoriesMany years ago I compiled a comparatively short list of sequel stories for staff reference purposes, and the list was subsequently published in The Library World (1900-1). Several librarians who found the old list useful have asked...

Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift, whose name stands unchallenged at the head of the list of English satirists, was born on Irish soil, for it was in Dublin on November 30, 1667, that he opened his eyes upon a career in which fortune and misfortune alternated...

Christmas Chat - or, Observations on the late change at court, on the different characters of the ins and outs; and on the present state of publick affairs.Blunt. I say, the Vicar need not make those dd wry Faces at Toasting the best Thing...

Report on the Migration of Birds in the Spring and Autumn of 1881. Third ReportThe following Report contains a summary of investigations of a Committee, appointed by the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at York, in 1881, to consist of Professor Newton,...

A vizözön és egyéb elbeszélésekA trsasg elhagyta a szles, knyelmes utat s hegyi svnyeken haladt flfel. Ez mr a magas Ttra alpesi vilga volt. A fk megkisebbedtek, kopasz sziklk toltk felfel tar fejket s a halads lassabb lett. A trsasg mg jkedv volt. Hol...

Kansanopistosta ja kansanopiston ympäristöiltä Revisen talven kullankirkas piv luo nietoksille verhon hohtavan. Jo kaikotkoon nyt kauvas kaihon hiv, kun pivpaiste tytt maailman! Nyt varjotonna valonvlke pilyy mun rinnassani, siell muistot hilyy iloiset, heijastaen loistettaan. Semmoista kirkkahinta varjottuutta, kevimen lepposinta herttaisuutta s myskin lietsot tnne...

Zanoni: Yli-ihmisen elämäntarinaMahdollisesti joku lukijoistani tuntee ern vanhan kirjakaupan, joka muutamia vuosia sitten sijaitsi Lontoon Covent Gardenin lheisyydess. Sanon "joku", sill totta tosiaan oli sangen vhn joukkojen huomiota kiinnittv niiss kallisarvoisissa nidoksissa, mitk kokonainen elmnty oli kasannut vanhan ystvni D:n plyisille hyllyille. Siell ei...

Rouva Mayburnin kaksoisetJohn Habberton oli niit "omatekoisia miehi", joita erityisesti Amerikassa nousee elmn alimmalta portaalta kuuluisuuteen ja kunniaan. Hn syntyi Brooklynissa 1842, joutui kahdeksanvuotiaana lntisimpn silloisista asutetuista valtioista, Illinoisiin, miss sai kansakoulukasvatuksen. Seitsemntoista vanhana hn sielt ilmestyi New Yorkiin, avosilmin, toimihaluisena, mieli uusien olojen...

British Marine PaintingTO most people it will seem quite natural that British artists should give much attention to marine painting. The sea plays a very important part in our national affairs, influences the character of the people, and affects the political policy of the...

The Professor's House The moving was over and done. Professor St. Peter was alone in the dismantled house where he had lived ever since his marriage, where he had worked out his career and brought up his two daughters. It was almost as ugly...

Charles Peace, or The Adventures of a Notorious BurglarThis book was originally published in 100 weekly installments. The volume number of each issue is provided as a sidenote, highlighted in light grey, occasionally mid-paragraph. Illustrations that appeared at the beginning of each issue were...

The End: How the Great War Was Stopped. A Novelistic VagaryIt is a pretty village, Saint Choiseul, perched on a hillside whose slopes, undeviatingly smooth and moderate, subside into a flowing land of streams and fields and white roadways. Its narrow streets are decorous...

Rudimentary Architecture for the Use of Beginners - The Orders and Their Æsthetic PrinciplesIt is important that an elementary treatise,more particularly if it profess to be a popular one, intended for the use of beginners as well as for professional students,should not only give...