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Mediæval Military Architecture in England, Volume 1 (of 2)THE articles comprehended in the present volumes were written at very long intervals of time, some half a century ago, and printed in the Transactions of various Societies in different and distant counties. Many also appeared...

Social Forces in England and AmericaThe telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices...

A Body of Divinity, Vol. 3 (of 4) - Wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are explained and defended, being the substance of several lectures on the Assembly's Larger CatechismAnsw. The union which the elect have with Christ, is the work of Gods...

The Airship Boys in the Great War; or, The Rescue of Bob RussellGreat guns exactly describes it, if youre reading those accounts of the war in Europe, said he with a grin, or maybe youd better say the great-est guns, because thats what they...

Pieni novellikirjasto VIIIVuonna 1860 olin min toisena permiehen erll hyvll purjelaivalla, joka kulki Honolulusta Sydneyhin. Olimme jotenkin hyvll onnella suorittaneet kappaleen matkaa Austraalian monilukuisten saariryhmien vlitse, kunnes saavuimme Louisiadein pitklle ulottuvan saariston lhelle. Ne ovat kaakkoon pin Uudesta-Guineasta. Siell tapasi meidt useampia viikkoja kestv...

Historical and Descriptive Sketches of the Town and Soke of Horncastle [1820] - in the county of Lincoln, and of several places adjacentThe Author of this volume has for several years past been induced from a partiality to topographical research, to devote those hours...

Rocket SummerThe crowd gathered to make a curious noise this cold grey morning before the scheduled Birth. They arrived in gleaming scarlet tumble-bugs and yellow plastic beetles, yawning and singing and ready. The Birth was a big thing for them. He stood alone up...

The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. III. (Complete), 1891An Expedition to Mount St. Elias, Alaska; by ISRAEL C. RUSSELL IntroductionThe Southern Coast of Alaska Part IPrevious Explorations in the St. Elias Region Part IINarrative of the St. Elias Expedition of 1890 Part IIISketch of the...

The Antiquities of Bridgnorth; With Some Historical Notices of the Town and CastleThe Substance of the following pages was given in two lectures, which I delivered last year to the Members of The Society for Promoting Religious and Useful Knowledge. Since then I have...

Bethlehem: A Nativity Play Ye Gentles, that come here to watch our play, Put, we beseech you, thought of us away! No standing here have we: in heart we kneel, With, at our hearts, this prayer,that ye may feel How in Loves hands time...

The Little Review, September 1914 (Vol. 1, No. 6) A great newspaper has published a cartoon picturing Uncle Sam on a harvesting machine, calmly saying Giddap to his horses, while a neglected sheet with the inscription European war blows to one side. As long...

Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths - Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology; 1910-1911The following brief description of the Seneca is taken, with slight alterations, from the article on that tribe in the Handbook of American Indians: The Seneca (= Place of...

Distress SignalThe years passed relentlessly, ticked offone, two three, fourby the big lone planet Worta as it moved with ponderous sureness around the dying red star. Sometimes, in the first year after they were marooned, the two runaway boys, Carl Wyant and Rex Oberling,...

Wireless Telegraph Construction For AmateursThe success of the previous editions of this book has made a new and third one necessary. There have not been any startling changes or new discoveries made in the field of wireless telegraphy since the first edition was published,...

The Fatal ThirdHanford Webster, third officer of the space ship Polaris, was afflicted with what would have been known in the twentieth century as a first class jinx. However, more about the jinx later. He wasn't thinking about that right now where he was...

Scrambled WorldThe sun was dying. About its sullen shadow-streaked red globe thousands of miniature artificial worlds clustered like a swarm of night-chilled midges. So thickly did they hug the great globe of dulling flame that it seemed Sol had acquired an outer husk of...

On Board the "Rocket"All the incidents of this book are facts, occurring in the writer's own experience. In a few cases names have been altered, in accordance with his desire, neither to give offence to the living, nor to cast discredit upon the dead....

Gay gods and merry mortals: some excursions in verse SOME ancient tales of Pagan days The author of this book relates Explaining how in divers ways The gods displayed their human traits; And how they oft in other years Set human beings by the...

Tom Newcombe; Or, the Boy of Bad HabitsThus spoke Tom Newcombe, as he lay under one of the trees in his fathers yard, rolling about on the grass, and tossing his heels in the air, as if he scarcely knew what to do with...

Lettres à M. Panizzi, tome IIJe ne sais gure de nouvelles de Paris que par les journaux. Je suis fort triste de la tournure que prennent les affaires. D'un ct, les tentatives d'assassinat recommencent; de l'autre, la discussion de l'adresse s'envenime de jour en...