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A History of Science — Volume 3A History of Science — Volume 3 BOOK III CHAPTER I. THE SUCCESSORS OF NEWTON IN ASTRONOMY The work of Johannes HeveliusHalley and HeveliusHalley's observation of the transit of Mercury, and his method of determining the parallax of the planetsHalley's observation of meteorsHis inability...
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A History of Science — Volume 2A History of Science — Volume 2 The studies of the present book cover the progress of science from the close of the Roman period in the fifth century A.D. to about the middle of the eighteenth century. In tracing the course of events...
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A History of Science — Volume 1A History of Science — Volume 1 Should the story that is about to be unfolded be found to lack interest, the writers must stand convicted of unpardonable lack of art. Nothing but dulness in the telling could mar the story, for in itself...
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PierrettePierrette At the dawn of an October day in 1827 a young fellow about sixteen years of age, whose clothing proclaimed what modern phraseology so insolently calls a proletary, was standing in a small square of Lower Provins. At that early hour he could...
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Dead Men Tell No TalesDead Men Tell No Tales CHAPTER I. LOVE ON THE OCEAN CHAPTER II. THE MYSTERIOUS CARGO CHAPTER III. TO THE WATER'S EDGE CHAPTER IV. THE SILENT SEA CHAPTER V. MY REWARD CHAPTER VI. THE SOLE SURVIVOR CHAPTER VII. I FIND A FRIEND CHAPTER VIII....
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Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: ActorsLittle Masterpieces of Autobiography: ActorsA good play gives us in miniature a cross-section of life, heightened by plot and characterisation, by witty and compact dialogue. Of course we should honour first the playwright, who has given form to each well knit act and telling...
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The Story of Waitstill BaxterThe Story of Waitstill Baxter FAR, far up, in the bosom of New Hampshire's granite hills, the Saco has its birth. As the mountain rill gathers strength it takes Now it leaves the mountains and flows through green Fryeburg's woods and farms. In the...
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 2The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 2Mr. Bront afflicted with blindness, and relieved by a successful operation for cataractCharlotte Bront's first work of fiction, "The Professor"She commences "Jane Eyre"Circumstances attending its compositionHer ideas of a heroineHer attachment to homeHaworth in DecemberA letter of...
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The Vanished MessengerThe Vanished Messenger There were very few people upon Platform Number Twenty-one of Liverpool Street Station at a quarter to nine on the evening of April 2possibly because the platform in question is one of the most remote and least used in the great...
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The Survivors of the ChancellorThe Survivors of the ChancellorTHE SURVIVORS OF THE CHANCELLOR was issued in 1875. Shipwrecks occur in other of Verne's tales; but this is his only story devoted wholly to such a disaster. In it the author has gathered all the tragedy, the mystery, and...
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Madam How and Lady Why Or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for ChildrenMadam How and Lady Why; Or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for ChildrenMy dear boys,When I was your age, there were no such childrens books as there are now. Those which we had were few and dull, and the pictures in them ugly and...
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The Club of Queer TradesThe Club of Queer Trades Rabelais, or his wild illustrator Gustave Dore, must have had something to do with the designing of the things called flats in England and America. There is something entirely Gargantuan in the idea of economising space by piling houses...
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A NightmareThe Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare It is very difficult to classify THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY. It is possible to say that it is a gripping adventure story of murderous criminals and brilliant policemen; but it was to be expected that the...
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Our Legal Heritage: The First Thousand Years: 600 - 1600Our Legal Heritage: The First Thousand Years: 600 - 1600 - King Aethelbert - Queen ElizabethPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the...
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Dangerous DaysDangerous Days Natalie Spencer was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess. Like most women of futile lives she lacked a sense of proportion, and the small and unimportant details of the service absorbed her. Such conversation as she threw at random,...
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14921492 THE morning was gray and I sat by the sea near Palos in a gray mood. I was Jayme de Marchena, and that was a good, old Christian name. But my grandmother was Jewess, and in corners they said that she never truly...
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Marie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan QuatermainMarie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain The Author hopes that the reader may find some historical interest in the tale set out in these pages of the massacre of the Boer general, Retief, and his companions at the hands...
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The Pivot of CivilizationThe Pivot of Civilization Birth Control, Mrs. Sanger claims, and claims rightly, to be a question of fundamental importance at the present time. I do not know how far one is justified in calling it the pivot or the corner-stone of a progressive civilization....
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The People of the AbyssThe People of the Abyss The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902. I went down into the under-world of London with an attitude of mind which I may best liken to that of the explorer. I was...
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ParmenidesParmenides The awe with which Plato regarded the character of 'the great' Parmenides has extended to the dialogue which he calls by his name. None of the writings of Plato have been more copiously illustrated, both in ancient and modern times, and in none...
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