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History of Sculpture, Painting, and ArchitectureTaste is the perception of intellectual pleasure. Beauty, the object of taste and the source of this pleasure, is appreciated by the understanding, exercised, either upon the productions of art, or upon the works of nature. The term beauty,...

A Witch in TimeI saw this faire young maide, Abigaile Goodyeare, standing yonder on ye gallows and shee saith againe and againe that she was no witch, although the jury had founde her guilty of ... familiarity with Satan, the grand enemie of God...

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 63, No. 387, January, 1848"Experience," says Dr Johnson, "is the great test of truth, and is perpetually contradicting the theories of men." "If an empire," said Napoleon, "were made of granite, it would soon be reduced to powder by political...

Galeni pergamensis de temperamentis, et de inaequali intemperieThomas Linacre, known to his contemporaries as one of the most learned scholars of an epoch when learning was highly prized, but in after times chiefly as the founder of the College of Physicians in London, was...

The Confessions of Al GhazzaliAbo Hmid Muhammed Ibn Muhammad Al Ghazzali was born in the city of Tus in Khorassan, A.D. 1058, one year after the great poet and freethinker Abu l Al died. He was the son of a dealer in cotton thread...

Oppressions of the Sixteenth Century in the Islands of Orkney and Zetland - From Original DocumentsThe History of Orkney and Zetland is still to be written. There is no part of the United Kingdom which possesses historical materials more ample, or more early, and...

Index of Project Gutenberg Works on Black History - A 2019 Project Gutenberg Contribution for Black History Month ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 58975 Author: Various Release Date: Feb 27, 2019 Format: eBook Language: English Contributors Editor: Widger, David, 1932-

Our TownA jet bomber and four fighters had appeared low over Bald Ridge, out of the east. They'd curved up as one to clear Lawson's Hill, their stubby wings almost brushing the treetops, their hiss and thunder rolling back and forth between the valley...

Shackleton's Last Voyage: The Story of the Quest Sir Ernest Shackleton died suddenly; so suddenly that he said no word at all with regard to the future of the expedition. But I know that had he foreseen his death and been able to communicate...

Life of Johann Wolfgang GoetheTHE best sources of information about Goethe are his own works and letters. It would be ungrateful, however, not to acknowledge the service which has been rendered to students of his character and genius by various German scholars. Among the...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and TennesseeNational Park Handbooks, compact introductions to the great natural and historic places administered by the National Park Service, are designed to promote understanding and enjoyment of the parks. Each is intended to be informative reading and...

Handbook of German IdiomsThis collection of German idioms is presented in the hope that it will prove helpful to teachers and students of the language, and that it may contribute in a modest way toward making the sentence rather than the word the unit...

Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 6, December 1847In the first conception of the institution of chivalry it was doubtless a device of great purity, and contemplated none but highly proper and becoming purposes. Those very features which, in our more sophisticated era, seem to...

Aristocracy & Evolution - A Study of the Rights, the Origin, and the Social Functions of the Wealthier ClassesThe word aristocracy as used in the title of this volume has no exclusive, and indeed no special reference to a class distinguished by hereditary political...

The Procurator of JudeaAelius Lamia, born in Italy of illustrious parents, had not yet put off the patrician's white toga with the purple stripe when he went to Athens to study philosophy there in the schools. He afterwards set up in Rome and, in...

The Girl's Own Paper. Vol. XX. No. 1007. April 15, 1899In the press and excitement of this his first campaign, Roy did not lose sight of Mollys suggestion that he should keep a slight journal of the course of events. The plan commended itself...

Harper's Round Table, August 4, 1896Helen (awed). "Oh, Tommie, aren't you awfully afraid of the bears they tell about up here?" Tommie. "Naw! I'm not afraid of the bears anybody tells about. I'm only afraid of the bears I see." "Papa," said Willie, as...

RoadtownThis book is dedicated to J. Pierpont Morgan, a straight player of a crooked game, who, it is said, played his usual role in the Wall Street manipulations of the Central Railroad of Georgia securities, which adroitly and legally absorbed the small savings and...

The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (New Series, No. 50) November 1911No person who is not an official visitor of the prison, or who has not a written permission, according to such rules as the Inspectors may adopt as aforesaid, shall be allowed...

Making Home ProfitableIt is just sixteen years since misfortune brought about our emancipation. A disastrous business venture made it necessary to curtail expenses. Rent being an especially heavy item, the hunt for a cheaper habitation commenced. Toiling up and down innumerable stuffy staircases in...