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Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 2 (of 3)At any time whatever, at the time when any animal springs for seizing an animal that is its prey, it comes running near a rock that is in an open place in the forest. Having arrived near...

Education of WomenThe higher education of women in America is taking place before our eyes on a vast scale and in a variety of ways. Every phase of this great experiment, if experiment we choose to call it, may be studied almost simultaneously. Women...

Sermons by the late Rev. Richard de CourcyThe following discourses, which were found among the manuscripts of the Author after his decease, will, no doubt, be extremely acceptable to those, who have been accustomed to hear the word of truth from his lips, and...

The Dreadnought Boys Aboard a DestroyerHum; dont know about the brave sailor part of it, smiled Ned Strong pleasantly, as the dark-skinned speaker halted him and his companion Herc Taylor in the shadow of the gray wall of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. We are...

Interim: Pilgrimage, Volume 5 Miriam thumped her Gladstone bag down on to the doorstep. Stout boots hurried along the tiled passage and the door opened on Florrie in her outdoor clothes smiling brilliantly from under the wide brim of a heavily trimmed hat. Grace...

A czigánybáró; Minden poklokon keresztülKilenczszz falu llt resen a bnsg terletn. (Az sszeirs az olyan falut, a melyikben kt hz lakva van, mr a lakottak kz sorozza.) Azoknak egy rsze le is volt getve s porig rombolva; de olyan is sok volt, a hol...

Journal 01, 1837-1846 - The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 07 (of 20) Thoreau was a man of his own kind. Many things may be said of him, favorable and unfavorable, but this must surely be said first,that, taken for all in all,...

Pickett or Pettigrew? An Historical EssayThe first edition of this pamphlet appeared a short time before the publication of the Official Records relating to Gettysburg. Consequently many things of importance to the subject treated were unknown to the writer. Such facts as he possessed...

How to Install Electric Bells, Annunciators, and Alarms. - Including Batteries, Wires and Wiring, Circuits, Pushes, Bells, Burglar Alarms, High and Low Water Alarms, Fire Alarms, Thermostats, Annunciators, and the Location and Remedying of TroublesAn electric bell depends for its action on the fact...

Sappho: Memoir, text, selected renderings, and a literal translationI would fain have enriched this edition of my Sappho with some new words of the poetess, if only even to the slight extent which I reached in 1887; but, to the world's sorrow, that pleasure...

Jeanne d'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France - Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in the Original DocumentsBy the order of Pope Calixtus in 1455, the Trial of Jeanne dArc at...

Colección de Documentos Inéditos Relativos al Descubrimiento, Conquista y Organización de las Antiguas Posesiones Españolas de Ultramar. Tomo 6, De La Isla De Cuba, IIIEn las cifras en nmeros romanos impresas en versalita en el original, el tamao de la letra U (1000) es,...

Women Students in the University of North Carolina: 1897-1922This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the admission of women into the University and so it has seemed fitting that it should be the occasion of a general alumnae reunion. It is with pleasure that...

Kahden reportterin seikkailut: SeikkailuromaaniPelisaleissa kvi kuin maininkien vaimeneva kohina. Vihrefrakkiset virkailijat liukuivat ihmisjoukossa ja suhisevin nin muistuttivat, ett rahan ja intohimon pyhtss tytyi olla hiljaa. Sihkyvien shkkruunujen valossa loistivat kirjavavriset marmoriseint korinttilaisine pylvineen, kuvapatsaineen ja korkokuvineen, parketti kumisi satojen hillittyjen askelten nt, ja vihreverkaisilla...

The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 09 (of 12)Sketches of the Principal Picture-Galleries in England. With a Criticism on Marriage a-la-mode, appeared in a small 8vo. volume (6 in. 4 in.) in 1824, Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 93, Fleet-Street, and 13, Waterloo-Place,...

"The One" Dog and "The Others": A Study of Canine CharacterTHAT creatures best that comes most near to man may in truth be spoken of the dog. Nearest to man in the daily experiences of domestic life, he shares the joys and disappointments that...

Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals In the preparation of this work it has been the writer's aim to present in it, with historical accuracy, authentic facts; to be fair and impartial in grouping them; and to be true...

My Chinese MarriageI saw Chan-King Liang for the first time on a certain Monday morning in October. It was the opening day of college, and the preceding week had been filled with the excitement incidental to the arrival of many students in a small...

Diary Kept by Rifleman B. C. Stubbs of the Second Draft Sent to the Queen Victoria Rifles in FranceONCE again the shadow has fallen darkly on all associated with the Union-Castle Line, both in the City of London and at sea. Another young member...

Eastern Stories and LegendsTo this new and enlarged edition of Eastern Stories and Legends, Miss Shedlock has brought years of dramatic experience in the telling of stories to children and grown people in England and America, and united with it a discriminating selection from...