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Arrows of the Chace, vol. 2/2 - being a collection of scattered letters published chiefly in the daily newspapers 1840-1880The letters relating to Mr. Ruskin's candidature for the Lord Rectorship of Glasgow University were published when this volume was almost out of the printer's...

The American Postal Service - History of the Postal Service from the Earliest TimesThis little work on postal affairs aims to familiarize postal employes and others with the operations of the Post Office Department in all its varied and numerous details. No attempt was...

Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water - The Journal of a Tour Through the British Empire and America Lat. 43 15 N., Long. 50 12 W. All is intensely quiet. The revolution even of the screw has ceased. We are wrapped in a...

Diary of Richard Cocks, Volume 2 - Cape-Merchant in the English Factory in Japan, 1615-1622, with CorrespondenceWe had much adoe with the mareners of our junk about carrying passingers along with them, and som of the officers of junk came ashore, but I sent...

Le Premier LivreThe aim of the authors is to put in the hands of the beginner, from the very first lesson, natural, practical, and interesting French. The story about which this book is built is Hector Malot's Sans Famille. On this story the grammar,...

Animal Parasites and MessmatesIn that great drama which we call Nature, each animal plays its especial part, and He who has adjusted and regulated everything in its due order and proportion, watches with as much care over the preservation of the most repulsive insect,...

Under the LawThe streets between Willow Roads and the little town of Morris on the Hudson were still corrugated with March thaw. But the sun shone warmly and there was the wet smell of oncoming spring in the air. Women flung open their coats...

Inorganic Plant Poisons and StimulantsEver since the physiological side of botany began to emerge from obscurity, the question of the relation between the nutrition and the growth of the plant has occupied a foremost position. All kinds of theories, both probable and improbable, have...

Rustic Chivalry (Cavalleria Rusticana): Melodrama in One Act1. The original text is dual column, with English on the left and Italian on the right, with musical scores interspersed throughout. In this version, the complete English text for a scene is shown first, followed by...

Considérations inactuelles, deuxième série - Schopenhauer éducateur, Richard Wagner à BayreuthCe voyageur, qui avait vu beaucoup de pays et de peuples, et visit plusieurs parties du monde, et qui l'on demandait quel tait le caractre gnral qu'il avait retrouv chez tous les hommes, rpondait...

Jumalan teilläMereen kurkottavan vuoren jyrknteell, jossa lumi jo alkoi sulaa ja jota ilta-auringon viimeiset steet valaisivat, seisoi neljntoista vuotias poika kuin lumottuna. Hn katsoi lnteenpin merelle, katsoi idss nkyv kaupunkia, rantoja ja laajoja tuntureita, joiden takaa, kohti selket taivasta kohosi viel korkeampia huippuja. Myrsky...

Souvenirs d'égotisme - autobiographie et lettres inédites publiées par Casimir StryienskiAUTOBIOGRAPHIE ET L E T T R E S I N D I T E S PUBLIS PAR CASIMIR STRYIENSKI PARIS BIBLIOTHQUE-CHARPENTIER G. CHARPENTIER et E. FASQUELLE, diteurs 11, rue de grenelle, 11 1892...

A road-book to old ChelseaOF the making of books about Chelsea, may there never be an end, so rich and unexhausted is our history, so inspiring to those who labour in its service! Every year, as fresh records become accessible, Chelsea is presented to...

AristotleIt has not commonly been the lot of philosophers, as it is of great poets, that their names should become household words. We should hardly call an Englishman well read if he had not heard the name of Sophocles or Molire. An educated man...

The Juvenile Lavater; or, A Familiar Explanation of the Passions of Le Brun - Calculated for the Instruction & Entertainment of Young Persons; Interspersed with Moral and Amusing TalesWhen it is considered, that in the indulgence of the good or bad Passions of the...

KertomuksiaKahden tunturin vliss oli syv kuilu; tss kuilussa vieri raskaana, yli kivien ja riuttojen, vesirikas joki. Korkea jyrknne yleni molemmin puolin, toinen puoli oli ihan paljaana, mutta alhaalla, niin likell jokea, ett sen kosteus kevisin ja syksyisin leveni joelle asti, oli nuorta mets, joka...

Natural GemstonesA natural gemstone is a mineral, stone, or organic matter that can be cut and polished or otherwise treated for use as jewelry or other ornament. A precious gemstone has beauty, durability, and rarity, whereas a semiprecious gemstone has only one or two...

ChoffardYou may never have heard of Choffard and never have seen his work, but if any production from his hand should be brought before your eyes, however insignificant, and you fail to admire it, then it is to confess that no artistic corner exists...

A Life for a Life, Volume 1 (of 3) When the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. I can't help writing itit relieves my mind....

Eighteenth Century Vignettes Sixteen of the twenty papers comprised in this volume appeared in America; but only one of these'The Citizen of the World'has been reprinted in England. Of the four papers remaining, one was published (in part) in the Saturday Review, and the...