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Ruotsalainen uhkapurjehtija - Historiallinen kertomus 1854 vuoden sota-ajan muutamista tapahtumista Suomen vesillä ja rannoillaV. 1854 eli ja oli Geflen kaupungissa Ruotsin maalla kunnallisraatimies, nimell Gaabriel Evert, joka muuten ammatiltansa oli puutavarain kauppias. Hnt pidettiin arvossa rehellisen ja kunniallisen luontonsa thden ja kaupungin hallitus oli...

Pee-wee Harris: FixerPee-wee Harris, or rather the left leg of Pee-wee Harris, emerged from an upper side window of his home, and was presently followed by the rest of Pee-wee, clad in his scout suit. He crept cautiously along an ornamental shingled projection till...

The Yellow Flag: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 3)"So you have conquered your dislike to leaving England, Tom; I am very glad. I felt certain you would give-in to our wishes, and see the wisdom of what we suggested to you." "Well, I am...

Nat the Navigator. A Life of Nathaniel Bowditch. For Young PersonsMoved by feelings I could scarcely comprehend, while, at the same time, they were most sweet to me, I was led to talk with the pupils of the Warren Street Chapel on the Sunday...

L'oeuvre de John Cleland: Mémoires de Fanny Hill, femme de plaisir - Introduction, essai bibliographique par Guillaume ApollinaireLe clbre auteur des Memoirs of a woman of pleasure naquit en 1707 ou en 1709. Les biographes, qui ne sont pas d'accord sur ce point, ne...

Call Him NemesisThere were twelve people in the bank. There was Mr. Featherhall at his desk, refusing to okay a personal check from a perfect stranger. There was the perfect stranger, an itinerant garage mechanic named Rodney (Rod) Strom, like the check said. There...

Roy Blakeley's Tangled TrailHello, everybody, this is the first story I wrote in a long time, only I havent written it yet. I mean when its all written it will be the first one I wrote in a long time. Thats because my fountain...

Œuvres complètes de Marmontel, tome 8 - Les Incas, ou la destruction de l'empire du PérouCet hommage de la reconnaissance ne sera point souill par l'adulation. C'est la Sude, heureuse de vous avoir remis le dpt de sa libert, la Sude, o rgne -prsent...

The Norwich Road: An East Anglian HighwayTHE author of a little book published in 1818, called A Journey to London, which is nearly all "London" with very little "journey," remarks that "it is as uncommon for a book to go into the world without...

Matthew on MoneyThe occupational training of Matthew is plainly perceptible in the gospel he has written. When he left the receipt of custom to become a follower of Christ and then an apostle and even a gospel historian he carried with him his financial...

In our timeEverybody was drunk. The whole battery was drunk going along the road in the dark. We were going to the Champagne. The lieutenant kept riding his horse out into the fields and saying to him, Im drunk, I tell you, mon vieux....

The Standard Manual for Baptist ChurchesIt is now thirty years since the Baptist Church Directory, prepared by the writer, was first published. That work was designed to be somewhat of a consensus of the opinions of those best able to judge in matters of...

The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922Colonel Howard-Bury and the members of the Expedition of 1921 had effected the object with which they had been despatched. They were not sent out to climb Mount Everest. It would be impossible to reach the summit in a...

Neddie and Beckie Stubtail (Two Nice Bears) - Bedtime StoriesThese stories appeared originally in the Evening News, of Newark, N. J., and are reproduced in book form by the kind permission of the publishers of that paper, to whom the author extends his thanks....

Cinderella StoryThe First Vice-President of the William Howard Taft National Bank and Trust Company, the gentleman to whom Miss Orison McCall was applying for a job, was not at all the public picture of a banker. His suit of hound's-tooth checks, the scarlet vest...

Cherry & Violet: A Tale of the Great Plague SO reticent was Miss Manning in her lifetime, and so loyally have her wishes been obeyed by her kindred since her death, that when Mr. Nimmo last year re-published her beautiful memorial portrait, The Household...

SnythergenSnythergens mother was poorso poor that she did not feel able to support her baby boy. So she put him in a basketit had to be a large oneand left it on the doorstep of a little old couple who had long wished for...

The Inner LifeThere is no inner life that is not also an outer life. To withdraw from the stress and strain of practical action and from the complication of problems into the quiet cell of the inner life in order to build its domain...

The King of Elfland's DaughterI hope that no suggestion of any strange land that may be conveyed by the title will scare readers away from this book; for, though some chapters do indeed tell of Elfland, in the greater part of them there is...

On EverythingThat is a Pagan thing to say and a hopeless one, for the true comfort that remained for men, and that embodied and gave reality to their conquering struggle against every despair, was surely Song. If you would ask what society is imperilled...