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Pariisin Notre-Dame 1482Nm vanhuuttaan mustuneet, nkyvsti kiviseinn kaiverretut kreikkalaiset kirjaimet ja ties mik niiden muodoissa ja piirteiss ilmenev goottilaisen kaunokirjoituksen erikoisuus, loka ilmaisi, ett ne oli siihen kirjoittanut joku keskiaikainen ksi, sek varsinkin niiden uhkaava ja kohtalokas merkitys tekivt voimakkaan vaikutuksen kirjoittajaan. Myhemmin on...

Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 6 (of 8) - The United States of North America, Part ITHE American Revolution was no unrelated event, but formed a part of the history of the British race on both continents, and was not without influence...

Trif and Trixy - A story of a dreadfully delightful little girl and her adoring and tormented parents, relations, and friendsTRIXY was not a babe, for she had passed her seventh birthday and was as wise and irrepressible as the only child of a...

Champavert: contes immorauxCest toujours un pnible emploi que celui de dtrompeur, cest toujours une pnible corve que celle de venir enlever au public ses douces erreurs, ses mensonges auxquels il sest fait, auxquels il a donn sa foi; rien nest plus dangereux que de...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 729, December 15, 1877I am a professional man, and reside in the West End of London. One morning some few months back, my assistant on coming to attend to his duties produced a bunch of...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 728, December 8, 1877Something like two centuries ago, while the persecution against the Covenanters was raging in Scotland, many were forced, for conscience' sake, to give up all and retire to out-of-the-way places, to be...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 727, December 1, 1877In walking through any part of the metropolisbe it in the City, the West End, or any part of the suburbs north or southyou will, especially if early in the day, see...

The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World Contents To The Duchesse of Newcastle, On Her New Blazing-World. To all Noble and Worthy Ladies. The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World. The Second Part of the Description of the New Blazing-World....

DoctorThere were suns, which were nearby, and there were stars which were so far away that no way of telling their distance had any meaning. The suns had planets, most of which did not matter, but the ones that did count had seas and...

The King of the CityI stood in the shadows and looked across at the rundown lot with the windblown trash packed against the wire mesh barrier fence and the yellow glare panel that said HAUG ESCORT. There was a row of city-scarred hacks parked...

The OliveThere is no tree nor fruit which offers more in interest than the olive tree and its fruit. To obtain anything approaching an idea of its many-sidedness, it is necessary to become acquainted with the life and legends of ancient peoples, in which...

Our Sentimental GardenNever was trifling chronicle begun so light-heartedly as this chatty, idly reminiscent book of oursand now it is under the great shadow of war, of death and suffering, that we see it pass into its final shape! The little paradise on the...

The Illustration of Books - A Manual for the Use of Students, Notes for a Course of Lectures at the Slade School, University CollegeTHESE lectures were delivered in the Slade School, University College, at the request and suggestion of Professor F. Brown, and, I...

Other Fools and Their Doings, or, Life among the FreedmenThough the sun shone uncomfortably hot, neither the men nor the horses they bestrode seemed anxious to escape its rays, for they traveled quite leisurely several miles, till they reached a point where the road...

The History of the 33rd Divisional Artillery, in the War, 1914-1918.To write the history of a unit in the war must, even to the most able pen, prove a mighty task, for it is not given to many to be able in words to...

A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, Now Entituled the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 02 (of 17)Limited to one thousand numbered sets, of which this is Allow me, thus publicly to express my admiration of your...

The Weirdest WorldAs I am now utterly without hope, lost to my mission and lost in the sight of my crew, I will record what petty thoughts I may have for what benefit they may give some other starfarer. Nine long days of bickering!...

Scent Makes a DifferenceA fried egg came floating up through the stone steps of the Medical Center and broke on my shoe. According to my watch, it was time for the breakfast I didn't have that morning, so I waited a moment for the...

The Brighton Boys in the Argonne ForestPLUCK and perseverance are American characteristics; in all the world there are none superior. Perhaps more than to anything else the physical advancements of our country have been due to the tremendous desire and the will to go...

The Trail of the ElkThe story begins in R Valley, which lies like a yawning gap between mountains, long and flat with borders of forests so dark that they look as though part of the blackness of night lingered in them. A river moves...