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Brief Diversions: Being Tales, Travesties and EpigramsNEARLY all these pieces have appeared in the Cambridge Review, and I thank the Editor for his courtesy in allowing me to reprint them. A few travesties and epigrams have been added, and others have been revised. Most...

Brief for the higher education of the negroRidicule and contempt have characterized the habitual attitude of the American mind toward the Negros higher strivings. The African was brought to this country for the purpose of performing manual and menial labor. His bodily powers alone...

Brief Guide: National Gallery of ArtThe National Gallery of Art belongs to all the people of the United States of America. Established by a joint resolution of Congress, it is supported by public appropriation. The Board of Trustees consists of four public servants, ex...

Brief History of English and American LiteratureThe volume from which this e-book was prepared contains two of Beers' books, "An Outline Sketch of English Literature" and "An Outline Sketch of American Literature," which start on pages 7 and 317, respectively. Page numbers in this...

Brief Hours and Weeks is the author's account of growing up in a small, tightly knit, first-generation Polish-Jewish community in Cape Town in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.Observing through at first naive and then later more sophisticated eyes, he describes his childhood and youth...

Clear comprehension of what the events in the Bible mean isn't a lost cause and doesn't require a PhD. This book is your guide to quickly deciphering key doctrines, providing expert observations so that you can comprehend more of Scripture than you ever have...

Serious Bible study can be a daunting task. It takes effort and skill, but it can be done well by anyone. This book provides an honest account of what will and won't help you in your Bible study endeavors as well as expert observations...

Clear comprehension of what's in the Bible and what it means isn't a lost cause. This book provides expert observations so that you can comprehend more of Scripture than you ever have before. The Bible was written for us--but not to us. We're not...

In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence.Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many guises. Among...

Brief Lives, Vol. 1Aubrey sought and obtained an introduction to Anthony Wood in August 1667. He was keenly interested in antiquarian studies, and had the warmest love for Oxford; he had been a contemporary in Trinity College with Wood's brother, Edward; and so was...

Brief Lives, Vol. 2[A]Mr. Ingelbert was the first inventer or projector of bringing the water from Ware to London[1] called Middleton's water. He was a poore-man, but Sir Hugh Middleton[2], alderman of London, moneyed the businesse; undertooke it; and gott the profit and also...

Brief Records of the Independent Church at Beccles, Suffolk - Including biographical notices of its ministers,and some account of the rise of nonconformity in the East Anglian countiesMany months ago, I was favoured with a perusal of the earliest records of the Independent church...

Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French ClergyHowever wide from the allotted boundaries and appointed province of Females may be all interference in public matters, even in the agitating season of general calamity; it does not thence follow that they are exempt from all...

Briefe an eine FreundinDie Briefe, welche hier erscheinen, werden gewi als eine willkommene Zugabe zu den gesammelten Werken Wilhelm von Humboldts empfangen werden. Oft ist der Wunsch ausgesprochen, da, auer den gelehrten Schriften, die man allein und getrennt von denen wnschte, die nicht in...

Briefe an Ludwig Tieck (1/4) - Erster BandLange beschftigte ihn der Gedanke, eine Auswahl des reichhaltigen Briefwechsels herauszugeben, in dem er whrend eines langen litterarischen Lebens mit den verschiedensten Mnnern gestanden hatte. Diese Sammlung, so weit sie ihn persnlich betrifft, beginnt mit dem Jahre...

Briefe an Ludwig Tieck (2/4) - Zweiter BandGeb. zu Innsbruck am 20ten Januar 1781, gestorben in Mnchen am 5ten Novemb. 1848, als Direktor des Reichsarchives. Fruchtbarer Schriftsteller: Der sterreichische Plutarch, 20 Bd. (180720) Taschen-Buch fr vaterlnd. Geschichte, 37 Bd. von ihm redigirt (18111848) ebenso:...

Briefe an Ludwig Tieck (3/4) - Dritter BandGeboren 1783 zu Sore, einer der bedeutsamsten dnischen Philologen, Historiker und Kritiker. Er bereisete in den Jahren 1819 und 1830 sowohl Deutschland, als Frankreich und Italien; wurde schon 1823 Professor der Litteraturgeschichte an der Universitt; war von...

Briefe an Ludwig Tieck (4/4) - Vierter BandGabriele, 3 Bde. (1820.) Die Tante, 3 Bde. (1823.) Sidonia (1828.) Erzhlungen, 11 Bde. (182532.) Reise durch England und Schottland (1813.) Reise durch das sdliche Frankreich, 2 Bde. (1817.) Kunsthistorische Werke &c. Sie war, seitdem sie sich...

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) war ein deutschsprachiger Schriftsteller. Sein Hauptwerk bilden neben drei Romanfragmenten zahlreiche Erzählungen. Kafkas Werke wurden zum grö eren Teil erst nach seinem Tod und gegen seine letztwillige Verfügung von Max Brod veröffentlicht, einem engen Freund und Vertrauten, den Kafka als Nachlassverwalter...

Briefe aus Aulestad an seine Tochter Bergliot Ibsen Der grte Teil dieser Briefe ist in den Jahren 1887 bis 1890 geschrieben. Der Zeitraum ist kurz, aber gerade aus diesem Grunde verstrkt sich der Gesamteindruck. Als ich sie von neuem durchlas, berraschte es mich, welch...