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John Williamson (1835-1917), son of missionary Dr. Thomas S. Williamson, grew up speaking both English and Dakota and spent most of his adult life on the Santee Reservation of northeastern Nebraska. In 1902 he made his contribution to the world's collection of lexicons by...

An Englishman in Paris: Notes and RecollectionsThe Quartier-Latin in the late thirties The difference between then and now A caricature on the walls of Paris I am anxious to be introduced to the quarter whence it emanated I am taken to "La Childebert," and...

An Englishman Looks at the World - Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the...

An Englishman's Travels in America - His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave StatesPersonal narrative and adventure has, of late years, become so interesting a subject in the mind of the British public, that the author feels he is not...

An Englishman's View of the Battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge - An Account of the Naval Engagement in the British Channel, on Sunday June 19th, 1864THE NAVAL ENGAGEMENT IN THE BRITISH CHANNEL, ON SUNDAY, JUNE 19TH, 1864. FROM INFORMATION PERSONALLY OBTAINED IN...

An Englishwoman in AngoraOthers, moved by curiosity, have sought permission to visit the country under its new rgime, but Nationalist Turkey has bidden them waituntil she is sure that her guests will write, or speak, the truth about what they may see, and can...

An Englishwoman in the PhilippinesIn the following letters, written during a stay of nine months in the Philippine Islands, I tried to convey to those at home a faithful impression of the country I was in and the people I met. Since I came...

An Englishwoman in Utah: The Story of a Life's Experience in MormonismDuring my residence in France, my parents had left St. Heliers and returned to Southampton, England. To visit them now I had to take a sailing vessel from Portrieux to the Isle of...

An Englishwoman's HomeIt was in "Aldersyde" many years ago that I first met Mrs. Burnett Smith, writing then as during the intervening years under the pen name of Annie S. Swan, beloved of all readers of wholesome books. Many times since I have met...

An Englishwoman's Love-LettersIt need hardly be said that the woman by whom these letter were written had no thought that they would be read by anyone but the person to whom they were addressed. But a request, conveyed under circumstances which the writer herself...

An Englishwoman's Love-LettersThe person or persons who have associated work with this document (the "Dedicator" or "Certifier") hereby either (a) certifies that, to the best of his knowledge, the work of authorship identified is in the public domain of the country from which the...

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding1. Moral philosophy, or the science of human nature, may be treated after two different manners; each of which has its peculiar merit, and may contribute to the entertainment, instruction, and reformation of mankind. The one considers man chiefly as...

David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding is the definitive statement of the greatest philosopher in the English language. His arguments in support of reasoning from experience, and against the "sophistry and illusion"of religiously inspired philosophical fantasies, caused controversy in the eighteenth century and are...

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals The following is an e-text of a 1912 reprint of the 1777 edition of David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals. Each page was cut out of the original book with an X-acto knife and...

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty, etc.Since the early nineteenth century it has been known that Frances Reynolds, the sister of Sir Joshua, was the author of an essay on taste, which she had...

An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in WarI take it for granted, that a Christian is not bound to believe any Thing to have been of Divine Institution, that has not been declared to be such in Holy...

An Enquiry into the Causes of the Frequent Executions at Tyburn (1725)HE Design of this small Treatise, is to lessen if not prevent the common Practice of Thieving, and save many Lives of the loose and indigent Vulgar, of which now such great Numbers...

An Enquiry into the Life and Legend of Michael ScotAfter some considerable time spent in making collections for the work which is now submitted to the public, I became aware that a biography of Michael Scot was in existence which had been composed as...

An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens - In Which the Religious State of the Different Nations of the World, the Success of Former Undertakings, and the Practicability of Further Undertakings, Are Considered As our...

An Enquiry Into the Origin and Intimate Nature of MalariaThe text of this e-book has been preserved in its original form apart from correction of a few typographic errors (omposition composition, recal recall, gives give, bloodvessels blood vessels), and insertion of some missing quotation...