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John Leech's Pictures of Life and CharacterJohn Leech's Pictures of Life and Character We, who can recall the consulship of Plancus, and quite respectable, old-fogyfied times, remember amongst other amusements which we had as children the pictures at which we were permitted to look. There was Boydell's Shakspeare, black and...
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The Second Funeral of NapoleonThe Second Funeral of Napoleon MY DEAR ,It is no easy task in this world to distinguish between what is great in it, and what is mean; and many and many is the puzzle that I have had in reading History (or the works...
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Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and AstrologerIsaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer Of the relations between Steele and Addison, and the origin of Steele's "Tatler," which was developed afterwards into the "Spectator," account has already been given in the introduction to a volume of this Library, * containing essays from the...
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The History of John BullThe History of John Bull The world is much indebted to the famous Sir Humphry Polesworth for his ingenious and impartial account of John Bull's lawsuit. Yet there is just cause of complaint against him, in that he relates it only by parcels, and...
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Back HomeBack Home GENTLE READER:Let me make you acquainted with my book, Back Home. (Your right hand, Book, your right hand. Pity's sakes! How many times have I got to tell you that? Chest up and forward, shoulders back and down, and turn your toes...
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A Room with a ViewA Room with a View The Signora had no business to do it, said Miss Bartlett, no business at all. She promised us south rooms with a view close together, instead of which here are north rooms, looking into a courtyard, and a long...
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Saint Martin's SummerSt. Martin's Summer CHAPTER I. THE SENESCHAL OF DAUPHINY CHAPTER II. MONSIEUR DE GARNACHE CHAPTER III. THE DOWAGERS COMPLIANCE CHAPTER IV. THE CHATEAU DE CONDILLAC CHAPTER V. MONSIEUR DE GARNACHE LOSES HIS TEMPER CHAPTER VI. MONSIEUR DE GARNACHE KEEPS HIS TEMPER CHAPTER VII. THE...
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Villa Rubein, and Other StoriesVilla Rubein, and Other Stories Writing not long ago to my oldest literary friend, I expressed in a moment of heedless sentiment the wish that we might have again one of our talks of long-past days, over the purposes and methods of our art....
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The IdiotThe Idiot Towards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine oclock one morning, a train on the Warsaw and Petersburg railway was approaching the latter city at full speed. The morning was so damp and misty that it was only with great...
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YouthYouth I have said that my friendship with Dimitri opened up for me a new view of my life and of its aim and relations. The essence of that view lay in the conviction that the destiny of man is to strive for moral...
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The Historical Nights' Entertainment: First SeriesThe Historical Nights' Entertainment: First Series In approaching The Historical Nights' Entertainment I set myself the task of reconstructing, in the fullest possible detail and with all the colour available from surviving records, a group of more or less famous events. I would select...
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ClarenceClarence As Clarence Brant, President of the Robles Land Company, and husband of the rich widow of John Peyton, of the Robles Ranche, mingled with the outgoing audience of the Cosmopolitan Theatre, at San Francisco, he elicited the usual smiling nods and recognition due...
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The Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological StudyThe Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological Study - Essay #8 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" I conceive that the origin, the growth, the decline, and the fall of those speculations respecting the existence, the powers, and the dispositions of beings analogous to men, but...
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Hasisadra's AdventureHasisadra's Adventure - Essay #7 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" Some thousands of years ago there was a city in Mesopotamia called Surippak. One night a strange dream came to a dweller therein, whose name, if rightly reported, was Hasisadra. The dream foretold the...
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The Lights of the Church and the Light of ScienceThe Lights of the Church and the Light of Science - Essay #6 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" There are three ways of regarding any account of past occurrences, whether delivered to us orally or recorded in writing. The narrative may be exactly true....
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Mr. Gladstone and GenesisMr. Gladstone and Genesis - Essay #5 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" In controversy, as in courtship, the good old rule to be off with the old before one is on with the new, greatly commends itself to my sense of expediency. And, therefore,...
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The Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of NatureThe Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature - Essay #4 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" Our fabulist warns "those who in quarrels interpose" of the fate which is probably in store for them; and, in venturing to place myself between so powerful...
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Lectures on EvolutionLectures on Evolution - Essay #3 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" We live in and form part of a system of things of immense diversity and perplexity, which we call Nature; and it is a matter of the deepest interest to all of us...
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The Rise and Progress of PalaeontologyThe Rise and Progress of Palaeontology - Essay #2 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" That application of the sciences of biology and geology, which is commonly known as palaeontology, took its origin in the mind of the first person who, finding something like a...
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On the Method of ZadigOn the Method of Zadig - Essay #1 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" It is an usual and a commendable practice to preface the discussion of the views of a philosophic thinker by some account of the man and of the circumstances which shaped...
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