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Madam How and Lady Why Or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for ChildrenMadam How and Lady Why; Or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for ChildrenMy dear boys,When I was your age, there were no such childrens books as there are now. Those which we had were few and dull, and the pictures in them ugly and...
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The Club of Queer TradesThe Club of Queer Trades Rabelais, or his wild illustrator Gustave Dore, must have had something to do with the designing of the things called flats in England and America. There is something entirely Gargantuan in the idea of economising space by piling houses...
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A NightmareThe Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare It is very difficult to classify THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY. It is possible to say that it is a gripping adventure story of murderous criminals and brilliant policemen; but it was to be expected that the...
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Our Legal Heritage: The First Thousand Years: 600 - 1600Our Legal Heritage: The First Thousand Years: 600 - 1600 - King Aethelbert - Queen ElizabethPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the...
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Dangerous DaysDangerous Days Natalie Spencer was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess. Like most women of futile lives she lacked a sense of proportion, and the small and unimportant details of the service absorbed her. Such conversation as she threw at random,...
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14921492 THE morning was gray and I sat by the sea near Palos in a gray mood. I was Jayme de Marchena, and that was a good, old Christian name. But my grandmother was Jewess, and in corners they said that she never truly...
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Marie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan QuatermainMarie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain The Author hopes that the reader may find some historical interest in the tale set out in these pages of the massacre of the Boer general, Retief, and his companions at the hands...
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The Pivot of CivilizationThe Pivot of Civilization Birth Control, Mrs. Sanger claims, and claims rightly, to be a question of fundamental importance at the present time. I do not know how far one is justified in calling it the pivot or the corner-stone of a progressive civilization....
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The People of the AbyssThe People of the Abyss The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902. I went down into the under-world of London with an attitude of mind which I may best liken to that of the explorer. I was...
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ParmenidesParmenides The awe with which Plato regarded the character of 'the great' Parmenides has extended to the dialogue which he calls by his name. None of the writings of Plato have been more copiously illustrated, both in ancient and modern times, and in none...
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The Secret of the NightThe Secret of the Night THE SECRET OF THE NIGHT I. GAYETY AND DYNAMITE II. NATACHA III. THE WATCH IV. "THE YOUTH OF MOSCOW IS DEAD V. BY ROULETABILLES ORDER THE GENERAL PROMENADES VI. THE MYSTERIOUS HAND VII. ARSENATE OF SODA VIII. THE LITTLE...
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The Mystery of the Yellow RoomThe Mystery of the Yellow Room CHAPTER V. In Which Joseph Rouletabille Makes a Remark to Monsieur Robert Darzac Which Produces Its Little Effect It is not without a certain emotion that I begin to recount here the extraordinary adventures of Joseph Rouletabille. Down...
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The Egoist: A Comedy in NarrativeThe Egoist: A Comedy in NarrativeComedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent...
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HonorineHonorine If the French have as great an aversion for traveling as the English have a propensity for it, both English and French have perhaps sufficient reasons. Something better than England is everywhere to be found; whereas it is excessively difficult to find the...
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MenexenusMenexenus The Menexenus has more the character of a rhetorical exercise than any other of the Platonic works. The writer seems to have wished to emulate Thucydides, and the far slighter work of Lysias. In his rivalry with the latter, to whom in the...
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EryxiasEryxias Much cannot be said in praise of the style or conception of the Eryxias. It is frequently obscure; like the exercise of a student, it is full of small imitations of Plato:Phaeax returning from an expedition to Sicily (compare Socrates in the Charmides...
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At the Sign of the Cat and RacketAt the Sign of the Cat and Racket Half-way down the Rue Saint-Denis, almost at the corner of the Rue du Petit-Lion, there stood formerly one of those delightful houses which enable historians to reconstruct old Paris by analogy. The threatening walls of this...
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Hiram the Young FarmerHiram the Young Farmer CHAPTER I. THE CALL OF SPRING CHAPTER II. AT MRS. ATTERSON'S CHAPTER III. A DREARY DAY CHAPTER IV. THE LOST CARD CHAPTER V. THE COMMOTION AT MOTHER ATTERSON'S CHAPTER VI. THIS DIDN'T GET BY HIRAM CHAPTER VII. HOW HIRAM LEFT...
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An Historical Mystery (The Gondreville Mystery)An Historical Mystery (The Gondreville Mystery) The autumn of the year 1803 was one of the finest in the early part of that period of the present century which we now call Empire. Rain had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so...
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Alcibiades IIAlcibiades II The two dialogues which are translated in the second appendix are not mentioned by Aristotle, or by any early authority, and have no claim to be ascribed to Plato. They are examples of Platonic dialogues to be assigned probably to the second...
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