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Nature and the GodsNature and the Gods - From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures Ladies and Gentlemen,No word has played a more important part in the discussion of scientific and philosophical questions than the word Nature. Everyone thinks he knows the meaning of it. Yet how few...
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A Few Words About the Devil, and Other Biographical Sketches and EssaysA Few Words About the Devil, and Other Biographical Sketches and Essays At the request of many friends, and by way of farewell address on leaving for America, I, for the first time in my life, pen a partial autobiographical sketch. I do not...
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Heresy: Its Utility And Morality. A Plea And A JustificationHeresy: Its Utility And Morality. A Plea And A Justification What is heresy that it should be so heavily punished? Why is it that society will condone many offences, pardon many vicious practices, and yet have such scant mercy for the open heretic, who...
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Phallic MiscellaniesPhallic Miscellanies - Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of IndiaAll that it is necessary to say by way of preface to this book is, that, having in various former volumes, entitled severally Phallism, Nature...
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A History of Literary Criticism in the RenaissanceA History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance - With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicismThis essay undertakes to treat the history of literary criticism in the Renaissance. The three sections into which the essay...
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Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886)Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886)It is on record that Wilhelm Mannhardt, the eminent writer on mythology and folk-lore, was once taken for a gnome by a peasant he had been questioning. His personal appearance may have helped the illusion; he was small...
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Mr. Punch on Tour: The Humour of Travel at Home and AbroadMr. Punch on Tour: The Humour of Travel at Home and AbroadDesigned to provide in a series of volumes, each complete in itself, the cream of our national humour, contributed by the masters of comic draughtsmanship and the leading wits of the age to...
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Curious Myths of the Middle AgesCurious Myths of the Middle AgesI do not refer to the first illustration as striking, where the Jewish shoemaker is refusing to suffer the cross-laden Savior to rest a moment on his door-step, and is receiving with scornful lip the judgment to wander restless...
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Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and TolstoyProphets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and TolstoyThe collocation of authors so widely at variance in their moral and artistic aims as are those assembled in this little book may be defended by the safe and simple argument that all of...
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Cronache LetterarieCronache Letterarie Nuovi ideali d'arte e di critica, conferenza Felice Cavallotti, drammaturgo e poeta Alfonso Daudet Goethe Giovanni Meli Gabriele d'Annunzio Emilio Zola Una jettatura La Chimera E. Rod E. Lesca Vittorio Pica Enrico Ibsen Di un'opinione di E. Zacconi Ascensioni umane Tullo Massarani...
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Literary BywaysLiterary Byways [Pg 1] LITERARY BYWAYS. interest of the public in those who write for its entertainment naturally extends itself to their habits of life. All such habits, let it be said at once, depend on individual peculiarities. One will write only in the...
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From Pillar to Post: Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-BookFrom Pillar to Post: Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-BookI could not let these random notes of a delightful experience go forth into the world without expressing in some way my deep appreciation of the valued services rendered me in my ten years of platform...
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Humours of Irish LifeHumours of Irish LifeHe was born in Cork in 1793, and was a classical schoolmaster there in early manhood, having secured the degree of LL.D. at Trinity College, Dublin, when only 23 years of age. The success in Blackwoods Magazine of some of his...
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A vuela pluma: colección de artículos literarios y políticosA vuela pluma: colección de artículos literarios y políticosIMPRESO ya este libro y reunidos en l no pocos artculos, se me ofrecen dificultades que conviene allanar antes de que el libro salga luz pblica. Ponerle ttulo es la menor de todas y ya la...
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Mr. Punch in BohemiaMr. Punch in BohemiaDesigned to provide in a series of volumes, each complete in itself, the cream of our national humour, contributed by the masters of comic draughtsmanship and the leading wits of the age to "Punch," from its beginning in 1841 to the...
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The Religions of Ancient Egypt and BabyloniaThe Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia It was with a considerable amount of diffidence that I accepted the invitation to deliver a course of lectures before this University, in accordance with the terms of Lord Gifford's bequest. Not only is the subject of...
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Aspects and ImpressionsAspects and ImpressionsThese Essays are mainly reprinted from The Edinburgh Review, The London Mercury, The Modern Languages Review, and The Fortnightly Review. "Malherbe and the Classical Reaction" was the Taylorian Lecture at Oxford for 1920, and is included here by the courtesy of the...
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Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens and Their Cultural SignificanceBabylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens and Their Cultural SignificanceAs a result of researches in the field of Babylonian-Assyrian divination, now extending over a number of years[1], it may be definitely said that apart from the large class of miscellaneous omens[2], the Babylonians and Assyrians developed chiefly three...
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Religion and Science from Galileo to BergsonReligion and Science from Galileo to Bergson"Philosophy will always be hard, and what it promises even in the end is no clear theory nor any complete understanding or vision. But its certain reward is a continual evidence and a heightened apprehension of the ineffable...
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Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and GoetheThree Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and GoetheThe present volume is composed, with a few additions, of six lectures read at Columbia University in February, 1910, and repeated in April of the same year, at the University of Wisconsin. These lectures, in turn, were based...
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