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The Smugglers: Picturesque Chapters in the Story of an Ancient CraftOpinions have ever been divided on the question of the morality, or the immorality, of smuggling. This is not, in itself, remarkable, since that subject on which all men think alike has not yet...

L'Illustration, No. 0059, 13 Avril 1844Albert Thorwaldsen--1770-1844. Portrait de Thorwaldsen. Bas-Reliefs du Jour et de la Nuit.--Petits Pomes du Nord. L'Orage; la Mort.--Algrie. Expdition de Biskarah. Carte de Constantine Biskarah; les ducs d'Aumale et de Montpensier chargeant les Arabes: Vue de Mehounech.--Courrier de Paris....

Chelsea, in the Olden & Present TimesThere are circumstances in connection with the publication of this volume which I deem it necessary to mention. Some persons probably have thought that such an undertaking should have devolved on an individual possessing greater literary attainments, and...

The Lenape Stone; or, The Indian and the MammothIn claiming an impartial examination of so extraordinary a carving as the "Lenape Stone" at the hands of archologists, the writer has had several difficulties to contend with. First, The fact that the carving is quite...

Legends of the City of MexicoThese legends of the City of Mexico are of my finding, not of my making. They are genuine folk-stories. Each one of them is a true folk-growth from some obscure curious or tragical ancient matter that, taking hold upon...

Aristotle The Historian of Greece, when closing his great narrative in the year 1856, promised to follow out in a separate work that speculative movement of the fourth century B.C. which upheld the supremacy of the Hellenic intellect long after the decline of Hellenic...

Theism; being the Baird Lecture of 1876The Lectures in this volume have been delivered in Glasgow, St Andrews, and Edinburgh, in connection with the Lectureship founded by the late Mr James Baird of Auchmedden and Cambusdoon. They will be followed by a volume on...

Ten Thousand Wonderful Things - Comprising whatever is marvellous and rare, curious, eccentric and extraordinary in all ages and nationsA Book of Wonders requires but a brief introduction. Our title-page tells its own tale and forms the best exposition of the contents of the...

Up the Orinoco and down the MagdalenaRes ardua vetustis novitatem dare; novis auctoritatem; absoletis, nitorem; obscuris, lucem; fastiditis, gratiam; dubiis, fidem; omnibus vero naturam, et naturae sua omnia. Itaque etiam non assecutis, voluisse abunde pulchrum atque magnificum est. That is to say: It is...

The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 1 (of 9) - Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private Mr. Jefferson having, by his last will and testament, bequeathed to his grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, all his manuscript papers, Congress,...

Letters Exhibiting the Most Prominent Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day SaintsThe Author has, for some time, felt desirous to see the most prominent subjects of the faith of Latter-day Saints brought before the public in continuous order, in one volume....

Our Little Russian CousinA large country, called Russia, lies in the eastern part of Europe. It stretches from the icy shores of the Arctic Ocean, on the north, to the warm waters of the Black Sea, on the south. Many of the children of...

Our Little Persian CousinPersia is mostly a tableland, from which rise many high mountains. In the winter come storms of snow and rain; in the spring the ground is green with grass and bright with many flowers; but in the late summer and fall...

Writings in Connection with the Donatist ControversyTHE schism of the Donatists, with which the treatises in the present volume are concerned, arose indirectly out of the persecution under Diocletian at the beginning of the fourth century. At that time Mensurius, bishop of Carthage, and...

The Erratic FlameAs the mountain mist, caressing and desultory, resolved into a steady downpour, Anne glimpsed just above her the outlines of a hut. Crouched behind sodden boughs, decrepit, ramshackle, it tottered upon the lip of the ravine. With an amused sense of relief...

The Ocean Wireless Boys on War Swept SeasThe newspapers announced in large type that the Kronprinzessin Emilie, the crack flyer of the Bremen-American line, was to carry from the United States to Germany the vast sum of $6,000,000 in bullion. On her sailing day...

Historias de Reis e PrincipesMantivemos a grafia usada na edio impressa, tendo sido corrigidos alguns pequenos erros tipogrficos evidentes, que no alteram a leitura do texto, e que por isso no considermos necessrio assinal-los.. Estas circumstancias do-lhe fros de homem notavel no seu tempo....

DraculaHow these papers have been placed in sequence will be made manifest in the reading of them. All needless matters have been eliminated, so that a history almost at variance with the possibilities of later-day belief may stand forth as simple fact. There is...

The ABC of CookingFor the benefit of the Knitting Committee of The American Defense Society, which is knitting for American Soldiers and Sailors, and it is hoped that both cook-book and knitted garments may help to make more comfortable the men who are only...

La araña negra, t. 9/9Estaba Zarzoso leyendo la seccin de noticias de un peridico de la noche y se dispona ya a acostarse, en vista de que los relojes de la plaza del Panthen acababan de dar la una de la madrugada. Las cadas...