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Interesting Incidents Connected With the Life of George Bickers - Originally a Farmer's Parish Apprentice at Laxfield, in Suffolk, but Now Residing in Oultonp. 3The writer of these pages was born at Laxfield, a village in the County of Suffolk, on the 16th day...

The Irish Peasant; Or, The History of Peter Lacy and His Wife SusanIt was on a dull, cold evening that Peter Lacy, a poor labourer, having finished the clump of turf which he had engaged to do, put on his ragged coat, and walked...

Apostol a Hódságon: RegényAz utczra csak egy komor, dsztelen fal ltszik belle, a melyen vak bemlyedsek helyettestik az ablakokat. A ki itt lakik, nemcsak azt nem akarja, hogy t lssk, de maga sem kivncsi a klvilgra. A villa eltt lv kert pen mlt a...

Buffalo Bill's Boy Bugler; Or, The Last of the Indian RingIt is now some generations since Josh Billings, Ned Buntline, and Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, intimate friends of Colonel William F. Cody, used to forgather in the office of Francis S. Smith, then proprietor of...

General Brock Among the men of action who are entitled to be called makers of Canada, Sir Isaac Brock may well take a prominent place. He came to Canada in 1802, and gave ten years of his life to the country in which he...

Reasons for Leaving the Church of RomeDUBLIN: PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM CARSON, 92, GRAFTON-STREET; AND SOLD BY MESSRS. R. M. TIMS; WILLIAM CURRY, Jun. & CO.; J. ROBERTSON & CO; J. BURNSIDE; GRANT AND BOLTON, J. BOLSTER, CORK; G. PHILIPPS, AND WM. MCOMB, BELFAST; J....

The Dying GipsyConscience, say some, is a mere whim, that frightens weak minds, renders man a coward, and cuts short half his purposes. But is it not rather the candle of the Lord shining in mans dark bosom, to bring to light the hidden...

The Geology of Mt. Mansfield State ForestIncluded within Mount Mansfield State Forest are Mount Mansfield, Smugglers Notch and a number of the mountains of the Green Mountain range to the northeast and southwest of these famous landmarks. Because much of the area is easily...

Bailey's DamMajor General Nathaniel P. Banks, Union commander of the Red River military expedition, found himself in a particularly tight situation in April of 1864. He had been defeated at the Battle of Mansfield while attempting to capture Shreveport, Louisiana, and now he was...

Notice bio-bibliographique sur La Boëtie, suivie de La Servitude volontaireCe travail biographique est compltement d au hasard. Nous n'avions, en effet, nulle intention de nous occuper isolment de La Botie, qui n'entre dans les recherches que nous avons entreprises sur Montaigne que comme satellite...

Foreign ExchangeBecause of war conditions the American dollar is at a serious discount in all of the neutral countries of Europe and throughout the world, notwithstanding the fact that the United States had a favorable balance of trade of over three thousand millions last...

Nyári zivatar: RegényFlkilenc volt. Magda flllott a reggeliz asztaltl s lement a kertbe. Az asztal vgn Fein r, a nevel szintn mozgoldni kezdett, kihzta a sovny derekt s elsznt pillantsokkal buzdtotta a kt fiut a megmozdulsra. A kt fiu azonban vidman beszlgetett a nagyapjval....

LondonTHERE is an old London story that has never lost its loveliness for me. It was about a stout old lady from the country, who travelled round and round the Underground Railway in a circle, because at each station she tried to get out...

La libertà Giovanni Stuart Mill nacque a Londra nel 1806. Il padre di lui, Giacomo Mill, storico ed economista di qualche valore, scolaro di Bentham ed intimo amico di Ricardo, sottopose il suo promettente ingegno ad un sistema di educazione che ne svilupp assai...

Memoirs of Doctor Burney (Vol. 3 of 3) - Arranged from his own manuscripts, from family papers, and from personal recollections by his daughter, Madame d'ArblayOn the 16th of November, Dr. Johnson, in the carriage, and under the revering care of Mr. Windham, returned...

Leo TolstoyIF any one wishes to form the fullest estimate of the real character and influence of the great man whose name is prefixed to these remarks, he will not find it in his novels, splendid as they are, or in his ethical views,...

Billy and Hans, My Squirrel Friends: A True History In our judgments of the respective intellectual capacities of the animals which lend themselves to human companionship, any approach to scientific accuracy in our comparative psychology demands that we should compare our subjects in their...

ZurkThere was both agony and defeat etched deeply into Guyard's lean face as he stood there in the center of the hidden, attic laboratory. His fists were clinched tightly at his sides and his hollow eyes were staring tensely and with supplication at the...

Thief of MarsRon Jordan presented a disgusting sight of an Earthman in the last stages of dissipation, as he slouched along the single dark street of Halo City, the sardonically named pirate base on Ceres, Ron's clothing was dirty and worn, his shoulders hunched...

Sienai Szent Katalin vőlegénye: ElbeszélésekMostanban gyakran ltni az ilyesmit: rozzant kis szekr, amelynek kenderhmjba maga a gazda grnyed igavonnak. A szekeren pedig sszedoblva mindenfle lim-lom, amit az els rajtats riadalmban kapkodott ssze a pusztulsnak hagyott hajlkbl a hbors vidk szerencstlen lakja. Mgtte g a...