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Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and SpeechesThoughts on the Present Discontents, and SpeechesEdmund Burke was born at Dublin on the first of January, 1730. His father was an attorney, who had fifteen children, of whom all but four died in their youth. Edmund, the second son, being of delicate health...
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That Mainwaring AffairThat Mainwaring Affair The fierce sunlight of a sultry afternoon in the early part of July forced its way through every crevice and cranny of the closely drawn shutters in the luxurious private offices of Mainwaring & Co., Stock Brokers, and slender shafts of...
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Brother JacobBrother Jacob Among the many fatalities attending the bloom of young desire, that of blindly taking to the confectionery line has not, perhaps, been sufficiently considered. How is the son of a British yeoman, who has been fed principally on salt pork and yeast...
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Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 It was most reluctantly that I determined to suspend, during the last autumn, a work which is the business and the pleasure of my life, in order to prepare these Speeches for publication; and it is most...
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Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 Francis Atterbury, a man who holds a conspicuous place in the political, ecclesiastical, and literary history of England, was born in the year 1662, at Middleton in Buckinghamshire, a parish of which his father was rector. Francis...
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Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 The public voice has assigned to Dryden the first place in the second rank of our poets,no mean station in a table of intellectual precedency so rich in illustrious names. It is allowed that, even of the...
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Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 Lord Macaulay always looked forward to a publication of his miscellaneous works, either by himself or by those who should represent him after his death. And latterly he expressly reserved, whenever the arrangements as to copyright made...
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King Solomon's MinesKing Solomon's Mines Now that this book is printed, and about to be given to the world, a sense of its shortcomings both in style and contents, weighs very heavily upon me. As regards the latter, I can only say that it does not...
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The Lifted VeilThe Lifted VeilThe time of my end approaches. I have lately been subject to attacks of angina pectoris; and in the ordinary course of things, my physician tells me, I may fairly hope that my life will not be protracted many months. Unless, then,...
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The Lumley AutographThe Lumley Autograph {by Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813-1894), daughter of James Fenimore Cooper. "The Lumley Autograph" was published in Graham's Magazine, Volume 38 (January-June 1851), pp. 31-36, 97-101. The author is identified only in the table of contents for Volume 38, p. iii, where...
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The Bridge-BuildersThe Bridge-Builders The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I. Indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease, with...
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Anarchism and Other EssaysAnarchism and Other Essays Propagandism is not, as some suppose, a "trade," because nobody will follow a "trade" at which you may work with the industry of a slave and die with the reputation of a mendicant. The motives of any persons to pursue...
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The Song Book of Quong Lee of LimehouseThe Song Book of Quong Lee of LimehouseBuying and Selling The Power of Music The Lamplighter In Reply to an Invitation A Night-Piece A Smile Given In Passing Of a National Cash Register Under a Shining Window Exchange of Compliments A Song of Little...
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The Expedition of Humphry ClinkerThe Expedition of Humphry Clinker I have received your esteemed favour of the 13th ultimo, whereby it appeareth, that you have perused those same Letters, the which were delivered unto you by my friend, the reverend Mr Hugo Behn; and I am pleased to...
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A Little Tour in FranceA Little Tour in FrancePlease 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 next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million...
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The Prime MinisterThe Prime MinisterIt is certainly of service to a man to know who were his grandfathers and who were his grandmothers if he entertain an ambition to move in the upper circles of society, and also of service to be able to speak of...
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Female Suffrage: A Letter to the Christian Women of AmericaFemale Suffrage: A Letter to the Christian Women of America (This e-text has been prepared from the original two-part magazine article, "Female Suffrage: A Letter to the Christian Women of America," by Susan Fenimore Cooper, which appeared in Harper's New Weekly Magazine, Vol. XLI...
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China and the ManchusChina and the ManchusIt is impossible to give here a complete key to the pronunciation of Chinese words. For those who wish to pronounce with approximate correctness the proper names in this volume, the following may be a rough guide: a as in alms....
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Phyllis of PhilistiaPhyllis of Philistia Ah! sighed Phyllis. She knew that her father had become possessed of a phrase, and that he was anxious to flutter it before her to see how it went. He was a connoisseur in the bric-a-brac of phrases. Ah! sighed Phyllis...
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Around the World in 80 Days. Junior Deluxe EditionAround the World in Eighty Days. Junior Deluxe EditionMr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No.7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention. This Phileas Fogg was...
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