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A Book of English Prose - Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High SchoolsThe Editor desires to record his thanks to Messrs Macmillan & Co., Ltd., Messrs Chatto & Windus and Messrs Longmans, Green & Co., for their respective permission to include in this...

A Book of Epigrams Title: A Book of Epigrams Author: Ralph Aberdein Lyon Release Date: July 17, 2010 [EBook #33190] Language: English Credits: Produced by Bryan Ness, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously...

A Book of ExpositionThe articles here presented are modern and unhackneyed. Selected primarily as models for teaching the methods of exposition employed in the explanation of mechanisms, processes, and ideas, they are nevertheless sufficiently representative of certain tendencies in science to be of intrinsic...

In "A Book of Five Rings," Miyamoto Musashi takes the reader into a world filled to the brim with devotion, self-respect, discipline, honesty and purity of thought. Written originally for warriors and samurai in a completely different time and culture, Musashi's book provides a...

A Book of Fruits and Flowers To make all sorts of Poultisses, and Serecloaths for any member swell'd or inflamed, Ointments, Waters for all Wounds, and Cancers, Salves for Aches, to take the Ague out of any place Burning or Scalding; For the stopping...

A Book of Gems, or, Choice selections from the writings of Benjamin FranklinThe writings of no man among the Christian Brotherhood have been so universally popular as those of Benjamin Franklin, save the extended writings of Alexander Campbell. Franklins volumes of Sermons, Debates and...

A Book of German LyricsIn compiling this Anthology my aim has been not so much to acquaint the student with individual great poems as with the poets themselves. With this end in view I have made the selections as full and as varied as...

A Book of GhostsSome of the stories in this volume have already appeared in print. "The Red-haired Girl" in The Windsor Magazine; "Colonel Halifax's Ghost Story" in The Illustrated English Magazine; "Glmr" I told in my Iceland: Its Scenes and Sagas, published in 1863,...

A Book of Giants: Tales of Very Tall Men of Myth, Legend, History, and Science.Man in his youth was so fond of giants that, not finding them large or plentiful enough, he created a bounteous supply. He gave them precedence of himself. In the...

A Book of Golden Deeds As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best...

A Book of Irish Verse - Selected from modern writers, with an introduction and notes by W. B. YeatsI HAVE not found it possible to revise this book as completely as I should have wished. I have corrected a bad mistake of a copyist,...

A Book of Jewish Thoughts This book has illustrated drop-caps at the start of each section. These illustrations may adversely affect the pronunciation of the word with screen-readers or not display properly in some handheld devices. Transcribers Notes are used when making corrections to...

Peter Kingsley's Book of Life is the culmination and completion of an extraordinary body of work. As a historian he has revolutionized our understanding of ancient philosophy and religion; as a mystic, he introduced us to what philosophy and religion are meant to be.Hauntingly...

A Book of MarionettesThe story of the marionette is endless, in fact it has neither beginning nor end. The marionette has been everywhere and is everywhere. One cannot write of the puppets without saying more than one had intended and less than one desired:...

A Book of Medical Discourses, in Two PartsI now present to the public a few thoughts in book form, trusting that they will be accepted on their merits alone. The following pages contain a few simple appeals to common sense, and are addressed to...

Stories about mermaids come from almost every country by the sea-from Iceland to India; America to Arabia. Most mermaids have flowing golden hair, long graceful tails, and a beauty that lures men to the bottom of the sea. Sven, in the Danish story, "Sven...

Stories about mermaids come from almost every country by the sea-from Iceland to India; America to Arabia. Most mermaids have flowing golden hair, long graceful tails, and a beauty that lures men to the bottom of the sea. Sven, in the Danish story, "Sven...

A Book of MythsJust as a little child holds out its hands to catch the sunbeams, to feel and to grasp what, so its eyes tell it, is actually there, so, down through the ages, men have stretched out their hands in eager endeavour...

A Book of Natural History - Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.Every one has seen a cornfield. If you pluck up one of the innumerable wheat plants which are fixed in the soil of the field, about harvest time, you will find that it consists...

A Book of Nimble Beasts: Bunny Rabbit, Squirrel, Toad, and "Those Sort of People"I know a Boy Scout who has never seen a weasel. Many weasels, I fancy, must have seen that Boy Scout. And I know a Girl who has never seen a...