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RomneyThe most obvious gap in the ranks of the portraits by British painters in our National Collections is caused by the absence of any work of really first-rate importance by George Romney. The Parsons Daughter, in the National Gallery, and the Mrs. Robinson, at...

Fifteen sonnets of PetrarchThis introduction is based essentially upon a paper Sunshine and Petrarch which originally included most of the sonnets in this volume. It was written at Newport, R.I., where the translator was then residing. -v- Near my summer home there is a...

Rinaldo ardito: Frammenti inediti pubblicati sul manoscritto originale ALL'ACCADEMIA VALDARNESE cui il POGGIO zelante ed acuto discopritore di rari monumenti della sapienza latina dava vita QUESTE PREZIOSE RELIQUIE DEL CANTORE DEL FURIOSO dimenticate e quasi ignote due consoci seguaci troppo diseguali degli studj di...

Storia del Quindici Maggio in Napoli - con l'esposizione di alcuni fatti che han preparato la catastrofe Tristi casi io vado ad esporre, al cui racconto i pi remoti posteri non aggiusteranno fede o chiameranno barbaro il secol nostro: ma la tirannide non ha...

Arabian-pulweria: Komedia yhtenä näytöksenä, kahdella waihoksellaOldfuks. Tm kaupunki ei olekkaan niin pieni, kuin min luulin. Tll on komeita talojakin koko joukko, josta nkyy, ett asukkaat lienewt warakkaita ihmisi. (Andreas tulee). Mutta kas! onpa totta niinkin tuossa minun entinen kumppanini Andreas, jota en ole nhnyt...

Araapilainen pulveri: Yksinäytöksinen huvinäytelmäKettuliini: Ei tm kaupunki olekkaan niin pieni kuin luulin. Tll on paljon komeita rakennuksia, joista ptten tll asuu varakasta vke. Mutta kas, no, sun taivaan tulivasara, tuossahan on vanha toverini Andreas, jota en moniin vuosiin ole nhnyt. Andreas! Sink se olet...

The Rise and Fall of NauvooQUEEN ANNE'S war was brought to a close by the treaty of Utrecht, in 1713. By this treaty the French province, Nova Scotia, was ceded by France to England; and, of course, the inhabitants, nearly exclusively French, and numbering...

The History of the 7th Battalion Queen's Own Cameron HighlandersTHE HISTORY OF THE 7TH BATTALION QUEEN'S OWN CAMERON HIGHLANDERS "Lieutenant-Colonel Sandilands of the 7th Camerons arrived on the hill. Being the senior officer present, he took command and planted the Headquarters flag of his...

Het paddestoelenboekjePaddenstoelen... ze zijn altijd nog maar weinig in tel. Duivelsbrood is en blijft het voor de meesten en daarmede is al heel duidelijk gezegd hoe men er over denkt: weerzinwekkend duister goedje, nergens voor te gebruiken, alleen goed voor hongerige duivels. t Is...

Anzeiger für Kunde der deutschen Vorzeit (1866) - Neue Folge. Dreizehnter Band.Nrnberg. Das Abonnement des Blattes, welches alle Monate erscheint, wird ganzjhrig angenommen und betrgt nach der neuesten Postconvention bei allen Postmtern und Buchhandlungen Deutschlands incl. Oesterreichs 3 fl. 36 kr. im 24 fl.-Fus...

The Capitals of Spanish AmericaDear Sir,In compliance with your request, I enclose an unsigned draft of a letter dictated by Mr. Arthur last November. It was submitted to him a few days before he died, and as he desired to make no further changes...

Lars Levi Laestadius: Elämäkerrallinen kuvausKen on likemmin tutustunut siihen uskonnolliseen liikkeesen, joka viimeisin vuosikymmenin laestadiolaisuuden nimell on voittanut niin paljon alaa Suomessa, Venjn Karjalassa, Skandinaavian pohjoisseuduissa, Lapissa ja vielp valtameren toisella puolellakin, hn varmaankin on alkanut tiedustella, miten tuo suuremmoinen liike on syntynyt, kuka...

Ludwig Tiecks Genoveva, als romantische Dichtung betrachtetDer Romantiker Ludwig Tieck ist eine bedeutende, einflussreiche und interessante Persnlichkeit. Zu den allerersten, bahnbrechenden und fhrenden Geistern unserer Literatur gehrt er jedoch nicht. Es mag daher keineswegs fr jedermann selbstverstndlich sein, dass man ber eine einzelne Dichtung...

Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1866-1876In my preface to "The Middle Period" I wrote that the re-establishment of a real national brotherhood between the North and the South could be attained only on the basis of a sincere and genuine acknowledgment by the South that...

Indian Creek Massacre and Captivity of Hall Girls - Complete history of the massacre of sixteen whites on Indian creek, near Ottawa, Ill., and Sylvia Hall and Rachel Hall as captives in Illinois and Wisconsin during the Black Hawk war, 1832No one is satisfied...

Das Glück ist immer da! Heitere Geschichten und PlaudereienMeine Freunde haben es verschuldet. Sie haben mich so lange gereizt. Eduard, du wirst zu stark, Eduard! sagten sie tglich zu mir; die Gefhlloseren sagten: zu dick, die Gemtsrohen: zu fett. Ich leugnete das energisch; aber...

The Laughter of Peterkin: A retelling of old tales of the Celtic WonderworldAt the rising of the moon, Peterkin awoke, and laughed. He was in his little white bed near the open window, so that when a moonbeam wavered from amid the branches of...

Retrato de la Lozana Andaluza - En lengua española muy clarísima, compuesto en Roma.Pocas obras podrn encontrarse con tanto derecho figurar en una coleccion de libros espaoles raros curiosos, como la que contiene el presente volmen; con decir que de ella no se conoce...

Space Station 1For the grim reality was that some deadly outer-space power had usurped control of the great artificial moon. A lovely woman had disappeared; passengers were being fleeced and enslaved; and, using fantastic disguises, imposters were using the Station for their own mysterious...

Social Environment and Moral ProgressBefore entering on the question of the relation of morality to our existing social environment, it will be advisable to inquire what we mean by moral progress, and what evidence there is that any such progress has occurred in recent...