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The King Behind the KingFulk of the Forest had taken the way towards Witchs Cross, with the full moon shining like a silver buckler behind him, to find himself standing at gaze among the yews of the Black Gill. Straight before him stretched a...

Apologia della vita politica di F.-D. Guerrazzi Le agitazioni popolari trasmodando in Italia nel 1848, siccome avviene in tutti i movimenti politici, tenevano inquieti gli animi delle classi pi agiate, tanto pi insofferenti di tumulti quanto meno abituate alla vita politica degli Stati liberi....

De complete werken van Joost van Vondel. Vergelijking van de Verlossinge der Kindren Israels met de Vrijwording der Vereenigde Nederlandsche Provinciën, [etc.][1] Anders Klinkdicht. Wij plaatsen hier dit gedicht om de gelijkheid van 't onderwerp, hoewel het anders eerst een vijf of zes jaar...

The Green GoddessThe Vicar was sufferingalmost as much as he had suffered the night that Helen, his wife, had diedand because he was suffering he dressed his fine cameo-like face in its sunniest smile. That was his waypart of his creed-of-daily-life, an intrinsic part...

The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe - Being Sketches of the Domestic and Religious Rites and Ceremonies of the SiameseThe following pages are intended to present to the reader an account of the domestic and religious rites and ceremonies of the Siamese. They are...

Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden and the Founding of the Yellowstone National ParkOne of the prime movers among the many explorers of the west who played key roles in establishing the Yellowstone National Park was Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden of the U. S. Geological and Geographical Survey...

De koraal-eilanden: fragment uit het dagboek van een natuuronderzoeker - De Aarde en haar Volken, 1875In 1838 ondernam het engelsche schip de Beagle, onder de bevelen van den kapitein Fitz-Roy, eene reis rondom de wereld, waaraan ook deelgenomen werd door den sedert zoo bekend...

Insurgent MexicoI remember you thought it strange that my first trip abroad didn't make me want to write about what I saw there. But since then I have visited a country which stimulated me to express it in words. And as I wrote these...

In the Line of Battle: Soldiers' Stories of the WarThe narratives in this volume, which is a companion to my Soldiers Stories of the War, are told on exactly the same lines as those which were adopted for that collection. There was a personal...

Birds and All Nature, Vol. 6, No. 3, October 1899 - Illustrated by Color PhotographyFORESTS have always been admired, and in ancient times they were often considered sacred, the special dwelling-places of gods and various strange beings. We can easily understand how forests thus...

Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources - Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of ThemThe present...

De BiezenstekkerEen der allerjongsten onder de beoefenaars der Nederlandsche proza, doch van heden af een der meest belovenden. Buysse behoort tot die kloeke, echt Vlaamsche familie der Lovelings, waaruit ook de gezusters R. en V. Loveling, des schrijvers tanten van moeders zijde, gesproten zijn....

Terry's Texas RangersIt is but natural that man should desire to leave some record of his achievements for the information of succeeding generations. This desire was manifested in the infancy of the race, and is shown in monuments and chiseled stone, and in writings...

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 438, April 1852On Friday evening, the 27th February 1852, the House of Lords presented a magnificent and profoundly interesting spectacle. Vanishing daylight was being succeeded by that artificial illumination which gradually gave a new aspect to the gorgeous...

Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 09, No. 1, March 1917The pages of the journal are especially open to western entomologists and zoologists. Notes and papers relating to western and Californian forms and conditions are particularly desired, but short morphological, systematic or economic studies...

The Sabbath-School Index - Pointing out the history and progress of Sunday-schools, with approved modes of instruction.A few years ago the author prepared a little Manual entitled "The Sunday-School Worker Assisted," etc., which was so favorably received as to call for a large edition...

The Dean of Lismore's Book: A Selection of Ancient Gaelic PoetryIn the heart of the Perthshire Highlands, and not far from the northern shore of Loch Tay, there lies a secluded vale of about six miles long. The river Lyon, which issues from the...

En voi: Perhekuvaus kahdessa näytöksessäv. DANN (heitten kirjeen pydlle). "En voi, ei laatuun ky, on mahdoton!" Sit' tuskin kest ihmisen, Kun kurjall' ihmiskuunall' on Tuo lause kaikkeen toimeen estehen. En voi ma: nhd joka kirjeess' saa, En voi: saa kuulla, minne matkustaa. Maan ympri...

Stille Welten: Neue Stimmungen aus DingsdaAlles blau! Diese himmlisch hellhimmelblaue Wandtnche! Und an den Fenstern diese niedlichen Dingerchen von Vorhngen aus Kattun mit ihrem Kornblumenmuster und ihren sauber ausgepltteten Falbeln. Dieser blaugestrichene Tisch mit der blaugemusterten Quastendecke. Hellblaugeblmt das Sofa dahinter und hellblaugeblmt die...

Mr. Punch in Society: Being the Humours of Social LifeIt would be difficult to think of Mr. Punchs prototype of the immortal drama as in Society; but, however much our national jester may resemble in facial detail the somewhat rude and impulsive character from...