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The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei - and a Part of the Preface to Kepler's Dioptrics Containing the Original Account of Galileo's Astronomical DiscoveriesKepler remarks on the importance of the application of the telescope to astronomical investigations as indicated by Galileos discoveries, published in...

A Spring Walk in ProvenceThe following pages owe a considerable debt to what others who have been over the same ground have written. Mr. T. A. Cook's[1] "Old Provence" (London: Rivington's, 2 vols.) is a most valuable record of the history of the country...

GibraltarThe common tour in Spain does not include Gibraltar. Indeed it is not a part of Spain, for, though connected with the Spanish Peninsula, it belongs to England; and to one who likes to preserve a unity in his memories of a country and...

La Flandre pendant des trois derniers sièclesNote sur la transcription: Les erreurs clairement introduites par le typographe ont t corriges. L'orthographe d'origine a t conserve et n'a pas t harmonise. Les numros des pages blanches n'ont pas t repris. L'histoire de la Flandre se...

Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering StraitThrough the patronage of the Hielmstierne-Rosencrone Institution, obtained in the summer of 1883, I was enabled to spend some time among the archives and libraries in St. Petersburg, to prepare myself for undertaking this work on Vitus Bering....

Brani inediti dei Promessi Sposi, vol. 1 - Opere di Alessando Manzoni vol. 2 parte 1 indescrivibile il rumore che levarono e la voga che ebbero dal 1814 in poi i romanzi storici di Walter Scott[1]. Si succedevano gli uni agli altri con una[xii]...

Of Walks and Walking Tours: An Attempt to find a Philosophy and a CreedThe writing of this little book has given me a great deal of pleasure. That is why I hope that, here and there, it may give pleasure to others. And yet...

Charities and the Commons: The Pittsburgh Survey, Part I. The People THE COMMON WELFARE THE PITTSBURGH SURVEY PITTSBURGH THE NEW PITTSBURGHERS SOME PITTSBURGH STEEL WORKERS THE TEMPER OF THE WORKERS UNDER TRIAL THE WORKING WOMEN OF PITTSBURGH IMMIGRANT TYPES IN THE STEEL DISTRICT THE...

Leaves from My Journal: Third Book of the Faith-Promoting Series - Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-Day SaintsAbout nine months have elapsed since the first edition of this work was published, and now the whole number issuedover 4,000 copiesare exhausted, and...

The Khaki Boys at Camp Sterling; Or, Training for the Big Fight in FranceYou, over there in the crowd, and you and you, why dont you get busy and help Uncle Sam? What are you hanging back for? Nows your chance to show that...

Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and SecessionThis work is designed as a contribution to the volume of information from which the historian of the future will be able to prepare an impartial and comprehensive narrative of the American Civil War, or to speak more accuratelyThe...

Charities and the Commons: The Pittsburgh Survey, Part II. The Place and Its Social Forces THE COMMON WELFARE PITTSBURGH SURVEY PITTSBURGH A CITY COMING TO ITSELF EFFECT OF FORESTS ON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN THE PITTSBURGH DISTRICT THE TRANSIT SITUATION IN PITTSBURGH THE ALDERMEN AND...

Origin Myths among the Mountain Peoples of the PhilippinesBeliefs as to the origin of the earth, and of the men, animals, plants, and various topographical features found in it, seem to survive with greater persistence than any other trait of primitive culture. These beliefs...

The Garden of SwordsSickle and reaper and harvest of sorrow; Heavy the wagons that gather the dead; Let there be dirge for the sun of the morrow! God is the gleaner on fields ye have fled! Old Pre Bonot, sunning himself before the doors...

Le livre de tous les ménages - ou l'art de conserver pendant plusieurs années toutes les substances animales et végétalesDepuis plus de vingt ans que la premire dition du Livre de tous les Mnages a paru, des succs constans et multiplis ont prouv la...

Goethes Briefe an Leipziger FreundeSie haben, lieber Freund, nicht nur die erste Veranlassung zu diesem Buch gegeben, sondern auch auf Form und Inhalt desselben einen so bestimmenden Einflu gebt, da Sie sich es schon gefallen lassen mssen auch Ihren Namen dazu herzugeben. Ich wei...

The Gayton Scholarship: A School Story"Good-morning, Mrs. Hartland. Isn't Jim ready? All right; I'll wait for him. Do you think Susie would care for these wild flowers and grasses? I picked them this morning. Rover and I have been for a splendid run over...

Capitals of the Northlands: Tales of Ten CitiesMany excellent things have been written about the cities of the South, but little, comparatively speaking, about the cities of the North. True, indeed, they have not moulded kingdoms and shaped the culture of a continent, but...

Loyola and the Educational System of the JesuitsA learned and elegant work, which narrates the rise and progress of Christian Schools, from the sixtieth year of the Christian era onwards, ends its long journey at the date of the Reformation, and takes leave of...

Indian Birds: Being a Key to the Common Birds of the Plains of IndiaThe first edition of this work was exhausted a year before I became aware of the fact, and, as the demand appears to be brisk, I have not caused further delay...