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Stories of RomanceI told you that I was perfectly sure, beforehand, we should find some pleasing girlish or womanly shape to fill the blank at our table and match the dark-haired youth at the upper corner. There she sits, at the very opposite corner,...

Some Account of the Oxford University Press, 1468-1921Transcribers Note: Illustrations have been moved, where necessary, to the nearest paragraph break in the text. Images with a blue border can be clicked for a larger version, if the device youre reading this on supports that....

'And So Ad Infinitum' (The Life of the Insects) - An Entomological Review, in Three Acts, a Prologue and an EpilogueLepidopterist. There they go, there they go! Fine specimens! Apatura Iristura Clythialight-blue butterflies and the Painted Lady. Wait a minuteIll get you! Thats just...

The Empire and the Papacy, 918-1273General Characteristics of the PeriodThe End of the Dark AgesThe Triumph of FeudalismThe Revival of the Roman Empire and PapacyThe Struggles of Papacy and EmpireThe Spread of Religion and CivilisationThe Crusades and the Latin EastThe Growth of National Monarchies....

La glèbeIl pense Trouville, aux mois des dernires vacances, Denise. Son cousin, ce noceur, les avait unis solennellement, un matin, devant la mer plumete, tandis que ruisselait l'harmonieuse voix des eaux, tandis que riait cette fille aux cheveux teints. Et suivit une folle excursion...

The Colored Man in the Methodist Episcopal ChurchIt is a difficult matter to write of a battle while it is still raging. The combatants are not usually the best judges of the merits of their cases. Prejudice, education, preconceived notions of the right or...

Orkney and ShetlandI wish to thank Captain Malcolm Laing of Crook for the photograph from Sir Henry Raeburns portrait of Malcolm Laing, the historian; Andrew Wylie, Esquire, Provost of Stromness, for the portraits of Dr Rae and David Vedder; and J. A. Harvie-Brown, Esquire,...

Místicas; poesías Qu es el hombre para que un Dios tan grande se digne hacerle objeto de sus pensamientos y cuidados? Vos, Dios mi, le hicisteis casi igual a los ngeles, le adornasteis con los dones ms gloriosos de naturaleza y gracia, y le...

Threlkeld's DaughterNight was a diamond studded dream from where they sat. The moon was a maiden on wing suggesting amorous flight. Inside the stuffiness of the celluloid-like vehicle there was absolutely no hint of discomfort or absurd misfittingsdespite the fact that Threlkeld and his...

Navalta navalle I Esipuhe. 1. Itmeren yli. 2. Saksan pkaupunki. 3. Merimuseo. 4. Simpanssin seurassa. 5. Balkanin niemimaalle. 6. Konstantinopoli. 7. Pyhn viisauden kirkko. 8. Mustameri. 9. Trapetsuntista Teheraniin I. 10. Ensiminen matkani Bakuun. 11. Persian halki. 12. Persian ermaassa. 13. Jvuorten taatto. 14....

The Course of LogicThe male silth plodded forward wearily at sixty miles an hour, pausing only long enough to uproot and wolf down one of the rare scrub trees directly in its path. Its three hundred tons of massive body shook the ground as...

Le beau LaurenceLaurence avait parl pendant deux heures, et la sympathie qu'il m'inspirait me faisait prendre un vif intrt ses aventures; pourtant, je m'avisai qu'il devait tre fatigu, et je l'emmenai dner mon auberge, o, aprs avoir repris des forces, il reprit aussi son...

An Attempt to Analyse the Automaton Chess Player of Mr. De Kempelen - To Which is Added, a Copious Collection of the Knight's Moves over the Chess BoardThe Automaton Chess Player was first introduced into England by Mr. de Kempelen, its inventer, about the...

A Kont-eset: Fantasztikus regény a XXI. századbólVmhzy, a vilghir tuds elmeslte (vagy hetvenedszer), hogy a londoni llatkertben nem egyszer stlt karonfogva az angol kirlynvel s egyben szemre hnyta a magyar arisztokrczinak, hogy a tudomnyt nem becsli meg benne az rtke szerint. Klimanczy vgre, a...

Aline et Valcour, ou Le Roman Philosophique. Tome 4Nam veluti pueris absinthia tetra medentes, Cum dare conantur pris oras pocula circum Contingunt mellis dulci flavoque liquore, Ut puerum aetas improvida ludificetur Labrorum tenus; interea perpotet amarum Absinthi laticem deceptaque non capiatur, Sed potius tali...

The Escorial - A Historical and Descriptive Account of the Spanish Royal Palace, Monastery and MausoleumIn putting forth this modest account of the Escorial, that marvellous monument to the Hapsburg dynasty, I beg to inscribe it to your Excellency, as a tribute of my...

Hannibal Crosses the AlpsI have heard this question discussed ever since I was a child, but have never yet written anything about it except in my Small Talk at Wreyland. In the First Series, page 75, I was talking about travelling on the Continent,...

Down to the Worlds of MenThe horses and packs were loaded before we went aboard the scoutship. The scout bay is no more than a great oversized airlock with a dozen small ships squatting over their tubes, but it was the last of the...

Trois Stations de psychothérapieCes trois essais sont tirs des dossiers o j'ai liass les notes dont furent composs ces Traits de la culture du moi auxquels certains esprits ont donn leur sympathie. Voici en quelque sorte des marginalia de Brnice, de l'Homme libre et...

Spiro Mounds: Prehistoric Gateway ... Present-Day EnigmaThe mounds at Spiro, Oklahoma, are among the most important archaeological remains in the United States. A remarkable assemblage of artifacts from the mounds shows that prehistoric Spiro people created a sophisticated culture which influenced the entire Southeast....