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Seller of the SkyNo one took Old Arch seriously; he was just an ancient, broken-down wanderer who went about seeking alms and spreading tales of the great Outside. But sometimes children are curious and believing when adults are cynical and doubting.... They say he...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson [1] Games of strength. The public games of Greece were athletic and intellectual contests of various kinds. There were four of importance: the Olympic, held every four years; the Pythian, held every third Olympic...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of John Burroughs You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within...

Modern American PoetryThe end of the Civil War marked the end of a literary epoch. The New England group, containing (if Poe could be added) all the great names of the ante-bellum period, began to disintegrate. The poets had outsung themselves; it was a...

InhibitionSaxon glanced up. His nostrils flared. "Hurry," he told the crewmen, and came forward, beaming. He was tired. It showed in his feverish, too-bright smile as he said, "Afraid Engineering's a little behind schedule. They'll be here tomorrow morning to erect your city. Tonight...

The Eastern, or Turkish Bath - Its History, Revival in Britain, and Application to the Purposes of Health.It is now about twelve months since, that my attention was first attracted to the Eastern Bath. I thought I knew as much of baths as most...

Tiere und Pflanzen in Wald und FeldEndlich sind die farbenschnen Abbildungen einheitlich und naturgetreu ausgefhrt, so da auch sie das Interesse der Kinder beleben helfen. berhaupt stand fr unsere Erwgungen der Gedanke im Vordergrunde, da diese Bcher geeignet sein knnten, sich im Kampfe gegen...

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 4 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's HandbookThe original volume promised many illustrations. However, the edition used here had none of them. The List of Illustrations is retained; however, the pages indicated, which...

The Untempered Wind It was early spring, the maples were but budding, the birds newly come and restless, the sky more gray than blue, and the air still sharp with a tang of frost. Jamestown's streets, however, looked both bright and busy. Groups of...

Jean-Christophe Pariisissa II - VI. AntoinetteJeanninit olivat noita vanhoja ranskalaisia sukuja, jotka vuosisatoja pysyvt paikoillaan samassa maaseudun kolkassa ja puhtaina kaikilta vierailta sekoituksilta. Sellaisia on viel Ranskassa paljon enemmn kuin luullaankaan, kaikista yhteiskunnan muutoksista huolimatta; tarvitaan ylen kovaa mullistusta, ett se tempaisi ne suvut...

The Babees' Book: Medieval Manners for the Young: Done into Modern EnglishNEARLY forty years ago, Dr. Furnivall collected for the Early English Text Society divers treatises touching the Manners and Meals of Englishmen in former days. Some of these were published in 1868, under...

Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 2 (of 2) Obvious typographical errors in the editor's text have been corrected. Inconsistent or incorrect accents, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation in the original documents and quotes were left as printed. Obituary published...

Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 1 (of 2) Audubon's growing fameExperience in Paris in 1828Cuvier's patronageAudubon's publicationsHis criticsHis talents and accomplishmentsHis Americanism and honesty of purposeHis foibles and faultsAppreciations and monumentsThe Audubon SocietiesBiographies and autobiographyRobert Buchanan and the...

Vagabond AdventuresRALPH KEELER. BOSTON: FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO. 1870. {ii} Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, BY RALPH KEELER, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co., Cambridge. TO My old Friend...

History of Sculpture, Painting, and ArchitectureTaste is the perception of intellectual pleasure. Beauty, the object of taste and the source of this pleasure, is appreciated by the understanding, exercised, either upon the productions of art, or upon the works of nature. The term beauty,...

A Witch in TimeI saw this faire young maide, Abigaile Goodyeare, standing yonder on ye gallows and shee saith againe and againe that she was no witch, although the jury had founde her guilty of ... familiarity with Satan, the grand enemie of God...

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 63, No. 387, January, 1848"Experience," says Dr Johnson, "is the great test of truth, and is perpetually contradicting the theories of men." "If an empire," said Napoleon, "were made of granite, it would soon be reduced to powder by political...

Galeni pergamensis de temperamentis, et de inaequali intemperieThomas Linacre, known to his contemporaries as one of the most learned scholars of an epoch when learning was highly prized, but in after times chiefly as the founder of the College of Physicians in London, was...

The Confessions of Al GhazzaliAbo Hmid Muhammed Ibn Muhammad Al Ghazzali was born in the city of Tus in Khorassan, A.D. 1058, one year after the great poet and freethinker Abu l Al died. He was the son of a dealer in cotton thread...

Oppressions of the Sixteenth Century in the Islands of Orkney and Zetland - From Original DocumentsThe History of Orkney and Zetland is still to be written. There is no part of the United Kingdom which possesses historical materials more ample, or more early, and...