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Life of David W. Patten, the First Apostolic MartyrThe writing of this little volume has been a pleasant task. And just as we find mingled with our regret at parting with a friend, a joy in the assurance that to whomsoever he comes he...

Demonien ruhtinatar: KertomusGogol syntyi 12 p. maalisk. 1809 Sorovintsassa, Poltavan ja Mirgorodin kihlakuntien rajalla, isns, vhvenlisen kirjailijan maatilalla. Hn vietti lapsuutensa vhvenlisen luonnon ja tapojen vlittmss keskuudessa, oppi jo nuorena rakastamaan isnmaataan, mik tunne hness oli voimakas koko hnen elmns ajan. Hurmaava Ukrainan luonto,...

Constantinople, v. 1 (of 2)9 The arrival at Constantinople made such an overpowering impression upon me as to almost efface what I had seen during the previous ten days trip from the Straits of Messina to the mouth of the Bosphorus. The Ionian Sea,...

Satisfaction GuaranteedAndrew Stephens was trying to think of two things at once, and it wasn't working out. An inspirational message (delivered by Crumbly, president of Planetary Promotions, Inc.) was mixing itself up in his mind with the probable difficulties of his first company assignment....

Wall of Crystal, Eye of NightSoft as the voice of a mourning dove, the telephone sounded at Rufus Sollenar's desk. Sollenar himself was standing fifty paces away, his leonine head cocked, his hands flat in his hip pockets, watching the nighted world through the...

SanguinesNous, par respect pour son grand ge et pour sa grande gloire plus vnrable encore, nous nous tenions debout en face de sa personne,[p. 4] adosss deux cyprs noirs et n'osant ouvrir la bouche alors qu'il ne disait rien. Immobiles, nous le considrions avec...

La Esfinge Maragata: NovelaVIBRA el soplo estridente de la mquina que desaloja vapor, cruje con recio choque una portezuela, algunos pasos vigorosos repercuten en el andn, silba un pito, tae una campana, y el convoy trajina, resuella y huye, dejando la pequea estacin muda...

Harper's Young People, January 3 1882 - An Illustrated Weekly Pray where do the Old Years go, mamma, When their work is over and done? Does somebody tuck them away to sleep, Quite out of the sight of the sun? Or, perhaps, are they...

Die alte Krone: Ein Roman aus dem SpreewaldDie Spree ist ein Heidekind. Ihre Jugend ist arm und ohne Wagemut, ihre Kraft gering und ihre Lustigkeit schchtern. Frhzeitig als halberwachsen Ding mu sie in Dienst nach der anspruchsvollsten Stadt der Welt, nach Berlin, wo man...

De carne y hueso; cuentosLos astrnomos, al lanzar una mirada escrutadora las profundidades del espacio, vieron que la Divinidad se empequeeca y reculaba indefinidamente ante el poderoso objetivo de los telescopios, como los histlogos, analizando los elementos atmicos de los tejidos, desesperaron de poner...

Dinsmore Ely, One Who ServedOf old Scotch-Covenanter blood he came. Into the Presbyterian Church he was born, and at her altar dedicated to the service of his God. Taken back, when four years of age, to the old home in the Pennsylvania hills, he...

Under the Holly: Christmas-Tide in Song and StoryIt was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim...

What I Saw in Kaffir-LandThis book contains extracts from the daily record of impressions made on my mind, by men and events, as we performed together our allotted parts, in one short tragical episode at the Cape. Very little has been omitted; nothing has...

Tekla: A Romance of Love and WarThe Romans had long since departed, but their handiwork remaineda thin line laid like a whiplash across the broad countrya road. It extended northwestward from Frankfort and passed, as straight as might be, through the almost trackless forest...

Belgians Under the German EagleBismarck was given to quoting, with approval, a saying which has often been attributed to him, but which was, in reality, first made in his presence by a hero of the American Civil WarGeneral Sheridan. It was, that the people...

A Whim, and Its Consequences - Collection of British Authors Vol. CXIVA solitary room at midnight: a single wax candle lighted on the table: the stiff dull crimson silken curtains of the bed close drawn: half a dozen phials and two or three glasses....

The Great ExperienceHave you been a convert to the "Mormon" faith? Have you left your home-land and started out for the valley in the mountains, leaving friends behind, and looking forward with an awful loneliness to the strange new land where life must begin...

MetamorphosisOne more city. The pattern went on. One more city to search for a man I did not know, whose face I would not recognize. I had no copy of either his fingerprints or encephalograph, or any other clue to his identity. There was...

A Trace of Memory"That blip is either a mighty slow airplaneor it's at one hell of an altitude." I sat upright, eyes on the screen. "Look at this, Foster," I snapped. A pattern of dots flashed across the screen, faded, flashed again.... "I don't...

El Canto Errante - Obras Completas Vol. XVI L mayor elogio hecho recientemente a la Poesa y a los poetas ha sido expresado en lengua anglosajona por un nombre insospechable de extraordinarias complacencias con las nueve musas. Un yanqui. Se trata de Teodoro Roosevelt....