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Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 687 - February 24, 1877That is what most people would like, if it could be easily managed. All know that they must throw off 'this mortal coil' some time, but there are innumerable and plausible...

The Story of Siena and San GimignanoTHIS present volume is intended to provide a popular history of the great Republic of Siena, in such a form that it can also serve as a guide-book to that most fascinating of Tuscan cities and its neighbourhood....

The Lives of the Saints, Volume 01 (of 16): Januarymartyrology means, properly, a list of witnesses. The martyrologies are catalogues in which are to be found the names of the Saints, with the days and places of their deaths, and generally with the distinctive...

Il libro di Don Chisciotte Sar, giorno pi giorno meno, un anno, io ritornai a Roma dalla Calabria, ove avevo bevuto del buon vino di Sambiase e scritto alcuni miei pensieri intorno agli ultimi nefasti della novellistica italiana che a moltissima gente, anche non...

Egholm and his GodAnd Sivert finds it more amusing still. Wonderful, so much there is going on inside him. He shakes his poodle mop of hair, and gives way to a long-drawn, gasping laughsimply cant help itleans his forehead[2] against the pane, thrusts both...

Der Schwierige: Lustspiel in drei Akten Hans Karl Bhl Crescence, seine Schwester Stani, ihr Sohn Helene Altenwyl Altenwyl Antoinette Hechingen Hechingen Neuhoff Edine } Nanni } Antoinettes Freundinnen Huberta } Agathe, Kammerjungfer Neugebauer, Sekretr Lukas, erster Diener bei Hans Karl. Vinzenz, ein neuer Diener....

Wonders of the YellowstoneIn the northwest corner of the Territory of Wyoming, about half way between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean, and in the same latitude as the State of New York, the grand Rocky Mountain system culminates in a knot of...

"Nuori Kotka" ja vanha metsästäjäNoin vuonna 1673 majoittihe Pennsylvaniaan uutisasukas. Rikas kun oli, hankki hn omakseen laajat alat asumatonta maata, josta antoi osia viljeltvksi varattomille, avustaen heille siten kodin ja toimeentulon. Hnen oma elmns oli moitteetonta. Hnt pidettiin suuressa arvossa ja hnelle oli monta...

Bouvard and Pécuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, part 2 IT WOULD perhaps make criticism easier, if, before giving our opinion, we should make known our preferences. To omit this preliminary distinction is a great injustice, as every book contains a peculiarity pertaining...

Gott betet Und auf diese Falten habe ich es in meiner Liebe zu Dir abgesehen. Nicht weil Du Dich mir hingibst, lieber Mensch, lodert in mir eine unendliche Liebe zu Dir. Nicht weil Dich der Boden qult, auf dem Du stehst. Nicht weil Du...

Le Dragon ImpérialNul n'ignore que si l'ombre d'un homme prend la forme d'un dragon qui suit humblement les pas de son matre, cet homme tiendra un jour dans sa main la poigne de jade du sceptre imprial. C'tait dans le grand champ de Chi-Tse-Po,...

Palmer's Journal of Travels Over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846In the wake of the pathfinders, fur-traders, Indian scouts, missionaries, scientific visitors, and foreign adventurers came the ultimate figure among early Western travellers, the American pioneer settler, the fore-runner of the forces of occupation and civilization....

The Kentucky WarblerWhen the population of this immense Western Republic will have diffused itself over every acre of ground fit for the comfortable habitation of man, ... then not a warbler shall flit through our thickets, but its name, its notes, its habits will...

The Vagrancy Problem. - The Case for Measures of Restraint for Tramps, Loafers, and Unemployables: With a Study of Continental Detention Colonies and Labour HousesThere is growing evidence that English public opinion is not only moving but maturing on the question of vagrancy and...

Das Lob der NarrheitAls ein Kind launiger Muse will Erasmus von Rotterdam seine weltberhmte Schrift Das Lob der Narrheit beurteilt wissen. In dem Widmungsbriefe an den jngeren, damals (1498) zwanzigjhrigen Thomas Morus, spteren Kanzler Heinrichs VIII. von England, dem ihn gemeinsame humanistische Studien verbanden,...

Le dernier des commis voyageurs. Par Louis Reybaud Il ne semble pas qu'il ait t publi, ce jour, sans aucun autre soutien, bien qu'il ait paru dans "Nouvelles de Louis Reybaud" (1852), avec trois autres nouvelles, et en 1856 avec une histoire courte "Les...

Giordano BrunoThis volume attempts to do justice to a philosopher who has hardly received in England the consideration he deserves. Apart from the Life of Giordano Bruno, by I. Frith (Mrs. Oppenheim), in the English and Foreign Philosophical Library, 1887, there has been no...

Racconti e novelleDesidero che i miei contemporanei siano informati, come e qualmente abbia esistito a Milano un esercente di Caff-restaurant, il quale ad un giovane orribilmente compromesso nella opinione pubblica dalla sua duplice professione di giornalista e di poeta, per oltre un anno diede...

Dithyramben Ihr Dumpfen, seht: ihr sollt angelisch werden! Hier im Kino seid ihr jenseits der Erde. Gut und Bs des Lebens sind ja nichts als ein Reflex wie Schwarz und Wei auf dieser Leinwand. Nichts ist! Alles ist! Ich schenke euch die Schpfung Gottes:...

La novellaja fiorentina - Fiabe e novelline stenografate in Firenze dal dettato popolare Le note a pi di pagina sono molto numerose e talvolta lunghissime, contenendo a loro volta molte altre novelle; sono state raccolte alla fine di ogni capitolo (novella) e contrassegnate da...