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The Battle of LifeOnce upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England, it matters little where, a fierce battle was fought. It was fought upon a long summer day when the waving grass was green. Many a wild flower formed by...

American NotesMy readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrusted in America, had, at that time, any existence but in my imagination. They can examine for themselves whether there has been anything in the public career of...

Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans 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 90...

Phil, the Fiddler Among the most interesting and picturesque classes of street children in New York are the young Italian musicians, who wander about our streets with harps, violins, or tambourines, playing wherever they can secure an audience. They become Americanized less easily than...

The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section X, Y, and Z X (ks). X, the twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet, has three sounds; a compound nonvocal sound (that of ks), as in wax; a compound vocal sound (that of gz), as in example; and,...

The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section T, U, V, and W T (t), the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant. With the letter h it forms the digraph th, which has two distinct sounds, as in thin, then. See Guide...

The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section S S (s), the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a consonant, and is often called a sibilant, in allusion to its hissing sound. It has two principal sounds; one a mere hissing, as in sack, this;...

The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section R R (r). R, the eighteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant. It is sometimes called a semivowel, and a liquid. See Guide to Pronunciation, 178, 179, and 250-254. "R is the dog's letter and...

The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section P and Q P (p), the sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant whose form and value come from the Latin, into which language the letter was brought, through the ancient Greek, from the Phnician,...

The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section M, N, and O M (m). 1. M, the thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant, and from the manner of its formation, is called the labio-nasal consonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, 178-180, 242. The...

The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section I, J, K, and L I (). 1. I, the ninth letter of the English alphabet, takes its form from the Phnician, through the Latin and the Greek. The Phnician letter was probably of Egyptian origin. Its original...

The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section F, G and H F (f). 1. F is the sixth letter of the English alphabet, and a nonvocal consonant. Its form and sound are from the Latin. The Latin borrowed the form from the Greek digamma &?;,...

The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section D and E D (d) 1. The fourth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. The English letter is from Latin, which is from Greek, which took it from Phnician, the probable ultimate origin being Egyptian....

The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section C C. (s) 1. C is the third letter of the English alphabet. It is from the Latin letter C, which in old Latin represented the sounds of k, and g (in go); its original value being the...

The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section A and B A (named in the English, and most commonly in other languages). The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also...

Paul the Peddler; Or, The Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant Horatio Alger, Jr., an author who lived among and for boys and himself remained a boy in heart and association till death, was born at Revere, Mass., January 13, 1834. He was the...

The Fall of TroyHomer's "Iliad" begins towards the close of the last of the ten years of the Trojan War: its incidents extend over some fifty days only, and it ends with the burial of Hector. The things which came before and after were...

The Anglo-Saxon ChronicleOriginally compiled on the orders of King Alfred the Great, approximately A.D. 890, and subsequently maintained and added to by generations of anonymous scribes until the middle of the 12th Century. The original language is Anglo-Saxon (Old English), but later entries are...

Life of Robert BrowningPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. This etext was created by typing...

Life and Letters of Robert Browning for SecrecyMarriageJourney to ItalyExtract of Letter from Mr. FoxMrs. Browning's Letters to Miss MitfordLife at PisaVallombrosaFlorence; Mr. Powers; Miss BoyleProposed British Mission to the VaticanFather ProutPalazzo GuidiFano; Ancona'A Blot in the 'Scutcheon' at Sadler's Wells. SonMrs. Browning's Letters...