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Die Hexe von NorderoogScharen wilder Gnse grasen zwischen den Lmmern; um die Wattstrme mit ihrem vielverschlungenem Netz von kleinen Wasserlufen streichen mit ohrenbetubendem Gezeter unzhlige Mvenenten, whrend Langbeine aller Art, welche die Wanderschaft nach fernen Lndern hier zusammengefunden, in dem zhen Schlick herumstechen nach...

Welsh Rarebit TalesA PREFACE is the place where an author usually apologizes to the public for what he is about to inflict. Such being the case, I hasten to state that I am only jointly responsible for this aggregation of tales, which resemble, more...

An geöffneter Tür Wie das sonderbar ist, ... eigentlich wie ein Traum. Ich sitze ganz allein in einem Passantenzimmerchen des Glarner Hofs in Glarus. In den Gartenanlagen vor meinem Fenster pltschert hinter dickbltterigem Buschwerk das Wasser eines Springbrunnens. Das wird heute mein Wiegenlied sein...

Una giovinezza del secolo XIX Il pregio, in cui ho sempre tenuto gli scritti di Neera, non ha trovato, a dir vero, generale consenso nel nostro mondo letterario, dove a questa scrittrice gentile, austera e nobilissima si assegna di solito un posto assai inferiore...

Bramble BushDr. David Lessing found Jack Dorffman and the boy waiting in his office when he arrived at the Hoffman Center that morning. Dorffman looked as though he'd been running all night. There were dark pouches under his eyes; his heavy unshaven face seemed...

The Nineteenth and Their Times - Being an Account of the Four Cavalry Regiments in the British Army That Have Borne the Number Nineteen and of the Campaigns in Which They ServedFour cavalry regiments in the British Army have borne the number Nineteen. The...

Science Primers, IntroductoryAll the time that we are awake we are learning by means of our senses something about the world in which we live and of which we form a part; we are constantly aware of feeling, or hearing, or smelling, and, unless...

Harper's Round Table, January 5, 1897It was I who called him the Little Bishop. His name was Phillips Brooks Sanderson, but one seldom heard it at full length, since "Phil" was quite enough for an urchin just in his first trousers, and those assumed...

Nousukas: KertomusSuuremman kaupungin laidasta pistypi pienoinen luoto merta kohti. Katukin, joka sinne kaupungin keskuksista suuntaupi, muuttuu siell toisemmoiseksi. Siin, miss herrastalot loppuvat, loppuu sen kivitys. Se ky eptasaiseksi ja paikoittain kuoppaiseksi. Pimen aikana on tll luodolla yht sankka pimeys kuin tarujen tuonelan joella. Piviseen...

The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 03 (of 12)This pamphlet of 46 8vo pages was published by the author himself in 1806. The title-page was Free Thoughts on Public Affairs, or Advice to a Patriot; in a Letter addressed to a Member of...

The Delmonico Cook Book: How to Buy Food, How to Cook It, and How to Serve It.Your are, no doubt, acquainted with the fact, that for the past five years, I have been engaged upon a work, designed for the use of private families....

Clemencia: Novela de costumbresNo se canse Vd., D. Silvestre; cada casa es un mundo,decia una tarde del verano de 1844 la Marquesa de Cortegana su amigo y compadre D. Silvestre Sarmiento, mintras este sorbia paladendola una taza de caf.Tmelo Vd. por arriba, tmelo Vd....

The Birds and the BeesI was wandering among the tall grass of the slopes, listening to the soft whistling of the wind; allowing the grass to caress my toga and thighs. It was a day soft and clear; a day accepted by the young,...

African Colonization by the Free Colored People of the United States, an Indispensable Auxiliary to African Missions. - A LectureIn the course of his labors, as Colonization Agent for Ohio, the writer, at an early day, found it necessary to examine the subject of...

L'origine della Famiglia della Proprietà privata e dello Stato - in relazione alle ricerche di L. H. Morgan Dedico questa seconda edizione della versione dell'Engels alla dolorosa memoria del mio diletto primogenito Salvatore, che, il 6 settembre 1900, mentre stava sotto le armi al...

A London MosaicThe first thing that impresses me as I begin this short book on London is the large number of subjects of which I will say nothing. There are many reasons for this. One is that a title such as A London Mosaic...

Pele and Hiiaka: A Myth From HawaiiAccording to Hawaiian myth, Pele, the volcanic fire-queen and the chief architect of the Hawaiian group, was a foreigner, born in the mystical land of Kuai-he-lani, a land not rooted and anchored to one spot, but that floated...

The Thirteen TravellersSomewhere in the early nineties was Absalom Jay's first period. He was so well known a figure in London at that time as to be frequently caricatured in the weekly society journals, and Spy's "Absalom," that appeared in the 1894 volume of...

Aërial Navigation - A Popular Treatise on the Growth of Air Craft and on Aëronautical MeteorologyHow beautiful! May we hope ever to journey thus, on wings actuated by human power? It is an old question, once dear to the philosopher and fool alike, but...

Splashing Into SocietySuch were the stranes that smote the air as Mr.Harold Withersquash drew near to the humbel home of his Selia. She was just a low born girl but none could beat her at playing the piano. But now the delicious Selia pushed...