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PhaidrosPhaidros-dialogi tuntuu syntyneen niitten voimakkaitten vaikutelmien herttmn, jotka Platon on saanut opettajatoiminnastaan Akademiassa. Se on persoonallisen, suusanallisen opetuksen ylistyst kuollutta kirjatietoa vastaan, joka ei Platonin mielest voi antaa mitn uutta tietoa, vaan korkeintaan palauttaa muistiin, mit entuudestaan tiedmme. Ensi sijassa suuntautuu hykkys retoriikkaa vastaan,...

Tracked by WirelessMr. William Le Queux retains his position as The Master of Mystery.... He is far too skilful to allow pause for thought; he whirls his readers from incident to incident, holding their attention from the first page to the close of the...

The Catholic World, Vol. 27, April 1878 to September 1878The period of six centuries before Christ may be taken as the immediate period of preparation for Christianitynot in a precise numerical sense of exactly six hundred years, but as a general term denoting an...

PlaysScene: The kitchen in the now abandoned farmhouse of John Wright, a gloomy kitchen, and left without having been put in orderunwashed pans under the sink, a loaf of bread outside the bread-box, a dish-towel on the tableother signs of incompleted work. At the...

L'Île du LevantIl y a un an et demi environ mon pre m'annonait qu'il venait d'acheter de M. Philippart l'Ile du Levant, la dernire de l'Archipel des les d'Hyres, situ dans la Mditerrane. On peut juger de mon enthousiasme et de celui de mon...

Essays in IdlenessShe is sitting now on my desk, and I glance at her with deference, mutely begging permission to begin. But her back is turned to me, and expresses in every curve such fine and delicate disdain that I falter and lose courage...

Fighting Joe; Or, The Fortunes of a Staff Officer. A Story of the Great RebellionThis volume, the fifth of The Army and Navy Stories, is not a biography of the distinguished soldier whose sobriquet in the army has been chosen as its principal title,...

The Florentine Dagger: A Novel for Amateur DetectivesThe five illustrations contained in the following pages, and the jacket design, are the work of the new phenomenal black and white artist, Wallace Smith. In making the drawings Mr. Smith chose to illustrate the spirit of...

Gleanings in Bee Culture, Vol. III. No. 3We have just received an extra nice lot of Alsike Clover seed, new crop, raised in our own vicinity, so that we know it is pure and safe. Single pound by mail in cloth bag 45c.; by...

Young Sioux WarriorLittle Bear sat far back in the great wigwam. The warriors formed a circle around the council fire in front of him. Little Bear had listened to the long debate wishing he dared speak. Plainly two of the older warriors wanted this...

The Seaman's Medical Instructor - In a Course of Lectures on Accidents and Diseases Incident to SeamenIf we consider the many benefits that navigation contributes to commerce in general, and how much the prosperity of nations are indebted to its source, we must without...

The Railway Man and His ChildrenThe news that Miss Ferrars was going to marry Mr. Rowland the engineer, ran through the station like wildfire, producing a commotion and excitement which had rarely been equalled since the time of the Mutiny. Miss Ferrars! and Mr....

Famous Fighters of the Fleet - Glimpses through the Cannon Smoke in the Days of the Old Navy The lasses and the little ones, Jack Tars, they look to you; The despots over yonder, let 'em do whate'er they please, God bless the little...

Wisdom's Daughter: The Life and Love Story of She-Who-Must-be-Obeyed In bygone years the books She and Ayesha were dedicated to Andrew Lang. Now, when he is dead, this, the last romance that will be written concerning She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, is offered as a tribute to his...

Chushingura; Or, The Treasury of Loyal RetainersLanguage, the vehicle of thought as it is, conveys not unfrequently different impressions to different persons; especially is this the case when that language is not the hearers mother tongue. We may take in the general drift of...

Use of Mines in Trench Warfare (From the French School of St. Cyr)You are advised that this and all subsequent documents of a similar character which may be furnished to you from this office are to be regarded as strictly confidential. They are to...

The Journal of Geology, May-June 1893 - A Semi-Quarterly Magazone of Geology and Related SciencesThe name Laurentian was given by Logan in 1854 to the great series of rocks forming the Laurentides or Laurentian Mountains, a district of mountainous country rising to the north...

The Happy ClownSteven Russell was born a misfit, a nonconformist, and for the first five years of his life he made himself and his parents extremely unhappy. The twenty-first century was perfect, and this inexplicable child did not like perfection. The first trouble arose...

Nuovi studii sul genio vol. II (Origine e natura dei genii) Fra i cento e pi critici che tartassarono la mia teoria sul Genio, uno solo mi ha segnalata una vera, capitale lacuna: il Sergi: quando mi obbietta, nel Monist, che io ho s...

Nuovi studii sul genio vol. I (da Colombo a Manzoni) Rettifica a pag. 217. "In un viaggio recente al museo di Gethe a Francoforte ho potuto notare che la assimetria non era congenita, ma acquisita per paresi certo sopraggiunta in et matura". Non ho...