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Self-Control, Its Kingship and Majestyan has two creators,his God and himself. His first creator furnishes him the raw material of his life and the laws in conformity with which he can make that life what he will. His second creator,himself,has marvellous powers he rarely...

The Love of MonsieurCaptain Ferrers tossed aside his coat and hat and came forward into the glare of the candles. Behind him followed the tall figure of Sir Henry Heywood, whose gray hair and more sober garb and lineaments made the gay apparel of...

Harbaugh's Harfe: Gedichte in Pennsylvanisch-Deutscher MundartEntered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by the REFORMED CHURCH PUBLICATION BOARD, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Folgende Gedichte, in...

Two Poems: Class Day Poem; The Purple HillsHENRY RUTGERS CONGER, Poet of the Class of Eighteen Ninety-Nine of Williams College, died at his home in Fanwood, New Jersey, on Friday the eighteenth of June, Nineteen Hundred and Twenty, while his Class was holding its...

Comedia llamada Selvagia, Comedia SerafinaA mediados del siglo XVI vivia en Toledo un jven estudiante que, nutrido con la literatura novelesca de aquella edad, aplic su disposicion y genio componer una novela comedia, como entnces se llamaba este gnero de obras, imitacion y manera...

La vita Italiana nel Risorgimento (1846-1849), parte 3 - Terza serie - Storia Mi fermai al 16 luglio 1846, e, riepilogando l'effetto immenso, profondo, fulmineo del grand'atto compiuto da Pio IX, col perdonare a tutti i condannati politici, precorsi alquanto il tempo seguente. Mi...

La vita Italiana nel Risorgimento (1846-1849), parte 2 - Terza serie - Storia Giunti l avremo fatto un viaggio di 51 anni, poco pili di mezzo secolo. Pochi di voi erano vivi allora, pochissimi eran gi fanciulli o giovinetti. Io sono fra quei pochissimi,...

La vita Italiana nel Risorgimento (1846-1849), parte 1 - Terza serie - Lettere, scienze e arti Il '48 considerato in uno dei suoi tanti aspetti, forse il pi attraente, si presenta a noi come una sonante e fulgida pagina di poesia. Aspettando che i...

A Pail of AirPa had sent me out to get an extra pail of air. I'd just about scooped it full and most of the warmth had leaked from my fingers when I saw the thing. You know, at first I thought it was...

A Husband for My WifeSoon, very soon now, the time will come for me to meet my wife's husband. I can hardly wait. Every dog has his day and Professor Thurlow Benjamin has just about had it. Every day has its dog, too, and...

The Analysis of Beauty - Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of tasteIf a preface was ever necessary, it may very likely be thought so to the following work; the title of which (in the proposals publish'd some time since) hath...

Canto a la Argentina, Oda a Mitre y otros poemas - Obras Completas Vol. IX OH, captain! Oh, my captain!, clamaba Whitman. Oh,! gran Capitn de un mundo nuevo y radiante, yo qu dira sino mi General! en un grito profundo que hiciera estremecerse...

A narrative of the sufferings, preservation and deliverance, of Capt. John Dean and company - in the Nottingham galley of London, cast away on Boon-Island, near New England, December 11, 1710A Few Months past, I little expected to appear in Print (especially on such...

Was John Bunyan a Gipsy?The title-page of this little publication states that it is particularly addressed to the students of the universities. It is based on a History of the Gipsies, published in 1865, in a prefatory note to which it was said that...

The Fate: A Tale of Stirring TimesChange of scene I believe to be as invigorating to the mind as change of air is to the body, refreshing the weary and exhausted powers, and affording a stimulus which prompts to activity of thought. To a...

John Bunyan and the GipsiesAlthough what is contained in the following pages should explain itself, a few prefatory remarks may not be out of place. In the Scottish Churches and the Gipsies I said that, in regard to the belief about the destiny of...

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, November, 1880It was about seventy years before our English race gained a foothold on the eastern coast of America that, far away in the West, the seeds of another form of Eastern civilization began to...

"Those Holy Fields." Palestine, Illustrated by Pen and Pencil The journey of which a brief account is given in the following pages was undertaken in the early part of 1873. The object of the writer was to compare the Land and the Book, and...

Capture and Escape: A Narrative of Army and Prison LifeJohn Azor Kellogg, author of the Commission's Original Narrative No. 2, was born on the 16th of March, 1828, at Bethany, in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, the son of Nathan and Sarah (Quidor) Kellogg. Nathan's father...

La Sirena NegraEn la esquina de la Red de San Luis y el Caballero de Gracia, me separ del grupo que vena conmigo desde el teatro de Apolo, donde acabbamos de asistir un estreno afortunado. Si hablase en alta voz, hubiese dicho grupo de...