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Mr. Gladstone and Genesis - Essay #5 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" In controversy, as in courtship, the good old rule to be off with the old before one is on with the new, greatly commends itself to my sense of expediency. And, therefore,...

The Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature - Essay #4 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" Our fabulist warns "those who in quarrels interpose" of the fate which is probably in store for them; and, in venturing to place myself between so powerful...

Lectures on Evolution - Essay #3 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" We live in and form part of a system of things of immense diversity and perplexity, which we call Nature; and it is a matter of the deepest interest to all of us...

The Rise and Progress of Palaeontology - Essay #2 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" That application of the sciences of biology and geology, which is commonly known as palaeontology, took its origin in the mind of the first person who, finding something like a...

On the Method of Zadig - Essay #1 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" It is an usual and a commendable practice to preface the discussion of the views of a philosophic thinker by some account of the man and of the circumstances which shaped...

The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 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...

The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 2621 Author: Stevenson, Burton Egbert Release Date: May 1, 2001 Format: eBook Language: English

The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 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...

The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 PART I POEMS OF YOUTH AND AGE THE HUMAN SEASONS THE BABY "ONLY A BABY SMALL" ONLY INFANT JOY BABY ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 2619 Author: Stevenson, Burton Egbert Release Date: May...

A House-Boat on the StyxCharon, the Ferryman of renown, was cruising slowly along the Styx one pleasant Friday morning not long ago, and as he paddled idly on he chuckled mildly to himself as he thought of the monopoly in ferriage which in the...

Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Volume 2On the 18th day of March, 1864, at Nashville, Tennessee, I relieved Lieutenant-General Grant in command of the Military Division of the Mississippi, embracing the Departments of the Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee, and Arkansas, commanded respectively by...

Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Volume 1Another ten years have passed since I ventured to publish my Memoirs, and, being once more at leisure, I have revised them in the light of the many criticisms public and private. My habit has been...

Discourses on Satire and on Epic PoetryDrydens discourses upon Satire and Epic Poetry belong to the latter years of his life, and represent maturer thought than is to be found in his Essay of Dramatic Poesie. That essay, published in 1667, draws its chief...

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 I HAVE thought it right to publish that portion of the continuation of the "History of England" which was fairly transcribed and revised by Lord Macaulay. It is given to the...

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 ON the eighteenth of January 1691, the King, having been detained some days by adverse winds, went on board at Gravesend. Four yachts had been fitted up for him and for...

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 THE Revolution had been accomplished. The decrees of the Convention were everywhere received with submission. London, true during fifty eventful years to the cause of civil freedom and of the reformed...

Confiscation; An OutlineThe Emancipation Proclamation has only 718 words. Lincoln's address at Gettysburg has only 266 Words. The works of Thomas Paine were not only one of the important factors that brought success to the struggle for Independence, but they were also largely instrumental...

Notre-Dame de Paris A few years ago, while visiting or, rather, rummaging about Notre-Dame, the author of this book found, in an obscure nook of one of the towers, the following word, engraved by hand upon the wall: . These Greek capitals, black with...

The Vicomte De Bragelonne The Vicomte de Bragelonne is the final volume of DArtagnan Romances: it is usually split into three or four parts, and the final portion is entitled The Man in the Iron Mask. The Man in the Iron Mask were familiar...

Roundabout Papers I had occasion to pass a week in the autumn in the little old town of Coire or Chur, in the Grisons, where lies buried that very ancient British king, saint, and martyr, Lucius,* who founded the Church of St. Peter, on...