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Account of the Skeleton of the Mammoth - A non-descript carnivorous animal of immense size, found in AmericaReceive, Sir, as a small testimony of my high respect for a Character rendered illustrious in the paths of Science, this plain recital of Facts, and first...

The Growth of a Crystal - Being the eighteenth Robert Boyle lectureWhen this date was fixed by your Secretary for the delivery of the Boyle Lecture, I discovered that it happened to be the fifteenth anniversary of the very day on which I was...

Il Vino: Undici conferenze fatte nell'inverno dell'anno 1880 Il libro che io qui presento al pubblico pu a buon diritto chiamarsi una singolarit bibliografica. Mettersi insieme parecchi cultori di studii disparatissimi, scegliere fra tutti un sol tema, e trattarlo, in una serie di pubbliche...

The Little Demon"The Little Demon" is a successful and almost imperceptible merging of comedy with tragedy. It is in fact a tragedy in which the comic forms an integral part and is not sandwiched in superficially merely to please the reader. The method resembles...

A Mine of Faults Though the old literature of the Hindoos is deficient in the department of politicsit has no history, no orators, no Demosthenes, no Polybius, no Aristotle; for the dialectic of politics appears to have been invented by the divinely discontented Greekthough,...

A Digit of the Moon: A Hindoo Love Story The better to illustrate how, in Hindoo mythology, the ideas of a beautiful woman, the Moon, and the Sea, dissolve and disappear into one another, I have placed on the fly-leaf of this edition a...

The Ashes of a God O hie thee to the land, where, constant still, While golden distance hid the years to be, We watched the suns go down behind the hill Across the sea. Now has our own Affection sunk to rest; Set is...

Legends of NorselandIn the beginning, when the beautiful and sunny world was first made, there stood, in the very midst of all its beauty, Mt. Idaa mountain so high, so far away up among the snowy clouds, that its summit was lost in the...

A Desk-Book of Errors in English - Including Notes on Colloquialisms and Slang to be Avoided in ConversationThe fact that this little book has passed through many editions, and now enters on a new one in revised form, is ample answer to its writers...

Schools of to-morrowThere has been no attempt in this book to develop a complete theory of education nor yet review any systems or discuss the views of prominent educators. This is not a text book of education, nor yet an exposition of a new...

Auringon poika: Seikkailuja EtelämerelläWilli-Vaw oli ankkurissa rantasrkkin ja ulkosrkkin vlisess vylss. Viimeksimainituilta kuului heikon mainingin kohina, mutta niiden suojaama vesi oli sadan yardin leveydelt rannan korallihiekalle asti sile kuin lasi. Kapeassa ja matalassa vylss oli aluksen ankkuriketjua ulkona sadan jalan verran. Ruosteisena kiemurteli hllll...

Arthur Brown, The Young Captain Notwithstanding kindness is at times rewarded with ingratitude, and even positive injury, it is by no means so frequent an occurrence as persons naturally censorious, or whose minds have been soured by an unblest experience, would have us suppose....

El libro de las mil noches y una noche; t. 3Cierto da, la voluntad de Alah y el Destino permitieron que mi hermano llegase mendigar la puerta de una casa. Y mi hermano Bacbac, sin prescindir de sus acostumbradas invocaciones para pedir limosna: Oh...

Sidsel Langröckchen Br, der groe, alte, struppige Hofhund auf Hol, sa auf der Trtreppe und schaute ernsthaft ber den Hof. Es war ein kalter, klarer Sptwintertag, und der Schnee glitzerte im Sonnenschein. Am liebsten wre Br aber doch hineingegangen; denn es lie sich nicht...

Die Reden Gotamo Buddhos. Mittlere Sammlung, zweiter BandIn diesem Text werden fortlaufend Seitenzahlen aus zwei verschiedenen Ausgaben anderer Autoren angegeben. Diese Verweise werden hier, fettgedruckt in geschweiften Klammern, am linken Rand auerhalb innerhalb des laufenden Textes wiedergegeben. Die in der Originalversion gesperrt gedruckten Passagen...

Tiel do: Rakontoj por malgrandaj infanojNUR POR SENPAGA ELEKTONIKA DISTRIBUADO - ALIMANIERA DISTRIBUADO MALPERMESITA ALLEEN VOOR GRATIS ELEKTRONISCHE VERSPREIDING - ANDERE VERSPREIDING VERBODEN SEULEMENT POUR DISTRIBUTION LECTRONIQUE GRATUITE - TOUTE AUTRE EST INTERDITE FOR FREE ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION ONLY - ALL OTHER DISTRIBUTION IS FORBIDDEN...

Breaching the Marianas: The Battle for SaipanIt was to be a brutal day. At first light on 15 June 1944, the Navy fire support ships of the task force lying off Saipan Island increased their previous days preparatory fires involving all calibers of weapons....

Breaking the Outer Ring: Marine Landings in the Marshall IslandsBy the beginning of 1944, United States Marine forces had already made a dramatic start on the conquest of areas overrun by the Japanese early in World War II. Successful American assaults in the Southwest...

Famous Frontiersmen and Heroes of the Border - Their Adventurous Lives and Stirring Experiences in Pioneer DaysMy dear Boys; and particularly the Boy Scouts: As so much interest was displayed in my book Famous Scouts and requests for more tales were made by many...

"Verdaj fajreroj": Kolekto da versaĵojOlego estas la unua Kieva princo el la dinastio de Rjurikidoj. La rusa kroniko rakontas, ke princo Rjurik mortante transdonis la tronon al sia parenco Oleg, ar Igorj, la filo de Rjurik estis ankora neplenaa. Olego submetis al sia potenco...