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The Goblin Groom: a Tale of DunseThe Author of the Goblin Groom can, on no consideration, be induced to follow the example of the amiable and justly celebrated Madame de Genlis, who, in her Historical Romance of the Chevaliers du Cygne, observes,Enfin lide de...

Las Helénicas; ó, Historia griega desde el año 411 hasta el 362 antes de JesucristoJenofonte ha sido siempre conocido y admirado por tres de sus obras: la Anbasis, o expedicin de Ciro, la Ciropedia y las Memorias socrticas; pero la gloria que estas obras...

The Garnet Story Book: Tales of Cheer Both Old and NewAbout the middle of the last century there was printed in England a childrens story with the attractive title, The Good Natured Bear. This story, written by Robert H. Horne, was reviewed by William...

Een DroomSedert de verschijning van dit boek, eerst in de Gids en toen in boekvorm, in 1899, is in Tosari veel veranderd, vooral wat de inrichting der htels aldaar en in den omtrek aangaat. Het verwondert mij dat hij mij dit stuk van zijn...

Summer Morning: A poem Morning again breaks through the mines of Heaven, And shakes her jewelled kirtle on the sky, Heavy with rosy gold. Aside are driven The vassal clouds, which bow as she draws nigh, And catch her scattered gems of orient dye,...

Memoirs and Services of the Eighty-third Regiment, County of Dublin, from 1793 to 1907 - Including the Campaigns of the Regiment in the West Indies, Africa, the Peninsula, Ceylon, Canada, and IndiaThis Memoir of the Services of the 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment, now...

The Principle of RelativityLord Kelvin writing in 1893, in his preface to the English edition of Hertzs Researches on Electric Waves, says many workers and many thinkers have helped to build up the nineteenth century school of plenum, one ether for light, heat, electricity,...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 105, Vol. III, January 2, 1886About one oclock in the morning, by a flickering fire of half-dead embers, young men of twenty-five are very apt to grow confidential. Now, it was one oclock...

The Building in Japan The pictures here depicted, show the whole process of building a middle class house, from the selection and sawing of timbers until they are formed into a complete house. The head carpenter conferring with the owner, plans the form and...

The Life, Trial, Confession and Execution of Albert W. Hicks - The Pirate and Murderer, Executed on Bedloe’s Island, New York Bay, on the 13th of July, 1860, for the Murder of Capt. Burr, Smith and Oliver Watts, on Board the Oyster Sloop E....

In a Yellow WoodNo Part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in magazine or newspaper or...

Egy magános sétáló álmodozásaiRousseau, aki klnben is neuropathikus termszet volt, letnek utols 12 esztendejben elmezavarban, kombinatrikus ldzsi mniban (paranoia) szenvedett. Mr Vallomsai (17651770) egy elmebeteg vdirata; az a meggyzds uralkodik bennk, hogy rgi bartai, akik ellensgeiv vltak, lkn Grimm-mel, Diderot-val s DEpinaynval, nagy sszeeskvst...

A fragment of the prison experiences of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman - In the State Prison at Jefferson City, Mo., and the U. S. Penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga. February, 1918–October, 1919There was a timeand that not so very long agowhen popular ignorance and...

Ealing and Its VicinityThe purpose of this brochure is not an ambitious one. It does not aspire to rank in antiquarian or topographical interest with the work of Mr. Falkener; its modest claim is to tell briefly and in simple words such facts connected...

The Yale Literary Magazine (Vol. I, No. 3, April 1836)This hackneyed distich is most frequently used to convey an idea of that arrogant confidence which attends the first superficial acquisitions in knowledge, and the characteristic diffidence of the profound mind. Whether this is the...

The Yale Literary Magazine (Vol. I, No. 6, August 1836)There is a tendency to regard the commotions of society, which have taken place of late years, as the results of modern diplomacy, or of notions concerning human rights, which have received birth and risen...

The Yale Literary Magazine (Vol. I, No. 5, July 1836)Great men are always simplestrikingly so; simple in their thoughts and feelings, and in the expression of them. Nor is this an unimportant characteristic. For to one who reflects how few artless men there arehow...

The Yale Literary Magazine (Vol. I, No. 4, June 1836)What is truth? Truth, says a standard logician, signifies nothing but the joining or separating of signs, as the things signified by them do agree or disagree with one another; that is, in making propositions....

The Woman of Knockaloe: A ParableThe Woman of Knockaloe is first of all a love story. In our opinion it is a charming and natural love story, beautiful in its purity, and irresistible in its human appeal; so simple in its incidents that it...

Uit de schooljaren van Hans DonckerIk heb altijd erg veel van vertellen gehoun. Ik bedoel daarmee niet, dat ik graag hoorde vertellen. Natuurlijk deed ik dat ook, net als iedere jongen. Toen ik nog in de klas van Meester Lindeman zat, was et laatste...