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The Valley of Squinting WindowsAnd the Lord spake unto Moses saying: Speak unto Aaron saying whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. In the parlor, as they...

Mensch und Erde: Skizzen von den Wechselbeziehungen zwischen beidenIm Original finden sich Teile der Buchwerbung fr die Reihe Aus Natur und Geisteswelt sowohl am Anfang als auch am Ende des Buches. In der vorliegenden Fassung wurden vom Bearbeiter beide Teile vereinigt und an das...

Charles W. Quantrell - A True Report of His Guerrilla Warfare on the Missouri and Kansas Border During the Civil War of 1861 to 1865Captain Harrison Trow, who will be eighty years old this coming October, was with Quantrell during the whole of the...

Lumottu maa: Kertomus nuorisolleSisarukset Aino ja Reino viettivt vuonna 1918 kes erss Keski-Suomen kylss. Sin kesn ei riittnyt monesta talosta ruoka-aineita edes vanhoillekaan saatikka sitten muille kesvieraille, ja siksi nuoret lhtivt noin peninkulman pss sijaitsevaan metstorppaan ostamaan leip ja voita. Reippaasti ja iloisin mielin...

Wilhelm Hauffs sämtliche Werke in sechs Bänden. Bd. 4Wer, wie der Herausgeber und Uebersetzer vorliegender merkwrdiger Aktenstcke, in den letzten Tagen des Septembers 1822 in Mainz war und in dem schnen Gasthof zu den drei Reichskronen logierte, wird gewi diese Tage nicht unter die...

The Frozen Planet"There are four planets in the group," he said. "Two double planets, all rather close to an unimportant star listed as DRI-G 33987. They're called Jorgensen's Worlds, and in themselves are of no importance whatever. However, they lie deep in the sector...

DiamondsThe following pages are based on personal observations during two visits to Kimberley, in 1896 and 1905, and on personal researches on the formation and artificial production of diamonds. In 1896 I spent nearly a month at Kimberley, when Mr. Gardner F. Williams, the...

Ruotsalainen uhkapurjehtija - Historiallinen kertomus 1854 vuoden sota-ajan muutamista tapahtumista Suomen vesillä ja rannoillaV. 1854 eli ja oli Geflen kaupungissa Ruotsin maalla kunnallisraatimies, nimell Gaabriel Evert, joka muuten ammatiltansa oli puutavarain kauppias. Hnt pidettiin arvossa rehellisen ja kunniallisen luontonsa thden ja kaupungin hallitus oli...

Pee-wee Harris: FixerPee-wee Harris, or rather the left leg of Pee-wee Harris, emerged from an upper side window of his home, and was presently followed by the rest of Pee-wee, clad in his scout suit. He crept cautiously along an ornamental shingled projection till...

The Yellow Flag: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 3)"So you have conquered your dislike to leaving England, Tom; I am very glad. I felt certain you would give-in to our wishes, and see the wisdom of what we suggested to you." "Well, I am...

Nat the Navigator. A Life of Nathaniel Bowditch. For Young PersonsMoved by feelings I could scarcely comprehend, while, at the same time, they were most sweet to me, I was led to talk with the pupils of the Warren Street Chapel on the Sunday...

L'oeuvre de John Cleland: Mémoires de Fanny Hill, femme de plaisir - Introduction, essai bibliographique par Guillaume ApollinaireLe clbre auteur des Memoirs of a woman of pleasure naquit en 1707 ou en 1709. Les biographes, qui ne sont pas d'accord sur ce point, ne...

Call Him NemesisThere were twelve people in the bank. There was Mr. Featherhall at his desk, refusing to okay a personal check from a perfect stranger. There was the perfect stranger, an itinerant garage mechanic named Rodney (Rod) Strom, like the check said. There...

Roy Blakeley's Tangled TrailHello, everybody, this is the first story I wrote in a long time, only I havent written it yet. I mean when its all written it will be the first one I wrote in a long time. Thats because my fountain...

Œuvres complètes de Marmontel, tome 8 - Les Incas, ou la destruction de l'empire du PérouCet hommage de la reconnaissance ne sera point souill par l'adulation. C'est la Sude, heureuse de vous avoir remis le dpt de sa libert, la Sude, o rgne -prsent...

The Norwich Road: An East Anglian HighwayTHE author of a little book published in 1818, called A Journey to London, which is nearly all "London" with very little "journey," remarks that "it is as uncommon for a book to go into the world without...

Matthew on MoneyThe occupational training of Matthew is plainly perceptible in the gospel he has written. When he left the receipt of custom to become a follower of Christ and then an apostle and even a gospel historian he carried with him his financial...

In our timeEverybody was drunk. The whole battery was drunk going along the road in the dark. We were going to the Champagne. The lieutenant kept riding his horse out into the fields and saying to him, Im drunk, I tell you, mon vieux....

The Standard Manual for Baptist ChurchesIt is now thirty years since the Baptist Church Directory, prepared by the writer, was first published. That work was designed to be somewhat of a consensus of the opinions of those best able to judge in matters of...

The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922Colonel Howard-Bury and the members of the Expedition of 1921 had effected the object with which they had been despatched. They were not sent out to climb Mount Everest. It would be impossible to reach the summit in a...