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Eugène DelacroixPour bien comprendre la porte de l'intervention et de l'influence de l'uvre de Delacroix dans l'cole franaise, il est ncessaire de se rappeler la situation exacte de la peinture au moment o il parut. La Rvolution avait brutalement trait les matres du XVIIIme...

The Philosophy of Auguste ComteFifty years have now elapsed since Auguste Comtes monumental work, the Cours de Philosophie Positive, was first introduced to English readers by Miss Harriet Martineau. But her work was much more than a translation. It was a condensed exposition of...

Coppertop: The Queer Adventures of a Quaint ChildBut to-night the old bed felt less snuggly than usual, and she had a strange I-wonder-what-will-happen-next feeling, which would not allow her to sleep. It was such a night as witches love, when they fly about on...

Fleurs sauvages: Poésies Title: Fleurs sauvages Subtitle: Posies Author: Lonise Valois Release Date: February 7, 2018 [EBook #56515] Language: French Credits: Produced by Claudine Corbasson and the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by...

Wild Roses: A Tale of the RockiesSOME unpoetic old frontiersman first called the place a trappers hole,an ugly, misleading name for this wondrous mountain valley, lying up there on the western slopes of the Continental Divide next to the Yellowstone country, almost surrounded by...

The Simple Adventures of a MemsahibWidely read and praised on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific, with scores of illustrations which fit the text exactly and show the mind of artist and writer in unison.New York Evening Post. The raciness and breeziness which...

Schiff vor Anker: ErzählungenLngst ist Gorch Focks Schiff vor Anker gegangen. Und wir haben seine Schtze davongetragen, die er in der Unendlichkeit des Meeres, in Ferne und Nhe, in Strmen und Stille in seine Seele gesammelt hatte. Und wir sind mit vollen, schweren Hnden...

Les nécessités de la vie et les conséquences des rêves, précédé d'exemples DU MME AUTEUR LE DEVOIR ET L'INQUITUDE. Un volume in-16, avec un bois grav de Deslinires, A.-J. GONON, Paris, 1917. POMES POUR LA PAIX. Une feuille volante, 1918. LES ANIMAUX ET LEURS...

Slicko, the Jumping Squirrel: Her Many AdventuresHalf way up the side of a tall tree there was a round hole in the trunk. The hole was lined with soft, dried leaves, and bits of white, fluffy cotton, from the milkweed plant. And, if you...

La vita intima e la vita nomade in Oriente Chiuso nella sua maschera impassibile e sibillina, l'emiro Feisal risaltava come il pi esotico nella folla multicolore dei delegati convenuti da ogni parte del mondo alla Conferenza parigina per la pace. Lo spettatore riflessivo non...

The Life and Death of Mrs. Maria Bickford - A beautiful female, who was inhumanly murdered, in the moral and religious city of Boston, on the night of the 27th of October, 1845, by Albert J. Tirrell, her paramour, arrested on board the Ship...

The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2 - With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surfaceThis region, comprehending not only South America but Tropical North America and the Antilles, may be compared...

The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 1 - With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surfaceThe present work is an attempt to collect and summarize the existing information on the Distribution of...

Historic BubblesOnce upon a time I was a member of that arch-erudite body, the Faculty of Williams College, and I took my turn in putting forth lectures tending or pretending to edification. I was not to the manner born, and had indulged even to...

Proverbs and Their Lessons - Being the Subject of Lectures Delivered to Young Men's Societies at Portsmouth and ElsewhereIt may be as well to state, that the lectures which are here published were never delivered as a complete course, but only one here and...

Tyburn Tree: Its History and AnnalsHow our fathers lived is a subject of never-failing interest: of some interest it may be to inquire how they diedat Tyburn. The story has many aspects, some noble, some squalid, some pathetic, some revolting. If I am reproached...

Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 4 (of 5) - In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773It was on the 10th of November 1770 we left Geesh in our return to Gondar, and passed the Abay, as before,...

A Comic History of the United StatesP.S.The illustration opposite is intended to take the place of a gift chromo, which we at first contemplated giving away with this book. It is to some extent allegorical, and will be explained at some future time, if...

Memorie: Edizione diplomatica dall'autografo definitivo Da quando il bipede umano ha comunicato al suo simile il proprio pensiero, per desiderio fraterno di illuminarne la buaggine, o per vanit di sopravvivere a se stesso nell'opera dell'immaginazione, tracciasse giroglifici, incidesse collo stile sulla cera o scrivesse...

Der Spiegel: Anekdoten zeitgenössischer deutscher ErzählerIm Schatzkstlein steht die Geschichte des deutschen Binnenlnders, der in die groe Stadt Amsterdam kommt und vor einem stolzen Schiff, einem prchtigen Haus und einem gewaltigen Begrbnis fragt: Wer ist es, dem dies gehrt? Kannitverstan, ist die Antwort, und...