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Curiosa: Essais critiques de littérature ancienne ignorée ou mal connueCe recueil est form dtudes et de Notices places en tte de rimpressions ou de traductions douvrages curieux quelque titre, qui ont t publies depuis une dizaine dannes environ par M. Isidore Liseux. Voltaire disait,...

A Critique of Socialism - Read Before The Ruskin Club of Oakland California, 1905 WHOSE MEMBERS LISTENED SO PATIENTLY TO THE READING OF THIS PAPER AND DANCED ON IT SO BLITHELY THEREAFTER, AS AN INTIMATION OF HIS FERVENT BELIEF THAT NO MORE CHARMING CONVOCATION...

How the Poor Live; and, Horrible London - 1889 The papers which form this volume appeared originally in The Pictorial World and The Daily News. The interest now evinced in the great question of Housing the Poor leads me to hope that they will...

The Life of Man: A Play in Five Acts [The stage presents the semblance of a large, square, empty room which has neither doors nor windows, and within which all is uniformly grey and misty. The ceiling, walls, and floor are grey, and from...

Preston Fight; or, The Insurrection of 1715 The details of Preston Fight, given in the tale, which I have the gratification of inscribing to your name, may be new to you; inasmuch as you may not have seen DOCTOR Hibbert Ware's very curious historical...

The Tower of London: A Historical Romance, Illustrated It has been, for years, the cherished wish of the writer of the following pages, to make the Tower of Londonthe proudest monument of antiquity, considered with reference to its historical associations, which this country or...

The Beginnings of LibrariesThis talk is addressed to those beginning library work as a life work. This connects library work with two significant phrases, those beginning and as a life work. This phrase as a life work suggests what is perhaps the chief value...

The Man Who Ended WarThis is a very serious matter, and a great piece of news, Ordway remarked in a mock grandiose manner. It is a declaration of war against the civilized world in the interests of peace. He threw himself into an oratorical...

The Pilgrim of Castile; or, El Pelegrino in Su PatriaUpon the shore of Barcelona, between the planks of a ship which had suffered wreck, there appeared as if it had been a parcel of cloth covered with weed: which being perceived by some fishermen,...

Florizel's FollyWE who live in these latter days, when Brighton, the 'London-on-the-Sea,' has a standing population of 115,873,[1] and contains 19,543 houses, can hardly realize its small beginnings. That it was known to the Romans there can be no doubt, for, about 1750, an...

William Cobbett: A Biography in Two Volumes, Vol. 2The summer of 1805 finds Mr. Cobbett again at Botley with his family. A letter to Wright, dated 5th July, says, I have found here a most delightful house and a more delightful garden. Preparations are...

William Cobbett: A Biography in Two Volumes, Vol. 1Fear never but you shall be consistent in whatever variety of actions, so that they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem....

The History of Java, v. 1-2The first arrival of the Portuguese in the Eastern Islands was in the year 1510, when Alphonzo de Albuquerque first visited Sumatra. In the following year, Albuquerque conquered the city of Malacca, and sent to announce that event to...

The Rise and Fall of Anarchy in America - From its Incipient Stage to the First Bomb Thrown in ChicagoOrder, heavens first law. ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 49842 Author: McLean, George N. Release Date: Sep 1, 2015 Format: eBook Language:...

Famous Persons and PlacesFor some remarks that should properly introduce much of the contents of the present volume, the reader is referred to the Preface published with a previous number of the Series, entitled Pencillings by the Way. A portion of the original Pencillings...

The Present Method of Inoculating for the Small-Pox - To which are added, some experiments, instituted with a view to discover the effects of a similar treatment in the natural small-poxFrom the time that I entered into the practice of medicine, and saw the...

The Normans in England (1066-1154)This series of English History Source Books is intended for use with any ordinary textbook of English History. Experience has conclusively shown that such apparatus is a valuablenay, an indispensableadjunct to the history lesson. It is capable of two main...

Jack of No Trades"I could help," I yelled as soon as I got my head free, "if anybody would let me and, what's more, I could set the table a damn sight faster by hand than you do with 'kinesis." Just then Father appeared...

Ahi, Giacometta, la tua ghirlandella! Agli uomini cortesi, di belle e avvedute lettere, ai cacamillesimi, agli speziali della letteratura e a tutti coloro i quali han giudicato dell'opera mia con furiosa malevolenza, con languida acquiescenza o con savonaroliana anima piagnona! ai molti parlatori e...

Niebla (Nivola)Se empea don Miguel de Unamuno en que ponga yo un prlogo a este su libro en que se relata la tan lamentable historia de mi buen amigo Augusto Prez y su misteriosa muerte, y yo no puedo menos sino escribirlo, porque los...