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The Rose and the Ring It happened that the undersigned spent the last Christmas season in a foreign city where there were many English children. In that city, if you wanted to give a childs party, you could not even get a magic-lantern or...

The Jubilee of the Constitution - Delivered at New York, April 30, 1839, Before the New York Historical Society "The Jubilee of the Constitution, delivered at New York, April 30, 1839, before the New York Historical Society." Would it be an unlicensed trespass of...

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Chapter LIX: The Crusades.Part I. Part II. Part III. Chapter LX: The Fourth Crusade.Part I. Part II. Part III. Chapter LXI: Partition Of The Empire By The French And Venetians.Part I....

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Chapter XLIX: Conquest Of Italy By The Franks.Part I. Part II. Part III. Part IV. Part V. Part VI. Chapter L: Description Of Arabia And Its Inhabitants.Part I. Part II. Part...

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Chapter XXXIX: Gothic Kingdom Of Italy.Part I. Part II. Part III. Chapter XL: Reign Of Justinian.Part I. Part II. Part III. Part IV. Part V. Chapter XLI: Conquests Of Justinian, Character...

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Chapter XXVII: Civil Wars, Reign Of Theodosius.Part I. Part II. Part III. Part IV Part V. Chapter XXVIII: Destruction Of Paganism.Part I. Part II. Part III. Chapter XXX: Revolt Of The...

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Chapter XVIConduct Towards The Christians, From Nero To Constantine.Part I. Part II. Part III. Part IV. Part V. Part VI. Part VII. Part VIII. Chapter XVII: Foundation Of Constantinople.Part I. Part...

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 The great work of Gibbon is indispensable to the student of history. The literature of Europe offers no substitute for The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It has obtained...

Two Years in the Forbidden City THE author of the following narrative has peculiar qualifications for her task. She is a daughter of Lord Yu Keng, a member of the Manchu White Banner Corps, and one of the most advanced and progressive Chinese officials...

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle ApprenticesIn the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, wherein these presents bear date, two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their...

IntentionsCyril (coming in through the open window from the terrace). My dear Vivian, dont coop yourself up all day in the library. It is a perfectly lovely afternoon. The air is exquisite. There is a mist upon the woods, like the purple bloom upon...

Letters from the CapeIf Lady Duff Gordons Letters from the Cape are less familiar to the present generation of readers than those of the Lady Anne Barnard, the neglect is due in great part to the circumstances of their publication. After appearing in a...

An Ideal Husband[The room is brilliantly lighted and full of guests. At the top of the staircase stands lady chiltern, a woman of grave Greek beauty, about twenty-seven years of age. She receives the guests as they come up. Over the well of the...

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 "Il est bon de connaitre les delires de l'esprit humain. Chaque peuple a ses folies plus ou moins grossieres." PART I.History of Alchymy from the earliest periods to the Fifteenth Century.Pretended Antiquity of the Art.Geber.Alfarabi.Avicenna.Albertus Magnus.Thomas...

Our Mutual Friend BOOK THE FIRST THE CUP AND THE LIP Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter...

Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People The whole of these Sketches were written and published, one by one, when I was a very young man. They were collected and republished while I was still a very young man; and sent...

Lemorne Versus Huell The two months I spent at Newport with Aunt Eliza Huell, who had been ordered to the sea-side for the benefit of her health, were the months that created all that is dramatic in my destiny. My aunt was troublesome, for...

My Garden Acquaintance ONE of the most delightful books in my father's library was White's "Natural History of Selborne." For me it has rather gained in charm with years. I used to read it without knowing the secret of the pleasure I found in...

The Boy Captives: An Incident of the Indian War of 1695 THE township of Haverhill, even as late as the close of the seventeenth century, was a frontier settlement, occupying an advanced position in the great wilderness, which, unbroken by the clearing of a...

Yankee Gypsies I CONFESS it, I am keenly sensitive to "skyey influences." (2) I profess no indifference to the movements of that capricious old gentleman known as the clerk of the weather. I cannot conceal my interest in the behavior of that patriarchal bird...