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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 07At last, after so many years, I have the pleasure of re-introducing you to Prince Otto, whom you will remember a very little fellow, no bigger, in fact, than a few sheets of memoranda...

Opúsculos por Alexandre Herculano - Tomo 06 Title: Opsculos por Alexandre Herculano - Tomo 06 Author: Alexandre Herculano Release Date: December 30, 2009 [EBook #30801] Language: Portuguese Credits: Produced by Rita Farinha and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced...

Perhe: Kuvauksia jokapäiväisestä elämästäTeidn kirjeenne on minussa iloa ja kiitollisuutta herttnyt, jonka tahtoisin todeksi nytt siten, ett pyyntnne mukaan "kertoisin yht ja toista elmstni sek koko sivistykseni kehityksest". Mutta tuopa kynee vaikeaksi, koska tss ainoastaan pintapuolisesti saatan mainita sisllist elmni koskevista seikoista, joissa juuri...

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 05In the volume now in your hands, the authors have touched upon that ugly devil of crime, with which it is your glory to have contended. It were a waste of ink to do...

Opera nova amorosa, vol. 1 - Strambotti, sonetti, capitoli, epistole et una disperataImpresso in Milano per Rocho & fratello da Valle che sta in corduxo apreso a la speciaria dal Moltone ad instantia de Miser Nicolo da Gorgonzola nel.M. ccccc.xviiij.adi.xi.de Zenaro. La trascrizione di...

My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My EducationIt is now nearly a hundred years since Goldsmith remarked, in his little educational treatise, that "few subjects have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth." And during the century which has...

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 03These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in Macmillans, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks;...

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25Returning from Sydney at the end of October 1890, Stevenson and his wife at once took up their abode in the wooden four-roomed cottage, or rough barrack, as he calls it, which had been...

The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain - Nineteenth Century Europe "For the noveltie and strangenesse of the matter which I determine and deliberate to entreat upon, is of efficacie and force enough to draw the mindes both of young and olde to the...

Fantôme d'OrientMinuit, aprs une frache soire de fin septembre o dj un peu d'automne s'annonce. Du silence partout. Dans ma maison familiale paisiblement endormie, je reste seul veill, l'esprit en grand trouble d'anxit et d'attente. Depuis tantt deux heures, je me suis retir chez...

MensongesJ'ai compos toute une portion de ce livre, mon cher Louis, en Angleterre, et dans l'angle d'un bow-window pareil celui qui bombait de notre salon commun sur une frache pelouse, Shanklin, durant l't de 1880. Tandis que je travaillais cette uvre de doute et...

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 04During his residence in London, the accomplished Prince Florizel of Bohemia gained the affection of all classes by the seduction of his manner and by a well-considered generosity. He was a remarkable man even...

Alexandre HerculanoUm paladino illuminado e moo, intemerato no ardor da juventude e na exaltao da crena que nem o martyrio lograria dominar ou perverter, sonhou a redempo da patria desolada pelas guerras, pela fome, pela oppresso de tyrannias vidas e corruptas, por hypocrisias sordidas...

Vingt années de ParisQuelle rumeur dans ces quatre mots, quelle houle remuante et grondante d'hommes, de livres, d'aventures et d'ides, que d'amis perdus, de joies sombres, d'engloutissements sans nom, effacs par le temps qui monte; et comme il faut qu'il ait la vie dure...

The Brownings, Their Life and ArtThe present volume was initiated in Florence, and, from its first inception, invested with the cordial assent and the sympathetic encouragement of Robert Barrett Browning. One never-to-be-forgotten day, all ethereal light and loveliness, has left its picture in memory,...

Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's ReignI have written this Gossip not only for the edification of those to whom a portion, more or less, may be news, but for those who, like myself, have lived through the whole of Queen Victorias reign,...

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 14There are men and classes of men that stand above the common herd: the soldier, the sailor, and the shepherd not unfrequently; the artist rarely; rarelier still, the clergyman; the physician almost as a...

Sovereign Grace: Its Source, Its Nature and Its EffectsN the exercise of his high calling, the faithful ambassador of Christ must not scruple to declare the whole counsel of Godrightly dividing the word of truth, to all classes of hearers. He must warn the...

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 21When Dick Naseby was in Paris he made some odd acquaintances, for he was one of those who have ears to hear, and can use their eyes no less than their intelligence. He made...

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 15The Scene is laid in Edinburgh. The Time is towards the close of the Eighteenth Century. The Action, some fifty hours long, begins at eight p.m. on Saturday and ends before midnight on Monday...