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Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03It is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and little minding a crucified Jesus, when, in the meanwhile, their bodies are well provided for, their...

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02Though this be a small treatise, yet it doth present thee with things of the greatest and most weighty concernment, even with a discourse of life and death to eternity: opening, and clearing, by the scriptures of God,...

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 When the Philistine giant, Goliath, mocked the host of Israel, and challenged any of their stern warriors to single combat, what human being could have imagined that the gigantic heathen would be successfully met in the mortal...

Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My LifeIt would appear that for inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant...

The Celebrity, Complete I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I shall have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some...

The Celebrity, Volume 04I am convinced that Mr. Cooke possessed at least some of the qualities of a great general. In certain campaigns of past centuries, and even of this, it has been hero-worship that impelled the rank and file rather than any high...

The Celebrity, Volume 03That evening I lighted a cigar and went down to sit on the outermost pile of the Asquith dock to commune with myself. To say that I was disappointed in Miss Thorn would be to set a mild value on my...

The Celebrity, Volume 02It was small wonder, said the knowing at Asquith, that Mr. Charles Wrexell Allen should be attracted by Irene Trevor. With the lake breezes of the north the red and the tan came into her cheeks, those boon companions of the...

The Celebrity, Volume 01I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I shall have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some...

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4For easier searching, letters have been numbered. Only the page numbers that appear in the table of contents have been retained in the text of letters. Footnotes have been regrouped as endnotes following the...

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 1759-1769. Contents Of Vol. III. 1759. 1760. ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 4773 Author: Walpole, Horace Release Date: Dec 1, 2003 Format: eBook Language: English

The Altar Fire It will perhaps be said, and truly felt, that the following is a morbid book. No doubt the subject is a morbid one, because the book deliberately gives a picture of a diseased spirit. But a pathological treatise, dealing with cancer...

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2This header should be the first thing seen when anyone starts to view the eBook. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the...

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, as hitherto published, have consisted of,- 1. The letters contained in the quarto edition of his works, published in the year 1798. 2. His letters to...

The Journal to StellaWhen Swift began to write the letters known as the Journal to Stella, he was forty-two years of age, and Esther Johnson twenty-nine. Perhaps the most useful introduction to the correspondence will be a brief setting forth of what is known...

Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship Long before I began the papers which make up this volume, I had meant to write of literary history in New England as I had known it in the lives of its great exemplars...

The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete Among the notable books of later timeswe may say, without exaggeration, of all timemust be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and...

The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 12With this book begins the work of darkness, in which I have for the last eight years been enveloped, though it has not by any means been possible for me to penetrate the dreadful obscurity. In...

The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 11Although Eloisa, which for a long time had been in the press, did not yet, at the end of the year, 1760, appear, the work already began to make a great noise. Madam de Luxembourg had...

The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 10The extraordinary degree of strength a momentary effervescence had given me to quit the Hermitage, left me the moment I was out of it. I was scarcely established in my new habitation before I frequently suffered...