A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients. Edward Tyson
1894. Found in this volume is a philological essay concerning the pygmies, the cynocephali, the satyrs and sphinges of the ancients, wherein it will appear that they were all either apes or monkeys; and not men, as formerly pretended, written circa
The Theory of Business. John Laing
1867. Contents: Modern Production; Agriculture, Manufacture, and Commerce; Commercial Credit; Money; Imports and Exports; Foreign Exchanges; Wages and Salaries; Profit; Wealth, Capital and Money; Bank-Notes; Banking; Discounts: The Bank Rate;
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The Biblical Antiquities of Philo. Philo
1917. This is a Bible history, reaching, in its present imperfect form, from Adam to the death of Saul, to which the name of the great Jewish philosopher of the first century, Philo, has been attached to it. Contents: General; History of the Book;
English Biography (1916). Waldo H. Dunn
Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1916 года (издательство "London [etc.] J. M. Dent & sons, limited; New York, E. P. Dutton & co.").
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century. Henry A. Beers
1899. The present volume consists, in substance, of a series of lectures given in elective courses in Yale College. Contents: The Subject Defined; The Augustans; The Spensarians; The Landscape Poets; The Miltonic Group; The School of Warton; The
The Music Master. Charles Klein
1909. Novelized from the play as produced by David Belasco. The book begins: Anton Von Barwig rapped on the conductor’s desk for silence and laid down his baton. The hundred men constituting the Leipsic Philharmonic Orchestra stopped playing as
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Gordon Keith. Thomas Nelson Page
1903. Thomas Nelson Page, author of short stories, novels, essays, and poetry, is best known for his role as literary spokesman for the glories of the Old South. Gordon Keith begins: Gordon Keith was the son of a gentleman. And this fact, like the
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Roughing It. Mark Twain
The next morning, bright and early, we took a hasty breakfast, and hurried to the starting-place. Then an inconvenience presented itself which we had not properly appreciated before, namely, that one cannot make a heavy traveling trunk stand for
Immortality and the Modern Mind. Kirsopp Lake
1922. This volume represents the Ingersoll Lecture of 1922. The author does not propose to discuss the details of the questionnaire sent out as an attempt to collect information as to the general attitude of educated persons towards the belief in
Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms. Fa Hsien
1877. The narrative of a most extraordinary journey by a Buddhist priest named Fa Hsien who travels from China through India to Ceylon, on to Sumatra and back to China by sea; his object being to obtain copies of the Sacred Books of Buddhism for