An Antarctic Mystery. Jules Verne
""I think there is some need for doubt,"" I answered ""the singular character of the hero of those adventures being taken into consideration--at least concerning the phenomena of the island of Tsalal. And we know that Arthur Pym was mistaken in
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The Punishment And Prevention Of Crime. Edmund F. Du Cane
1885. Contents: Criminals and Punishments; Punishments in the Middle Ages, Capital Executions; Gaols in Former Times; Modern Prisons; Transportation; Penal Servitude; Supervision, Discharged Prisoners’ and Societies; The Preventive System,
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A Book Of Hours. Ellen Thompson
Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1909 года (издательство "New York, The Forest press").
Pax Vobiscum. Henry Drummond
1890. Drummond, a man of varied talents, is best remembered as a gifted evangelist who assisted Dwight L. Moody during his revival campaigns. He is also known as a prominent lecturer in natural science. Pax Vobiscum is the second of a series of
New Essays Towards A Critical Method. John Mackinnon Robertson
John Mackinnon Robertson (14 November 1856 – 5 January 1933) was a prolific journalist, advocate of rationalism and secularism, and Liberal Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom for Tyneside from 1906 to 1918. Книга
The Spiritual Interpretation of History. Shailer Mathews
1916. These lectures are a part of the William Belden Noble Lectures. Contains lectures entitled: limits within which the spiritual interpretation of history is possible; spiritual tendencies in history as a whole; substitution of moral for
The Life Of Cicero. Anthony Trollope
Cicero was the bugbear to them all. That he might have been one of them, if ready to share the plunder and the power, no reader of the history of the time can doubt. Had he so chosen he might again have been a ""real power in the State;"" but to
Orthodoxy. G. K. Chesterton
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for
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Songs Before Sunrise. Algernon Charles Swinburne
1875. A collection of verse by the poet Swinburne who is one of the very few, since the days of Raleigh and Sidney, to come from the aristocracy. He was also well-known for his sexual proclivities and debauched lifestyle. See other titles by this
A Miscellany Of Men. G. K. Chesterton
There are many reasons for becoming a soldier. It may be a matter of hereditary luck or abject hunger or heroic virtue or fugitive vice; it may be an interest in the work or a lack of interest in any other work. But there would always be two or
A Woman Of Thirty. Honore De Balzac
Hither, at the close of the year 1820, came a woman, still young, well known in Paris for her charm, her fair face, and her wit; and to the immense astonishment of the little village a mile away, this woman of high rank and corresponding fortune