My Life and Some Letters. Mrs. Patrick Campbell
1922. With illustrations. The memoirs of Mrs. Patrick Campbell (Beatrice Stella Cornwallis-West). From Chapter One: My father and my mother, Maria Luigia Giovanna Romanini, fell helplessly in love at their first meeting: my mother could not speak a
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A Practical Physiology. Albert F. Blaisdell
We have just learned that the pitch of sound depends on the rapidity of the vibrations. This depends on the length of cords and their tightness for the shorter and tighter a string is, the higher is the note which its vibration produces. The vocal
Martin Eden. Jack London
1908. With Frontispiece by the Kinneys. American writer (real name John Griffith London). London grew up in poverty, earning a living through various legal and illegal means. He was a sailor and took part in the Klondike gold rush. These
The Turtles of Tasman. Jack London
1911. Illustrated. American writer (real name John Griffith London). London grew up in poverty, earning a living through various legal and illegal means. He was a sailor and took part in the Klondike gold rush. These experiences provided much of
Driven From Home. Horatio Alger Jr.
He congratulated himself upon being still the possessor of twenty-five cents in silver. It was not much, but it seemed a great deal better than being penniless. A week before he would have thought it impossible that such a paltry sum would have
Methods of Study in Natural History. Louis Agassiz
1896. The series of papers collected in this volume may be considered as a compliment or commentary to my Essay on Classification, since I have endeavored to present here in a more popular form the views first expressed in that work. And although
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Rodney Stone. Arthur Conan Doyle
She spoke in a beautiful, rich voice, with the most heart-broken thrill in it, but I could not conceal from myself that she appeared to be one of the most robust persons that I had ever seen, and I was surprised to notice that she shot arch little
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Tales And Sketches. John Greenleaf Whittier
""I am not desirous, even were it practicable,"" he said, ""to defend the use of opium, or rather the abuse of it. I can only say, that the substitutes you propose are not suited to my condition. The world has now no enticements for me; society no
Past and Present. Thomas Carlyle
1909. Should humanity look backward to the past and try to recover the notion of goodness that seems to be lost or should humanity look forward and to the present to create a new enlightenment and spiritual prosperity? These are the mighty
The Philosophy of Eating. Albert J. Bellows
1868. We have excellent practical treatises on agriculture and horticulture, and every intelligent farmer or gardener may learn what element is deficient, in order to successfully cultivate his grapes, his vegetables, or his grains; and having also
A Handbook of Greek Constitutional History. A. H. J. Greenidge
1914. Greenidge writes in the Preface that this little book is meant to be of assistance to those who find difficulty in mastering what he has often regarded as the least attractive (probably because it is the least understood) portion of Greek
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Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV. Francis Parkman
1900. Parkman, American historian, studied and wrote about the history of Canada and the early Northwest. Parkman writes in the preface that the events recounted in this book group themselves in the main about a single figure, that of Count
Indian Music. Shahinda
Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1903 года (издательство "London, W. Marchant & co").
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Ruggles of Red Gap. Harry Leon Wilson
1915. The humorous tale of a English valet who moves to an American town. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read. Книга представляет собой
Tremendous Trifles. G. K. Chesterton
So it was, certainly, with the Bastille. The destruction of the Bastille was not a reform; it was something more important than a reform. It was an iconoclasm; it was the breaking of a stone image. The people saw the building like a giant looking
Many Moods (1895). Warren Holden
Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1895 года (издательство "Philadelphia: Press of J.B. Lippincott Company").
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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
Queen Elizabeth. Edward Spencer Beesly
Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1901 года (издательство "London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and co").