Picture Logic. Alfred James Swinburne
1899. An attempt to popularize the science of reasoning by the combination of humorous pictures with examples of reasoning taken from daily life. With original illustrations from drawings by the author engraved on wood by G. Pearson. Contents: What
Natural Philosophy. A. E. Thierens
An introduction to astrology and occultism in general along the lines of modern scientific thought. Contents: electron theory; sphere; spirit and matter; life and substance; existence; motion; mutation; primordial atom; gradations or planes of
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Beltane The Smith. Jeffery Farnol
""Messire, I--have hanged many men and--there were women also! I have cut me a tally here on my belt, see--there be many notches--and every notch a life. So now for every life these hands have taken do I vow to save a life an it may be so, and for
Sanitary And Social Lectures And Essays. Charles Kingsley
We talk of our hardy forefathers; and rightly. But they were hardy, just as the savage is usually hardy, because none but the hardy lived. They may have been able to say of themselves--as they do in a State paper of 1515, now well known through the
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The Superstition of Divorce. G. K. Chesterton
1920. This is a pamphlet and not a book; and the writer of a pamphlet not only deals with passing things, but generally with things which he hopes will pass. It is designed merely to note certain fugitive proposals of the moment, and compare them
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Blix. Frank Norris
It had been easy to promise Blix that he would no longer gamble at his club with the other men of his acquaintance; but it was ""death and the devil,"" as he told himself, to abide by that promise. More than once in the fortnight following upon his
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Old French Romances. William Morris
Therewith they went their ways to the Court of the Count and found him not there, because he was gone to Bericain to visit Amis his fellow, and comfort him of the death of his father. And when he found him not, he departed sore troubled, and said
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The Aspirations Of Jean Servien. Anatole France
Shut up in his room, he was filled with a great pity for himself and longed to recover the peace of mind, the calm of the senses, the happy life that had vanished along with the leaf he had abandoned that evening to the drifting current. He opened
Resist Not Evil. Clarence Darrow
Contents. 1. The Nature Of The State. 2. Armies And Navies. 3. The Purpose Of Armies. 4. Civil Government. 5. Theory Of Crime And Punishment. 6. Remedial Effects Of Punishment. 7. Cause Of Crime. 8. The Proper Treatment Of Crime. 9. Impossibility
Men In War. Andreas Latzko
The little wife, completely at a loss, her whole body quivering, bent over her husband again to take leave. She was certain that his outburst had reference to her and held a grim deadly reproach, which she did not comprehend. She felt her husband
Naturalism And Religion. Rudolf Otto
Edited With An Introduction By Rev. W. D. Morrison. Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1907 года (издательство "New York: G.P. Putnam; London, Williams and Norgate").
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In The Roar Of The Sea. S. Baring-Gould
Judith walked backward, facing him, and he turned with his horse and went after her. She stooped and gathered up a splinter of glass. The sun striking through the gaps in the hedge had flashed on these scraps of broken mirror and of white bone, or
The Poetry of Tennyson. Henry Van Dyke
1893. A collection of essays by Van Dyke, American clergyman, educator and author, on Tennyson and his poetry. He writes in the preface: I believe that Tennyson is one of the great poets,-great in the clarity and beauty and nobility of his style;
The Redemption of David Corson. Charles Frederic Goss
1900. American clergyman and novelist begins: Hidden away in this worn and care-encumbered world, scarred with its frequent traces of a primeval curse, are spots so quiet and beautiful as to make the fall of man seem incredible, and awaken in the
Пути небесные. Том 2. Иван Сергеевич Шмелев
"Пути небесные" - последний труд писателя, представляющий собой уникальную попытку "духовного романа", к идее которого приходили в конце
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Вечный муж. Федор Михайлович Достоевский
Федор Михайлович Достоевский принадлежит к числу самых знаменитых писателей XIX века. И в наши дни его произведения читаются с тем же
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Жизнь Клима Самгина. Часть 3. Максим Горький
В новом романе своем М. Горький поставил пред собою задачу изобразить с возможной полнотою сорок лет жизни России, от 80-х годов до 1918-го.
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История крестовых походов. Успенский Ф.И.
Крестовые походы имеют не только общеисторический интерес, как выражение идей и настроения умов в известный период средневековой
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Солнце мертвых. Шмелев Иван Сергеевич
Эпопея "Солнце мертвых" - безусловно, одна из самых трагических книг за всю историю человечества. История одичания людей в
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Торговый дом Гердлстон. Артур Конан Дойль
Первый социально-бытовой роман А.Конан Дойля "Торговый дом Гердлстон" (1890) - роман о ловких дельцах и стяжателях, которые наживаются за