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
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The Teaching Of Jesus. George Jackson
A recent writer has pointed out that sin, like death, is not seriously realized except as a personal fact. We really know it only when we know it about ourselves. The word ""sin"" has no serious meaning to a man, except when it means that he
Java Head. Joseph Hergesheimer
1918. American novelist Hergesheimer has been called a naturalist writing of the romantic past. He is also the author of short stories, essays, biographies, and the autobiography, From an Old House. Java Head begins: Very late indeed in May, but
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The Autobiography of a Quack and Other Stories. S. Weir Mitchell
1915. From the Introduction: The first two tales in this little volume appeared originally in the Atlantic Monthly as anonymous contributions. I owe to the present owners of that journal permission to use them. The Autobiography of a Quack has been
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
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
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
Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher. Henry Jones
1899. The purpose of this book is to deal with Browning, not simply as a poet, but rather as the exponent of a system of ideas on moral and religious subjects, which may fairly be called a philosophy. Mr. Jones is conscious that it is a wrong to a
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Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen. Alex Chodsko
1896. Very few of the twenty fairy tales included in this volume have been presented before in an English dress; this will doubtless enhance their value in the eyes of the young folk, for whom they are principally intended. It is hoped that older
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The Double Doctrine of the Church of Rome. Baroness VonZedtwitz
1906. A renunciation of the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. The author rejects the Divine origin of the Church. She emphasizes the importance of temporal good works over that of spiritual good works. Книга представляет
A History of the United States. John Fiske
1894. With topical analysis, suggestive questions and directions by Frank Alpine Hill. A text for schools by the American philosopher and historian who achieved popularity as a lecturer on history, both early in his career and in his later life.
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
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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Impressions And Comments. Havelock Ellis
The musically voiced bells sound the hour from the great church, rich in beauty and tradition, and we walk across the market-place, this side the castle hill--the hill which held for six hundred years the precious jewelled crucifix, with the
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The Christiad. Thomas Hawkins
Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1853 года (издательство "London, The Author").
Tactical Principles And Problems. Matthew Elting Hanna
Adapted By Direction Of The Secretary Of War For Use In The Garrison Schools. Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1891 года (издательство "Menasha, Wis.: Press of Geo. Banta Pub. Co.").
Curious Myths of the Middle Ages. S. Baring-Gould
1867. Contents: Wandering Jew; Prester John; Divining Rod; Seven Sleepers of Ephesus; William Tell; The Dog Gellert; Tailed Men; Antichrist and Pope Joan; Man in the Moon; Mountain of Venus; Fatality of Numbers; Terrestrial Paradise. Книга
Life Of Joshua Soule (1911). Horace Mellard Du Bose
Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1911 года (издательство "Nashville, Tenn.: Publishing House of the M.E. Church, South: Smith & Lamar, agents").