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
Concerning Animals And Other Matters. Edward Aitken
The bird, occupied with thoughts of love and beauty, with ""fields, or waves, or mountains"" and ""shapes of sky or plain,"" has made little advance in the art and instruments of good living. It swallows its food whole, scarcely knowing the taste
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Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture. E. P. Evans
1896. In this volume, the author endeavored to show the rise and evolution of animal symbolism, and its transition to satire as seen in Christian art. This book is not an exhaustive treatise of the subject. The appended bibliography taken in
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Orchestra. Sir John Davies
Or if this (All) which round about we see (As idle Morpheus some sicke braines hath taught) Of vndeuided motes compacted bee, How was this goodly Architecture wrought? Or by what meanes were they together brought? Книга
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Babel. John Cournos
Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1928 года (издательство "New York, Boni and Liveright").
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
Many Inventions. Rudyard Kipling
1918. Kipling, English short-story writer, novelist and poet, who celebrated the heroism of British colonial soldiers in India and Burma, was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Contents: The Disturber of
Sterne. H. D. Traill
Sterne alighted from the York mail, just as Byron ""awoke one morning,"" to ""find himself famous."" Seldom indeed has any lion so suddenly discovered been pursued so eagerly and by such a distinguished crowd of hunters. The chase was remarkable
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Studies in Contemporary Metaphysics. R. F. Alfred Hoernle
1920. Contents: Prologue: The Philosopher’s Quest; The Idol of Scientific Method in Philosophy; Philosophy of Nature at the Crossroads; On Doubting the Reality of the World of Sense; Saving the Appearance in the Physical World, Note on John
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Elements of Natural Philosophy. Le Roy C. Cooley
1873. The great aim of this book is to present the most elementary facts of Natural Philosophy, in such a way as to exercise the child in constantly observing phenomena and in drawing inferences from what he observes. Whenever a child is old enough
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The Early History of Charles James Fox. George Otto Trevelyan
1881. Charles James Fox, our first great statesman of the modern school, was closely connected with scenes which lie far back in English history. His grandfather, if not the most well-graced, was at any rate one of the best paid, actors on the