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PART I CHAPTER I--THE TRAIL OF THE MEAT Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway.

Translated by Eva Martin PART I I. Towards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine o'clock one morning, a train on the Warsaw and Petersburg railway was approaching the latter city at ful...

PREFACE 1. 1 Whereas the war which the Jews made with the Romans hath been the greatest of all those, not only that have been in our times, but, in a manner, of those that ever were heard of; both...

Translated by Henry Reeve Book Two: Influence Of Democracy On Progress Of Opinion In the United States.

Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart, And often took leave,--but seemed loath to depart!

CHAPTER 1. Amory, Son of Beatrice Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.

PHILADELPHIA: DAVID McKAY, PUBLISHER, 23 SOUTH NINTH STREET.

This volume is dedicated to my Wife Margaret James Washington And to my Brother John H. Washington Whose patience, fidelity, and hard work have gone far to make the work at...

Introductory Note 1771 - 1779 Song--Handsome Nell Song--O Tibbie, I Hae Seen The Day Song--I Dream'd I Lay Song--I Dream'd I Lay Song--In The Character Of A Ruined F...

TORONTO SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY LECTURES ON HAMLET, OTHELLO, KING LEAR MACBETH BY A.C. BRADLEY LL.D. LITT.D., FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF POETRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD _SECOND EDITION_ (_T...

1. One evening of late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span, a young man and woman, the latter carrying a child, were approaching the large village of Weydon-Pr...

House Building.

THE GOLD-SPINNERS THE TERRIBLE HEAD THE STORY OF PRETTY GOLDILOCKS THE HISTORY OF WHITTINGTON THE WONDERFUL SHEEP LITTLE THUMB THE FORTY THIEVES HANSEL AND GRETTE...

THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU By Jean Jacques Rousseau (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 [Illustration: cover] [Illustration: tit...

Transcribed from the January 1943 George Allen & Unwin reprint of the March 1892 edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 With ...

CONTENTS Introduction BOOK I. The Shimerdas BOOK II. The Hired Girls BOOK III. Lena Lingard BOOK IV. The Pioneer Woman's Story BOOK ...

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Spring Longing.

_Short Story Index Reprint Series_ AYER COMPANY PUBLISHERS, INC.

Prologue IN WHICH THE AUTHOR OF THIS SINGULAR WORK INFORMS THE READER HOW HE ACQUIRED THE CERTAINTY THAT THE OPERA GHOST REALLY EXISTED The Opera ghost really existed.

PROLOGUE THE STORMING OF SERINGAPATAM (1799) Extracted from a Family Paper I address these lines--written in India--to my relatives in England.

Chapter One ~~ Introductory The institution of a leisure class is found in its best development at the higher stages of the barbarian culture; as, for instance, in feudal Europe or feudal Japan.

1888 [Transcription note: One poem uses an a with a macron over it, this has been rendered as ä, which is not used in this text for any other purpose.] CONTENTS.

[Illustration] New York Henry Holt and Company 1921 Copyright, 1920 by Frederick J. Turner TO CAROLINE M. TURNER MY WIFE PREFACE In republishing these essays in collected form, it has se...

CHAPTER I. THE TWO POETS OF SAFFRON PARK THE suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset.

  SHOWING HOW Mr. SAMUEL WELLER GOT INTO DIFFICULTIES CHAPTER LXIV.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India By R.V. Russell Of the Indian Civil Service Superintendent of Ethnograp...

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Sir George Farquhar, Baronet, builder of railway-stations, and institutes, and churches, author, antiquarian, and senior partner of Farquhar and Farquhar, leant back in his office chair and turned ...

CHAPTER I No. 12 CHERRY STREET "The house looked wretched and woe-begone: Its desolate windows wept With a dew that forever dripped and crept From the moss-grown eaves: and ev...

CHAPTER I THERE IS NO ONE LEFT When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.

BOOK I Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc'd by fate, And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate, Expell'd and exil'd, left the Trojan shore.

CHAPTER I "THE ENGLISH LADY" On one of the granitic peninsulas of Western Brittany stands the little town of Quilaix, situated in a hollow facing the sea.

BEFORE THE CURTAIN As the manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards and looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling pl...

BY ANTON TCHEKHOV Translated by CONSTANCE GARNETT CONTENTS THE LADY WITH THE DOG A DOCTOR'S VISIT AN UPHEAVAL IONITCH THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY THE BLACK MONK VOLODYA AN ANONYMOUS STORY...

THE ILIAD OF HOMER Rendered into English Prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Samuel Butler BOOK I The quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles--Achilles with...

Author of "The Descent of Man," etc., etc.

WITH A PREFACE BY MRS. STEVENSON PREFACE TO THE BIOGRAPHICAL EDITION While my husband and Mr. Henley were engaged in writing plays in Bournemouth they made a number of titles, hoping to use the...

CHAPTER I. How Sir Tristram jousted, and smote down King Arthur, because he told him not the cause why he bare that shield.

Translated by Theodore Graebner PREFACE The preparation of this edition of Luther's Commentary on Galatians was first suggested to me by Mr. P. J. Zondervan, of the firm of publishers, in Marc...

_The First Proposition_ 58 33.

* CHAPTER III. THE SINS OF OTHERS * CHAPTER IV. THE CRIPPLE * CHAPTER V. THE SUBTLE SERPENT * PART II * CHAPTER I. NIGHT * CHAPTER II. NIGHT (continued) * CHAPTER III...

file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) THE MEMOIRS OF THE CONQUISTADOR BERNAL DIAZ DEL CASTILLO WRITTEN BY HIMSELF CONTAINING A...

(Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910) CONTENTS: What Is Man?

BOOK I I. Darius and Parysatis had two sons: the elder was named Artaxerxes, and 1 the younger Cyrus.

dull care, 142.

And their several Crews.

Chapter 1 ON THE LOOK OUT In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on...