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By G. K. Chesterton Contents The Blue Cross The Secret Garden The Queer Feet The Flying Stars ...

CHAPTER I In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses--and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy spinning-wheels of polished oak--there might b...

[May 5, 1840.] We have undertaken to discourse here for a little on Great Men, their manner of appearance in our world's business, how they have shaped themselves in the world's history, what idea...

I INTRODUCTION IN DEFENCE OF EVERYTHING ELSE THE only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge.

These files were assembled by L. John Old, Napier University, Edinburgh, from MICRA's contributed eBook of Roget's Thesaurus (Project Gutenberg's #22).

CONTENTS: Preface The Author's Account of Himself The Voyage Roscoe The Wife Rip Van Winkle English Writers on America Rural Life in England The Broken Heart The Art of Book-ma...

CHAPTER I. One may as well begin with Helen's letters to her sister.

[Illustration] _ENGLISH EDITION_ * * * * * ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _To be had:_ _of TH.

Chapter I Out to Sea I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other.

Profusely Illustrated by Japanese Artists TO ELEANOR MARION-CRAWFORD.

Proofreaders FRENCH MEDIAEVAL ROMANCES _From the Lays of Marie de France_ _Translated by Eugene Mason_.

Chapter i -- The introduction to the work, or bill of fare to the feast.

CHAPTER I THE ALIMENTIVE TYPE 37 "_The Enjoyer_" CHAPTER II THE THORACIC TYPE 83 "_The Thriller_" CHAPTER...

images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr BURKE'S WRITINGS AND SPEECHES VOLUME THE FIRST [Illustration: EDMUND BURK...

Chapter 1 IN THE GARRET OF GREEN GABLES 2 THE HOUSE OF DREAMS 3 THE LAND OF DREAMS AMONG 4 THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES 5 THE HOME COMING 6 CAPTAIN JIM 7 THE SCHOOLM...

SIR HORACE PLUNKETT, K.C.V.O., D.C.L., F.R.S. MY DEAR HORACE, Often while I have been studying the records of colonisation in the New World I have thought of you and your ...

By Anton Chekhov Translated, with an Introduction, by Julius West [The First Series Plays have been previously published by Project Gutenberg in etext numbers: 1753 through 1756] CONTENTS ...

CHAPTER I DEFINITION OF RELIGIOUS PHENOMENA AND OF RELIGION Usefulness of a preliminary definition of religion; method to be followed in seeking this definition--Why the usual definitions...

By P. G. WODEHOUSE 1922 To RAYMOND NEEDHAM, K.C. WITH AFFECTION AND ADMIRATION -1- "Jeeves," I said, "may I speak frankly?"

Chapter I I feel little reluctance in complying with your request.

The merit of Captain Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue has been long and universally acknowledged.

It lay down in a hollow, rich with fine old timber and luxuriant pastures; and you came upon it through an avenue of limes, bordered on either side by meadows, over the high hedges of which the cat...

Chapter 1.I. I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider...

CHAPTER I JEEVES EXERTS THE OLD CEREBELLUM "'Morning, Jeeves," I said.

CHAPTER I It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

First Edition.

Book I Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and ...

by H. RIDER HAGGARD DEDICATION This faithful but unpretending record of a remarkable adventure is hereby respectfully dedicated by the narrator, ALLAN QUATERMAIN, to all the bi...

Edinburgh University Press: T. AND A. CONSTABLE, PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY.

CHAPTER 37 THE MYSTERIOUS DAGGER CHAPTER 38 NO OUTLET--BLASTING THE ROCK CHAPTER 39 THE EXPLOSION AND ITS RESULTS CHAPTER 40 THE APE GIGANS CHAPTER 41 HUNGER CHAPTER 42 THE VOLCANIC SHAFT CHA...

IN September of the year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed "The Scarlet Letter," he began "The House of the Seven Gables."

CHAPTER I PARIS: SEPTEMBER, 1792 A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passio...

In Mathematicks he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater: For he, by geometrick scale, Could take the size of pots of ale; Resolve, by sines and tangents, straight, If brea...

London: Published by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.

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CHAPTER I home is the resort Of love, of joy, of peace and plenty, where, Supporting and supported, polish'd friends And dear relations mingle into bliss.* *Thomson On the pleasa...

being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665.

CHAPTER I The Finding of Merlin--The Fight of the Dragons--The Giants' Dance--The Prophecies of Merlin and the Birth of Arthur--Uther attacks the Saxons--The Death of Uther CHAPTER II Merlin's A...

VI -- LAST DAYS AT VENICE PART THE SECOND -- VIENNA-PARIS I -- 1783-1785 II -- PARIS III -- VIENNA IV -- LETTERS FROM FRANCESCA V -- LAST DAYS AT VIENNA PART THE THIRD -- DUX -- 178...

"There'll be such a game directly.

[Illustration: COFFEE BRANCHES, FLOWERS, AND FRUIT SHOWING THE BERRY IN ITS VARIOUS RIPENING STAGES FROM FLOWER TO CHERRY (Inset: 1, green bean; 2, silver skin; 3, parchment; 4, fruit pulp.) Pai...

[Illustration] [Illustration: The Queen of Sheba before Solomon (_Costume of 15th century_.) Fac-simile of a miniature from the _Breviary_ of the Cardinal Grimani, attributed to Memling.

Edited with Notes By William J. Rolfe, Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, Mass.

PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS A BRIDE'S BOUQUET A GEM OF A HOUSE THE PERSONALITY OF A HOUSE CONSIDERATION FOR SERVANTS THE AFTERNOON TEA-TABLE A FORMAL DINNER DETAIL OF PL...

CHAPTER I A Tramp over Europe--On the Holsatia--Hamburg--Frankfort-on-the- Main--How it Won its Name--A Lesson in Political Economy--Neatness in Dress--Rhine Legends--"The Knave of Bergen" The Famo...

ILLUSTRATIONS Frontispiece Map of India My Father, Bhagabati Charan Ghosh My Mother Swami Pranabananda, "The Saint With Two Bodies" My Elder Brother, Ananta Festival Gathering in the...

NOTES 155 INTRODUCTION Jonathan Edwards was born October 5, 1703, in what is now South Windsor, Conn., a part of the parish then known as "Wind...

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