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1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.

1829 AN INDEX Index Edited by David Widger Project Gutenberg Editions CONTENTS Click on the ## before each title to go directly to a linked index of the detailed chapters and illustrations ...

advantage of including all the foonotes by Gibbon and others; the 1997 edition (PG #890-895)in the Latin-1 character set was provided at that time only in html format and footnotes were not include...

THE LADY OF THE BARGE AND OTHER STORIES By W. W. Jacobs THE MONKEY'S PAW I. Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fi...

Son coeur est un luth suspendu; Sitot qu'on le touche il resonne.

THOUGHT AND CHARACTER THE aphorism, "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he," not only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is so comprehensive as to reach out to every condition and circums...

CONTAINING, I. An Address to all _well provided_ HIBERNIANS; II. The ARBOR VITAE; or, Tree of Life.

[Illustration] SELECTED AND TRANSLATED BY THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON PUBLISHED BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN & COMPANY BOSTON AND NEW YORK MDCCCCIII COPYRIGHT 1900 AND 1903 BY THOMAS WENTWORT...

By Feodor Dostoevsky (Translation by H.P. Blavatsky) [Dedicated by the Translator to those sceptics who clamour so loudly, both in print and private letters--"Show us the wonder-working 'Brothe...

Illustrated by Lester Ralph Translated from the Original SATURDAY.--I am almost a whole day old, now.

I am writing this because I presume He wants me to.

The yellow sands of the spaceport stretched, glaring and empty, in every direction.

_The first of the_ morons, _as they were popularly called, though they were totally lacking in intelligence, were born in 1971, eleven years after the Mutual Retaliation phase of the ...

"Feetch!"

Brandon was looking at his desk again.

By H. G. Wells "I can assure you," said I, "that it will take a very tangible ghost to frighten me."

INDEX OF FIRST LINES I I thought once how Theocritus had sung II But only three in all God's universe III Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!

Every pair of eyes in the hushed courtroom watched Jake Emspak walk slowly toward the prospective juror.

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

They didn't realize they were in trouble until it was too late to stop it.

THE ARGUMENT Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burden'd air, Hungry clouds swag on the deep.

The world newspapers had heralded the event for months.

The gavel rapped sharply, and the murmur of conversation throughout the banquet room drifted into hushed silence.

By T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Sibylla ti theleis; respondebat illa: apothanein thelo."

They dropped the raider on the night side, less than thirty miles from Thanlar, the capitol city.

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE BY CYRIL SCOTT LONDON ELKIN MATHEWS, VIGO STREET M CM IX DEDICATED TO ARTHUR SYMONS CONTENTS Benediction Echoes The Sick Muse The Venal Mus...

[Illustration] Ed had always been a practical man, when he saw something was wrong he tried to correct it.

* * * * * _Chapter One_ MY FATHER MEETS THE CAT One cold rainy day when my father was a little boy, he met an old alley cat on his street.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS WITH NAMES OF ENGRAVERS Title-page, designed by Elihu Vedder.

We, Sam Lewis thought as he lay in the dark trying to sober up, are the living dead.

It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three.

By Johann Wolfgang Goethe I Here's where I've planted my garden and here I shall care for love's blossoms-- As I am taught by my muse, carefully sort them in plots: Fertile branches...

[Transcriber's Notes: Welcome to the schoolroom of 1900.

Illustrated by Napoli [Transcriber's note: This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction April 1947.

Printed in Colours by Edmund Evans London: George Routledge and Sons [Illustration] Abecedary _Volatility._ Abatina _Fickleness._ Ac...

_Philip Duncan, the St. Louis attorney and former FBI agent, who wrote the definitive "History of Espionage", observes that in all the records dealing with spies and counterspies there is no more s...

CONTENTS: HOW TO TELL A STORY THE WOUNDED SOLDIER THE GOLDEN ARM MENTAL TELEGRAPHY AGAIN THE INVALID'S STORY HOW TO TELL A STORY The Humorous Stor...

The purpose of this paper is to characterize simple sabotage, to outline its possible effects, and to present suggestions for inciting and executing it.

a book entitled His Last Bow) It was nine o'clock at night upon the second of August--the most terrible August in the history of the world.

produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) [Illustration: JAMES MORRIS WEBB, A. M. Evangelist of the Church of God (Acts 20-28, Biblical)] The Black M...

FOR the Benefit of the whole KINGDOME M. DC.

CHAPTER I My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian.

Illustrated by KOSSIN _If it was good enough for your grandfather, forget it ...

Gerontion Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.

By T. S. Eliot To Jean Verdenal 1889-1915 Certain of these poems appeared first in "Poetry" and "Others" Contents The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Portrait o...

[Illustration: 'If you would have my advice, I will give it you in short; "for a word to the wise is enough."

_The transport ship, bound for Capella with Outlander colonists from Earth and Frontier Guards from Arcturus, struck the hyperspace vortex without warning.