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produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.) THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF St. Ignatius EDITED BY J. F. X. O'CONOR, S.J. ...

LIST OF FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS [NOT IN E-TEXT] Mosaic in S. Vitale, Ravenna Victor and Heinrich Dunwegge: "The Crucifixion" (in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich) Albrecht Durer: "The Descent from ...

Translated by John Wilson 1668 ERASMUS OF ROTTERDAM to his friend THOMAS MORE,...

CHAPTER I SOME OLD FRIENDS Since these Reminiscences are really what they profess to be, random and informal, I hope I may be pardoned for setting down so many small things.

Editorial note: Laurence Hope was the pen name of Adela Florence Cory Nicolson.

_Translated from the Hindi_ BY A. RAMA IYER, M.A. [Illustration] 1921 S. GANESAN., PUBLISHER, TRIPLICANE ...

BURKE'S SPEECH ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA By Edmond Burke Edited With Introduction And Notes By Sidney Carleton Newsom Teacher Of English, Manual Training High School Indianapolis, Indiana ...

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By Frederich Schiller NOTE: The translation of MARY STUART is that by the late Joseph Mellish, who appears to have been on terms of intimate friendship with Schiller.

(Please see the HTML version of this eBook for 19 photographs) CONTENTS Foreword.

attributed to Evil Spirits—Origin of the Priesthood—Temptation of Christ—Innate Ideas—Divine Interference—Special Providence—The Crane and the Fish—Cancer as a proof of Design—Matter and Force—M...

THE GOLDEN SAYINGS OF EPICTETUS Translated and Arranged by Hastings Crossley I Are these the only works of Providence within us?

(Translator uncredited.

Far as the mariner on highest mast Can see all around upon the calmed vast, So wide was Neptune’s hall .

Dakota Sioux Indian Lecturer; Author of "Old Indian Legends," "Americanize The First American," and other stories; Member of the Woman's National Foundation, League of American Pen-Women, and the ...

A Literal Translation, by ROSCOE MONGAN 1896, BY HINDS & NOBLE HINDS, NOBLE & ELDREDGE, Publishers, 31-33-35 West Fifteenth Street, New York City PREFACE.

* * * * * * * PREFACE A preface to a play seems generally to be considered as a kind of closet-prologue, in which--if his piece has been successful--the author solicits that indulgence from the r...

------------------------------- The Illustrations by John Leech ------------------------------- Chapman and Hall 186 Strand MDCCCXLIII /My own, and only, MS of the Book/ Charles Dickens ...

1900 [Transcriber's Note: This pamphlet was first published in 1900 but was subsequently reprinted.

University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.

DEDICATION To the Right Honourable THOMAS, EARL OF PEMBROKE, &C., Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of the Lords of Her Majesty's most honourable privy council.

By Frederich Schiller Translated by Theodore Martin DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

CONTENTS Preface The Bride of the Man-Horse Distressing Tale of Thangobrind The Jeweller The House of the Sphinx Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men The Injudicious Prayers of...

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: [Edited by John Matthews Manly, 1897.

Edited by his Son Francis Darwin [My father's autobiographical recollections, given in the present chapter, were written for his children,--and written without any thought that they would ever b...

By Thornton W. Burgess CHAPTER I: Reddy Fox Brings Granny News Pray who is there who would refuse To bearer be of happy news?

THE CELESTIAL OMNIBUS AND OTHER STORIES By E.M. FORSTER London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd.

By Leo Tolstoy Translated by C.J. Hogarth I -- THE TUTOR, KARL IVANITCH On the 12th of August, 18-- (just three days after my tenth birthday, when I had been given such wonderful presents), ...

[Illustration: And there, on a bed the curtains of which were drawn wide, he beheld the loveliest vision he had ever seen.] The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales FROM THE OLD FRENCH retold ...

There is that old Box-coat again!"

A New Impression with a Frontispiece by Walter Crane London: Chatto & Windus, 1907 [Frontispiece, by Walter Crane: front.jpg] My Dear Sidney Colvin, The journey which this little book is to desc...

_Reprinted from the Fortnightly Review._ CHICAGO.

MOGENS AND OTHER STORIES (1882) By Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847-1885) Translated from the Danish By Anna Grabow (1921) CONTENTS INTRODUCTION MOGENS THE PLAGUE AT BERGAMO ...

_Here, once more, is a real scientifiction story plus.

Translated by Edmund Gosse and William Archer Introduction by William Archer INTRODUCTION.

THE BOOK OF WAR INTRODUCTION I Written in the fifth century B.C., Suntzu and Wutzu still remain the most celebrated works on war in the literature of China.

1906 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: The edition from which this play was taken was printed with no contractions, thus "we've" is written as "weve", "hadn't" as "hadnt", etc.

DUKE, living in exile FREDERICK, his brother, and usurper of his dominions AMIENS, lord attending on the banished Duke JAQUES, " " " " " " LE BEAU, a courtier attendi...

Author of "Slabs of the Sunburnt West," "Smoke and Steel," "Chicago Poems," "Cornhuskers" ILLUSTRATIONS AND DECORATIONS BY ...

An Anonymous Volunteer POEMS by Currer, Ellis, And Acton Bell (Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte) POEMS BY CURRER BELL PILATE'S WIFE'S DREAM.

[Illustration: THE WOLF, THE FOX, AND THE APE (See page 153)] Æsop’s Fables A Version for Young Readers _By_ J. H. Stickney Illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull ...

The Essays here presented form a further selection from Schopenhauer's _Parerga_, brought together under a title which is not to be found in the original, and does not claim to apply to every chapt...

INTRODUCTION As we have moved down the ages, now and then, from the religious teacher, the statesman, the inventor, the social worker, or from the doctor, surgeon, or sexologist, there has been a...

By Friedrich de la Motte Fouque With foreword by Charlotte M Yonge Introduction Four tales are, it is said, intended by the Author to be appropriate to the Four Seasons: the stern, grave "...

I THE way led along upon what had once been the embankment of a railroad.

respect on a medical question.

[Illustration: "'Henry Johnson!

Aristotle[1] divides the blessings of life into three classes--those which come to us from without, those of the soul, and those of the body.

Introduction Should you ask me, whence these stories?

TRANSLATED by R. MARTIN POPE.