The collected addresses and state papers of Elihu Root, of which this isone of several volumes, cover the period of his service as Secretary ofWar, as Secretary of State, and as Senator of the United  more...

This noble novel, now translated into English for the first time, waswritten nearly fifty years ago. On its first appearance, Hungariancritics of every school at once hailed it as a masterpiece.  more...

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the 31st day of March, in the 50th year of theIndependence of the United States of America, A. D. 1826, Hugh L. Hodge,Franklin Bache, Charles D. Meigs, Benjamin H.  more...

The great Pacific is the scene of our story. On a beautiful morning,many years ago, a little schooner might have been seen floating, lightand graceful as a seamew, on the breast of the slumbering ocean.  more...

TO WHICH IS ADDED,A RELIGIOUS CORRESPONDENCE,BETWEENTHE REV. HOSEA BALLOU, AND THE REV. DR. JOSEPH BUCKMINSTERAND REV. JOSEPH WALTON, PASTORS OF CONGREGATIONALCHURCHES IN PORTSMOUTH, N.  more...

The two first references to Fredericksborg Castle (in "city toFredericksborg" and "surrounds Fredericksborg") should correctly say"Fredericksberg Castle". This is a mistake by the author.  more...

As a preface I wish to say only a very few words--namely, that but forthe great pressure put upon me I should not have ventured to write,or allowed to be published, any reminiscences of mine,  more...

Upon the village of Camylott there had rested since the earliest peepof dawn a hush of affectionate and anxious expectancy, the veryplough-boys going about their labours without boisterous laughter, thechildren playing quietly, and the good  more...

(I) As everyone knows, the general idea of the Doctrine of Descent isthat the plants and animals of the present day are the linealdescendants of ancestors on the whole somewhat simpler, that theseagain are descended  more...

"Who amongst this merry party will become sufficiently sober to assistme in a work of charity?" was Mrs. Hamiltons address, one afternoon, asshe entered her daughters room, where Emmeline, her young friends LadyFlorence and Lady  more...

A Ninth Edition of the following Poems having been called for by thepublic, the author is induced to say a few words, particularlyconcerning those which, under the name of Sonnets, describe his personalfeelings.  more...

Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions  more...

As I put down my name and the number of the crack engine of America--aswell as the imprint of a greasy thumb--on the register of our roundhouselast Saturday night, the foreman borrowed a chew of  more...

WHO, HIMSELF A WRITER, TRAINED ME IN THE WORK HE LOVED. WHAT MERIT THEREADER MAY FIND IN THESE PAGES IS THE RESULT OF THAT TRAINING, UNDERTAKENWITH A FATHERS PRIDE, CARRIED ON WITH A FATHERS BELIEF  more...

While Pulci in Florence was elevating romance out of the street-ballads,and laying the foundation of the chivalrous epic, a poet appeared inLombardy (whether inspired by his example is uncertain) who was destinedto carry it to  more...

XI. In Column of Platoons XII. Mandeville Bleeds XIII. Things Anna Could Not Write XIV. Flora Taps Grandmas Cheek XV. The Long Month of March XVI. Constance Tries to Help XVII.  more...

Licentiate of the King and Queens College of Physicians in Ireland; Honorary Corresponding Member of the New York State Agricultural Society; Member of the Agricultural Society of Belgium; Professor of Hygiene or Political...  more...

"You owe me two letters--pay them. I want to know what you are about. The summer is over, and you will be back to Paris. Apropos of Paris, it was not Sophia _Gail_, but  more...

The plays in this volume are printed for the first time. All areanonymous; but it is absolutely certain that _Sir John Van OldenBarnavelt_ is a masterpiece by Fletcher and Massinger; that _CaptainUnderwit_ is a comedy  more...

This volume does not aim to contain all "the best American humorousshort stories"; there are many other stories equally as good, Isuppose, in much the same vein, scattered through the range ofAmerican literature.  more...

Tenet ecclesia nostra, tenuitque semper firmam illam et immotamTertulliani regulam "Id verius quod prius, id prius quod ab initio." Quopropius ad veritatis fontem accedimus, eo purior decurrit Catholicaedoctrinae rivus.  more...

The first beams of the sun of August 17, 1777, were glancing down thelong valley, which opening to the East, lets in the early rays ofmorning, upon the village of Stockbridge. Then, as now, the  more...

Having been asked, year after year, by the members of my Class forOperative Surgery, to recommend to them some Manual of SurgicalOperations which might at once guide them in their choice of operations,and give minute  more...

All the patriotic sections of the German people were greatly excitedduring the summer and autumn of 1911. The conviction lay heavy on allhearts that in the settlement of the Morocco dispute no mere commercialor colonial  more...

From the Old-English town of Martel, in Guyenne, I turned southwardtowards the Dordogne. For a few miles the road lay over a barrenplateau; then it skirted a desolate gorge with barely a trace ofvegetation upon  more...

[Illustration: CLIFF-CASTLE, BRENGUES. In this castle the Bishop ofCahors took refuge from the English, to whom he refused to submit, andin it he died in 1367. It was however captured by the English in 1377.  more...

I have to thank the editors of _The Edinburgh_ and _Quarterly Reviews_,_The Nineteenth Century and After_, and _The Spectator_ for allowing therepublication of these essays, all of which appeared originally in theirrespective columns.  more...

I have little more to say for them, than that the writing of themas glimpses of life and landscape in Dorset, which often open tomy memory and mindsight, has given me very much pleasure; and  more...

The Editor of this little volume (for he presumes not to write _Author_)has been induced to bring into one connected view what has hithertoappeared only as detached fragments (and some of these not generallyaccessible)--the historical  more...

(I) As everyone knows, the general idea of the Doctrine of Descent isthat the plants and animals of the present day are the linealdescendants of ancestors on the whole somewhat simpler, that theseagain are descended  more...

While Pulci in Florence was elevating romance out of the street-ballads,and laying the foundation of the chivalrous epic, a poet appeared inLombardy (whether inspired by his example is uncertain) who was destinedto carry it to  more...

This book is, to all intents and purposes, entirely new. No considerableportion of it has already appeared, although here and there shortpassages and phrases from articles of bygone years are embedded--indistinguishably, I hope--in the text.  more...

Habнan salido a las nueve de Colmenar, con cargamento de cбntaros deleche, rodando toda la noche bajo una lluvia glacial que parecнa elъltimo adiуs del invierno. Los carreteros deseaban llegar a Madrid antesque rompiese el  more...

Jaime Febrer arose at nine oclock. Old Antonia, the faithful servantwho cherished the memory of the past glories of the family, and who hadattended upon Jaime from the day of his birth, had been bustling  more...

En mis tiempos de agitador polнtico, allб por el aсo 1902, losrepublicanos de Mallorca me invitaron a un mitin de propaganda denuestras doctrinas que se celebrу en la plaza de Toros de Palma.  more...

Comenzaba б clarear el dнa cuando despertу el doctor Aresti, sintiйndoseempujado en un hombro. Lo primero que viу fuй el rostro de manzana seca,verdoso y arrugado de Kataliс, su ama de llaves, y los dos  more...

I have omitted to notice the route to this place, having formerlydescribed the greater portion of it. I remarked a considerableimprovement in the different towns we passed through: the people lookcleaner, and an air of  more...

Myцhддn erддnд iltana marraskuussa v. 1816 muuan keski-ikдinen miesenemmдn hiipi kuin asteli Nybron satamalaiturilla Tukholmassa, taluttaenkдdestд pientд poikaa, joka nдytti noin kahdeksan vuotiaalta.  more...

Apresuradamente, como en los tiempos que llegaba tarde a la escuela,entrу Fermнn Montenegro en el escritorio de la casa Dupont, la primerabodega de Jerez, conocida en toda Espaсa; «Dupont Hermanos», dueсos delfamoso vino de Marchamalo,  more...

Comenzaba a amanecer cuando Gabriel Luna llegу ante la catedral. En lasestrechas calles toledanas todavнa era de noche. La azul claridad delalba, que apenas, lograba deslizarse entre los aleros de los tejados, seesparcнa con mayor  more...

Nie warst Du hier; doch fast bestдndig Auf Schritt und Tritt begegn ich Dir. Es ist kein Weg, kein Zimmer hier, Wo Dein Gedдchtnis nicht lebendig Und mich umhegt seit jenen Jahren, Da Deine  more...

AUTHOR OF "BLUE LIGHTS, OR HOT WORK IN THE SOUDAN;" "THE FUGITIVES;""RED ROONEY;" "THE ROVER OF THE ANDES;" "THE WILD MAN OF THE WEST;" "THERED ERIC;" "FREAKS ON THE FELLS;" "THE YOUNG TRAWLER;" "DUSTY DIAMONDS;""THE  more...

In these notes of foreign travel the object has been to cover a broadfield without making a cumbersome volume, to do which, conciseness hasnecessarily been observed. In previous books the author has describedmuch more in  more...

Il presente ristretto и stato scritto ad uso dell_Enciclopediapopolare_ che si viene stampando in questa cittб. Gentilmenterichiestone, or fa lanno, da quegli editori, io accettai moltovolentieri lincarico, loccasione di raccogliere in uno e compendiare...  more...

As the scene of so great a part of the following work is laid inCanada, I flatter myself there is a peculiar propriety in addressing itto your excellency, to whose probity and enlightened attention thecolony  more...

Unable to relieve herself from this perplexity, Cecilia, to divert herchagrin, again visited Miss Belfield. She had then the pleasure tohear that her brother was much recovered, and had been able, thepreceding day, to take  more...

The domestic story of "Home Influence," and its Sequel, the presentvolume, were written in the early part of the year 1836, and the entirework was completed when its author was little above the age of  more...

In the revision of this well-known work I have held my hand, rather thanthe contrary, trying to bear always in mind that it was the hand-book ofMr. Charles Boutell and not a production of my  more...

Om een goed begin te maken en met een vrij hart naar Metas bruiloft tekunnen gaan, mogen wij eerst nog wel eens een praatje over de familieMarch houden. En dan moet ik al dadelijk zeggen,  more...

Considering the immense volume of poetical writing produced, and lostor accumulated, by all nations through the ages, it is of curiousinterest that no generally accepted definition of the word "Poetry"has ever been made.  more...

I AN EVENT IN MR. SKELLORNS LIFE II THE END OF THE SCENE III MR. CANNON IV DOMESTICITY INVADED V MRS. LESSWAYS SHREWDNESS VI VICTOR HUGO AND ISAAC PITMAN VII THE EDITORIAL SECRETARY VIII  more...

PREMIИRE PARTIE DU RAISONNEMENT EXPЙRIMENTAL.CHAPITRE PREMIER DE LOBSERVATION ET DE LEXPЙRIENCE.§ I. -- Dйfinitions diverses de lobservation et de lexpйrience.§ II. -- Acquйrir de lexpйrience et sappuyer sur lobservation est...  more...

Often as I have thought of my old friend "Father Payne," as weaffectionately called him, I had somehow never intended to write about him,or if I did, it was "like as a dream when one  more...

The present work is a revision of that published in 1908. No radicalalterations have been introduced, although a number of minor changes willbe noted. I have added an Introduction on the origin and development of  more...

Transcribers Note: General: Varied hyphenation is retained. In list of Illustrations DeLong is one word; in Table of Contents it is De Long; in text it is DeLong. More Transcribers notes will be found at  more...

The celebrated Tommy first comes into view on a dirty London stair, andhe was in sexless garments, which were all he had, and he was five, andso though we are looking at him, we must  more...

I have written this Gossip not only for the edification of those to whoma portion, more or less, may be news, but for those who, like myself,have lived through the whole of Queen Victoria’s reign,  more...

Who prop, thou askst, in these bad days, my mind?-- He much, the old man, who, clearest-sould of men, Saw The Wide Prospect, and the Asian Fen,[1] And Tmolus hill, and Smyrna bay, though  more...

La Belle aux cheveux dor.LOiseau bleu.Gracieuse et Percinet.La Biche au bois.Babiole.Finette Cendron.Fortunйe.La bonne petite souris.La Princesse Rosette.Le Mouton.Le Nain jaune.  more...

There are three cathedrals which I think will remain chief of theSpanish cathedrals in the remembrance of the traveller, namely theCathedral at Burgos, the Cathedral at Toledo, and the Cathedral atSeville; and first of these  more...