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This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.Author: Frater AchadISBN-10: 1494000288ISBN-13: 9781494000288Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 92Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.19d

This is a new release of the original 1944 edition.Author: Matthew Page AndrewsISBN-10: 1494002264ISBN-13: 9781494002268Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.20d

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Alexis De TocquevilleISBN-10: 1473316022ISBN-13: 9781473316027Publisher:...

Xangans are unique; they are the only blogging community who have named themselves after their on-line playground, Xanga.com, The World's Greatest Blogging Community. It is their jungle, their pulpit and endless party, Xanga. Knowing each other well onscreen, yet rarely meeting in real life,...

L.S.McKay takes his vast experiences and interactions with life, love, nature, people from all walks and interests and brings his ability to look at life from a different angle and express theses angles in his prose and poetry. From childlike insight to deadly paths...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: John GalsworthyISBN-10: 1446541231ISBN-13:...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Harry M. LamonISBN-10:...

""A Guide to the Town of Berne, Now the Capital of Switzerland and the Seat of the Federal Government: Comprising Its Chronicles, Antiquities, Arts, Architecture"" is a book written by A Cantab and published in 1859. The book provides a comprehensive guide to the...

Syntax of Classical Greek from Homer to Demosthenes, Part 1: The Syntax of the Simple Sentence Embracing the Doctrine of the Moods and Tenses (1900) is a comprehensive guide to the syntax of the Greek language, written by Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve. This book is...

The History Of The Borneman Family In America: Since The First Settlers, 1721 To 1878 is a book written by Amos Borneman and published in 1879. The book is a comprehensive account of the history of the Borneman family in America, tracing their roots...

C. Nelson Stewart wrote about "occult mineralogy" and Baron Edward Bulwer-Litton's interest in the occult. The Gem-Stones of the Seven Rays, Stewart states: "To the ceremonialist and student of magic, precious stones are especially valuable as wave-meters transmitting specialized psychic qualities, and this little...

The Ecclesiastical History of Sozomen is a book written by Edward Walford that covers the history of the Christian Church from the year 324 AD to 440 AD. The author, Sozomen, was a Greek historian who wrote extensively about the early Christian Church and...

A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language is a comprehensive reference book written by John Walker. This book is designed to help readers improve their pronunciation and understanding of the English language. It contains a detailed list of English words, along...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have...

Nobody knows what starts the sap along the twigs of a very young, tender, and green woman's nature. In my case it was Samuel Foster Crittenden, though how could he have counted on the amount of Grandmother Nelson that was planted deep in my...

My poor pets! a lady exclaimed, sorrowfully; "it is too bad. They all knew me so well; and ran to meet me, when they saw me coming; and seemed really pleased to see me, even when I had no food to give them." "Which...

When James Graham, carpenter, enlisted, it was with the assurance that if he lost his life his grateful country would provide for his widow. He did lose it, and Mrs. Graham received, in exchange for a husband and his small earnings, the sum of...

Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect in form, and may be truly thought to contain more than any commentator has ever dreamed of; or, as Goethe said of one of his own writings, more than the author himself...

For some moments profound silence and darkness had accompanied a Sierran stage-coach towards the summit. The huge, dim bulk of the vehicle, swaying noiselessly on its straps, glided onward and upward as if obeying some myste-rious impulse from behind, so faint and indefinite appeared...

Of all the writings of Plato the Timaeus is the most obscure and repulsive to the modern reader, and has nevertheless had the greatest influence over the ancient and mediaeval world. The obscurity arises in the infancy of physical science, out of the confusion...

It was on his fourteenth birthday that Keith Burton discovered the Great Terror, though he did not know it by that name until some days afterward. He knew only, to his surprise and distress, that the "Treasure Island," given to him by his father...

On the east coast of England, there is a small hamlet surrounded by high sand-hills, with scarcely a blade of grass or even a low shrub to be seen in its neighbourhood. The only vegetable productions, indeed, which can flourish in that light soil,...

A beautiful spring day was drawing to a close. High aloft in the clear sky floated small rosy clouds, which seemed never to drift past, but to be slowly absorbed into the blue depths beyond. At an open window, in a handsome mansion situated...

What had been in the cool gray of that summer morning a dewy country lane, marked only by a few wagon tracks that never encroached upon its grassy border, and indented only by the faint footprints of a crossing fox or coon, was now,...

The man with the gold-headed cane had been headed for the cottage, but espying the boy at the water's edge, he changed his course. He crept to within a few paces of the lad before he hailed: "Halloo, little boy! I'll bet I know...

Is this the station, Gran'pa Jim? inquired a young girl, as the train began to slow up. "I think so, Mary Louise," replied the handsome old gentle-man addressed. "It does look very promising, does it?" she continued, glanc-ing eagerly out of the window. "The...

Stephen Archer was a stationer, bookseller, and newsmonger in one of the suburbs of London. The newspapers hung in a sort of rack at his door, as if for the convenience of the public to help themselves in passing. On his counter lay penny...

Jack Radburn, mate of the "Lily," was as prime a seaman as ever broke biscuit. Brave, generous, and true, so said all the crew, as did also Captain Haiselden, with whom he had sailed since he had first been to sea. Yet so modest...

Is he rich, ma'am? is he rich? ey? what-what? is he rich? Sir Thomas was a rapid little man, and quite an epicure in the use of that luscious monosyllable. "Is he rich, Lady Dillaway? ey? what?" "Really, Thomas, you never give me time...

A few preliminary pages of personal history I offer to those who followed me either in thought or deed during the Anglo-Boer War. My ancestors were Germans; my grandfather was born in the South. About the year 1820 he, along with two brothers, bade...

A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honor of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row who were circling madly about the heap and pelting at him. His infantile countenance was livid with fury....

Except for the lone policeman who paused beneath the arc light at the Front Street intersection to make an entry in his patrol book, Bay Street was deserted. The fog which had come crawling in from the lake had filled the lower streets and...

It was springtime in the California Sierra. Never were skies bluer, never did the golden sun-flood steep the endless forest lands in richer life-giving glory. Ridge after ridge the mountains swept on and fell away upon one side until in the vague distances they...

Boys, what do you say to a trip in the Dartaway this afternoon? "Suits me, Sam," replied Tom Rover. "Providing the breeze doesn't get too strong," returned Dick Rover, as he put up his hand to feel the air. "Oh, I don't think it...

After a few years of really perfect domestic bliss Elizabeth and her "Harry" had a rather serious quarrel, which ended in Lord Valmond's going off to shoot big game in the wilds of Africa, leaving Elizabeth, who (in the absence of her mother and...

Neither life nor the lawn-tennis club was so full at Natterley that the news of Harry Sterling's return had not some importance. He came back, moreover, to assume a position very different from his old one. He had left Harrow now, departing in the...

In the Maynards' side yard at Rockwell, a swingful of children was slowly swaying back and forth. The swing was one of those big double wooden affairs that hold four people, so the Maynards just filled it comfortably. It was a lovely soft summer...

Once upon a time two brave princes and a beautiful princess set out to make their fortunes- began the dark-haired, dark-eyed boy by the roadster. "Royalty is out of fashion," corrected Ricky Ralestone somewhat indifferently. "Can't you do better than that?" She gave her...

Is yuh asleep, Miss Dimple? "No," said Dimple, drowsily. "I'm are." "Why, Bubbles," replied Dimple, "if you were asleep you wouldn't be talking." "Folks talks in their sleep sometimes, Miss Dimple," answered Bubbles, opening her black eyesAuthor: Amy E. BlanchardISBN-10: 1421829215ISBN-13: 9781421829210Publisher: 1st World...

The professor, sitting before his untasted breakfast, is looking thevery picture of dismay. Two letters lie before him; one is in his hand, the other is on the table-cloth. Both are open; but of one, the opening lines - that tell of the death...

The American Troops have set words to one of their bugle calls. These words are indicative of their spirit - of the calculated determination with which they have faced up to their adventure: an adventure unparalleled for magnitude in the history of their nation....

This story is complete in itself but forms volume three of a line known under the general title of "Boy Hunters Series," and taking in adventures in the field, the forest, and on the river and lake, both in winter and summer. The boys...

Well, Tom, how's your head now? "How's my head? What do you mean? There's nothing the matter with my head," and the speaker, who wore the uniform of a French aviator, glanced up in surprise from the cot on which he was reclining in...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Two men were sitting beside a camp-fire at Saddle Pass, a shallow notch in the lower end of the...

FIRST GENTLEMAN. You do not meet a man but frowns; our bloods No more obey the heavens than our courtiers Still seem as does the King's. SECOND GENTLEMAN. But what's the matter? FIRST GENTLEMAN. His daughter, and the heir of's kingdom, whom He purpos'd...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - "Look here, boy, can you hold my horse a few minutes?" asked a gentleman, as he jumped from his...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Our camp was in the heart of Copiah County, Mississippi, a mile or so west of Gallatin and about...

There is not a more charming sight in the domestic world, than that of an elder girl in a large family, amusing what are called the little ones. How could mamma have ventured upon that cosy nap in the arm-chair by the fire, if...