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""London V2"" is a comprehensive historical and descriptive account of the British metropolis and its surrounding areas up to a thirty-mile radius. Written by David Hughson, the book covers a wide range of topics including the city's geography, architecture, institutions, commerce, and social life....

""History of the European Languages V2"" is a scholarly book written by Alexander Murray that explores the historical and linguistic connections between various European nations. The second volume of this work focuses on the affinities between the Teutonic, Greek, Celtic, Slavonic, and Indian nations....

""A Documented History Of The Franciscan Order 1182-1517 Part 2"" is a comprehensive historical account of the Franciscan Order, written by Raphael M. Huber. The book covers the period from 1182 to 1517, and is the second part of a two-volume set. The Franciscan...

""The Childhood of Art or The Ascent of Man V1"" is a book that provides a detailed account of the evolution of human artistic expression during prehistoric times. The author, Herbert Green Spearing, explores the various stages of human development, from the earliest cave...

The History of England V8: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 is a comprehensive book written by David Hume. It covers the period from the Roman invasion of Britain in 55 BC to the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The...

""History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India till the Year A.D. 1612 V2"" is a historical book written by John Briggs. The book provides a comprehensive account of the rise of the Muslim power in India until the year 1612. It...

A History of English Utilitarianism is a comprehensive study of the philosophical and political movement of utilitarianism in England. Written by Ernest Albee, the book traces the origins of utilitarianism from the works of Jeremy Bentham and James Mill, and explores its development through...

The Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology Volume 1: A to Laws is a comprehensive reference book that provides an extensive overview of the fields of philosophy and psychology. Written by James Mark Baldwin, a renowned philosopher and psychologist, this book is a must-have for...

English Fairy And Folk Tales is a collection of traditional stories and legends from England, compiled and edited by Edwin Sidney Hartland. The book includes a wide variety of tales, from well-known classics like ""Jack and the Beanstalk"" and ""Tom Thumb"" to lesser-known stories...

The Secret History Of The Court Of France Under Louis XV V1 is a book written by Annie Emma Armstrong Challice. It is a historical account of the court of France during the reign of Louis XV, with a particular focus on the scandals,...

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""Mind, Motion and Monism"" is a philosophical treatise written by George John Romanes. The book is an exploration of the concept of monism, which is the belief that all things in the universe are ultimately reducible to one fundamental principle or substance. Romanes argues...

""Studies In History"" is a book written by Henry Cabot Lodge, an American historian and politician. The book is a collection of essays that explore various aspects of American history, including the colonial period, the American Revolution, and the Civil War. Lodge draws upon...

The General History of Polybius V2 is a book written by Mr. Hampton that provides a comprehensive account of the ancient world as documented by Polybius, a Greek historian who lived in the 2nd century BC. This second volume of the series covers the...

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...

""John Knox's History Of The Reformation In Scotland V1"" is a historical book written by John Knox, a Scottish minister and theologian who played a significant role in the Protestant Reformation in Scotland during the 16th century. The book is the first volume of...

Hermippus Redivivus: Or The Sage's Triumph Over Old Age And The Grave V3 is a book written by Johann Heinrich Cohausen. The book is based on the concept of immortality and the idea that it is possible to overcome old age and death. The...

""Power"" is a self-help book written by William H. Danforth, intended to help readers harness their inner strength and achieve success in various aspects of their lives. The book is divided into short, easy-to-read chapters that cover topics such as self-discipline, motivation, goal-setting, and...

Hegel: Introduction to the Philosophy of History is a book written by Irwin Edman that provides a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of history as developed by the German philosopher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. The book explores Hegel's ideas on history, including his views...

A toast proposed at the Johnson Birthday Celebration held at the Three Crowns Inn, Lichfield, in September, 1906. In rising to propose this toast I cannot ignore what must be in many of your minds, the recollection that last year it was submitted by...

Uncle Ethan had a theory that a man's character could be told by the way he sat in a wagon seat. "A mean man sets right plumb in the middle o' the seat, as much as to say, 'Walk, gol darn yeh, who cares?'...

The sound of the drumming wheels! It had roared in the ears of Ruth Fielding for hours as she sat on the comfortably upholstered seat in the last car of the afternoon Limited, the train whirling her from the West to the East, through...

On October 10, 1856, about four hundred people were camped in Tasajara Valley, California. It could not have been for the prospect, since a more barren, dreary, mono-tonous, and uninviting landscape never stretched before human eye; it could not have been for convenience or...

It was eleven o'clock at night when Surgeon Wyley of His Majesty's ship Bonetta washed his hands, drew on his coat, and walked from the hospital up the narrow cobbled street of Tangier to the Main-Guard by the Catherine Port. In the upper room...

The one opened the door with a latch-key and went in, followed by a young fellow who awkwardly removed his cap. He wore rough clothes that smacked of the sea, and he was manifestly out of place in the spacious hall in which he...

As night crept up from the valley that stormy afternoon, Sawyer's Ledge was at first quite blotted out by wind and rain, but presently reappeared in little nebulous star-like points along the mountain side, as the straggling cabins of the settlement were one by...

Esther McLean brought the afternoon mail in to Cunningham. She put it on the desk before him and stood waiting, timidly, afraid to voice her demand for justice, yet too desperately anxious to leave with it unspoken. He leaned back in his swivel chair,...

It was a warm, golden-cloudy, lovable afternoon. In the big living-room at Ingleside Susan Baker sat down with a certain grim satisfaction hovering about her like an aura; it was four o'clock and Susan, who had been working incessantly since six that morning, felt...

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 - - ALL that I have written so far about Doctor Dolittle I heard long after it happened from those who...

My family had for centuries owned the same estate, handed down from father to son undiminished in size, and much increased in value. I believe there had been among them in past generations those who feared the Lord. I know that my father was...

Dick Burton, you're a daddy! Polly's been and got a baby for you, old boy! exclaimed several voices, as the said Dick mounted the side of the old "Boreas," on the books of which ship he was rated as a quarter-master, he having just...

We were most of us seated round a blazing fire of pine logs, which crackled away merrily, sending the sparks about in all directions, at the no small risk of setting fire to garments of a lighter texture than ours. Although the flowers were...

Some years ago two travellers, mounted on wiry yet strong looking steeds, were wending their way through a forest in Australia. They were both young and dressed much alike in broad-brimmed pith hats, loose red shirts, corduroy trousers and high boots with spurs. Each...

When but a child of seven my uncle placed me in a private school in which one of the so-called redeemed sub-sailors was a teacher of the German language. As I look back now, in the light of my present knowledge, I better comprehend...

Whoever carries a mental kodak with him (as I suspect I was in the habit of doing long before I knew it) must be aware of the uncertain value of the different exposures. This can be determined only by the process of developing, which...

Just where the red track of the Los Gatos road streams on and upward like the sinuous trail of a fiery rocket until it is extinguished in the blue shadows of the Coast Range, there is an embayed terrace near the summit, hedged by...

The ship stole through the darkness with extremest caution, feeling her way past bay and promontory. Around her was none of that phosphorescent glow which lies above the open ocean, even on the darkest night, for the mountains ran down to the channel on...

Matthew Lanfear had stopped off, between Genoa and Nice, at San Remo in the interest of a friend who had come over on the steamer with him, and who wished him to test the air before settling there for the winter with an invalid...

Peter Blood, bachelor of medicine and several other things besides, smoked a pipe and tended the geraniums boxed on the sill of his window above Water Lane in the town of Bridgewater. Sternly disapproving eyes considered him from a window opposite, but went disregarded....

I spent one-third of my journey looking out of the window of a first-class carriage, the next in a local motor-car following the course of a trout stream in a shallow valley, and the last tramping over a ridge of downland through great beech-woods...

The song was over. The words were David's; the air, one of the countryside. The company about the inn table applauded heartily, for the young poet paid for the wine. Only the notary, M. Papineau, shook his head a little at the lines, for...

It is not a large house, I said. "We don't want a large house. Two spare bedrooms, and the little three-cornered place you see marked there on the plan, next to the bathroom, and which will just do for a bachelor, will be all...

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. If the mischief stopped at talking and thinking it would be bad enough; but it goes further, into disastrous anarchical action. Because our marriage law is inhuman aAuthor: George...

Now, which would you advise, dear? You see, with the red I shan't be able to wear my magenta hat. "Well then, why not have the grey?" "Yes-yes, I think the grey will be MORE useful." "It's a good material." "Yes, and it's a...

But Michael never sailed out of Tulagi, nigger-chaser on the Eugenie. Once in five weeks the steamer Makambo made Tulagi its port of call on the way from New Guinea and the Shortlands to Australia. And on the night of her belated arrival Captain...

Jeeves, I said, "may I speak frankly?" "Certainly, sir." "What I have to say may wound you." "Not at all, sir." "Well, then-" No-wait. Hold the line a minute. I've gone off the rails. I don't know if you have had the same experience,...

They first met in Boston, but the match was made in Europe, where they afterwards saw each other; whither, indeed, he followed her; and there the match was also broken off. Why it was broken off, and why it was renewed after a lapse...

You hear me, Saxon? Come on along. What if it is the Bricklayers? I'll have gentlemen friends there, and so'll you. The Al Vista band'll be along, an' you know it plays heavenly. An' you just love dancin'- Twenty feet away, a stout, elderly...

There are works, and this is one of them, that are best begun with a portrait of the author. And here, indeed, because of a very natural misunderstanding this is the only course to take. Throughout these papers sounds a note, a distinctive and...

There are certain persons who, independently of sex or comeliness, arouse an instant curiosity concerning themselves. The tribe is small, but its members unmistakable. They may possess neither fortune, good looks, nor that adroitness of advance-vision whiAuthor: Algernon BlackwoodISBN-10: 1421829169ISBN-13: 9781421829166Publisher: 1st World Library...