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THE STORE BOY BY HORATO ALGER, Jr. Author of “Brave and Bold,” “Bound to Rise,” “Risen from the Ranks,” “Erie Train Boy”, “Paul the Peddler,”, “Phil, the Fiddler,”, “Young Acrobat,” Etc. CHAPTER IBEN BARCLAY MEETS A TRAMP “Give me a ride?” Ben Barclay checked the horse he was driving and looked attentively at the speaker. He was a stout-built, dark-complexioned man, with a beard of a week’s growth, wearing an old and dirty suit, which would have reduced any tailor to despair if taken to him for cleaning and repairs....

THE STORY OF THE HERSCHELS A FAMILY OF ASTRONOMERS. SIR WILLIAM HERSCHELSIR JOHN HERSCHELCAROLINE HERSCHEL. “Stars Numberless, as thou seest, and how they move; Each has his place appointed, each his course.” MILTON. 1886 PREFATORY NOTE From the best available sources have been gathered the following biographical particulars of a remarkable family of astronomers–the Herschels. They will serve to show the young reader how great a pleasure may be found in the acquisition of knowledge, and how solid a happiness in quietly pursuing the path of duty....

Now north of archaic Kingsport the crags climb lofty and curious, terrace on terrace, till the northernmost hangs in the sky like a grey frozen wind-cloud. Alone it is, a bleak point jutting in limitless space, for there the coast turns sharp where the great Miskatonic pours out of the plains past Arkham, bringing woodland legends and little quaint memories of New England’s hills. The sea-folk in Kingsport look up at that cliff as other sea-folk look up at the pole-star, and time the night’s watches by the way it hides or shews the Great Bear, Cassiopeia, and the Dragon....

Letter to Donald Wandrei My dreams occasionally approach’d the phantastical in character, tho’ falling somewhat short of coherence. One scene is especially stamp’d upon my recollection—that of a dank, fœtid, reed-choak’d marsh under a grey autumn sky, with a rugged cliff of lichen-crusted stone rising to the north. Impell’d by some obscure quest, I ascended a rift or cleft in this beetling precipice, noting as I did so the black mouths of many fearsome burrows extending from both walls into the depths of the stony plateau....

THE VALE OF CEDARS; or, The Martyr BY GRACE AGUILAR, AUTHOR OF “HOME INFLUENCE,” “WOMAN’S FRIENDSHIP,” ETC. 1851 “The wild dove hath her nest–the fox her cave– Mankind their country–Israel but the grave.” BYRON. MEMOIR OF GRACE AGUILAR. Grace Aguilar was born at Hackney, June 2nd, 1816. She was the eldest child, and only daughter of Emanuel Aguilar, one of those merchants descended from the Jews of Spain, who, almost within the memory of man, fled from persecution in that country, and sought and found an asylum in England....

The Augustan Reprint Society SAMUEL JOHNSON The Vanity of Human Wishes(1749) and Two Rambler papers(1750) With an Introduction byBertrand H. Bronson Publication Number 22(Series VI, No. 2) Los AngelesWilliam Andrews Clark Memorial Library University of California1950 GENERAL EDITORS H. RICHARD ARCHER, Clark Memorial Library RICHARD C. BOYS, University of Michigan EDWARD NILES HOOKER, University of California, Los Angeles H.T. SWEDENBERG, JR., University of California, Los Angeles ASSISTANT EDITORS W. EARL BRITTON, University of Michigan JOHN LOFTIS, University of California, Los Angeles ADVISORY EDITORS EMMETT L....

OF A HOMELY WOMAN BY FAY INCHFAWN[Elizabeth Rebecca Ward] CONTENTS PART I INDOORS THE LONG VIEW WITHIN MY HOUSE THE HOUSEWIFE TO MOTHER IN SUCH AN HOUR THE DAILY INTERVIEW THE LITTLE HOUSE THE HOUSE-MOTHER A WOMAN IN HOSPITAL IN CONVALESCENCE HOMESICK ON WASHING DAY WHEN BABY STRAYED IF ONLY —- LISTENING THE DEAR FOLKS IN DEVON THE REASON TWO WOMEN THE PRIZE FIGHT THE HOME LIGHTS TO AN OLD TEAPOT TO A REBELLIOUS DAUGHTER FOR MOTHERING!...

THE WORLD’S BEST POETRY I Home: Friendship II Love III Sorrow and Consolation IV The Higher Life V Nature VI Fancy: Sentiment VII Descriptive: Narrative VIII National Spirit IX Tragedy: Humor X Poetical Quotations THE WORLD’S BEST POETRY IN TEN VOLUMES, ILLUSTRATED Editor-in-ChiefBLISS CARMAN Associate EditorsJohn Vance CheneyCharles G.D. RobertsCharles F. RichardsonFrancis H. Stoddard Managing EditorJohn R. Howard 1904. The World’s Best PoetryVol. VIIINATIONAL SPIRIT THE STUDY OF POETRY. BY FRANCIS HOVEY STODDARD....

THE WORLD’S GREAT SERMONS COMPILED BY GRENVILLE KLEISER Formerly of Yale Divinity School Faculty; Author of “How to Speak in Public,” Etc. With Assistance from Many of the Foremost Living Preachers and Other Theologians INTRODUCTION BY LEWIS O. BRASTOW, D.D. Professor Emeritus of Practical Theology in Yale University VOLUME III MASSILLON TO MASON 1908 CONTENTS VOLUME III MASSILLON (1663-1742).The Small Number of the Elect SAURIN (1677-1730).Paul Before Felix and Drusilla EDWARDS (1703-1758)....

TISHThe Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions By MARY ROBERTS RINEHART CONTENTS MIND OVER MOTOR LIKE A WOLF ON THE FOLD THE SIMPLE LIFERS TISH’S SPY MY COUNTRY TISH OF THEE TISH Mind Over Motor How Tish Broke The Law And Some Records I So many unkind things have been said of the affair at Morris Valley that I think it best to publish a straightforward account of everything. The ill nature of the cartoon, for instance, which showed Tish in a pair of khaki trousers on her back under a racing-car was quite uncalled for....

The Triumph Of The Egg A Book Of Impressions From American Life In Tales And Poems By Sherwood Anderson In Clay By Tennessee Mitchell In the fields Seeds on the air floating. In the towns Black smoke for a shroud. In my breast Understanding awake. _Mid American Chants_. To Robert And John Anderson Tales are people who sit on the doorstep of the house of my mind. It is cold outside and they sit waiting....

Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner Author of “Dreams,” “Dream Life and Real Life,” “The Story of an African Farm,” etc. Colonial Edition (A photographic plate at the front of the book shows three people hanging from a tree by their necks. Around them stand eight men, looking not at all troubled by their participation in the scene. Of this event all the survivors appear to be white, the victims black....

by William Shakespeare PERSONS REPRESENTED ORSINO, Duke of Illyria.SEBASTIAN, a young Gentleman, brother to Viola. ANTONIO, a Sea Captain, friend to Sebastian. A SEA CAPTAIN, friend to ViolaVALENTINE, Gentleman attending on the Duke CURIO, Gentleman attending on the DukeSIR TOBY BELCH, Uncle of Olivia.SIR ANDREW AGUE-CHEEK. MALVOLIO, Steward to Olivia.FABIAN, Servant to Olivia.CLOWN, Servant to Olivia. OLIVIA, a rich Countess.VIOLA, in love with the Duke.MARIA, Olivia’s Woman. Lords, Priests, Sailors, Officers, Musicians, and other Attendants....

Valerius Terminus: of the Interpretation of Nature by Francis Bacon Preface by Robert Leslie Ellis The following fragments of a great work on the Interpretation of Nature were first published in Stephens’s Letters and Remains [1734]. They consist partly of detached passages, and partly of an epitome of twelve chapters of the first book of the proposed work. The detached passages contain the first, sixth, and eighth chapters, and portions of the fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and sixteenth....

[Illustration: WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL.] WANDERINGS IN WESSEX AN EXPLORATION OF THE SOUTHERN REALMFROM ITCHEN TO OTTER BY EDRIC HOLMES Author of “Seaward Sussex,” etc. With 12 full-page drawings by M.M. VIGERS and over one hundred illustrations in the text by the author. Map and Plans Dear hills do lift their heads aloft From whence sweet springes doe flow Whose moistvr good both firtil make The valleis covchte belowe Dear goodly orchards planted are In frvite which doo abovnde Thine ey wolde make thy hart rejoice To see so pleasant grovnde (Anon....

WHIRLIGIGS by O. HENRY CONTENTS I. THE WORLD AND THE DOOR II. THE THEORY AND THE HOUND III. THE HYPOTHESES OF FAILURE IV. CALLOWAY’S CODE V. A MATTER OF MEAN ELEVATION VI. “GIRL” VII. SOCIOLOGY IN SERGE AND STRAW VIII. THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF IX. THE MARRY MONTH OF MAY X. A TECHNICAL ERROR XI. SUITE HOMES AND THEIR ROMANCE XII. THE WHIRLIGIG OF LIFE XIII. A SACRIFICE HIT XIV....

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by Charles Brockden Brown From Virtue’s blissful paths awayThe double-tongued are sure to stray; Good is a forth-right journey still,And mazy paths but lead to ill. Advertisement. The following Work is delivered to the world as the first of a series of performances, which the favorable reception of this will induce the Writer to publish. His purpose is neither selfish nor temporary, but aims at the illustration of some important branches of the moral constitution of man....

ENDTHE SMALL PRINT! FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN ETEXTSVer.04.29.93END* This etext was prepared by Michael Pullen, globaltraveler5565@yahoo.com. Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre–Buch 2 oder die Entsagenden Zweites Buch Erstes Kapitel Die Wallfahrenden hatten nach Vorschrift den Weg genommen und fanden gl¸cklich die Grenze der Provinz, in der sie so manches Merkw¸rdige erfahren sollten; beim ersten Eintritt gewahrten sie sogleich der fruchtbarsten Gegend, welche an sanften H¸geln den Feldbau, auf hˆhern Bergen die Schafzucht, in weiten Talfl‰chen die Viehzucht beg¸nstigte....

Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner Author of “Dreams,” “The Story of an African Farm,” “Trooper Peter Halket,” “Dream Life and Real Life,” etc. etc. Dedicated to Constance Lytton “Glory of warrior, glory of orator, glory of song, Paid with a voice flying by to be lost on an endless sea– Glory of virtue, to fight, to struggle, to right the wrong– Nay, but she aim’d not at glory, no lover of glory she: Give her the glory of going on and still to be....