THE LOVE OF BOOKS THE PHILOBIBLON OF RICHARD DE BURY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY E. C. THOMAS “TAKE THOU A BOOK INTO THINE HANDS AS SIMON THE JUST TOOK THE CHILD JESUS INTO HIS ARMS TO CARRY HIM AND KISS HIM. AND WHEN THOU HAST FINISHED READING, CLOSE THE BOOK AND GIVE THANKS FOR EVERY WORD OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD; BECAUSE IN THE LORD’S FIELD THOU HAST FOUND A HIDDEN TREASURE....
THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH EDITED BY WILLIAM KNIGHT VOL. II 1896 CONTENTS Peter Bell Lines, composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a tour, July 13, 1798 There was a Boy The Two Thieves; or, the Last Stage of Avarice Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone, the largest of a Heap lying near a Deserted Quarry, upon one of the Islands at Rydal 1799 Influence of Natural Objects in calling forth and strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth The Simplon Pass Nutting Written in Germany, on one of the Coldest Days of the Century A Poet’s Epitaph “Strange fits of passion have I known” “She dwelt among the untrodden ways” “I travelled among unknown men” “Three years she grew in sun and shower” “A slumber did my spirit seal” Address to the Scholars of the Village School of—- Matthew The Two April Mornings The Fountain To a Sexton The Danish Boy Lucy Gray; or, Solitude Ruth 1800 “On Nature’s invitation do I come” “Bleak season was it, turbulent and bleak” Ellen Irwin; or, The Braes of Kirtle Hart-Leap Well The Idle Shepherd-Boys; or, Dungeon-Ghyll Force The Pet-Lamb The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale Poems on the Naming of Places: “It was an April morning: fresh and clear” To Joanna “There is an Eminence,–of these our hills” “A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags” To M....
THE POINT OF VIEW by Henry James I. FROM MISS AURORA CHURCH, AT SEA, TO MISS WHITESIDE, IN PARIS. . . . My dear child, the bromide of sodium (if that’s what you call it) proved perfectly useless. I don’t mean that it did me no good, but that I never had occasion to take the bottle out of my bag. It might have done wonders for me if I had needed it; but I didn’t, simply because I have been a wonder myself....
Scanned by Dianne Bean.Proofread by Stephanie Manke. THE RAILROAD BUILDERS, A CHRONICLE OF THE WELDING OF THE STATES BY JOHN MOODY NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESSTORONTO: GLASGOW, BROOK & CO.LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORDOXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1919 CONTENTS I. A CENTURY OF RAILROAD BUILDINGII. THE COMMODORE AND THE NEW YORK CENTRAL III. THE GREAT PENNSYLVANIA SYSTEMIV. THE ERIE RAILROADV. CROSSING THE APPALACHIAN RANGEVI. LINKING THE OCEANSVII. PENETRATING THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST VIII. BUILDING ALONG THE SANTA FE TRAILIX....
[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] THE RED LILY By ANATOLE FRANCE BOOK 2. CHAPTER X DECHARTRE ARRIVES IN FLORENCE They had dressed for dinner. In the drawing-room Miss Bell was sketching monsters in imitation of Leonard. She created them, to know what they would say afterward, sure that they would speak and express rare ideas in odd rhythms, and that she would listen to them....
THE STORY OF WELLESLEY BY FLORENCE CONVERSE ALMA MATER To Alma Mater, Wellesley’s daughters, All together join and sing.Thro’ all her wealth of woods and water Let your happy voices ring;In every changing mood we love her, Love her towers and woods and lake;Oh, changeful sky, bend blue above her, Wake, ye birds, your chorus wake! We’ll sing her praises now and ever,Blessed fount of truth and love.Our heart’s devotion, may it neverFaithless or unworthy prove,We’ll give our lives and hopes to serve her, Humblest, highest, noblest–all;A stainless name we will preserve her, Answer to her every call....
The Evolution of Theology: An Anthropological Study by Thomas Henry HuxleyThis is Essay #8 from “Science and Hebrew Tradition” I conceive that the origin, the growth, the decline, and the fall of those speculations respecting the existence, the powers, and the dispositions of beings analogous to men, but more or less devoid of corporeal qualities, which may be broadly included under the head of theology, are phenomena the study of which legitimately falls within the province of the anthropologist....
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt. –Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar A person who is ignorant of legal matters is always liable to make mistakes when he tries to photograph a court scene with his pen; and so I was not willing to let the law chapters in this book go to press without first subjecting them to rigid and exhausting revision and correction by a trained barrister–if that is what they are called....
THE UNSPEAKABLE PERK BY SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS CONTENTS I. MR. BEETLE MAN II. AT THE KAST III. THE BETTER PART OF VALOR IV. TWO ON A MOUNTAIN-SIDE V. AN UPHOLDER OF TRADITIONS VI. FORKED TONGUES VII. “THAT WHICH THY SERVANT IS–” VIII. LOS YANKIS IX. THE BLACK WARNING X. THE FOLLY OF PERK XI. PRESTO CHANGE! XII. THE WOMAN AT THE QUINTAXIII. LEFT BEHIND XIV. THE YELLOW FLAG THE UNSPEAKABLE PERK I MR....
THE WISE MAMMA GOOSE By CHARLOTTE B. HERR Designs FRANCES BEEM 1913 THIS LITTLE STORY IS TOLD AND THE LITTLE PICTURES WERE DRAWN FOR A GOOD LITTLE CHILD NAMED: _______________ THE WISE MAMMA GOOSE Mamma Goose was trying to think. She had left the barnyard because it was so noisy there that she could not collect her wits, and had hidden herself between the rows of tall red hollyhocks which border one side of the garden....
THE YOUNG FUR-TRADERS. UNIFORM WITH THIS BOOK. THE CORAL ISLAND. MARTIN RATTLER. UNCAVA. [Illustration: Pierre was standing over the great kettle. “The Young Fur Traders]” Frontispiece SNOWFLAKES AND SUNBEAMS; OR, THE YOUNG FUR-TRADERS A Tale of the Far North. BY ROBERT MICHAEL BALLANTYNE PEEFACE. In writing this book my desire has been to draw an exact copy of the picture which is indelibly stamped on my own memory. I have carefully avoided exaggeration in everything of importance....
The “legal small print” and other information about this book may now be found at the end of this file. Please read this important information, as it gives you specific rights and tells you about restrictions in how the file may be used. TIK-TOK OF OZ by L. FRANK BAUM To Louis F. Gottschalk,whose sweet and dainty melodiesbreathe the true spirit of fairyland, this book is affectionately dedicated To My Readers The very marked success of my last year’s fairy book, “The Patchwork Girl of Oz,” convinces me that my readers like the Oz stories “best of all,” as one little girl wrote me....
TOM SWIFT AND HIS PHOTO TELEPHONE OR THE PICTURE THAT SAVED A FORTUNE BY VICTOR APPLETON AUTHOR OF “TOM SWIFT AND HIS MOTOR CYCLE,” “TOM SWIFT AND HIS GIANT CANNON,” “THE MOVING PICTURE BOYS,” “THE MOVING PICTURE BOYS IN THE JUNGLE,” “THE MOTION PICTURE CHUMS’ FIRST VENTURE,” ETC. CONTENTS I. A MAN ON THE ROOF II. BAD NEWS III. TOM’S FAILURE IV. RUN DOWN V. SHARP WORDS VI. A WARNING VII....
Compiled with an Historical Introduction by F. W. Moorman(Professor of English Language, University of Leeds) London Published for the Yorkshire Dialect Society by Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd., 1916, 1917 To The Yorkshiremen Serving their Country in Trench or on Battleship I respectfully dedicate this collection of Songs from the Homeland Contents:Preface to Etext EditionPrefacePreface (To the Second Edition)IntroductionPoems A Yorkshire Dialogue between an awd Wife a Lass and a butcher ....
I know I’m more nervous than I was when you saw me last year, but you don’t need to hold a clinic over it. There’s plenty of reason, God knows, and I fancy I’m lucky to be sane at all. Why the third degree? You didn’t use to be so inquisitive. Well, if you must hear it, I don’t know why you shouldn’t. Maybe you ought to, anyhow, for you kept writing me like a grieved parent when you heard I’d begun to cut the Art Club and keep away from Pickman....
May heaven forgive the folly and morbidity which led us both to so monstrous a fate! Wearied with the commonplaces of a prosaic world, where even the joys of romance and adventure soon grow stale, St. John and I had followed enthusiastically every aesthetic and intellectual movement which promised respite from our devastating ennui. The enigmas of the Symbolists and the ecstasies of the pre-Raphaelites all were ours in their time, but each new mood was drained too soon of its diverting novelty and appeal....
TO HENRY, MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNE THESE SPEECHES ARE DEDICATED BY HIS GRATEFUL AND AFFECTIONATE FRIEND THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY. PREFACE. It was most reluctantly that I determined to suspend, during the last autumn, a work which is the business and the pleasure of my life, in order to prepare these Speeches for publication; and it is most reluctantly that I now give them to the world. Even if I estimated their oratorical merit much more highly than I do, I should not willingly have revived, in the quiet times in which we are so happy as to live, the memory of those fierce contentions in which too many years of my public life were passed....
Yet I believe I have a deeper sense of the stupefying—almost horrible—ancientness of the West than any European. It all comes from an incident that happened in 1928; an incident which I’d greatly like to dismiss as three-quarters hallucination, but which has left such a frightfully firm impression on my memory that I can’t put it off very easily. It was in Oklahoma, where my work as an American Indian ethnologist constantly takes me and where I had come upon some devilishly strange and disconcerting matters before....
THE NUTTALL ENCYCLOPAEDIA BEING A CONCISE AND COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY OF GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CONSISTING OF OVER 16,000 TERSE AND ORIGINAL ARTICLES ON NEARLY ALL SUBJECTS DISCUSSED IN LARGER ENCYCLOPAEDIAS, AND SPECIALLY DEALING WITH SUCH AS COME UNDER THE CATEGORIES OF HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, GEOGRAPHY, LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, SCIENCE, AND ART EDITED BY THE REV. JAMES WOOD EDITOR OF “NUTTALL’S STANDARD DICTIONARY” AND COMPILER OF THE “DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS” THE SIXTY-FIRST THOUSAND 1907 PREFACE “The NUTTALL ENCYCLOPAEDIA” is the fruit of a project to provide, in a concise and condensed form, and at a cheap rate, an epitome of the kind of information given in the larger Encyclopaedias, such as may prove sufficient for the ordinary requirements, in that particular, of the generality of people, and especially of such as have not the means for purchasing or the leisure for studying the larger....
By Samuel Butler Preface to First Edition This translation is intended to supplement a work entitled “The Authoress of the Odyssey”, which I published in 1897. I could not give the whole “Odyssey” in that book without making it unwieldy, I therefore epitomised my translation, which was already completed and which I now publish in full. I shall not here argue the two main points dealt with in the work just mentioned; I have nothing either to add to, or to withdraw from, what I have there written....
