TODr Wallis Budgeof the British Museum as asmall token of gratitude for hisunfailing kindness and helpin the making of it CONTENTS The Psammead2. The Half Amulet3. The Past4. Eight Thousand Years Ago5. The Fight in the Village6. The Way to Babylon7. ‘The Deepest Dungeon Below the Castle Moat’ 8. The Queen in London9. Atlantis10. The Little Black Girl and Julius Caesar 11. Before Pharaoh12. The Sorry-Present and the Expelled Little Boy 13....
While I acknowledge the success of the present work to have been greater than I anticipated, and the praises it has elicited from a few kind critics to have been greater than it deserved, I must also admit that from some other quarters it has been censured with an asperity which I was as little prepared to expect, and which my judgment, as well as my feelings, assures me is more bitter than just....
THE WANDERING JEW By Eugene Sue BOOK X. XXXIII. ConfessionsXXXIV. More ConfessionsXXXV. The RivalsXXXVI. The InterviewXXXVII. Soothing WordsXXXVIII. The Two CarriagesXXXIX. The AppointmentXL. AnxietyXLI. Adrienne and DjalmaXLII. “The Imitation”XLIII. PrayerXLIV. RemembrancesXLV. The BlockheadXLVI. The Anonymous LettersXLVII. The Golden CityXLVIII. The Stung LionXLIX. The Test CHAPTER XXXIII. CONFESSIONS. During the painful scene that we have just described, a lively emotion glowed in the countenance of Mdlle. de Cardoville, grown pale and thin with sorrow....
The Wars of the Jews or History of the Destruction of Jerusalem By Flavius Josephus Translated by William Whiston PREFACE (1) Whereas the war which the Jews made with the Romans hath been the greatest of all those, not only that have been in our times, but, in a manner, of those that ever were heard of; both of those wherein cities have fought against cities, or nations against nations; while some men who were not concerned in the affairs themselves have gotten together vain and contradictory stories by hearsay, and have written them down after a sophistical manner; and while those that were there present have given false accounts of things, and this either out of a humor of flattery to the Romans, or of hatred towards the Jews; and while their writings contain sometimes accusations, and sometimes encomiums, but no where the accurate truth of the facts; I have proposed to myself, for the sake of such as live under the government of the Romans, to translate those books into the Greek tongue, which I formerly composed in the language of our country, and sent to the Upper Barbarians; (2) Joseph, the son of Matthias, by birth a Hebrew, a priest also, and one who at first fought against the Romans myself, and was forced to be present at what was done afterwards, [am the author of this work]....
IN FIVE VOLUMES ContentsPhilosophy of FurnitureA Tale of JerusalemThe SphinxHop FrogThe Man of the CrowdNever Bet the Devill Your HeadThou Art the ManWhy the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling Bon-BonSome words with a MummyThe Poetic PrincipleOld English Poetry POEMS DedicationPreface Poems of Later Life The RavenThe BellsUlalumeTo HelenAnnabel LeeA ValentineAn EnigmaTo my MotherFor AnnieTo F—-To Frances S. OsgoodEldoradoEulalieA Dream within a DreamTo Marie Louise (Shew)To the SameThe City in the SeaThe SleeperBridal BalladNotes Poems of Manhood LenoreTo One in ParadiseThe ColiseumThe Haunted PalaceThe Conqueror WormSilenceDreamlandHymnTo ZanteScenes from “Politian”Note Poems of Youth Introduction (1831)Sonnet–To ScienceAl AaraafTamerlaneTo HelenThe Valley of UnrestIsrafelTo — (“The Bowers Whereat, in Dreams I See”) To — (“I Heed not That my Earthly Lot”) To the River —SongA DreamRomanceFairylandThe Lake To–“The Happiest Day”ImitationHymn....
THE WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN CONSTITUTIONAL EDITION VOLUME 1. INTRODUCTORY Immediately after Lincoln’s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: “It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies....
THE WRONG TWIN BY HARRY LEON WILSON 1921 TO HELEN AND LEON [Illustration: “THE GIRL NOW GLOWERED AT EACH OF THEM IN TURN. ‘I DON’T CARE!’ SHE MUTTERED. ‘I WILL, TOO, RUN AWAY!’”] LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS “The girl now glowered at each of them in turn. ‘I don’t care!’ she muttered. ‘I will, too, run away!’” “‘I can always find a little time for bankers. I never kept one waiting yet and I won’t begin now....
[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.] RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PRIVATE LIFE OF NAPOLEON, V5 By CONSTANT PREMIER VALET DE CHAMBRE TRANSLATED BY WALTER CLARK 1895 CHAPTER I. I left the Emperor at Berlin, where each day, and each hour of the day, he received news of some victory gained, or some success obtained by his generals....
THE CONFESSIONS OF HARRY LORREQUER, v3 [By Charles James Lever (1806-1872)] Dublin MDCCCXXXIX. Volume 3. (Chapter XVIII-XXIII) Contents: CHAPTER XVIII Detachment Duty–An Assize Town CHAPTER XIX The Assize Town CHAPTER XX A Day in Dublin CHAPTER XXI A Night at Howth CHAPTER XXII The Journey CHAPTER XXIII Calais CHAPTER XVIII. DETACHMENT DUTY–AN ASSIZE TOWN. As there appeared to be but little prospect of poor Fitzgerald ever requiring any explanation from me as to the events of that morning, for he feared to venture from his room, lest he might be recognised and prosecuted for abduction, I thought it better to keep my own secret also; and it was therefore with a feeling of any thing but regret, that I received an order which, under other circumstances, would have rendered me miserable–to march on detachment duty....
If you find any errors please feel free to notify me of them. I want to make this the best etext edition possible for both scholars and the general public. Haradda@aol.com and davidr@inconnect.com are my email addresses for now. Please feel free to send me your comments and I hope you enjoy this. David Reed History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Edward Gibbon, Esq. With notes by the Rev....
THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE VOL. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN M.DCCC.LVI. LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE Alexander Pope was born in Lombard Street, London, on the 21st of May 1688–the year of the Revolution. His father was a linen-merchant, in thriving circumstances, and said to have noble blood in his veins. His mother was Edith or Editha Turner, daughter of William Turner, Esq....
THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER by Mark Twain Part 9. Chapter XXXII. Coronation Day. Let us go backward a few hours, and place ourselves in Westminster Abbey, at four o’clock in the morning of this memorable Coronation Day. We are not without company; for although it is still night, we find the torch-lighted galleries already filling up with people who are well content to sit still and wait seven or eight hours till the time shall come for them to see what they may not hope to see twice in their lives –the coronation of a King....
[Illustration: “We have met”] THE PURPLE HEIGHTS By MARIE CONWAY OEMLER Author of “Slippy McGee.” “A WomanNamed Smith,” etc. NEW YORK1920 To JOHN NORTON OEMLER FROM THE LADY HIS SON USED TO CALL “MRS. DADDY” CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE RED ADMIRAL II THE PROMISE III AT GRIPS WITH LIFE IV THE SOUL OF BLACK FOLKS V THE PURPLE HEIGHTS VI GOOD MORNING, GOOD LUCK! VII WHERE THE ROAD DIVIDED VIII CINDERELLA IX PRICE-TAGS X THE DEAR DAM-FOOL XI HIS GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE XII “NOT BY BREAD ALONE” XIII THE BRIGHT SHADOW XIV SWAN FEATHERS XV “I, TOO, IN ARCADIA” XVI THE OTHER MAN XVII THE GUTTER-CANDLE XVIII KISMET!...
Keener news-followers, however, wondered at the prodigious number of arrests, the abnormally large force of men used in making them, and the secrecy surrounding the disposal of the prisoners. No trials, or even definite charges, were reported; nor were any of the captives seen thereafter in the regular gaols of the nation. There were vague statements about disease and concentration camps, and later about dispersal in various naval and military prisons, but nothing positive ever developed....
The Shame of MotleyBeing the Memoir of Certain Transactions in the Life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime Fool of the Court of Pesaro. by Rafael Sabatini CONTENTS PART I FLOWER OF THE QUINCE CHAPTER I. THE CARDINAL OF VALENCIA II. THE LIVERIES OF SANTAFIOR III. MADONNA PAOLA IV. THE COZENING OF RAMIRO V. MADONNA’S INGRATITUDE VI. FOOL’S LUCK VII. THE SUMMONS FROM ROME VIII. “MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN” IX....
THE SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN By Rudolph Erich Raspe Published in 1895. INTRODUCTION It is a curious fact that of that class of literature to which Munchausen belongs, that namely of /Voyages Imaginaires/, the three great types should have all been created in England. Utopia, Robinson Crusoe, and Gulliver, illustrating respectively the philosophical, the edifying, and the satirical type of fictitious travel, were all written in England, and at the end of the eighteenth century a fourth type, the fantastically mendacious, was evolved in this country....
BOETHIUS THE THEOLOGICAL TRACTATES WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY H.F. STEWART, D.D. FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE AND E.K. RAND, PH.D. PROFESSOR OF LATIN IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY WITH THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF “I.T.” (1609) REVISED BY H.F. STEWART 1918 [Transcriber’s Note: The paper edition of this book has Latin and English pages facing each other. This version of the text uses alternating Latin and English sections, with the English text slightly indented....
This etext was produced by J. C. Byers. The Upanishads Translated and Commentated by Swami Paramananda From the Original Sanskrit Text This volume is reverently dedicated to all seekers of truth and lovers of wisdom Preface The translator’s idea of rendering the Upanishads into clear simple English, accessible to Occidental readers, had its origin in a visit paid to a Boston friend in 1909. The gentleman, then battling with a fatal malady, took from his library shelf a translation of the Upanishads and, opening it, expressed deep regret that the obscure and unfamiliar form shut from him what he felt to be profound and vital teaching....
The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Part 1 – The Tragedy of Birlstone Chapter 1 – The Warning “I am inclined to think–” said I. “I should do so,” Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. I believe that I am one of the most long-suffering of mortals; but I’ll admit that I was annoyed at the sardonic interruption. “Really, Holmes,” said I severely, “you are a little trying at times....
THE VISION SPLENDID by William MacLeod Raine CHAPTER 1 Of all the remote streams of influence that pour both before and after birth into the channel of our being, what an insignificant few–and these only the more obvious–are traceable at all. We swim in a sea of environment and heredity, are tossed hither and thither by we know not what cross currents of Fate, are tugged at by a thousand eddies of which we never dream....
