SKETCHES NEW AND OLD by Mark Twain Part 5. THE SIAMESE TWINS–[Written about 1868.] I do not wish to write of the personal habits of these strange creatures solely, but also of certain curious details of various kinds concerning them, which, belonging only to their private life, have never crept into print. Knowing the Twins intimately, I feel that I am peculiarly well qualified for the task I have taken upon myself....
SLAVERY ORDAINED OF GOD By Rev. Fred. A. Ross, D.D. “The powers that be are ordained of God.” Romans xiii. 1. TOThe MenNORTH AND SOUTH,WHO HONOR THE WORD OF GODANDLOVE THEIR COUNTRY. Preface. The book I give to the public, is not made up of isolated articles. It is one harmonious demonstration–that slavery is part of the government ordained in certain conditions of fallen mankind. I present the subject in the form of speeches, actually delivered, and letters written just as published....
[Illustration: “I reckon the thing sort o’ got started last summer.”] SONNY, A CHRISTMAS GUEST BY RUTH McENERY STUART WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY FANNY Y. CORY 1911 TO MY SON STIRLING McENERY STUART CONTENTS A Christmas Guest The Boy Sonny’s Christenin’ Sonny’s Schoolin’ Sonny’s Diploma Sonny “Keepin’ Company” Weddin’ Presents LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS “I reckon the thing sort o’ got started last summer” “Seem to me he favors her a little thess aroun’ the mouth” “Quick ez he see the clock, he come thoo” “She does make ‘im so contented an’ happy” “Name this child” “An’ then Sonny, seein’ it all over, he come down” “He was watchin’ a bird-nest on the way to that school” “He had been playin’ out o’ doors bare-feeted” “Any question he missed was to be passed on to them thet had been grad’jatin’ so fast” “‘This orange is the earth, an’ this here apple is the sun’” “What could be sweeter ‘n little Mary Elizabeth?...
[Illustration: Clara Morris (1883)] STAGE CONFIDENCES TALKS ABOUT PLAYERS AND PLAY ACTING BY CLARA MORRIS AUTHOR OF “LIFE ON THE STAGE,”“THE PASTEBOARD CROWN,” ETC. ILLUSTRATED LONDONCHARLES H. KELLY 1902 To MARY ANDERSON “THE FAIR THE CHASTE THE UNEXPRESSIVE SHE” GREETING To those dear girls who honour me with their liking and their confidences, greetings first, then a statement and a proposition. Now I have the advantage over you of years, but you have the advantage over me of numbers....
Stories from Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile NOTE The collection of folk-tales known as Il Pentamerone was first published at Naples and in the Neopolitan dialect, by Giambattista Basile, Conte di Torrone, who is believed to have collected them chiefly in Crete and Venice, and to have died about the year 1637. CONTENTS How the Tales came to be told2. The Myrtle3. Peruonto4. Vardiello5. The Flea6. Cenerentola7. The Merchant8. Goat-Face9. The Enchanted Doe10....
T. TEMBAROM by Frances Hodgson Burnett CHAPTER I: The boys at the Brooklyn public school which he attended did not know what the “T.” stood for. He would never tell them. All he said in reply to questions was: “It don’t stand for nothin’. You’ve gotter have a’ ‘nitial, ain’t you?” His name was, in fact, an almost inevitable school-boy modification of one felt to be absurd and pretentious. His Christian name was Temple, which became “Temp....
Any place where angle brackets are used, i.e. < >, it is a change made during the preparation of this text. The original printed book did not use this character at all. SQUARE BRACKETS: The square brackets, i.e. [ ] are copied from the printed book, without change, except that the stage directions usually do not have closing brackets. These have been added. FOOTNOTES: For this online version of the book, the footnotes have been consolidated at the end of the play....
TEMPORAL POWER A STUDY IN SUPREMACY BY MARIE CORELLI CONTENTS I. THE KING’S PLEASAUNCE II. MAJESTY CONSIDERS AND RESOLVES III. A NATION OR A CHURCH? IV. SEALED ORDERS V. “IF I LOVED YOU!” VI. SERGIUS THORD VII. THE IDEALISTS VIII. THE KING’S DOUBLE IX. THE PREMIER’S SIGNET X. THE ISLANDS XI. “GLORIA–IN EXCELSIS!” XII. A SEA PRINCESS XIII. SECRET SERVICE XIV. THE KING’S VETO XV. “MORGANATIC” OR–? XVI. THE PROFESSOR ADVISES XVII....
The Vicomte de Bragelonne. Volume I. CHAPTER 1 The Letter. Towards the middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o’clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue to express, in the purest French then spoken in France: “There is Monsieur returning from hunting....
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER BY MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Part 7 CHAPTER XXVIII THAT night Tom and Huck were ready for their adventure. They hung about the neighborhood of the tavern until after nine, one watching the alley at a distance and the other the tavern door. Nobody entered the alley or left it; nobody resembling the Spaniard entered or left the tavern door. The night promised to be a fair one; so Tom went home with the understanding that if a considerable degree of darkness came on, Huck was to come and “maow,” whereupon he would slip out and try the keys....
THE APPETITE OF TYRANNY Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian By G.K. CHESTERTON CONTENTS CHAPTER THE FACTS OF THE CASE I THE WAR ON THE WORD II THE REFUSAL OF RECIPROCITY III THE APPETITE OF TYRANNY IV THE ESCAPE OF FOLLY LETTERS TO AN OLD GARIBALDIAN THE FACTS OF THE CASE Unless we are all mad, there is at the back of the most bewildering business a story: and if we are all mad, there is no such thing as madness....
Latin Text 1] Invictissime Imperator, Caesar Auguste, domine clementissime. Quum Vestra Caesarea Maiestas indixerit conventum Imperii Augustae, ut deliberetur de auxiliis contra Turcam, atroccissimum, haereditaium atque veterem Christiani nominis ac religionis hostem, quomodo illiuis scilicet furori et conatbisu durabili et perpetuo belli apparaturesisite possit, 2] deinde et de dissensionibus in causa nostrae sanctae religionis et Christianae fidei, et ut in hac causa religionis partium opiniones ac sententiae inter sese in caritate, lenitate et mansuetudine mutua audiantur coram, intelligantur et ponderentur, ut illis, 3] quae utrimque in Scripturis secus tractata aut intellecta sunt, sepositis et correctis, re illae ad unam simplicem veritatem et Christianam concordiam componantur et reducantur; 4] ut de cetero a nobis una, sincera et vera religio colatur et servetur, ut, quemadmodum sub uno Christo sumus et militamus, ita in una etiam ecclesia Christiana in unitate et concordia vivere possimus;Quumque nos infra scripti Elector et Principes cum aliis, 5] qui nobis coniuncti sunt, perinde ut alii Electores et Principes et Status ad praedicta [*praefata] comitia evocati sumus [simus], ut Caesareo mandato abedienter obsequeremur, mature venimus Augustam et, quod citra iactantiam dictum voumus, inter primos affuimus....
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin From The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin Edited by his Son Francis Darwin [My father’s autobiographical recollections, given in the present chapter, were written for his children,–and written without any thought that they would ever be published. To many this may seem an impossibility; but those who knew my father will understand how it was not only possible, but natural. The autobiography bears the heading, ‘Recollections of the Development of my Mind and Character,’ and end with the following note:–“Aug....
THE BARK COVERED HOUSE, OR or, BACK IN THE WOODS AGAIN;BEING A GRAPHIC AND THRILLING DESCRIPTION OF REAL PIONEER LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS OF MICHIGAN BY WILLIAM NOWLIN, ESQ. 1876 PREFATORY NOTE. I little thought when I left my farm yards, horses and cattle in the care of other men, and began to write, that I should spend nearly all the winter of 1875 in writing; much less, that I should offer the product of such labor to the public, in the Centennial Year....
THE BEAUTIFUL NECESSITY Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture by CLAUDE BRAGDON, F.A.I.A. MCMXXII “Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity” –EMERSON By the Same Author: Episodes From An Unwritten History The Golden Person In The Heart Architecture And Democracy A Primer Of Higher Space Four Dimensional Vistas Projective Ornament Oracle CONTENTS I THE ART OF ARCHITECTURE II UNITY AND POLARITY III CHANGELESS CHANGE IV THE BODILY TEMPLE V LATENT GEOMETRY VI THE ARITHMETIC OF BEAUTY VII FROZEN MUSIC CONCLUSION PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION The Beautiful Necessity was first published in 1910....
The Boy MechanicVol. 1700 Things for Boys to Do800 Illustrations Showing How Jack Mansfield+Ed Jan 28, 1938 August 1916 From Mother THE BOY MECHANIC VOLUME I Transcriber’s Notes This text accurately reproduces the original book except for adherence to Project Gutenburg guidelines. Each project title is followed by its original page number to allow use of the alphabetical contents (index) at the end of the book. The book used very complex typesetting to conserve space....
The Coming Conquest of England by August Niemann Translated by J. H. Freese CONTENTS I. THE COUNCIL OF STATE II. THE OFFICERS’ MESS III. A RUSSIAN COMRADE IV. THE CIRCASSIAN BEAUTY V. THE CAPTAIN’S WIFE VI. THE OUTRAGE VII. THE MAHARAJAH VIII. THE PAMIRS IX. THE GERMAN EMPEROR X. FIVE LAKHS OF RUPEES XI. THE MOBILISATION XII. THE CAMP OF LAHORE XIII. THE BATTLE XIV. IN THE PANIC-STRICKEN CITY XV....
STUDIES AND ESSAYS, Complete By John Galsworthy CONTENTS: CONCERNING LIFE, Part 1. INN OF TRANQUILITY MAGPIE OVER THE HILL SHEEP-SHEARING EVOLUTION RIDING IN THE MIST THE PROCESSION A CHRISTIAN WIND IN THE ROCKS MY DISTANT RELATIVE THE BLACK GODMOTHER CONCERNING LIFE, Part 2. QUALITY THE GRAND JURY GONE THRESHING THAT OLD-TIME PLACE ROMANCE–THREE GLEAMS MEMORIES FELICITY CONCERNING LETTERS A NOVELIST’S ALLEGORY SOME PLATITUDES CONCERNING DRAMA MEDITATION ON FINALITY WANTED–SCHOOLING ON OUR DISLIKE OF THINGS AS THEY ARE THE WINDLESTRAW CENSORSHIP AND ART ABOUT CENSORSHIP VAGUE THOUGHTS ON ART “Je vous dirai que l’exces est toujours un mal....
1611 KING HENRY THE EIGHTH by William Shakespeare DRAMATIS PERSONAE KING HENRY THE EIGHTH CARDINAL WOLSEY CARDINAL CAMPEIUS CAPUCIUS, Ambassador from the Emperor Charles V CRANMER, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY DUKE OF NORFOLK DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM DUKE OF SUFFOLK EARL OF SURREY LORD CHAMBERLAIN LORD CHANCELLOR GARDINER, BISHOP OF WINCHESTER BISHOP OF LINCOLN LORD ABERGAVENNY LORD SANDYS SIR HENRY GUILDFORD SIR THOMAS LOVELL SIR ANTHONY DENNY SIR NICHOLAS VAUX SECRETARIES to Wolsey CROMWELL, servant to Wolsey GRIFFITH, gentleman-usher to Queen Katharine THREE GENTLEMEN DOCTOR BUTTS, physician to the King GARTER KING-AT-ARMS SURVEYOR to the Duke of Buckingham BRANDON, and a SERGEANT-AT-ARMS DOORKEEPER of the Council chamber PORTER, and his MAN PAGE to Gardiner A CRIER QUEEN KATHARINE, wife to King Henry, afterwards divorced ANNE BULLEN, her Maid of Honour, afterwards Queen AN OLD LADY, friend to Anne Bullen PATIENCE, woman to Queen Katharine Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Lords and Ladies in the Dumb Shows; Women attending upon the Queen; Scribes, Officers, Guards, and other Attendants; Spirits SCENE: London; Westminster; Kimbolton KING HENRY THE EIGHTH THE PROLOGUE....
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Volume 4 CONTENTS: BEING A BOYON HORSEBACK BEING A BOY One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, though it needs some practice to be a good one. The disadvantage of the position is that it does not last long enough; it is soon over; just as you get used to being a boy, you have to be something else, with a good deal more work to do and not half so much fun....
