THE LIFE OF COL. JAMES GARDINER, WHO WAS SLAIN AT THE BATTLE OF PRESTONPANS, SEPTEMBER 21, 1745. BY P. DODDRIDGE, D.D. ‘Justior alter Nec pietate fuit, nec bello major et armis.’–VIRGIL CHAPTER I PARENTAGE AND EARLY DAYS. II BATTLE OF RAMILLIES. III MILITARY PREFERMENTS. IV CHECKS OF CONSCIENCE. V HIS CONVERSION. VI LETTERS. VII DOMESTIC RELATIONS. VIII CONDUCT AS AN OFFICER. IX INTIMACY WITH THE AUTHOR. X DEVOTION AND CHARITY....
[Transcriber’s note: Superscripted letters and numbers have been marked with a preceding caret (^).] The Life of Jesus of Nazareth A Study By Rush Rhees 1902 _Copyright, 1900,_By Charles Scribner’s Sons To C. W. McC. In Recognition of Wise Counsel, Generous Help and Loving Appreciation “I would preach … the need to the world of the faith in a Christ, the claim that Jesus is the Christ, and the demand for an intelligent faith, which indeed shall transcend but shall not despise knowledge, or neglect to have a knowledge to transcend....
by W. G. COLLINGWOODM.A., F.S.A., Late Professor of Fine Art, University College, Reading 1911 PREFACE TO THE SEVENTH EDITION This book in its first form was written nearly twenty years ago with the intention of contributing a volume to a series of University Extension Manuals. For that purpose it included a sketch of Ruskin’s “Work,” with some attempt to describe the continuous development of his thought. It had the advantage–and the disadvantage–of being written under his eye; that is to say, he saw as much of it as his health allowed; and it received his general approval....
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg It was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation unsmirched during three generations, and was prouder of it than of any other of its possessions. It was so proud of it, and so anxious to insure its perpetuation, that it began to teach the principles of honest dealing to its babies in the cradle, and made the like teachings the staple of their culture thenceforward through all the years devoted to their education....
THE MAN WITH TWO LEFT FEET and Other Stories by P. G. WODEHOUSE 1917 CONTENTS BILL THE BLOODHOUND EXTRICATING YOUNG GUSSIE WILTON’S HOLIDAY THE MIXER–I THE MIXER–II CROWNED HEADS AT GEISENHEIMER’S THE MAKING OF MAC’S ONE TOUCH OF NATURE BLACK FOR LUCK THE ROMANCE OF AN UGLY POLICEMAN A SEA OF TROUBLES THE MAN WITH TWO LEFT FEET BILL THE BLOODHOUND There’s a divinity that shapes out ends. Consider the case of Henry Pifield Rice, detective....
THE MAY-FLOWER AND HER LOG July 15, 1620–May 6, 1621Chiefly from Original Sources By AZEL AMES, M.D.Member of Pilgrim Society, etc. “Next to the fugitives whom Moses led out of Egypt, the little shipload of outcasts who landed at Plymouth are destined to influence the future of the world.” JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL INTRODUCTORY O civilized humanity, world-wide, and especially to the descendants of the Pilgrims who, in 1620, laid on New England shores the foundations of that civil and religious freedom upon which has been built a refuge for the oppressed of every land, the story of the Pilgrim “Exodus” has an ever-increasing value and zest....
[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of each file for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] MEMOIRS OF JEAN FRANCOIS PAUL de GONDI, CARDINAL DE RETZ, v1 Written by Himself Being Historic Court Memoirs of the Great Events during the Minority of Louis XIV. and the Administration of Cardinal Mazarin. ORIGINAL PREFACE....
[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.] MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV AND HIS COURT AND OF THE REGENCY BY THE DUKE OF SAINT-SIMON VOLUME 6. CHAPTER XXXIX Precedence at the Communion Table.–The King Offended with Madame de Torcy.–The King’s Religion.–Atheists and Jansenists.–Project against Scotland....
THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. XIX. NO. 533.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1832. [PRICE 2d. [Illustration: Cascade at Virginia Water.] CASCADE AT VIRGINIA WATER. This has been described as “perhaps the most striking imitation we have of the great works of nature:” at all events, it has less of the mimicry of art than similar works on a smaller scale. Virginia Water will be recollected as the largest sheet of artificial water in the kingdom, with the exception of that at Blenheim....
THE MOTHER’S RECOMPENSE; A SEQUEL TO HOME INFLUENCE. BY GRACE AGUILAR. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LEIPZIG BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ 1859. PREFACE. The domestic story of “Home Influence,” and its Sequel, the present volume, were written in the early part of the year 1836, and the entire work was completed when its author was little above the age of nineteen; and, although no portion of it was published till some years after its composition, but little alteration was made in the original plan....
MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 SPANISH PASSIONS, Volume 6a–SPAIN THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA DE SEINGALT THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS. SPAIN CHAPTER I I Am Ordered to Leave Vienna–The Empress Moderates but Does Not Annul the Order–Zavoiski at Munich–My Stay at Augsburg–Gasconnade at Louisburg–The Cologne Newspaper–My Arrival at Aix-la-Chapelle The greatest mistake a man that punishes a knave can commit is to leave the said rogue alive, for he is certain to take vengeance....
HISTORY OF FLORENCE AND OF THE AFFAIRS OF ITALY FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THEDEATH OF LORENZO THE MAGNIFICENT by NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI With an Introduction by HUGO ALBERT RENNERT, Ph.D.Professor of Romanic Languages and Literature, University of Pennsylvania. PREPARER’S NOTE This text was typed up from a Universal Classics Library edition, published in 1901 by W. Walter Dunne, New York and London. The translator was not named. The book contains a “photogravure” of Niccolo Machiavelli from an engraving....
[Illustration: MANNER OF INSTRUCTING THE INDIANS.] INDIAN NULLIFICATION OF THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS. RELATIVE TO THE MARSHPEE TRIBE: OR,THE PRETENDED RIOT EXPLAINED, BY WILLIAM APES, AN INDIAN AND PREACHER OF THE GOSPEL 1835. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, by WILLIAM APES, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. TO THE WHITE PEOPLE OF MASSACHUSETTS * * * * * The red children of the soil of America address themselves to the descendants of the pale men who came across the big waters to seek among them a refuge from tyranny and persecution....
Jean of the Lazy A By B. M. BOWER CONTENTS CHAPTER I HOW TROUBLE CAME TO THE LAZY A II CONCERNING LITE AND A FEW FOOTPRINTS III WHAT A MAN’S GOOD NAME IS WORTHIV JEANV JEAN RIDES INTO A SMALL ADVENTURE VI AND THE VILLAIN PURSUED LITEVII ROBERT GRANT BURNS GETS HELP VIII JEAN SPOILS SOMETHINGIX A MAN-SIZED JOB FOR JEAN X JEAN LEARNS WHAT FEAR IS LIKE XI LITE’S PUPIL DEMONSTRATESXII TO “DOUBLE” FOR MURIEL GAYXIII PICTURES AND PLANS AND MYSTERIOUS FOOTSTEPS XIV PUNCH VERSUS PRESTIGEXV A LEADING LADY THEY WOULD MAKE OF JEAN XVI FOR ONCE AT LEAST LITE HAD HIS WAY XVII “WHY DON’T YOU GIVE THEM SOMETHING REAL?...
by William Shakespeare Dramatis Personae KING HENRY THE SIXTH.HUMPHREY, Duke of Gloster, his uncle. CARDINAL BEAUFORT, Bishop of Winchester, great-uncle to the King.RICHARD PLANTAGENET, Duke of York.EDWARD and RICHARD, his sons.DUKE OF SOMERSET.DUKE OF SUFFOLK.DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.LORD CLIFFORD.YOUNG CLIFFORD, his son.EARL OF SALISBURY.EARL OF WARWICK. LORD SCALES.LORD SAY.SIR HUMPHREY STAFFORD, and WILLIAM STAFFORD, his brother.SIR JOHN STANLEY.VAUX.MATTHEW GOFFE.A Sea-Captain, Master, and Master’s-Mate, and WALTER WHITMORE.Two Gentlemen, prisoners with Suffolk. JOHN HUME and JOHN SOUTHWELL, priests....
LONDON PRIDE OR WHEN THE WORLD WAS YOUNGER BY M.E. BRADDON Author of “LADY AUDLEY’S SECRET,” “VIXEN,” “ISHMAEL,” ETC. 1896 CONTENTS CHAPTER I. A HARBOUR FROM THE STORM CHAPTER II. WITHIN CONVENT WALLS CHAPTER III. LETTERS FROM HOME CHAPTER IV. THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW CHAPTER V. A MINISTERING ANGEL CHAPTER VI. BETWEEN LONDON AND OXFORD CHAPTER VII. AT THE TOP OF THE FASHION CHAPTER VIII. SUPERIOR TO FASHION CHAPTER IX....
[Note on text: Italicized stanzas are indented 5 spaces. Two italicized lines are marked by asterisks (*). Lines longer than 78 characters are broken, and the continuation is indented two spaces.] [This etext was transcribed from a 1918 reprinting of the 1917 edition, which was the original. It is interesting that some of those poems included from earlier volumes have been slightly changed in this book.] Love Songs By Sara TeasdaleAuthor of “Rivers to the Sea”, “Helen of Troy and Other Poems”, Etc....
A Story of Shakspere’s Time BY JOHN BENNETT ILLUSTRATIONS BY REGINALD B. BIRCH 1897 [Illustration: “‘MASTER SKYLARK, THOU SHALT HAVE THY WISH,’ SAID QUEEN ELIZABETH.”] ALL THAT NICHOLAS ATTWOOD’S MOTHER WAS TO HIM, AND MORE, MY OWN MOTHER HAS BEEN TO ME AND TO HER HERE I INSCRIBE THIS BOOK WITH A NEVER-FAILING LOVE CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE LORD ADMIRAL’S PLAYERS II NICHOLAS ATTWOOD’S HOME III THE LAST STRAW IV OFF FOR COVENTRY V IN THE WARWICK ROAD VI THE MASTER-PLAYER VII “WELL SUNG, MASTER SKYLARK!...
[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, at the end of several of the files for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, VOLUME 12. By LOUIS ANTOINE FAUVELET DE BOURRIENNE His Private Secretary Edited by R. W. PhippsColonel, Late Royal Artillery 1891 CONTENTS:CHAPTER XXVIII. to CHAPTER XXXVI. 1813-1814 CHAPTER XXVIII. 1813. Riots in Hamburg and Lubeck–Attempted suicide of M....
MEMOIRS OF THE UNION’S THREE GREAT CIVIL WAR GENERALS CONTENTS: The Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant The Memoirs of William T. Sherman The Memoirs of Philip H. Sheridan PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT by U. S. Grant PREFACE. “Man proposes and God disposes.” There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice. Although frequently urged by friends to write my memoirs I had determined never to do so, nor to write anything for publication....
