THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A QUACKANDTHE CASE OF GEORGE DEDLOW BYS. WEIR MITCHELL, M.D.,LL.D. HARVARD AND EDINBURGH CONTENTS THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A QUACK THE CASE OF GEORGE DEDLOW INTRODUCTION Both of the tales in this little volume appeared originally in the “Atlantic Monthly” as anonymous contributions. I owe to the present owners of that journal permission to use them. “The Autobiography of a Quack ” has been recast with large additions....
THE BIOGRAPHY OF A GRIZZLY and 75 Drawings by ERNEST SETON-THOMPSON Author of:The Trail of the Sandhill StagWild Animals I Have KnownArt Anatomy of AnimalsMammals of ManitobaBirds of Manitoba 1899 This Book is dedicated to the memory of the days spent at the Palette Ranch on the Graybull, where from hunter, miner, personal experience, and the host himself, I gathered many chapters of the History of Wahb. [Illustration: ] In this Book the designs for title-page, cover, and general makeup, were done by Mrs....
THE CASE OF RICHARD MEYNELL BY MRS. HUMPHRY WARD 1911 TO THE MEMORY OF A BELOVED CHILD A FOREWORD May I ask those of my American readers who are not intimately acquainted with the conditions of English rural and religious life to remember that the dominant factor in it–the factor on which the story of Richard Meynell depends–is the existence of the State Church, of the great ecclesiastical corporation, the direct heir of the pre-Reformation Church, which owns the cathedrals and the parish churches, which by right of law speaks for the nation on all national occasions, which crowns and marries and buries the Kings of England, and, through her bishops in the House of Lords, exercises a constant and important influence on the lawmaking of the country?...
by “SAKI” (H. H. MUNRO) with an Introduction by A. A. MILNE TO THE LYNX KITTEN,WITH HIS RELUCTANTLY GIVEN CONSENT, THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED H. H. M. August, 1911 INTRODUCTION There are good things which we want to share with the world and good things which we want to keep to ourselves. The secret of our favourite restaurant, to take a case, is guarded jealously from all but a few intimates; the secret, to take a contrary case, of our infallible remedy for seasickness is thrust upon every traveller we meet, even if he be no more than a casual acquaintance about to cross the Serpentine....
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt Table of ContentsPart One: The State as a Work of Art 1-1 Introduction1-2 Despots of the Fourteenth Century 1-3 Despots of the Fifteenth Century1-4 The Smaller Despotisms1-5 The Greater Dynasties1-6 The Opponents of the Despots1-7 The Republics: Venice and Florence 1-8 Foreign Policy1-9 War as a Work of Art1-10 The Papacy1-11 PatriotismPart Two: The Development of the Individual 2-1 Personality2-2 Glory2-3 Ridicule and WitPart Three: The Revival of Antiquity 3-1 Introductory3-2 The Ruins of Rome3-3 The Classics3-4 The Humanists3-5 Universities and Schools3-6 Propagators of Antiquity3-7 Epistolography: Latin Orators3-8 The Treatise, and History in Latin 3-9 Antiquity as the Common Source3-10 Neo-Latin Poetry3-11 Fall of the Humanists in the Sixteenth Century Part Four: The Discovery of the World and of Man 4-1 Journeys of the Italians4-2 The Natural Sciences in Italy4-3 Discovery of the Beauty of the Landscape 4-4 Discovery of Man4-5 Biography in the Middle Ages4-6 Description of the Outward Man4-7 Description of Human LifePart Five: Society and Festivals5-1 Equality of Classes5-2 Costumes and Fashions5-3 Language and Society5-4 Social Etiquette5-5 Education of the ‘Cortigiano’5-6 Music5-7 Equality of Men and Women5-8 Domestic Life5-9 FestivalsPart Six: Morality and Religion6-1 Morality and Judgement6-2 Morality and Immorality6-3 Religion in Daily Life6-4 Strength of the Old Faith6-5 Religion and the Spirit of the Renaissance 6-6 Influence of Ancient Superstition6-7 General Spirit of Doubt THE CIVILIZATION OF THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY By Jacob Burckhardt Translated by S....
Contents: Introduction The New Navigation and Discovery of The Kingdom Of Muscovy The Coins, Weights, and Measures, used in Russia The Voyage of the Ambassedor The Manners, Usages, and Ceremonies of the Russians The Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan King Alfred’s Orosius The Geography of Europe. Elegiac verses by William Wordsworth INTRODUCTION The first relations between England and Russia were established in Queen Elizabeth’s reign, in the manner here set forth, by the expedition undertaken by Sir Hugh Willoughby and completed by Richard Chanceler or Chancellor, captain of the Edward Bonaventure....
Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 The Edda I The Divine Mythology of the North By Winifred Faraday, M.A. Published by David Nutt, at the Sign of the Phoenix, Long Acre, London 1902 Author’s Note Some explanation is needed of the form of spelling I have adopted in transcribing Norse proper names. The spirants thorn and eth are represented by th and d, as being more familiar to readers unacquainted with the original....
THE EXISTENCE OF GOD INTRODUCTION An ancestor of the French divine who under the name of Fenelon has made for himself a household name in England as in France, was Bertrand de Salignac, Marquis de la Mothe Fenelon, who in 1572, as ambassador for France, was charged to soften as much as he could the resentment of our Queen Elizabeth when news came of the massacre of St. Bartholomew. Our Fenelon, claimed in brotherhood by Christians of every denomination, was born nearly eighty years after that time, at the chateau of Fenelon in Perigord, on the 6th of August, 1651....
THE GHOST KINGS By H. Rider Haggard First published July 1908. Reprinted March 1909. Cheap Edition December 1911. CONTENTS CHAPTER THE GIRL THE BOY GOOD-BYE ISHMAEL NOIE THE CASTING OF THE LOTS THE MESSAGE OF THE KING MR. DOVE VISITS ISHMAEL THE TAKING OF NOIE THE OMEN OF THE STAR ISHMAEL VISITS THE Inkosazana RACHEL SEES A VISION RICHARD COMES WHAT CHANCED AT RAMAH RACHEL COMES HOME THE THREE DAYS RACHEL LOSES HER SPIRIT THE CURSE OF THE Inkosazana RACHEL FINDS HER SPIRIT THE MOTHER OF THE TREES THE CITY OF THE DEAD IN THE SANCTUARY THE DREAM IN THE NORTH THE END AND THE BEGINNING EXTRACT FROM LETTER HEADED “THE KING’S KRAAL, ZULULAND, 12TH MAY, 1855....
The Golden Bough: a study of magic and religion by Sir James George Frazer CONTENTS Preface Subject Index Chapter 1. The King of the Wood 1. Diana and Virbius 2. Artemis and Hippolytus 3. Recapitulation Chapter 2. Priestly Kings Chapter 3. Sympathetic Magic 1. The Principles of Magic 2. Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic 3. Contagious Magic 4. The Magician’s Progress Chapter 4. Magic and Religion Chapter 5. The Magical Control of the Weather 1....
DON QUIXOTE Volume II. Part 42. by Miguel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby CHAPTER LXXIII. OF THE OMENS DON QUIXOTE HAD AS HE ENTERED HIS OWN VILLAGE, AND OTHER INCIDENTS THAT EMBELLISH AND GIVE A COLOUR TO THIS GREAT HISTORY At the entrance of the village, so says Cide Hamete, Don Quixote saw two boys quarrelling on the village threshing-floor one of whom said to the other, “Take it easy, Periquillo; thou shalt never see it again as long as thou livest....
Transcriber’s note: Footnotes are indicated in the main text by numbers at the appropriate place. The footnotes themselves are placed at the end of the text. They can be searched for in the format FN 1, FN 2, FN 3 etc. Alternatively, if your software allows it the reader can copy footnotes to a second document window. The History of England from the Accession of James the Second Volume IV (Chapters XVIII-XXII) by Thomas Babington Macaulay CHAPTER XVII William’s Voyage to Holland–William’s Entrance into the Hague– Congress at the Hague–William his own Minister for Foreign Affairs–William obtains a Toleration for the Waldenses; Vices inherent in the Nature of Coalitions–Siege and Fall of Mons– William returns to England; Trials of Preston and Ashton– Execution of Ashton–Preston’s Irresolution and Confessions– Lenity shown to the Conspirators–Dartmouth–Turner; Penn–Death of George Fox; his Character–Interview between Penn and Sidney– Preston pardoned–Joy of the Jacobites at the Fall of Mons–The vacant Sees filled–Tillotson Archbishop of Canterbury–Conduct of Sancroft–Difference between Sancroft and Ken–Hatred of Sancroft to the Established Church; he provides for the episcopal Succession among the Nonjurors–The new Bishops–Sherlock Dean of Saint Paul’s–Treachery of some of William’s Servants–Russell– Godolphin–Marlborough–William returns to the Continent–The Campaign of 1691 in Flanders–The War in Ireland; State of the English Part of Ireland–State of the Part of Ireland which was subject to James–Dissensions among the Irish at Limerick–Return of Tyrconnel to Ireland–Arrival of a French Fleet at Limerick; Saint Ruth–The English take the Field–Fall of Ballymore; Siege and Fall of Athlone–Retreat of the Irish Army–Saint Ruth determines to fight–Battle of Aghrim–Fall of Galway–Death of Tyrconnel–Second Siege of Limerick–The Irish desirous to capitulate–Negotiations between the Irish Chiefs and the Besiegers–The Capitulation of Limerick–The Irish Troops required to make their Election between their Country and France- -Most of the Irish Troops volunteer for France–Many of the Irish who had volunteered for France desert–The last Division of the Irish Army sails from Cork for France–State of Ireland after the War ON the eighteenth of January 1691, the King, having been detained some days by adverse winds, went on board at Gravesend....
SECOND SILESIAN WAR, IMPORTANT EPISODE IN THE GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE. 15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745. Chapter I. PRELIMINARY: HOW THE MOMENT ARRIVED. Battle being once seen to be inevitable, it was Friedrich’s plan not to wait for it, but to give it. Thanks to Friedrich Wilhelm and himself, there is no Army, nor ever was any, in such continual preparation. Military people say, “Some Countries take six months, some twelve, to get in motion for war: but in three weeks Prussia can be across the marches, and upon the throat of its enemy....
THE INVENTION OF A NEW RELIGION by B. H. CHAMBERLAIN, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF JAPANESE AND PHILOLOGY AT THE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, JAPAN1912 The Invention of a New Religion [1] [Note 1] The writer of this pamphlet could but skim over a wide subject. For full information see Volume I. of Mr. J. Murdoch’s recently-published “History of Japan,” the only critical work on that subject existing in the English language....
[Illustration: NEHEMIAH’S MIDNIGHT SURVEY.] THE KING’S CUP-BEARER By MRS. O.F. WALTON Author of ‘Christie’s Old Organ,’ ‘A Peep Behind the Scenes,’ ‘Elisha, the Man of Abd-Meholah’ CONTENTS. * * * * * CHAP. I. THE CITY OF LILIES II. THE KING’S TABLE III. THE GOOD HAND IV. TO EVERY MAN HIS WORK V. THE SWORD AND THE TROWEL VI. THE WORLD’S BIBLE VII. TRUE TO HIS POST VIII. THE PAIDAGOGOS IX....
[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks 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.] THE LANDLORD AT LION’S HEAD By William Dean Howells Part I. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL In those dim recesses of the consciousness where things have their beginning, if ever things have a beginning, I suppose the origin of this novel may be traced to a fact of a fortnight’s sojourn on the western shore of lake Champlain in the summer of 1891....
THE LAST GALLEY. IMPRESSIONS AND TALES Arthur Conan Doyle. PREFACE I have written “Impressions and Tales” upon the title-page of this volume, because I have included within the same cover two styles of work which present an essential difference. The second half of the collection consists of eight stories, which explain themselves. The first half is made up of a series of pictures of the past which maybe regarded as trial flights towards a larger ideal which I have long had in my mind....
LIFE AND ADVENTURE OF BARON TRENCK – VOLUME 1 TRANSLATED BY THOMAS HOLCROFT INTRODUCTION. There were two cousins Von der Trenck, who were barons descended from an ancient house in East Prussia, and were adventurous soldiers, to whom, as to the adventurous, there were adventures that lost nothing in the telling, for they were told by the authors’ most admiring friends–themselves. Franz, the elder, was born in 1711, the son of an Austrian general; and Frederick, whose adventures are here told, was the son of a Prussian major-general....
by L. Frank Baum Contents YOUTH1. Burzee2. The Child of the Forest3. The Adoption4. Claus5. The Master Woodsman6. Claus Discovers Humanity7. Claus Leaves the Forest MANHOOD1. The Laughing Valley2. How Claus Made the First Toy3. How the Ryls Colored the Toys4. How Little Mayrie Became Frightened 5. How Bessie Blithesome Came to the Laughing Valley 6. The Wickedness of the Awgwas7. The Great Battle Between Good and Evil 8. The First Journey with the Reindeer9....
BOSWELL’S LIFE OF JOHNSON INCLUDING BOSWELL’S JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES AND JOHNSON’S DIARY OF A JOURNEY INTO NORTH WALES EDITED BY GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL, D.C.L. PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORD IN SIX VOLUMES VOLUME I.–LIFE (1709-1765) M DCCC LXXXVII THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. COMPREHENDING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS STUDIESAND NUMEROUS WORKS,IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER; A SERIES OF HIS EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE AND CONVERSATIONS WITH MANY EMINENT PERSONS; AND VARIOUS ORIGINAL PIECES OF HIS COMPOSITION, NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED: THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT-BRITAIN, FOR NEARHALF A CENTURY, DURING WHICHHE FLOURISHED....
