LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI BY MARK TWAIN Part 11. Chapter 51 Reminiscences WE left for St. Louis in the ‘City of Baton Rouge,’ on a delightfully hot day, but with the main purpose of my visit but lamely accomplished. I had hoped to hunt up and talk with a hundred steamboatmen, but got so pleasantly involved in the social life of the town that I got nothing more than mere five-minute talks with a couple of dozen of the craft....
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[Frontispiece: A. Burr] MEMOIRS OF AARON BURR. WITH MISCELLANEOUS SELECTIONS FROM HIS CORRESPONDENCE. BY MATTHEW L. DAVIS. “I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. * * * * * Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1836, by MATTHEW L. DAVIS, in the Clerk’s Office of the Southern District of New-York. * * * * * PREFACE. During a period of forty years I was intimately acquainted with Colonel Burr, and have reason to suppose that I possessed his entire confidence....
[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 13. By LOUIS ANTOINE FAUVELET DE BOURRIENNE His Private Secretary Edited by R. W. PhippsColonel, Late Royal Artillery 1891 CONTENTS:CHAPTER I. to CHAPTER VI. 1814-1815 CHAPTER I. 1814. Unalterable determination of the Allies with respect to Napoleon– Fontainebleau included in the limits to be occupied by the Allies– Alexander’s departure from Paris–Napoleon informed of the necessity of his unconditional abdication–Macdonald and Ney again sent to Paris–Alleged attempt of Napoleon to poison himself–Farewell interview between Macdonald and Napoleon–The sabre of Murad Bey– Signature of the act of unconditional abdication–Tranquillity of Paris during the change of Government–Ukase of the Emperor of Russia relative to the Post-office–Religious ceremony on the Place Louis XV....
[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 THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD Being Secret Letters from a Gentleman at Paris to a Nobleman in London BOOK 4. LETTER XXXIII. PARIS, August, 1805. MY LORD:–The Italian subjects of Napoleon the First were far from displaying the same zeal and the same gratitude for his paternal care and kindness in taking upon himself the trouble of governing them, as we good Parisians have done....
Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw Notes on the editing: Italicized text is delimited with underlines (“_”). Punctuation and spelling are retained as in the printed text. Shaw used a non-standard system of spelling and punctuation. For example, contractions usually have no apostrophe: “don’t” is given as “dont”, “you’ve” as “youve”, and so on. Abbreviated honorifics have no trailing period: “Dr.” is given as “Dr”, “Mrs.” as “Mrs”, and so on....
No Hero By E.W. Hornung 1903 CONTENTS Chapter I. A Plenipotentiary II. The Theatre of War III. First Blood IV. A Little Knowledge V. A Marked Woman VI. Out of Action VII. Second Fiddle VIII. Prayers and Parables IX. Sub Judice X. The Last Word XI. The Lion’s Mouth XII. A Stern Chase XIII. Number Three No Hero CHAPTER I A PLENIPOTENTIARY Has no writer ever dealt with the dramatic aspect of the unopened envelope?...
NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * “When found, make a note of.”–CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 23.] SATURDAY, APRIL 6. 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * *{361} CONTENTS. NOTES:– Page Periplus of Hanno, by R.T. Hampson 361 Pope Vindicated 362 The Supper of the Lorde 362 Folk Lore:–Palm Sunday Wind–Curious Symbolical Custom–The Wild Huntsman 363 On Authors and Books, No....
NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * “When found, make a note of.”–CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * NO. 40.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1850. [Price Threepence Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * * {145} CONTENTS. NOTES:–Page Translations of Juvenal–Wordsworth Dedication to Milton by Antonio Malatesti, by S.W. Singer Pulteney’s Ballad of “The Honest Jury,” by C....
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ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, Vol. 11. By Guy de Maupassant GUY DE MAUPASSANT ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES Translated by ALBERT M. C. McMASTER, B.A. A. E. HENDERSON, B.A. MME. QUESADA and Others VOLUME XI. THE UMBRELLABELHOMME’S BEASTDISCOVERYTHE ACCURSED BREADTHE DOWRYTHE DIARY OF A MAD MANTHE MASKTHE PENGUINS ROCKA FAMILYSUICIDESAN ARTIFICEDREAMSSIMON’S PAPA THE UMBRELLA Mme. Oreille was a very economical woman; she knew the value of a centime, and possessed a whole storehouse of strict principles with regard to the multiplication of money, so that her cook found the greatest difficulty in making what the servants call their market-penny, and her husband was hardly allowed any pocket money at all....
[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks at the end of this file for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] RAGGED LADY By William Dean Howells Part 2 XV. Mrs. Lander went to a hotel in New York where she had been in the habit of staying with her husband, on their way South or North. The clerk knew her, and shook hands with her across the register, and said she could have her old rooms if she wanted them; the bell-boy who took up their hand-baggage recalled himself to her; the elevator-boy welcomed her with a smile of remembrance....
… bracket English transliterations of Hebrew terms which appeared in this location in the original text. The transliterations were created with the aid of Rabbi Manes Kogan of Beth Israel Synagogue in Roanoke, Virginia during fall, 2000. Occasionally no transliteration was available. When transliterating a multi word phrase, the transliteration is done using the Hebrew word ordering of right to left. Following the transliteration, if present, but still within the brackets, are the parenthesized names of the Hebrew letters....
Remember the Alamo by AMELIA E. BARR REMEMBER THE ALAMO—-CHAPTER I.THE CITY IN THE WILDERNESS. “What, are you stepping westward?” “Yea.” * * * * * Yet who would stop or fear to advance, Though home or shelter there was none, With such a sky to lead him on!” –WORDSWORTH. “Ah! cool night wind, tremulous stars, Ah! glimmering water, Fitful earth murmur, Dreaming woods!” –ARNOLD. In A. D. sixteen hundred and ninety-two, a few Franciscan monks began to build a city....
Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald Contents: Introduction. First Edition. Fifth Edition. Notes. Introduction Omar Khayyam,The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the latter half of our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth Century. The Slender Story of his Life is curiously twined about that of two other very considerable Figures in their Time and Country: one of whom tells the Story of all Three....
BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT In the first place, Miss Minchin lived in London. Her home was a large, dull, tall one, in a large, dull square, where all the houses were alike, and all the sparrows were alike, and where all the door-knockers made the same heavy sound, and on still days–and nearly all the days were still– seemed to resound through the entire row in which the knock was knocked....
SELECTED POLISH TALES TRANSLATED BY ELSE C. M. BENECKE AND MARIE BUSCH This selection of Tales by Polish authors was first published in ‘The World’s Classics’ in 1921 and reprinted in 1928, 1942, and 1944. CONTENTS PREFACE THE OUTPOST. By BOLESLAW PRUS A PINCH or SALT. By ADAM SZYMANSKI KOWALSKI THE CARPENTER. By ADAM SZYMANSKI FOREBODINGS. By STEFAN ZERKOMSKI A POLISH SCENE. By WLADYSLAW ST. REYMONT DEATH. By WLADYSLAW ST....
SEVENTEENA TALE OF YOUTH ANDSUMMER TIME ANDTHE BAXTER FAMILYESPECIALLY WILLIAM by BOOTH TARKINGTON SEVENTEEN TOS.K.T. CONTENTS I. WILLIAMII. THE UNKNOWNIII. THE PAINFUL AGEIV. GENESIS AND CLEMATISV. SORROWS WITHIN A BOILERVI. TRUCULENCEVII. MR. BAXTER’S EVENING CLOTHESVIII. JANEIX. LITTLE SISTERS HAVE BIG EARSX. MR. PARCHER AND LOVEXI. BEGINNING A TRUE FRIENDSHIPXII. PROGRESS OF THE SYMPTOMSXIII. AT HOME TO HIS FRIENDSXIV. TIME DOES FLYXV. ROMANCE OF STATISTICSXVI. THE SHOWER XVII. JANE’S THEORYXVIII. THE BIG, FAT LUMMOXXIX....
SIR WALTER RALEIGH AND HIS TIME {1} by Charles Kingsley ‘Truth is stranger than fiction.’ A trite remark. We all say it again and again: but how few of us believe it! How few of us, when we read the history of heroical times and heroical men, take the story simply as it stands! On the contrary, we try to explain it away; to prove it all not to have been so very wonderful; to impute accident, circumstance, mean and commonplace motives; to lower every story down to the level of our own littleness, or what we (unjustly to ourselves and to the God who is near us all) choose to consider our level; to rationalise away all the wonders, till we make them at last impossible, and give up caring to believe them; and prove to our own melancholy satisfaction that Alexander conquered the world with a pin, in his sleep, by accident....
NIGHT WATCHES by W.W. Jacobs STEPPING BACKWARDS “Wonderful improvement,” said Mr. Jack Mills. “Show ’em to me again.” Mr. Simpson took his pipe from his mouth and, parting his lips, revealed his new teeth. “And you talk better,” said Mr. Mills, taking his glass from the counter and emptying it; “you ain’t got that silly lisp you used to have. What does your missis think of ’em?” “She hasn’t seen ’em yet,” said the other....
