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When a Man Comes to HimselfWoodrow Wilson When a Man Comes to Himself I It is a very wholesome and regenerating change which a man undergoes when he “comes to himself.” It is not only after periods of recklessness or infatuation, when he has played the spendthrift or the fool, that a man comes to...

Lombard Street: A Description of the Money MarketWalter Bagehot Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market CHAPTER I Introductory.I venture to call this Essay 'Lombard Street,' and not the 'Money Market,' or any such phrase, because I wish to deal, and to show that I mean to deal, with con...

Great AstronomersRobert S. Ball Great Astronomers PREFACE It has been my object in these pages to present the life of each astronomer in such detail as to enable the reader to realise in some degree the man's character and surroundings; and I have endeavoured to indicate as clearly as circumstanc...

Logic: Deductive and InductiveCarveth Read Logic: Deductive and Inductive PREFACE In this edition of my Logic, the text has been revised throughout, several passages have been rewritten, and some sections added. The chief alterations and additions occur in cc. i., v., ix., xiii., xvi., xvii., xx....

In the Heart of AfricaSir Samuel White Baker In the Heart of Africa CHAPTER I The Nubian desert—The bitter well—Change of plans—An irascible dragoman—Pools of the Atbara—One secret of the Nile—At Cassala.In March, 1861, I commenced an expedition to discover the sources of the Nile, with the hope ...

Froude's History of EnglandCharles Kingsley Froude's History of England There appeared a few years since a ‘Comic History of England,’ duly caricaturing and falsifying all our great national events, and representing the English people, for many centuries back, as a mob of fools and knaves, led by...

The Empire of LoveW. J. Dawson The Empire of Love ToM. M. D.,who, during the last two years of our residence in London, practiced the teachings of this book before I taught them:proving daily in her compassionate toil for others the divine efficacy of simple love to redeem the lives, that were mo...

A Man's WomanFrank Norris A Man's Woman The following novel was completed March 22, 1899, and sent to the printer in October of the same year. After the plates had been made notice was received that a play called "A Man's Woman" had been written by Anne Crawford Flexner, and that this title had b...

Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879Various Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 / A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, / Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures TERMS FOR THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Clubs.—One extra copy of The Scientific Americ...

Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881Various Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 WHEAT AND WHEAT BREAD By H. MÈGE-MOURIÈSIn consequence of the interest that has been recently excited on the subject of bread reform, we have, says the London Miller, translated th...