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Ellis's Primary Physiology. Or Good Health for Boys and GirlsEdward Sylvester Ellis Ellis's Primary Physiology / Or Good Health for Boys and Girls Introduction Nothing need be said concerning the importance of the study of good health. The first lesson that a child should learn is the law of his ...

The Brass BottleF. Anstey The Brass Bottle CHAPTER I HORACE VENTIMORE RECEIVES A COMMISSION"This day six weeks – just six weeks ago!" Horace Ventimore said, half aloud, to himself, and pulled out his watch. "Half-past twelve – what was I doing at half-past twelve?"As he sat at the window of his o...

A Letter BookGeorge Saintsbury A Letter Book / Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing PREFACE When my publishers were good enough to propose that I should undertake this book, they were also good enough to suggest that the Introduction should be of a character some...

The StormDaniel Defoe The Storm / or, a Collection of the most Remarkable Casualties and Disasters which Happen'd in the Late Dreadful Tempest, both by Sea and Land THE PREFACEPreaching of Sermons is Speaking to a few of Mankind: Printing of Books is Talking to the whole World. The Parson Prescri...

The Genial Idiot: His Views and ReviewsJohn Kendrick Bangs The Genial Idiot: His Views and Reviews I HE DISCUSSES MAXIMS AND PROVERBS ”GOOD!” cried the Idiot, from behind the voluminous folds of the magazine section of his Sunday newspaper. “Here’s a man after my own heart. Professor Duff, of Gla...

Muistelmia kuolleesta talostaDostoyevsky Fyodor Muistelmia kuolleesta talosta Johdanto.Siperjan kaukaisilla seuduilla, erämaiden, vuorien jaläpipääsemättömien metsien keskellä tavataan joskus pieniä kaupunkeja, joiden asukasluku nousee tuhanteen, korkeintaan kahteen tuhanteenhenkeen, rakennukset ...

Gabriel LambertDumas Alexandre Gabriel Lambert I LE FORÇAT J'étais vers le mois de mai de 1835 à Toulon.J'y habitais une petite bastide qu'un de mes amis avait mise à ma disposition.Cette bastide était située à cinquante pas du fort Lamalgue, juste en face de la fameuse redoute qui vit, en 1793, ...

Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 3. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth CenturyVerne Jules Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 3. / The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century PART I CHAPTER I THE DAWN OF A CENTURY OF DISCOVERY Slackness of discovery during the struggles of the Rep...

ChelseaMitton G. E. Geraldine Edith Chelsea The Fascination of London PREFATORY NOTE A survey of London, a record of the greatest of all cities, that should preserve her history, her historical and literary associations, her mighty buildings, past and present, a book that should comprise all that...

Valkoisia öitäDostoyevsky Fyodor Valkoisia öitä JOHDANTO Sairaanloisten hengentilain kuvaileminen on kertovalle kirjailijallevaikeimpia tehtäviä, mikä ei aina ota onnistuakseen. Usein ovatsellaiset kuvaukset pintapuolisia, osaksi aivan epätosiakin, muttausein koetetaan niitä kokonaan välttääkin.J...