Aesop
Author
Publisher
GEORGE SULLY AND COMPANY
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
First written in the year 1881 by A Highland Seer, it contains a list of omens, both good and bad, many of which are very familiar. Folklore, mystic paths, and enlightenment of the divine are laid out in simple terms to help the everyday person interpret patterns found in tea leaves. (Google Books)
10) Funny Epitaphs
Author
Publisher
H. H. Carter & Karrick
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Collected epitaphs on men, women, and occupations.
Author
Publisher
William Blackwood & Sons
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Contents:
Suspiria de Profundis: being a Sequel to the Confessions of an English Opium-Eater ,
Mrs Poole's "Englishwoman in Egypt,"
Practical Agriculture—Stephens' Book of the Farm, &c. ,
Stanzas ,
Lord Malmesbury's Diaries and Correspondence
German-American Romances. Part II. ,
British History during the Eighteenth Century ,
North's Specimens of the British Critics. No. II—Dryden and Pope
Author
Publisher
William Blackwood & Sons
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
CONTENTS
The Currency Extension Act of Nature
My Novel; or, Varieties in English Life. Part V.
Biography
The Lay of the Niebelungen
Additional Chapters from the History of John Bull
Hungarian Military Sketches
The Message of Seth. By Delta
The Voice of Nature
British Labour and Foreign Reciprocity
Author
Publisher
RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Religious Tract Society, founded 1799 was the original name of a major British publisher of Christian literature intended initially for evangelism, and including literature aimed at children, women, and the poor. The society started by publishing tracts, but rapidly expanded their work into the production of books and periodicals. Their books were mostly small but did include larger works such as the multi-volume Devotional Commentary and the...
Author
Publisher
William Blackwood & Sons
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Contents
M. DE TOCQUEVILLE
LETTERS ON THE TRUTHS CONTAINED IN POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS
FOUR SONNETS BY ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
ROSAURA: A TALE OF MADRID
THE VISIBLE AND TANGIBLE
CHARLES DE BERNARD
BELISARIUS,—WAS HE BLIND?
ANCIENT AND MODERN BALLAD POETRY
EPITAPH OF CONSTANTINE KANARIS
SCOTTISH MELODIES. BY DELTA
THE SCOTCH MARRIAGE BILL
Author
Publisher
William Blackwood & Sons
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Contents:
Colonisation—Mr Wakefield's Theory
The Reaction, or Foreign Conservatism
Madame D'Arbouville's "Village Doctor"
National Education in Scotland
Ararat and the Armenian Highlands
Legitimacy in France
The College. A Sketch in Verse
Jack Moonlight
Moonlight Memories. By B. Simmons
Austria and Hungary
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Hammond-Harwood House was built in 1774 by Matthias Hammond, a Maryland patriot deeply involved in the public affairs of his day. A man of wealth, education and spirit, he wished his house to occupy a proud place among the distinguished buildings already lending character and urbanity to the colonial city of Annapolis. William Eddis, Crown Surveyor of the Customs, said of the city in 1769,—“there are few towns of the same size, in any part...
Author
Publisher
Feedbooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
While Homer's existence as a historical person is still a topic of debate, the writings attributed to the name have made their mark not only on Greek history and literature, but upon western civilization itself. Homer's epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, laid the foundation upon which Ancient Greece developed not only its culture, but its societal values, religious beliefs, and practice of warfare as well.
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...Author
Publisher
William Blackwood & Sons
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Contents:
How to disarm the Chartists
Stoddart and Angling
The Caxtons. Part III.
Guesses at Truth
Life in the "Far West." Part I.
Lombardy and the Italian War
The Inca and his Bride.—A Medley
Sentiments and Symbols of the French Republic
American feeling towards England
Author
Publisher
C. P. Kimball
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
PREFACE
This little Tale is founded upon the well–known tradition, prevalent among the old inhabitants, that where the Golden Gate now is was once dammed up by a rock or rocks, and the whole Valley was a great inland sea with its entrance to the Ocean down near Monterey. The writer has seen, on Ohio Street, in this City, (which in 1850 was quite an elevated spot of ground,) the black sedimentary earth, at least two feet thick, which abounds in greater...