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Introduction To The Compleat Angler
[english | ]Albert Lang
Excerpts: [... Major, and, above all, to the learned Sir Harris Nicolas. HIS LIFE. The few events in the long life of Izaak Walton have been carefully investigated ...... of the Ironmongers' Company on Nov. 12, 1618. He is styled an Ironmonger in his marriage licence. The facts are given in Mr. Marston's Life of Walton, ...... thanks to a stand made by Wogan, and to the loyalty of Mistress Jane ...]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 173
The Irish Race In The Past And The Present
[english | ]A Thebaud
Excerpts: [... civilization, and persist in refusing to enter upon the path of progress. The North American savage has always been most persistent in this stubborn opposition ...... of warlike expeditions to that country but their efforts at navigation were always on an extremely limited scale, in spite of the many inducements ...... more artificially constituted, but of a much deeper and more ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 97
Indian Legends Of Vancouver Island
[english | ]Alfred Carmichael
Summary: [Indian Legends Of Vancouver Island by Alfred Carmichael. The unsophisticated aboriginal of British Columbia is almost a memory of the past. He leaves no permanent monument no ruins of former greatness. His original habitation has long given place to the frame house of sawn timber and with the exception of the carvings in black slate made by the Hydah Indians of the Queen Charlotte Islands and the ...]
Genres: [myth] Downloads: 378
Indian Nullification Of The Unconstitutional Laws Of
[english | ]William Apes
Excerpts: [... OF MASSACHUSETTS. RELATIVE TO THE MARSHPEE TRIBE: OR, THE PRETENDED RIOT EXPLAINED,. BY WILLIAM APES, AN INDIAN AND PREACHER OF THE GOSPEL. 1835. Entered ...... to preach and instruct. I replied that he could not, perhaps, be sure of that, and that if he had followed the course I had mentioned, it would at ...... right, and were wise enough to trouble the Indians no further. The ...]
Genres: [politics] Downloads: 180
Incognita
[english | ]William Congreve
Summary: [v. 1. Introduction. Letters. Incognita. The old batchelour.--v. 2. The double-dealer. Love for love. The mourning bride.--v. 3. The way of the world. The judgment of Paris. Semele. Squire Trelooby. Humour in comedy. The amendments of Mr. Colliers false and imperfect citations.--v. 4. Congreves poems. Preface to Dryden. The Tatler.]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 406
In The Border Country
[english | ]W Crockett
Excerpts: [... subject of the present book-the Border Country-should set us thinking, not of one holiday, but of many and he who has once tasted the Border's ...... and historical. There is, of course, a narrower sense in which the phrase, the Border Country, is used-the literary. That, however, applies ...... the remains of his Candida Casa, or White House, may still be seen at Whithorn on the ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 474
Instruction For Using A Slide Rule
[english | ]W Stanley
Summary: [Andy Stanley is the senior pastor of North Point Community Church Buckhead Church and Browns Bridge Community Church. He also founded North Point Ministries which is a worldwide Christian organization.]
Genres: [instructional] Downloads: 94
In Search Of Gravestones Old And Curious
[english | ]W Vincent
Summary: [Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22 1892 - October 19 1950) was an American lyrical poet playwright and feminist. She was the second woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and was known for her activism and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work. Poet Richard Wilbur asserts: She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century.]
Genres: [history | travel] Downloads: 193
Increasing Efficiency In Business
[english | ]Walter Dill Scott
Excerpts: [... the product of a spurt or a period of overexertion it was simply what a good man could keep up for a long term of years without injury to his health, ...... nor be of any benefit. Any great increase in the amount of physical or mental work results in a feeling of weariness which is usually sufficient to ...... the ``slowing down'' process, we have the greater affinity simply ...]
Genres: [business] Downloads: 463
Imaginary Portraits
[english | ]Walter Horatio Pater
Summary: [A select bibliography of writings by and about the author: p. 214-216.]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 407
In His Image
[english | ]William Jennings Bryan
Summary: [The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature is non-fiction and the last book written by C. S. Lewis. Multilayered it is on one level a work that deals with medieval cosmology and the Ptolemaic universe the model of the world used by the medievals - the medieval synthesis itself the whole organization of their theology science and history into a single complex ...]
Genres: [religion | essays] Downloads: 109
In Fort And Prison
[english | ]William Murray Graydon
Summary: [In Fort And Prison by William Murray Graydon. An excerpt Eleven o clock at night in Cincinnati. The April day had been mild and balmy and the evening was like it. The theatres had just turned out their audiences and the streets were gay with pleasure-seekers. Saloons cafes and hotels shed the brilliance of noonday on the pavements from their flaring windows and lamps. Cabs rattled up and down ...]
Genres: [adventure | fiction and literature] Downloads: 296
Imogen
[english | ]William Godwin
Excerpts: [... by the critics, and admired by that credulous train who clap and stare whenever they are bid, have when the recommendation of novelty has subsided been ...... with an eye of candour, and her benevolence to gratify all the innocent wishes, of those about her. The character of a woman undistinguishing in her ...... had not moistened his cheek. The heart of Modred was haughty, ...]
Genres: [romance] Downloads: 58
Italian Letters Vols 12
[english | ]William Godwin
Excerpts: [... starting from his eye. It is not the voice of flattery, that can render him callous to the most virtuous and respectable feelings that can inform ...... misrepresent every circumstance of his conduct. He had been calumniated, cruelly calumniated, and could he discover the author of the aspersion, he ...... to state to you the whole of my conduct. It is a sensation to which I have ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 340
In New Granada
[english | ]W G Kingston
Summary: [South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village is an autobiographical book by Gerald Brenan first published in 1957. Brenan a fringe member of the Bloomsbury Group lived in the Alpujarras region of Andalusia in the 1920s. The book is an example of travel literature mixing autobiography with detailed information about Spain. He describes local customs and cuisine as well as visits to his ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 497
Ibong Adarna
[english | ]Anonymous
Summary: [masarap balik-balikan ang mga katulad nitong kewnto... kwentong atin na maaaring ipagmalaki... kung ating kinagigiliwan ang mha kwento ni Harry Potter o kaya ay ni Eragon kailangan ding nating alamin at kilalanin ang sarili nating mga bida:) salamat]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 277
Installation And Operation Instructions For Custom Mark Iii
[english | ]Anonymous
Excerpts: [... of Installation and Operation Instructions For. Title: Installation and Operation Instructions For Custom Mark III CP Series Oil Fired Unit. Author: ...... at the factory except for the following parts which are packed in a separate carton and strapped to the skids inside the shipping carton:. 1 - 3/4 ...... carrier and request inspection of the damaged equipment. Do not destroy ...]
Genres: [instructional] Downloads: 40
In Midsummer Days And Other Tales
[english | ]August Strindberg
Excerpts: [... the year, she lay there and looked at the meadows and towards the wood, where the dove was singing its song. It sang most beautifully of the Lord Jesus, ...... the front door and the mother called out if anybody were in. As there was no reply they went into the parlour. On the floor, surrounded by a whole forest ...... for the summer guests, where they could always be sure to catch ...]
Genres: [short story collection] Downloads: 496
