Books For The Letter O. Page 7 Of 33

Oswald Langdon

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Carson Jay Lee

Excerpts: [... but I wish to know all about the one seeking the hand of my favorite niece and heir. Encouraged, Paul answers quite fully. Sir Charles ...... Mary and the children ate that night! I got it all from dear old Pierre Lanier! There was another pause, and the delirious man seemed to sleep. ...... leave for Calcutta. Oswald Langdon CHAPTER X. AT THE HIMALAYAS Traversing many weary miles ...]
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Of Crimes And Punishments

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Cesare Bonesana Marchese Beccaria

Summary: [Dei delitti e delle pene is a seminal treatise on legal reform written by the Italian philosopher and thinker Cesare Beccaria between 1763 and 1764. The essays proposed many reforms for the criminal justice system including prompt administration of clearly prescribed and consistent punishments well-publicised laws made by the legislature rather than individual courts or judges the abolition of ...]
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Ormond Or The Secret Witness

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Charles Brockden Brown

Excerpts: [... Homely liberty was better than splendid servitude. Her resolution was easily formed, but there were certain impediments in the way of ...... and retired. Craig was thrown into considerable perplexity. It was seldom that he was wanting in presence of mind and dexterity, but the unexpectedness ...... fixed her eyes upon her father. They had been engaged in earnest discourse when ...]
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On The Origin Of Species By Means Of Natural Selection

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Charles Darwin

Excerpts: [... species, can usually, but not invariably, be grafted with ease. But this capacity, as in hybridisation, is by no means absolutely governed by systematic ...... the severest trial, namely, by reciprocal crosses, and he found their mongrel offspring perfectly fertile. But one of these five varieties, when ...... with either one or both forms by intermediate varieties. Nor should it ...]
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The Origin Of Species By Means Of Natural Selection

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Charles Darwin

Excerpts: [... territory between two representative species is generally narrow in comparison with the territory proper to each. We see the same fact in ascending mountains, ...... or as an aid in turning, as in the case of the dog, though the aid in this latter respect must be slight, for the hare, with hardly any tail, can ...... degrees. We should remember that the skull at this early age is ...]
Genres: [philosophy] Downloads: 270

The Ordeal

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Charles Egbert Craddock

Summary: [Ordeal of the Union an eight-volume set (published 1947-1971) on the American Civil War by Allan Nevins]
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The Odonoghue

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Charles James Lever

Summary: [Lettered on cover: Novels of Irish life.]
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Once There Was A King

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C Andrews

Summary: [The 21st Century King James Version is a minor update of the King James Version. However unlike the New King James Version it does not alter the language significantly from the 1611 version retaining Jacobean grammar (including thee and thou) but it does attempt to replace some of the vocabulary which no longer would make sense to a modern reader. An example from Ezra 9:3 Another example from the ...]
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The Oldest Code Of Laws In The World

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C W Johns

Summary: [Adela Rogers St. Johns (ne Adela Nora Rogers May 20 1894-August 10 1988) was an American journalist novelist and screenwriter. She wrote a number of screenplays for silent movies and late in life appeared with other early twentieth-century figures as one of the witnesses in Warren Beattys Reds but she is best remembered for her groundbreaking exploits as a girl reporter during the 1920s and 1930s.]
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The Old And The Young I Vecchi E I Giovani

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C Scott Moncrieff

Summary: [Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff MC (25 September 1889 ? 28 February 1930) was a Scottish writer most famous for his English translation of most of Prousts la recherche du temps perdu which he published under the Shakespearean title Remembrance of Things Past.]
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Our Changing Constitution

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Charles Pierson

Summary: [Our Changing Constitution by Charles Wheeler Pierson. The Making of the Modern Law Legal Treatises 1800-1926 includes over 20 000 analytical theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists including Sir Edward Coke Sir William Blackstone James Fitzjames Stephen Frederic William Maitland John Marshall Joseph Story Oliver Wendell Holmes ...]
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The Olynthiacs And The Phillippics Of Demosthenes

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Charles Rann Kennedy

Excerpts: [... the head of the Strymonic gulf, in that part of Macedonia which approaches western Thrace. It had been built formerly by an Athenian colony, and was ...... for him to rest content with his achievements. If it be his principle, ever to do more than he has done, and yours, to apply yourselves vigorously ...... his repute, [Footnote: Jacobs otherwise: uber sein Verdienst gelungen.] ...]
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Osric A Missionary Tale With The Garden And Other Poems

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Charlotte Elizabeth

Summary: [Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna (October 1 1790 - July 12 1846) was an English evangelical Protestant writer and novelist who wrote as Charlotte Elizabeth.]
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Oeuvres Poetiques Tome 1

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Christine De Pisan

Excerpts: [... d.] XXV En plains, en plours me fault user mon temps, Se de vous n'ay, dame, aucun reconfort Mieulx me vauldroit briefment morir au fort ...... Et si sachiez toutevoie Que j'emploie, Ou que je soye, En vous tout mon pensement Car il n'est avancement Qui me venist d'autre voie, ...... ainsi l'ont esprouv'e maint. 6 [Note 54:-5 B Q. q. b. veult s.-6 B Car.] 55 Je vous vens l'anelet ...]
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On Friendship Or Laelius

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Cicero

Summary: [Marcus Tullius Cicero (January 3 106 BC - December 7 43 BC sometimes anglicized as Tully) was a Roman philosopher statesman lawyer political theorist and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order and is widely considered one of Romes greatest orators and prose stylists. He introduced the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy and created a ...]
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On Old Age

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Cicero

Summary: [Marcus Tullius Cicero (January 3 106 BC - December 7 43 BC sometimes anglicized as Tully) was a Roman philosopher statesman lawyer political theorist and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order and is widely considered one of Romes greatest orators and prose stylists. He introduced the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy and created a ...]
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The Orations Of Marcus Tullius Cicero Volume 4

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Cicero

Summary: [Marcus Tullius Cicero (January 3 106 BC - December 7 43 BC sometimes anglicized as Tully) was a Roman philosopher statesman lawyer political theorist and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order and is widely considered one of Romes greatest orators and prose stylists. He introduced the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy and created a ...]
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The Opened Shutters

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Clara Louise Burnham

Summary: [The story of Sylvia who learns to think right one summer after her dad dies.]
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The Old Santa Fe Trail

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Colonel Henry Inman

Summary: [The Old Santa Fe Trail by Colonel Henry Inman. Excerpt from the book... As we look into the open fire for our fancies so we are apt to study the dim past for the wonderful and sublime forgetful of the fact that the present is a constant romance and that the happenings of to-day which we count of little importance are sure to startle somebody in the future and engage the pen of the historian ...]
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Oeuvres Tome I

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Constantin Francois Chasseboeuf Boisgirais Volney

Excerpts: [... v^etirons de leurs d'epouilles, et nous vivrons exempts des fatigues du jour et des soucis du lendemain.>> Et les hommes, s'aidant l'un et l'autre, ...... les Musulmans assembl'es devant leurs mosqu'ees, se lavaient les mains, les pieds, se taillaient les ongles, se peignaient la barbe puis 'etendant ...... agrandie: l'homme, livr'e aux 'etudes abstraites, a mieux saisi sa place ...]
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