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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 Praise Of Folly
[english | ]Desiderius Erasmus
Summary: [The Praise of Folly is an essay written in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in 1511. The essay was inspired by De Triumpho Stultitiae written by Italian humanist Faustino Perisauli born at Tredozio near Forli. Erasmus revised and extended the work which he originally wrote in the space of a week while sojourning with Sir Thomas More at Mores estate in Bucklersbury. In ...]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 495
In The Wilderness
[english | 1878]Charles Dudley Warner
Summary: [Der Vildmarken suser is a story collection from 1919 by Norwegian writer Mikkjel Fonhus. One of the stories about the large killer bear Rugg in the Vassfaret forests was published as a childrens book in 1965 Fortellingen om slagbjonnen Rugg. This book and the subsequent animal novels Det skriker fra Kverrvilljuvet and Troll-Elgen was Fonhus breakthrough and made him known for his ability to ...]
Genres: [essays | nature] Downloads: 50
Inaugureele Rede
[dutch | 1731]Hieronymus David Gaubius
Excerpts: [... Date: April 11, 2006 [EBook #18147]. (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions ...... vlammen doet branden hoe hij aan den eenen kant met de grootste voorzichtigheid tegengestelde lichamen bij elkaar brengt, die zich dra in een vlammenbrakenden ...... ik mijn toevlucht kan nemen. Uw buitengemeene ...]
Genres: [science | essays] Downloads: 114
Indeterminate Sentence
[english | ]Charles Dudley Warner
Summary: [Indeterminate Sentence by Charles Dudley Warner. This title has fewer than 24 printed text pages. Indeterminate Sentence is presented here in a high quality kindle edition. This popular classic work by Charles Dudley Warner is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Charles Dudley Warner then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 369
Industrial Conspiracies
[english | 1912]Clarence Darrow
Excerpts: [... toward a better humanity, toward a higher ideal, toward a time when men will be brothers the world over. Industrial Conspiracies. By CLARENCE ...... the earth where the informers and detectives and Burnes' men of those days could not get hold of them. (Applause). It used to be a crime for a working ...... are as firmly established as Parliament itself. Much better established there ...]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 495
Influence Morale Des Sports Athltiques
[french | ]Henri Didon
Excerpts: [... qui veut bien traiter ce sujet. Je lui donne la parole. (Vifs applaudissements.-Mouvement d'attention.). MESDAMES, MESSIEURS,. C'est un grand honneur ...... et avec une persvrance digne de tout loge. Et vous ne me dmentirez pas, Mesdames et Messieurs, quand je dirai qu'il faut reconnatre en M. de Coubertin ...... et qui m'avez gliss, par votre parole insinuante et persuasive, la ...]
Genres: [non fiction | games | essays] Downloads: 61
International Copyright
[english | 1879]George Haven Putnam
Summary: [George Haven Putnam A.M. Litt.D. (April 2 1844 - February 27 1930) was an American soldier publisher and author. He was the father of medieval historian Bertha Haven Putnam. The eldest son of publisher George Palmer Putnam and Victorine Haven Putnam he was born in London UK where his father had been living since 1841 while establishing a branch office for his New York City publishing company ...]
Genres: [politics | essays | non fiction] Downloads: 80
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
Introduction To The Dramas Of Balzac
[english | ]Epiphanius Wilson
Excerpts: [... WILSON. Honore de Balzac is known to the world in general as a novel-writer, a producer of romances, in which begin the reign of realism in French ...... these details for throwing into relief such a portrait as that of Pons or Madame Hulot. He himself was individualized by his knobbed cane abroad, and ...... according to his own fancy the figures and objects which he finds in ...]
Genres: [drama | essays] Downloads: 68
Irish Impressions
[english | 1919]G Chesterton
Summary: [Irish Impressions by G K Chesterton. Kindle edition to G.K. Chesterton s classic work.]
Genres: [essays | audiobook] Downloads: 444
Is Slavery Sanctioned By The Bible
[english | ]Isaac Allen
Summary: [Is Slavery Sanctioned By The Bible by Isaac Allen. This title has fewer than 24 printed text pages. Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible is presented here in a high quality kindle edition. This popular classic work by Isaac Allen is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Isaac Allen then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.]
Genres: [essays | religion] Downloads: 383
Journeys To Bagdad
[english | 1915]Charles Brooks
Summary: [Journeys to Bagdad -- The worst edition of Shakespeare -- The decline of night-caps -- Maps and rabbit-holes -- Tunes for spring -- Respectfully submitted to a mournful air -- The chilly presence of hard-headed persons -- Hoopskirts and other lively matter -- On traveling -- Through the scuttle with the tinman.]
Genres: [romance | humor | essays] Downloads: 378
Joyous Gard
[english | 1913]Arthur Christopher Benson
Excerpts: [... beauty and joy, some have to do with problems of conduct and duty, some with the relation in which we wish to stand or are forced to stand with other ...... not from the point of view of their rightness and justice, but according as they are fine and noble, evoking our admiration and our desire and ...... like an inconstant wind, awakes to transitory brightness. The power arises ...]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 194
Kings Of The Talkies
[english | 1928]Alva Johnston
Excerpts: [... you make a change in the ebook (other than alteration for different display devices), or (2) you are making commercial use of the ebook. If either of ...... but the Warners were the first to make the public listen. The modern talking-picture mechanism was developed in the laboratories of the American ...... was in February, 1925. In March another man was the biggest man in the ...]
Genres: [biography | essays] Downloads: 94
La Boucle De Cheveux Enleve
[french | 1728]Alexander Pope
Excerpts: [... se multiplierent mais un Libraire se preparant en faire imprimer un exemplaire qui estoit tres-defectueux, vous eustes la bont de consentir que je ...... quivalentes celles qui rpondent directement & immediatement aux termes de l'original sans quoi une traduction, pour estre trop scrupuleusement ...... imaginaire des Cabbalistes: l'usage qu'en a fait Monsieur Pope montre que ces ...]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 111
La Guerre Sociale
[french | 1871]Andr Lo
Excerpts: [... calculs. Ils ont en effet, malgr vous, malgr l'opinion, fait la guerre de 1870. Les monarques sont inconvertissables. Heureusement, il n'en n'est ...... Pouyer-Quertier mais quelques confiscations arbitraires qui ont eu lieu, ont t de suite blmes et rpares, et l'ordre-je parle du vritable, de celui ...... publique, au lieu de cette troupe de gens en livre qu'avait conservs le 4 ...]
Genres: [non fiction | essays] Downloads: 382
La Patrie Franaise
[french | 1899]Franois Coppe
Summary: [Franois Edouard Joachim Coppe (26 January 1842 ? 23 May 1908) was a French poet and novelist.]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 133
Labor And Freedom
[english | 1916]Eugene Debs
Excerpts: [... were left, but whatever became of them and whether they are now alive or dead, he could never learn. The old fellow grew serious and a melancholy ...... as a historic character as John Brown, Abraham Lincoln or Karl Marx. He has persisted in spite of two thousand years of theological emasculation to destroy ...... the Christ they betrayed and sold into crucifixion twenty centuries ...]
Genres: [non fiction | essays] Downloads: 38