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Excerpt from Organizer of Victory He was not an incarnation of the people, he did not express the total character of the nation, but with a force hardly ever equalled in our his tory he became the Mood of the British people, the living expression of the Will of the entire British Empire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduc...

Excerpt from The Life of General William Booth, the Founder of the Salvation Army, Vol. 2 of 2 In May of 1882 John Bright replied from the House of Commons to a letter addressed to him by Mrs. Booth, in the following terms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-...

Excerpt from The Fall of the CurtainShe does not like leaving us, whispered old Gregory. Now, I pray Heaven that letter has arrived!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst rep...

Excerpt from The God of Fools, and Other Poems Between two worlds life hovers like a star 'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. How little do we know that which we are, How less what we may be! the eternal surge Of time and tide rolls on, and bears afar Our bubbles, as the old burst new emerge, Lashed from the foam of ages, while the graves Of empires heave but like some passing waves. Byron. About the Publisher Forgotten Book...

Excerpt from The Challenge From Wellington, where they had called him Agamemnon on account of his majestic size and a certain regal austerity of countenance, Blake Thornton went up to Cambridge with a reputation, and what Mme. Guizot said of a certain writer's style may be said of this reputation - it was always good, and never better. The boy was not father to the man, but was the man himself. In person he was tall, lubberly, and sprawling,...

Excerpt from The Crisis of Morals What is written in this place is written chiefly of England, my own country, but the indictment can be brought equally against the United States of America, some of the Dominions, and, in Europe, with unquestionable justice, against the great cities of Germany. So far as I am able to judge from recent reports, a similar indictment might be brought against France and Italy. About the Publisher Forgotten Book...

Excerpt from The Curious and Diverting Adventures of Sir John Sparrow Bart: Or, the Progress of an Open Mind About as many years ago as the middle-aged . reader will care to remember, there lived in the north of England that worthy and honourable gentleman whose curious adventures are at once the theme and inspiration of these pages. Sir John Sparrow, for such was the gentleman's style and dignity, had inherited from his father a dozen years ...

Excerpt from The Priest One wet evening in the late spring of the year 1905, a well-hung, one-horsed brougham was drawn up outside a church in the neighbourhood of Pimlico. Inside this buff-lined and deep-padded carriage, with her hand holding the window strap, and her gaze fixed upon the lighted interior of the church - which, striped by the rain, could be seen through the open door, with its red curtains swinging in the draught - was a han...

Excerpt from The Distant Lamp As you may chance to espy, in following the solemn curves of a great river, some bright, exquisite, and delicious little rustling stream hidden nun-like from the glare of the sun by a convent of green trees, and as you may feel in this whispering and timorous charity of the lofty hills a charm more intimate than the big river has yet given you, and find yourself overcome by a desire to penetrate those dim and ver...

You will be the first to grant me, honoured sir, that after earnestness of purpose, that is to say "keenness, " there is no quality of the mind so essential to the even-balance as humour. The schoolmaster without this humanising virtue never yet won your l

Excerpt from The Cage Social questions are only difficult and dangerous while the one central and eternal Question of Life, Whither goest thou? Remains unanswered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, pre...

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Excerpt from The Political StruwwelpeterThe trough was full, the greedy Boar Drank quartz and quartz, yet dirtied more And while he quaffed the grateful ¿ow, He kept one eye on cruel Joe!But joseph when he'd cracked his whip Began to speak of fellowship.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. For...

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Excerpt from The Ordinary Man and the Extraordinary ThingThe veritable life Of a man is lived, not visibly and externally, but in the impenetrable solitude Of his soul.Profound and extraordinary changes Of soul are experienced by the most ordinary Of men.Conversion is not generally a sudden and catastrophic experience, but for most men a gradual and imperceptible process Of development.Without religion, the moral and physical pro gress Of thos...

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