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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Winners in Life's Race, or the Great Backboned Family, Vol. 1: Fishes and BirdsAlthough the present volume, as giving an account of the vertebrate animals, is a natural sequel to, and completion of, my former book, se and ker CM! A'ren, which treated of invertebrates, yet it is a more independent work, both in plan and execution, than I had at first contemplated.This arises from the nature of the subject. The structure and habits ...

Excerpt from The Fairy-Land of ScienceThe Ten Lectures of which this volume is composed were delivered last Spring, in St. John's Wood, to a large audience of children and their friends, and at their conclusion I was asked by many of those present to publish them for a child's reading book.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction...

Excerpt from Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures: A Sequel to Fairyland of ScienceThe two last lectures wander away from this path, and yet form a natural conclusion to the Magician's lectures to his young Devonshire lads. They have been published before, one in the Y out/1's Companion of Boston, u.s., and the other in Atalanta, in which the essay on Fungi also appeared in a shorter form. All three lectures have, however, been revised and...

Excerpt from Moral Teachings of ScienceThe six chapters which form this little volume were written in 1890 for the Chautauquan. Five of them only were published, owing to want of space, and some of these were cur tailed. I have now been asked to republish the whole, and in so doing I have restored all the original passages and added some others. In the main, however, the chapters remain as at first written, and, though the necessity for brevit...

Excerpt from The Winners in Life's Race: Or the Great Backboned FamilyIn order to treat so vast a subject simply and within narrow limits, it has often been necessary to pass lightly over new and startling facts. I trust, however, it will not be inferred that such passages have been lightly or carelessly written, for in all cases I have sought, and most gratefully acknow ledge, the assistance of some of our best authorities and I have endeavou...

Excerpt from High School History of EnglandIN the small space allowed me in this little book, I have tried to set before young readers a connected history of the rise and development of England. While giving as far as possible the chief facts required by students, I have been especially anxious to present a vivid picture of the life, the difficulties, and the achieve ments of our ancestors showing how our laws, our constitution, our trade, and...

Excerpt from Eyes and No Eyes, Vol. 1WE three friends, Peter, Peggy, and Paul, walk to school together every day. We all love ¿owers and animals, and each day we try to find something new.Peter is a little boy. He Can only just read. But he has sharp eyes. He sees most things in the hedges. Peggy's father is a gamekeeper. She knows the birds and Where to find their nests. Paul comes from the farm. He is a big boy and will soon be a teacher.We ...

Excerpt from Life and Her Children: Glimpses of Animal Life From the Amoeba to the InsectsThe plan of this work is so fully explained in the Introductory Chapter that but little preface is needed. Its main Object is to acquaint young people with the structure and habits Of the lower forms Of life, and to do this in a more systematic way than is usual in ordinary works on Natural History, and more simply than in text-books on Zoology.For this r...

Excerpt from A Short History of Natural Science: And of the Progress of Discovery From Time of the Greeks to the Present Day, for the Use of Schools and Young PersonsAnaxagoras studies the Moon - Describes Eclipses of the Sun and Moon - IS Tried and Condemned for Denying that the Sun is a God - Hippocrates the Father of Medicine - Separates the office of Priest and Doctor - Studies the Human Body Eudoxus has an Observatory - Makes a Map of the...

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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

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