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Excerpt from Portraits of Columbus: A MonographIn 1821, Peschiera, commissioned by the city of Genoa to carve a bust which was to stand on a shrine inclosing various autograph papers Of Columbus, according to Irving, discarded all portraits known to him, and drew his ideal from ancient descriptions of the great Admiral. His effort gave no permanent satisfaction. His handiwork was ere long supplanted by a second bust, and that in a few years by...

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Excerpt from The School Bell: A Collection of Songs, Duetts, Hymns, &C., , For the School Room and Family CircleThe Elementary portion of the book occupies much less space than usual, but Will not probably be found less'useful and instructive, than the same portion of similar worlts.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 ...

Excerpt from School English: A Manual for Use in Connection With the Written English Work of Secondary SchoolsThe old-style text-books of rhetoric are fast being te placed by books written with these aims more distinctly in view, but in many cases the multiplication of rules, their illogical classification, or the addition of erroneous or irrelevant matter, has impaired the usefulness of these books, and not infrequently time is wasted on exam...

I boschi del Midwest, i laghi che gelano con i primi freddi e riflettono i colori del tramonto nelle sere d'estate, custodiscono da sempre storie ruvide e umanissime. Storie in cui il confine tra bene e male non è mai netto, e in cui la luce si intravede anche nella disperazione più nera. In questa raccolta Nickolas Butler, autore di culto in Italia, in Francia e nel suo paese, ce ne racconta dieci, tutte intense, tenere e struggenti, tutte si...

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Excerpt from History of the Lawyers ClubSecretary, deserves more than passing comment. I refer to them hereafter.It was on April 6, 1917, at P. M. That President Wilson signed the joint resolution of Congress declaring a state of war to exist, and at that moment the United States went upon a war basis.On the same date, seventeen minutes later, the Club held a general meeting and appointed its War Committee. Ours was the first Club in the count...

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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 ...

In an age when deism was taking a strong foothold, Butler argued for the return to an orthodox view of God. He did not agree that God was detached and separated from the world, or that Jesus was more God than man, but rather that God was personal and Christ was exactly as he is seen in the orthodox doctrine of Protestant Christianity.

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Excerpt from The Flock Fed, or Catechetical Instruction Preparatory to ConfirmationThe author of this little work on Confirmation has been accustomed, for a number of years past, to meet his candi.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 digitall...

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