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Christian Wolff is a composer who has followed a distinctive path often at the centre of avant-garde activity working alongside figures such as John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Cornelius Cardew. In a career spanning sixty years, he has produced a significant and influential body of work that has aimed to address, in a searching and provocative manner, what it means to be an experimental and socially aware artist. This book provides a wide-rang...

Excerpt from Sketches of the Life, Character and Times of Paul Jones Most of the modern scribblers in biography seem to describe their subjects as differing in many respects from the great mass of mankind, and so materially different, that to imitate their virtues, or seek to compare with them in any important respect, would be downright pre sumption in the rising generation, and if, through envy, hate or malice, they are endeavoring to damn ...

Excerpt from Mortality Among Negroes in Cities: Proceedings of the Conference for Investigations of City Problems, Held at Atlanta University, May 26-27, 1896 In 1860, only 4. 2 per cent of the colored population of the United States were living in the cities. By 1880, the number had increased to per cent oi the whole colored population, while by 1890, it had increased to 12 per cent. This process of concentration in the cities has been relat...

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bTitle:/b Hellas. Her monuments and scenery.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along wi...

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El 12 de agosto de 1819 zarpaba del puerto de Nantucket el Essex «rumbo al Océano Pacífico a la pesca de la ballena», con una tripulación de veinte hombres. En mitad de una travesía bastante afortunada, el 20 de noviembre de 1820 el barco fue hundido por un cachalote, y, aunque en ese momento toda la tripulación se salvó y pudo rescatar algunos víveres e instrumentos de navegación, su peripecia a lo largo de tres meses «en medio del inmenso Pa...

Excerpt from A Latin Grammar The author of this treatise has endeavored to state clearly and directly those facts of Grammar which a student of Latin most needs to know, and thus to conduct him by the surest path to a mastery of the language. The discoveries of recent philological science have not been neglected, but care has been taken not to overlay and obscure the facts which form the proper subject of the book with a mass of matter belong...

Excerpt from An Address on the Character and Example of President Lincoln Taking into view both the depth of the lamentation and its universality, I run no hazard in asserting that never was man so mourned before. And now that the first shock Of our mighty sorrow is over, it is well to ask what it was in the character and the services Of the departed statesman and magistrate that won for him this majestic testimonial of the tears of a na tio...

Excerpt from Selections From the Satires of Juvenal: To Which Is Added the Fifth Satire of PersiusRoom has been made to insert one of the satires of Persius, to give a taste of the peculiar quality of an author, who, if dainty and bookish, is at tractive for his moral elevation and earnestness.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduc...

Excerpt from Hellas: Her Monuments and SceneryCountry's cause is the cause of culture and civilization, as well as of humanity and free dom, deeming it, moreover, the part even of patriotism for those who are devoted to let ters or the arts to pursue their calling with.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 hist...

Excerpt from The Histories Of Livy, Books I, XXI, And XXII: With Extracts From Books IX, XXVI, XXXV, XXXVIII, XXXIX, XLVObject. His purpose in undertaking it was to draw, with all the charms which his artistic skill and delicate taste could give, a complete.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....