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Excerpt from Stories of Industry, Vol. 1 Southey tells us that it is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. 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, preserving the orig...

Excerpt from The Rudens of Plautus There are some questions concerning the ancient production of a Latin comedy that can probably never be solved. Most of these are connected with the prob lem of the music and the rendering of the lyrical metres. It is known that some of the lines written for musical accompaniment (cantica) were sung, either on or off the stage, that others were recited or chanted, against a background of music played by the ...

Excerpt from Jonathan Upglade It is early June - to me one of the most beautiful times of the year. I have rowed across the lake, and here, out of the world of men, I am. The hour set for my decision is at hand, it finds me seated on the green bank beneath the spreading lindens. The leaves above me seem to murmur, "Be true to that 'low whisper' within thee". The spring that wells up at my feet utters, in rippling notes, the same inspiring wo...

Excerpt from Stories of Industry, Vol. 2 The sun is the source of heat and life. Some parts of the earth are so hot that the natives wear little clothes, but in our climate we are not safe from change of weather, from wet to dry, or from hot to cold. Clothes are worn to keep in the heat of the body. They cannot warm us as do the fire and sun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Fin...

Excerpt from History of the Fourteenth Ohio Regiment, Vol. 1: From the Beginning of the War in 1861 to Its Close in 1865 It was suggested by a worthy comrade at our last annual reunion, to designate one of our number to write up the history of our old command, to be read to such of the comrades as shall have the good pleasure of meeting together and talk over some of the hardships and privations endured by them as they went forth at the biddi...

Ashlyn Chase brings the paranormal to life-enter a world of humor and romance filled with hilarious antics, witty banter, and supernatural magic like you've never seen!When Rory Arish and his two fiery dragon siblings are driven out of their ancestral Irish home, it seems their luck has run out-until they arrive in Boston and find a paranormal-friendly apartment building. Finally, Rory has a place to call home. There's only one problem: their ...

Take the warm family dynamics of Jill Shalvis, pair it with the heart and humor of Sheila Roberts, and add some love in the mix with Samantha Chase's trademark emotion and sass set at a world-class resort, and you've got the perfect summer read you won't want to put down!He lives by a schedule... She lives for the momentAubrey Burke is on the run from an about-to-be-disastrous mistake when resort owner Hugh Shaughnessy catches her climbing thr...

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Excerpt from Letters to Farmers Sons on the Questions of the Day: Being Familiar Talks on Political Economy That is, in a just manner. A Just manner, means a Right manner. And so at the bottom of this subject is Right. If you plant an apple tree and take care of it, it is your right to have the apples. If you make a harrow out of your own wood and iron, you have the right to the harrow. When you were a babe, you had a right to the care o...

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...

This new critical edition features a version in normalized orthography, as well as a version in prose word order, a translation into English, a complete glossary, an introduction that situates the poem in its context, and substantial explanatory notes.

Excerpt from Banking: A Short HistoryAgents wanted in all banks East and West. Applications are solicited from business and professional men throughout the North. Send your age and receive estimates of cost and explanation of plan. Address.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 u...

Excerpt from Cuentos De California "My Brother's Keeper, " "Am I my brother's keeper?" Aye, thou art! Tis thine to bind the wound, to ease the smart, To guide the halting foot, to help the hand Lagging with over-labor, thine to stand Ever beside the weak against the strong - A soldier, fearless of the ranks of wrong. Tis thine to succor, shelter, and to heal The ills of flesh and spirit, thine to feel - A child of Earth-the common lot of wo...

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 Reclamation of Fugitives From Service: An Argument for the Defendant, Submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States, at the December Term, 1846, in the Case of Wharton Jones Vs, John Vanzandt I beg leave to submit to your con sideration an argument in behalf of an old man, who is charged, under the act of Congress, of February 12, 1793, with having concealed and harbored a fugitive slave. About the Publisher Forgotten Boo...

Excerpt from The Bat and the Ball: Or Negative Evidence, a Farce in One Act Girlygirl (looking out of window). Not in sight yet. No, I had too good a start. {Down C.) After a delightful evening at the Policeman's Ball - the more enjoyable because strictly on the quiet - I was crowding my way to the coat-room, when whom should I see but my respected employer, Mr. Film, who probably thought me, as I certainly had imagined him, at home and in be...

Excerpt from Dr. Chase's Recipes: Or, Information for Everybody, An Invaluable Collection of About Eight Hundred Practical Recipes But now. All being what we desire, and the size of the work being such that we cannot add to it without increasing the price, we have it stereotyped, and send it out, just what we expect, and are Willing it should remain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic boo...

Excerpt from Rural State and Province Series Rural MichiganIn the pages that follow will be found a general and free account of the past and present condition of Michigan~ agriculture and rural life. It is not the, province of the book to contain a careful and detailed analysis of the economic and. Social prob lems related to the subject, such a study must await the labors of other students along many special lines in the years to come.~ So fa...

Excerpt from Dr. Chase's Family Physician, Farrier, Bee-Keeper, and Second Receipt Book First. It is written in plain language that all persons of ordinar) intelligence can understand, and where it has been necessary in quo~ ting from others, or in our own writing, to give the technical terms of the Schools, it is immediately followed, in brackets, with the proper explanation, to avoid all necessity of turning to a Glossary or Diction ary for...

Excerpt from History of Old Chester From 1719 to 1869 I lay no claim to literary merit for the work. There are, no doubt, many errors, some merely clerical or typographical, others, from uncertain and sometimes con¿icting traditions, and prob ably I did not always understand the idea meant to be conveyed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This ...