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Excerpt from Ready-Made Suit: A Mock Trial (Enter the Prosecuting Attorney hurriedly from R. He carries a huge green bag which he deposits on the table (c.).) P. A. Good-morning, gentlemen, good-morning. A fine morning for the great polygamy case of Commonwealth vs. Snyppe, De Gusset, Lapel, and others. We try that case this morning, I think. Prisoner's Counsel. Yes, as a matter of form. The verdict is bound to be in our favor. P. A. Your ...

Excerpt from Union and Freedom, Without Compromise: Speech of S. P, Chase, of Ohio, in the Senate of the United States, March 26-7, 1850, on the Compromise Resolutions Submitted by Mr. Clay on the 25th of January 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...

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....

Excerpt from The Ungeared Mind A Plea for the Cultivation of the Imagination Some of its Chief Characteristics - Its Place in Science and its Beneficial In¿uence on Mankind - Some of its Striking Peculiarities Day-dreaming or Castle-building. 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. Forgotte...

When the truth comes out, Victor and Bieito must decide how strong their love really is.Victor Delarosa has been the head of the Delarosa cartel for most of his adult life, and Bieito Perez has been there by his side the entire way. Yet Victor has secrets he's kept hidden, even from his long-time lover, and when those secrets show up on Victor's doorstep, he struggles to find a way to explain while hoping he won't lose Bieito.Being Victor Dela...

On November 12, 1971, Bernard Patterson, a much decorated Vietnam War hero turned real-life version of Don Quixote, Butch Cassidy, and Robin Hood all rolled into one, robbed the Northern National Bank in Mars Hill, Maine. He escaped with $110, 000, at the time, the largest bank robbery in the history of the state. A tunnel rat and paratrooper in Vietnam who rose to the rank of sergeant, he was awarded four bronze stars and recommended for a si...

Excerpt from Soldiers All: Portraits and Sketches of the Men of the A E. F The portraits of American soldiers, - ranging from general to private, - pointed by Joseph Cumminge Chase, constitute a valuable and unique addition to tho Official pictorial record of the war. Mr. Chase was authorized by the War Department to go overseas with the purpose of carrying out this commission, and the unusual facilities placed at his disposal by the A. E. F....

Excerpt from Liberty or Slavery?: Daniel O'connell on American Slavery The famous letter of Daniel O'Connell on American Slavery, addressed in 1843 to a Committee of the Cincinnati Irish Repeal Association, who had rebuked him for his Anti-Slavery opinions, has recently been reproduced by the Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph. "The original document, " says the Telegraph, "has been concealed for twenty years by a well known Democrat, to whom we a...

Biweekly marriage proposals from men who can't see beyond her (admittedly breathtaking) looks are starting to get on Lady Clara Fairfax's nerves. Desperate to be something more than ornamental, she escapes to her favorite charity. When a child is in trouble, she turns to tall, dark, and annoying barrister Oliver Radford.Though he's unexpectedly found himself in line to inherit a dukedom, Radford's never been part of fashionable society, and th...

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Excerpt from The Complete Works of Edward Livingston on Criminal Jurisprudence, Vol. 2 of 2 No act of legislation can be or ought to be immutable. Changes are required by the alteration of circumstances, amendments, by the imperfection of all human institutions, but laws ought never to be changed without great deliberation, and a due consideration as well of the reasons on which they were founded, as of the circumstances under which they were...

Excerpt from Recollections of the Past Of my brethren, both of the ministry and mem hership of the church, have expressed a desire to see them published in a more permanent form. I have therefore come to the conclusion to republish them in the form in which they now appear. 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 imp...

Excerpt from The Beginnings of the American Revolution, Vol. 2: Based on Contemporary Letters, Diaries and Other Documents Ach week the line became more marked between the Tories and those whose sympathies lay with the country in its struggles, which now tended more and more openly and inevitably toward independence. The in fluence of the Committee of Correspondence in giving form to the Solemn League and Covenant drew attention to its power,...

Excerpt from Notes to the Fourth Book of Reading Lessons In dealing with literature the teacher must have, as in his other work, one object steadily in view: - his pupils must understand clearly everything the lesson contains, nothing must be taken for granted, it will not do to take their own word for it, or to make them learn accurately the appended notes, the teacher must satisfy himself in his own way that the work is understood. It is ve...

Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Salmon P. Chase: Delivered at the Republican Mass Meeting in Cincinnati, August 21, 1855, Together With Extracts From His Speeches in the Senate on Kindred Subjects Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens: More than thirty years have passed away since I, then a mere boy, became a dweller in this city. Few of those whom I now see before me have been here so long: to none of you, I am sure, is the prosperity of this beauti...

Excerpt from Notes on the English Literature Examination Papers: For Admission to High Schools (1878) In dealing with literature the teacher must have, as in his other work, one object steadily in view: - his pupils must understand dearly everything the lesson contains, nothing must be taken for granted, it will not do to take their own word for it, or to make them learn accurately the appended notes, the teacher must satisfy himself in his o...

Excerpt from 1848: A Year of Revolutions Year can have exhausted their ener our stand on what has now bee Europe, and looking forward, u ture to predict, that still mor~. 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 wo...

Excerpt from The Complete Works of Edward Livingston on Criminal Jurisprudence, Vol. 1 of 2: Consisting of Systems of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana and for the United States of America, With the Introductory Reports to the Same Apunishable by law, defining the same in clear and explicit terms, designating the punishment to be in¿icted on each laying down the rules Of evidence on trials directing the whole mode of procedure, and pointin...

Excerpt from A Personal Matter: A Comedy in One Act Scene. - A breakfast-room, closed in. Double doors in flat, backed by interior, fireplace L., entrances R. and L., window R., breakfast-tab'e set with two chairs R. of C., arm-chair by fireplace, desk R. of D. in F. Mr. T. (discovered standing back to fireplace). I wonder where the deuce those morning papers are! I never, somehow, get up especially early in the morning to get them, but that...

Excerpt from The Girl From the Big Horn Country A September afternoon in the Big Horn mountains! The air crystal clear, the sky cloudless, the outlines of the hills distinct! Elk Creek Valley lay golden in the sunshine, silent save for the incessant hum of locust and cricket, the hurrying of the creek waters, and the occasional bellowing of steers on the range beyond the foot-hills, deserted except for the distant cattle, a coyote stealing ac...