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Excerpt from A History of the English People, Vol. 4 But great as the danger really was it lay not so much in isolated acts of tyranny as in the character and purpose of Charles himself, and his death at the very moment of his triumph saved English freedom. He had regained his old popularity, and at the news of his sickness in the spring of 1685 crowds thronged the churches, praylng that God would raise him up again to be a father to his peop...

Excerpt from History of the English People, Vol. 3The death Of Elizabeth is one of the turning-points Of English history. The age Of the Renascence and Of the New Monarchy passed away with the Queen. The whole face Of the realm had been silently changing during the later years of her reign. The dangers which had hitherto threatened our national existence and our national unity had alike disappeared. The kingdom which had been saved from ruin b...

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Excerpt from The Making of England, Vol. 2 1. Britain before the English Conquest 2. Britain in 616 3. Deira and the Trent Valley 4. Britain in 626. 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 ori...

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Excerpt from Nature's Musings What is nature but the unfolding of God's love? What are flowers but His smiles? What are winds but His whispers? What is the dew but the tears of heaven? She has a thousand ways to charm us, do we but see them and understand, and yet. with all the learning we may in any way possess we are but infants in the cradle of her great heart, be it calm or storm, sunshine or shadow, night or day. or any one of her many c...

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Excerpt from England, Vol. 1 of 4 In the period which follows the accession of Ethelred we are still aided by these collections of royal Laws and Charters, and the English Chronicle becomes of great importance. Its various co ies indeed differ so much in tone and information from one another t t they may to some extent be looked upon as distinct works, and Flo rence of Worcester is probably the translation of a valuable copy of the Chronicle ...

Excerpt from Agriculture and Tariff Reform It is submitted that, in the following pages, material will be found showing that our free-imports system - erroneously called Free Trade - has proved injurious rather than beneficial to agriculture. It would appear that there are those who hold the opinion that so long as the urban trades and manufactures flourish all is well. That is the conclusion deducible from the arguments of "free importers."...

Excerpt from The Making of England, Vol. 1 of 2 The present work is only a partial realization of an old-standing project of mine, for it is now some ten or twelve years since I made collections for, and actually began a history of England up to the Norman Conquest. This work, however, was interrupted by the preparation of my Short History, and has since been further delayed by my revision and expansion of that book, and now that my hands are...

The zoo isn't what it used to be. It's run down, and Hippo hardly ever gets any visitors. So he decides to set off for the outside with his friend Red Panda. To make it in the human world, Hippo will have to become a Hippopotamister: he'll have to act like a human, get a job, and wear a hat as a disguise. He's a good employee, whether he's a construction worker, a hair stylist, or a sous chef. But what he really needs is a job where he can be ...

Before. Miles Pudge Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the Great Perhaps even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-...

Excerpt from A Short Geography of the British Islands No drearier task can be set for the worst of criminals than that of studying a set of geographical textbooks such as the children in our schools are doomed to use. Pages of "tables, " "tables" of heights and "tables" of areas, "tables" of mountains and "tables" of table-lands, "tables" of numerals which look like arithmetical problems, but are really statements of population: these, arrang...

John Richard Green was an English historian. He was the author of seven books although History of the English People was arguably one of his finest. Although Green began his career as a clergyman, he was always an enthusiastic student of history. Ultimately he decided to change his chosen profession, quit the clergy and became the librarian at Lembeth. Writing history was always part of his plan and he began straightaway to bringing those plan...

Excerpt from A Primer of Teaching Practice This little book is the outcome of many attempts to organize the preliminary professional work of Training College Students. It does not offer in any sense a theory of education, its purpose is much more modest, viz., to give a first survey of the variety of activities which enter into the complex work of class teaching. The different chapters are based upon an effort to treat these activities in iso...

Excerpt from History of the English People, Vol. 1 of 5 It was a favourite wish of my husband's to see English History interpreted and illustrated by pictures which should tell us how men and things appeared to the lookers-on of their own day, and how contemporary observers aimed at representing them. This new edition of his book is an attempt to carry out such an idea. It has seemed most fitting to choose for the purpose the work of the writ...

Excerpt from The Making of England The present work is only a partial realization of an old-standing project of mine, for it is now some ten or twelve years since I made collections for, and actually began a history of England up to the Norman Conquest. This work, however, was interrupted by the preparation of my Short History and has since been further delayed by my revision and expansion of that book, and now that my hands are free the stat...

Paper Towns. Vypusknik shkoly K'ju Dzhejkobsen s detskih let tajno vljublen v svoju prekrasnuju i derzkuju sosedku Margo Rot Shpigel'man. Pojetomu, kogda odnazhdy noch'ju ona priglashaet ego prinjat' uchastie v "karatel'noj operacii" protiv ee obidchikov, on soglashaetsja. Pridja v shkolu posle ih nochnogo prikljuchenija, K'ju uznaet, chto Margo ischezla... ostaviv dlja nego lish' tainstvennye poslanija, kotorye on dolzhen razgadat'.

Excerpt from The Conquest of England, Vol. 2 of 2 The upgrowth of the kingly power had been brought about, as we have seen, by a number of varied in¿uences. It had drawn new strength from the dying out of the other royal stocks leaving the house of Cerdie alone, and from the high character of the kings of Alfred's line. A long series of victories, the constant sight and recognition of the king as head of the national host, and the religious c...

Excerpt from A History of the English People, Vol. 2 Edward the Fifth is the subject of a work attributed to Sir Thomas More, and which almost certainly derives much of its importance from Archbishop Morton. Whatever its historical worth may be, it is remarkable in its English form as the first historical work of any literary value which we ess written in our modern prose. The Letters and Papers of ichard the Third and Henry the Seventh, some...