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The Grammar Guardians" By: Bob A. Hall www.thegrammarguardians.com Captain - William Wordsmith Commander - Valarie Vowel Lieutenant - Connie Consonant Chief Engineer - Steven Steal The Grammar Guardians is a book about a group of intergalactic space travelers on a mission to assist developing worlds in their advancement toward the ultimate source of universal energy. The 3rd planet from the sun is the destination for The Grammar Guardian's new...

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Excerpt from Horace Greeley Decently Dissected, in a Letter on Horace Greeley, Addressed by an Oakey Hall to Joseph Hoxie, Esq. The letter which forms the basis of this brochure was published in the Leader of December 14, 1860, and subsequently was copied by the Herald, January 4, 1861, accompanied with an illustrative, piquant, and characteristic editorial. The writer has been warned by many of his own friends, and by some of Horace Greeley...

Excerpt from These Little Ones Which Believe: A Plea for Early Baptism The single purpose of this little book is that of emphasizing the importance and validity of early baptism. While it cannot be denied that in the early church the practice of baptizing infants was universal, not so much can be said of the church of the present. For this, grave misconceptions, both as to the meaning of the sacrament and of what it requires on the part of th...

Excerpt from The Book of the Rothamsted Experiments: Issued With the Authority of the Lawes Agricultural Trust Committee In this edition I have carried on the tables for a further decade, and made the necessary alterations in the text. Some of the deductions drawn in the first edition have required modification, but no great change has been made: the picture is essentially as Mr Hall painted it. Two new chapters have been added: one by Mr Hal...

Excerpt from The Use of Holy Scripture in the Public Worship of the Church For the numerous quotations throughout the Lectures, I hardly think an apology is needed. Those who have the opportunity may, I trust, be led to study for themselves the authorities to which I refer, while my hope has been that I might bring together into one book a good deal on various departments Of the general subject, and from various sources, to which many persons...

Excerpt from The Soil: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of the Growth of Crops I have to thank Professor J. Percival, of the South Eastern Agricultural College, for notes respecting the association of plants with specific soils, and many suggestions on biological questions, Major Hanbury Brown, head of the Egyptian Irrigation Department, for information concerning salted lands in Egypt, Mr F. J. Flymen, who has been associated with me ...

THE BOOK THAT BREAKS A CRYPTOZOOLOGICAL TABOO! Do giant primates larger than gorillas, taller than Sasquatch and Yetis, still exist in the remotest corners of the globe? Famed cryptozoologists Mark A. Hall and Loren Coleman join forces to share their knowledge of this unexplored and neglected topic in cryptozoology. Bigfoot researchers have long been mystified, even embarrassed, by reports of giant hairy apes larger than Bigfoot, and as ...

Excerpt from Annual Report for 1911 With the Supplement to the "Guide to the Experimental Plots": Containing the Yields Per Acre, Etc John Bennet Lawes was the founder of the Rothamsted Experimental Station. He began experiments with various manurial substances, first with plants in pots and then in the field, soon after entering into possession of the estate at Rothamsted in 1834. In 1843 more systematic field experiments were begun, and the...

Excerpt from Fertilisers and Manures The object, then, of the scientific man should be to lay down principles which the practical man in his turn must learn to apply to his own conditions, success is only possible when he too does some thinking. Furthermore, the object of experiments should be to provide knowledge that can be thus applied to other conditions, and an experiment is practical just in so far as it carries out its avowed object, w...

Excerpt from The Fertility of the Soil: Being the Seventeenth Robert Boyle Lecture Delivered Before the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club on the 3rd of June, 1910Becomes a noxious beast of prey. Since the publication of these views of the functions of protozoa in the soil, confirmatory evidence has been obtained from various sources. For example, men who grow cucumbers, tomatoes, and other plants under glass are accustomed to make up ex...

Bob Hall served as a Marine, volunteering for what he calls an easy tour in Vietnam. At age 26, he graduated from college, and was elected to the Massachusetts senate, defeating a powerful Democratic incumbent by nine votes out of 60, 000, in a seat not won by a Republican since 1938. He was re-elected four times by wide margins, retiring undefeated in 1982 to become an association executive. Along the way, he found time to earn a masters degr...

Excerpt from The Relations of Faith and Life: The Bedell Lectures, 1905 We ask that the day on which the lecture, or the first of each series of lectures, shall be delivered shall be a holiday. We wish that the nomination to this lectureship shall be restricted by no other consideration than the ability of the appointee to discharge the duty to the highest glory of God in the completest presentation of the subject. We desire that the lectur...

Excerpt from Glimpses of Great Fields "Canst thou by searching find out God?" "If a man die, shall he live again?" These were the questions that already concerned the Chaldean seer, and that ever since have been uppermost in the minds of thinking men. They are the questions that every philosophy and every religion has attempted in some way to answer. The answer that on the part of Christian thinkers has from time to time been given to the fir...

Excerpt from The Feeding of Crops and Stock: An Introduction to the Science of the Nutrition of Plants and Animals In this book I have endeavoured to provide a general introduction to the science of growing crops and feeding animals: an outline, in fact, of the theory of the nutrition, first of the plant and then of the animal. The book is intended on one side to give the student of agriculture a general framework of ideas, before he enters u...

This book examines the ways in which social relations condition health and the public policies that address it.

Excerpt from A Review of the Webster CaseThese matters in reprehension of the counsel for the defence would be perhaps of little moment, had they not been succeeded by additional and more fatal errors. In pursuing these we may find apology in the opening speech. Says the counsel, The position of jury is more fortunate than that of the counsel. If they erred, nothing could save them from their own self-accusations, from their awful accountabili...

In The Buddhist Goddess Marishiten, David A. Hall provides an in-depth exploration of the Buddhist cult of the warrior goddess Mārīcī, its evolution, and its efficacy and psychological impact on the Japanese warrior.

Excerpt from The Virgin Mother: Retreat Addresses on the Blessed Virgin Mary, as Told in the Gospels, With an Appended Essay on the Virgin Birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ WE will take for the general subject of our Retreat, as the starting-point Of our Meditations, Me life of the Blessed Virgin Mot/zer, as presented to us in the pages of the Gospels. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic book...

Excerpt from The Historic Significance of the Southern Revolution: A Lecture, Delivered by Invitation in Petersburg, Va, March 14th and April 29th, 1864, and in Richmond, Va, , April 7th and April 21st, 1864This introduces the Second Period of History, the Period of Conquest. The idea of selfish power passes over into this period, but it is no longer the power of man the individual: or of man in smaller associations, but of man in large and po...