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Excerpt from The Book of Genesis: According to the Version of the LXX., Translated Into English, With Notices of Its Omissions and Insertions, and With Notes on the Passages in Which It Differs From Our Authorized The time and place of publication chosen for this little work have been mainly determined by an announcement on the part of the University of Cambridge, appointing the Book of Genesis, in the Version of the Septuagint, as a subject ...

Excerpt from The Quantitative Reading of Latin Verse His little book has been written in the belief that there exist today an urgent need and a demand for some more specific and more satisfactory information to guide the teachers and pupils of secondary schools in their study of Latin verse. It is the author's hope that this need will be found to have been met, in part at least, by the contents of the following pages. For an aroused interest ...

Excerpt from The Encyclopaedia of Sport, Vol. 1: A-Leo Lovers of Sport cannot complain that in recent years their interests have been neglected by English publishers, but, although books devoted to the consideration of Sport continue to multiply apace, no serious effort has been made to produce a national Encyclopedia of Sport. Many editions of Blaine's Encyclopedia of Rural Sports, which first appeared in 1840, were published down to 1870. ...

Excerpt from Tottel's Miscellany: Songes and Sonettes The immense quantity of English verse that was written between 1530-1600 is probably far beyond the conception of most readers of our literature. The printed Poetry - whether it appeared as the production of a single Poet or in the shape of Poetical Collections, (not to speak of the innumerable commendatory verses prefixed to prose works) - constitute the bulk of all the publications of th...

Excerpt from Rational Materialistic Definition of Insanity and Imbecility: With the Medical Jurisprudence of Legal Criminality, Founded Upon Physiological, Psychological and Clinical ObservationsWhen any man has become the victim of doubt he has no rational choice, as he has no duty, but to reason out his doubt to the end to seek to escape them by calling up a cloud of emotion is not only useless but blameworthy. If I have not the pleasure of ...

Excerpt from Translations From Claudian Against Rufinus. First Book. Oft hath my doubtful mind essay'd to scan If aught celestial hath a care for man, Or leaves him sport of every wind and wave, No will to govern, and no arm to save. If then perchance, my better reason found, I turn'd to contemplate the world around, And seek the Source of Power, whose laws ordain The year it's seasons, and it's bounds the main, That bids the night and...

Excerpt from Canada: The Western Cities, Their Borrowings and Their Assets Of its existing debentures, the only ones paying so high a rate as 5 percent, are those first issued, on April 20, 1884 (amounting to $671, 600), which mature on the April 20 next, all the subsequent issues paying either 3¿ or 4 percent., while the whole of the consolidated stock has been issued bearing a 4 percent. rate. In 1884 Winnipeg had emerged from its chrysali...

Excerpt from Footsteps of Proserpine: And Other Verses and Interludes Warms for the bird to wake, Fashion her visions bright, Fall like a blossom ¿ake, Soft on her lids alight, Open her eyes to my love! 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...

Excerpt from The Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology of the EyeThe organization of the eye, and its beautiful adap tation to the wants and necessities of every living thing, has always been a subject sufficiently attrac tive to secure attention and respect from the most thoughtless and indifferent, from those even, who in other respects, are disposed to forget the wonder ful nature of their creation, the fearful construction of every organ and s...

East Anglia has long been known for its internationally significant cultural and environmental Palaeolithic archaeology, often overshadowing the potential of its Holocene resource. This volume details the results of 8 years of palaeoenvironmental, archaeological and geoarchaeological investigations focused on the post-glacial history and evolution of the Suffolk river valleys, funded by Historic England and a number of commercial developers. T...

Excerpt from The Eagle and Brooklyn, The Record of the Progress of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Vol. 1: Issued in Commemoration of Its Semi-Centennial and Occupancy of Its New Building, Together With the History of the City of Brooklyn, From Its Settlement to the Present TimeBut in treating of the Brooklyn of the present day, the attempt has been made to describe in detail all its varied aspects - its public institutions, its associations of ever...

Immensely influential in literary history for his development of blank verse and the Petrarchian sonnet form in English, and as the first modern translator of Virgil, this selection reveals the Earl of Surrey to be a subtle and graceful poet and translator whose vigorous and faithful versions of the "Aeneid" continue to enrich the literary tradition. Reflecting an idealized world of aristocratic virtues of chivalry and honor, these poems have ...

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Excerpt from Case Usage in Petronius' Satires Draeger A. Historische Syntax der Lateinischen Sprache. Leipzig, 1878. Syntax und Stil des Tacitus. Leipzig, 1882. 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, preser...

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