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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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Excerpt from Tell-Trothes New-Yeares Gift, The Passionate Morrice, 1593, John Lane's Tom Tell-Troths Message, and His Pens Complaint, 1600, Thomas Powell's Tom of All Trades, or the Plaine Path-Way to Preferment, 1631, The Glasse of Godly Loue, 1569No. 53. A small quarto volume, containing 81 leaves of paper, gilt at the edges, beside three on which are written the title and introductory pieces: it is very neatly written, as for a presentation...

Excerpt from Talk of the TownBut clothes, like everything else, have succumbed to the democracy of the age. Once people dressed according to their trade or their rank, but in these days that has all disappeared except in legends and the Earl's Court Exhibition. Instead, the world has one universal costume which for men consists of a top hat, ready-made tie, ready-made garments and giraffe collar, and these form the crown and summit of poetic f...

Excerpt from The Nurserymatograph by a Lawyer: With Interludicrousness by a Parson, and Sillystrations by a Serjeant-MajorIt has been thought by many eminent scholastic and preceptual authorities that this is (1) a good summary, (2) theologically sound, (3) simple, (4) expressed with some quantity of jerk. And it has been further pointed out that another of its hidden merits is the ease with which it can be explained. Not a word in it but will...

Excerpt from The Champagne StandardIn fact, all the ideas that did occur to me were miles away from a preface. It was maddening' I even demanded that the ocean should stop making such a horrid noise, if only for five minutes. And that set me idly to thinking what would happen to the world if the tides should really be struck motionless even for that short space of time. The idea is so out of my line that it is quite at the service of any dis t...

Excerpt from According to MariaShe has pale, prominent eyes, a long, pale face and a rather sharp nose, she thinks a great deal of her nose. She wears her hair neatly fuzzed in front, and it always looks the same whether at breakfast or dinner parties, and whatever her emotions may be it is always tidy. She has, besides, pointed cl bows and no sense of humour.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classi...

The story is about a little homing pigeon named Lucky and a round-faced, redheaded boy named Alex.Join the adventures of Lucky the homing pigeon, Ole Charlie the big rooster, Penny the head hen, and the warmhearted hens that saved Lucky from his demise. In The Carrier Pigeon, readers will also meet Alex, the boy that teaches other children that kindness can go a long, long way.When a young homing pigeon passes by a farmyard and encounters an a...

Excerpt from Argument of Messrs. John Q. Lane, and Silas W. Pettit: Showing the Illegality and Criminal Conspiracy of the Anthracite Coal Monopoly, Before the Investigating Committee of the Pennsylvania Legislature, July 28th-31st, 1875It is admitted and will not be contradicted that the coal and iron company is an auxiliary of the railroad company All its stock is owned and its bonds guaranteed by the railroad company The charter was obtained...

Excerpt from Argument of Messrs. John Q. Lane, and Silas W. Pettit: Showing the Illegality and Criminal Conspiracy of the Anthracite Coal Monopoly, Before the Investigating Committee of the Pennsylvania Legislature, July 28th-31st, 1875It is admitted and will not be contradicted that the coal and iron company is an auxiliary of the railroad company All its stock is owned and its bonds guaranteed by the railroad company The charter was obtained...

Excerpt from History of Education in TexasBaylor University Baylor Female College Howard Payne College Southwestern University Fort W'orth University North Texas Female College Polytechnic College San Antonio Female College Coronal Institute Austin College, Sherman Texas Presbyterian University Daniel Baker College Stuart Seminary Austin School of Theology Trinity University Texas Female Seminary add-ran Christian University. Carr-burdette Col...

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About the Book Books on British and Irish Theatre mainly contain the full scripts of plays that were written in Britain and Ireland. The theatre flourished in Elizabethan times, led by William Shakespeare, was paused during the Puritan period, but restored in the late 17th century. Other titles provide critical analysis of plays. A long list of British and Irish plays written and performed between the 16th and 20th centuries has been preserved...

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John Lane's travelling geologist sings a dawning epoch's blues. The Anthropocene is upon us, and his poems show how humans believe they have become "the planet's boss, the big chief, the emperor of air, diesel fuel, /bow thrusters, and tax shelters”.

WBC series delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. It emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical theology.

First Published in 2016. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

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