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Excerpt from The Book of Knowledge, Vol. 8: The Children's EncyclopaediaThen France had to find money to pay for their Share of the war which had won independence for the United States. No more could be borrowed or squeezed from the unhappy taxpayers, and at last Louis was obliged to call together the States General, as they called othe Parliament of France. As this was the first time for nearly two hundred years, six genera tions of Frenchmen...

Excerpt from The Book of Knowledge, Vol. 12: The Children's EncyclopaediaThe wire carries an electrical current. AS long as the wire is not broken, and is. Properly insulated, the current will run. The wire is not alive, and, though we by no means understand what hap pens in it, yet it has not about it the mystery which we find when we look at a nerve.For the noteworthy thing about a nerve is that it will only carry what it carries when it is ...

Excerpt from The Book of Knowledge, Vol. 8: The Children's EncyclopaediaThen France had to find money to pay for their Share of the war which had won independence for the United States. No more could be borrowed or squeezed from the unhappy taxpayers, and at last Louis was obliged to call together the States General, as they called othe Parliament of France. As this was the first time for nearly two hundred years, six genera tions of Frenchmen...

Excerpt from The Everyday Library for Young People: Marvels of Industry, The World's Work and Progress in Science, Commerce and IndustryIrish coast, and has gathered strength for its great dive into the Atlantic depths. Down it goes into the great ocean, where the cable stretches beneath the seaweed, with black lobsters and big crabs groping over it as it swings in the grip of the tide. Deeper and deeper it goes into the calm, cold region of e...

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Excerpt from The ParasiteHere is throughout the realm of Nature a thing of universal scorn. In this world of beauty it is a thing most foul. It eats up millions of the human race. It is' the Parasite.It creeps. Through the world unclean and unashamed. It allies itself to almost every kind of living thing. It does no honest work, it serves no useful purpose. It loafs. It battens upon others from its birth to its ignoble 'death.About the Publish...

Excerpt from Harmsworth Self-Educator, 1906, Vol. 3: A Golden Key to Success in LifeNatural History. Applied Botany. Bacteriology. Natural Products.Natural Eisronv. Kingdom of Nature. Its Marvels, Mechanism, and Romance. Animal Life. Flowers. Plants. Seeds. Trees. Ferns. Mosscs. Etc.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 ...

Excerpt from Harmsworth Self-Educator, 1907, Vol. 7: A Golden Key to Success in LifeIn the light of modern knowledge we may venture to quote our own comparisons: The governing mechanism of a society corresponding to the nervous system, the manufacturers to the glands, permanent officials to the bones, traders to the circulatory apparatus, soldiers and scavengers to the white blood cells - and so on.But now we come to that which gives the whole...

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Excerpt from Defeat or Victory? The Strength of Britain BookThis book, of the first edition of which one hundred thousand copies were sold in 20 days, has now been adopted by the Strength of Britain Movement, and is re-issued - as Defeat or Victory? For indeed, its publication as Defeat? Has brought Victory nearer.A few notes may here be permitted in reference to my original introduction which is hereafter reprinted. Its proof of the indeed se...

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Excerpt from Harmsworth Self-Educator, 1906, Vol. 4: A Golden Key to Success in LifeServants. Qualifications and Duties of Every Kind of Servant. Cookery. A Practical Course. With Recipes.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. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconst...

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Excerpt from Harmsworth Self-Educator, 1906, Vol. 2: A Golden Key to Success in LifeThe indication Key C shows the new key which is entered, and the t following it points out the name of the new sound not in the old key which it is necessary to introduce.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. Fo...

Excerpt from Arthur Mee's Letters to BoysDO you remember Where the Kingdom of God is Long ago, when you were growing up to be a little man, you thought it up in the skies, then you grew up and went to school and it seemed impossible to you that a great kingdom could be up there, and some day, when you have come to be a man, you will wonder that you could ever have thought that God could be so far away, and you will remember that you once heard...

Excerpt from Who Giveth Us the VictoryThe victorious Allies of Europe, when they bring home their ¿ags waving high, will have saved the world from something worse than death, but they will have saved it, also, from something more appalling than they knew. They will have saved mankind from the loss of its faith in God.The faith in the Creator and Sustainer of the world could hardly survive the victory of the forces of devilry in Europe. The Ger...

Excerpt from The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 10In that serene and glorious age there will be no more warriors, but workers only, creators in the place of ex terminators. The civilisation of action will have passed away, and that of thought will have succeeded. The masterpieces Of art and Of literature will be the great events.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgott...