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Excerpt from The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 14: Philosophy (Continued), EconomicsThe glory of the Oriental conception is the one indi vidual as the substantial being to which all belongs, so that no other individual has a separate existence, or mirrors himself in his subjective freedom. All the riches of imagination and nature are appropriated to that domi nant existence in which subjective freedom is essentially merged, the latter looks for...

Excerpt from The Everyday Library for Young People: Plays, Pictures and Poems, 7 New Plays for Amateurs, 112 Pictures by Celebrated Artists, 185 Poems With Biographical NotesStaging and costuming are secondary and should be simplified as much as possible. For the home theatre a few screens which may be used as backgrounds are invaluable. Draped with soft green cheese cloth and hung with vines they make a forest background, covered with white a...

Excerpt from The Everyday Library for Young PeopleAnimals cannot imagine how very funny some of them are in appearance. They never dream how we laugh at them. Perhaps they would be very angry if they really knew how Odd we think they are, perhaps they think that we are very Odd.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 impor...

Excerpt from The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 7The present representative of the house, Harry Headlong, Esquire, was, like all other Welsh squires, fond of shooting, hunting, racing, drinking, and other such innocent amusements. But, unlike other Welsh squires, he had actually suffered books to find their way into his house, and, by dint of lounging over them after dinner, he became seized with a violent passion to be thought a philosopher and...

Excerpt from Arthur Mee's Hero Book: A Companion Volume to Little Treasure IslandThe sad scenes of slavery - a market -place in Africa, where human beings were sold to be shipped to America.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 recon...

Excerpt from The Book of Knowledge, Vol. 7: The Children's EncyclopediaThe names of most of the sciences, we know, end in ology, and we might expect the name of the science of the stars - using the word stars to include all the bright objects in the heavens to be astrology.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 ...

Excerpt from The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 9I have hated myself that I might love you, I came hither to ruin myself in a perpetual imprisonment that I might make you live quietly and at ease. Nothing but virtue, joined to a love perfectly disengaged from the senses, could have produced such effects. Vice never inspires anything like this, it is too much enslaved to the body. This was my cruel uncle's notion, he measured my virtue by the fra...

Excerpt from The World's Greatest BooksA Complete Index Of the world's greatest books will be found at the end of Volume XX.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 reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing i...

Excerpt from Harmsworth Self-Educator, 1906, Vol. 1: A Golden Key to Success in LifeCommerce and Culture. But. Though the educator - believing that nothing is of any use in this world unless it can be applied - deals at great length with the education which tells in commerce, it is not to be understood that it is a book which merely helps to make money. If it is one of the pur poses oi the work to be a guide in the choice of a career, to make ...

Excerpt from The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 3: FictionNow you must know that the people of Tarascon were tremendously keen on hunting, and Tartarin was the chief of the hunters. You may think this funny when you know there was not a living thing to shoot at within miles of Tarascon scarcely a sparrow to attract local sportsmen. Ah, but you don't know how ingenious they are-down there.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of t...

Excerpt from The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 20: Miscellaneous Literature, IndexRecall the time when it was founded. It was in the days of. Queen Anne, the Augustan age of the essay. There were no newspapers then, no magazines or re views, no Parliamentary reports, nothing corresponding to the so-called light literature of later days. The only centres of society that existed were the court, with the aristocracy that revolved about it, and the...

Excerpt from The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 5He rebukes the waggoner, rescues Alma, and escorts her across a field to her father's cottage. There he is welcomed with respectful affection as the rector's son and Alma's former playmate. Afterwards she lights him to the gate, Where a chance word of his evokes from her an innocent and unconscious betrayal of her secret love, kindling such strong response in him as he cannot conquer except by tou...

Excerpt from The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 15I wish particularly. To mention that although I speak of hypnotism and hypnosis - and it is almost impossible to avoid doing SO - I rarely attempt to induce so-called hypnosis, and find that patients respond to treatment as readily, and much more quickly, now that I start cura tive suggestions and treatment Simultaneously, than they did in the days when I waited until hypnosis was induced before ...

Excerpt from The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 13: Religion, PhilosophyIn the first year Of Cyrus, King Of the Persians, the Lord raised up his spirit, and he made proclamation through all his kingdom, saying: The Lord Of Israel, the most high Lord, hath made me king Of the whole world, and commanded me to build him an house at Jerusalem in Jewry. If there be any Of you that are Of his people, let the Lord, even his Lord, be with him, let him g...

Excerpt from The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 6: FictionIt opens that. And he tapped Sharply on the door Of a cabinet. You will tell nobody what I have said, under pain Of my displeasure.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 reconstr...

Excerpt from The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 1An enterprise such as The World's Greatest Books is to be judged from two different standpoints. It may be judged with respect to its specific achievement - the material of which it consists, or it may be judged with regard to its general utility in the scheme of literature to which it belongs.In an age which is sometimes ironically called "remarkable" for its commercialism, nothing has been more ...

Excerpt from With Lists of the Principal Telescopes, Observatories, Astronomical Societies, Periodicals and Books, and a Chronological Summary Although the telescope came originally from the Netherlands, there is no proof that it: discoverers applied it to the Observation of th< heavens. What we learn is that it was re garded as an instrument capable of achieving great things on the battlefield. For a genera to be able to discern afar Off the...

Excerpt from Harmsworth Self-Educator, 1907, Vol. 8: A Golden Key to Success in LifeAt the heading of each article in the self-educator is' the number of the group to which the article belongs. And a reference to this key indicates precisely the place of the article in the scheme of the book. This key. Therefore. Enables the student at any time to understand what has preceded and what is to follow any part of the work to which he may happen to...

Excerpt from Harmsworth Self-Educator, Vol. 5: A Golden Key to Success in LifeM nucleic. Training of a Doctor. Specialists. Veterinary Surgeons. Chemists and Druggists. Dentistry: The Dental Mechanic. Home and Professional Nursmg.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-...

Excerpt from The Everyday Library for Young PeopleHard as he worked at his duties, he did not lose his interest in all other things. Gradually, in spite of all his work, the deep vein of poetry in his nature asserted itself. There had been no poetry and not much imagination in his family, but while in the first ¿ush of manhood he began to write verses, and soon established an enviable reputation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hun...