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Excerpt from The Campaner Thal: And Other Writings In my distilling processes, I frequently precipitated the phlegma of our earthball - its polar deserts, its Russian forests, its icebergs - and from the sediments extracted a beautiful by earth, a small satellite. If we extract and regulate the charms of this old world, we can form a delightful though minutely condensed world. For the caves of this miniature or ditto-earth, we will take the ...

Excerpt from The Literary Works of Leonardo Da Vinci, Vol. 2 of 2: Compiled and Edited From the Original Manuscripts I. On Fissures in walls (77o - II. On Fissures in niches (777 - III. On'the nature of the arch (779 - IV. On Foundations, the nature of the ground and supports (789 - V. On the resistance of beams. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.co...

Excerpt from Leonardo Library at Windsor - access to which has been most graciously accorded to me - have led to results which throw new light upon several facts relating to Leonardo's biography, and to the history of his works. 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 s...

Excerpt from Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces: Or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkæs, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel, a Genuine Thorn PieceThis is how the question stands, and several oonss quences follow as matters of course, the indifferent class of readers consider the author incapable of making any critical emendations, while the enthusiastic class think none are necessary - their common poin...

Excerpt from Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days, Vol. 2 of 2: A Biography From the German of Jean Paul Friedrich Richter Good, beautiful sex! Sometimes, when I see a diamond heart hanging above thy warm one, I ask: Is it for some such reason as this thou wearest a copied heart on thy bosom, in order to indicate to Love, Fate, and Slander a common mark for their different arrows, as the poor soldier who is shot kneeling points out to the bal...

Excerpt from Flower, Fruit and Thorn Pieces, Vol. 2 of 2: Or the Married Life, Death, and Wedding of the Advocate of the Poor Journey through fantaisie - reunion upon the bind locher mountain. Berneck. Man-doubling. GE frees. Exchange OF clothes. Mcnchberg. Pfeif stuck. - hof. -the stone OF gladness, and double parting IN topen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.f...

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Excerpt from Titan, Vol. 1 of 2: A Romance Even while at work upon Hesperus, ' he had' formed the resolution of placing a pure man, great and noble, by the side of a reprobate, and of sur rounding them both with a multitude of beings cor responding to them. He wished to concentrate in a single work all the ideas of high philosophy which he had disseminated in his other creations, and to show them followed by their natural consequences. So str...

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Excerpt from Hesperus, Vol. 1 of 2: Or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days, a Biography The stick on which a painter rests his arm. Tr. 1 Similarity of the parts to the whole. Tr. 1 Fliegende Blatter. Tr. 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 digit...

Excerpt from Wit, Wisdom, and Philosophy of Jean Paul Fred, RichterThe works of Jean Paul Richter are very little read in America. To the majority, even of educated men, he is only a famous name. Thought treasuries and books of quotations abound with his wise and pungent sayings, and from these sources he is often quoted. The books from which they come are little known. One reason for this is to be found in the fact which Carlyle alleges - tha...

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Excerpt from The Golden Age of Classic Christian Art This study is an attempt to appreciate a large and homogeneous group of classic pictures from the points of view of art, archaeology, and theology, from each of which aspects they are of unique value. The date of the great pictorial cycle of mosaics decorating the interior of the basilica of S. Maria Maggiore, Rome, has been hitherto universally accepted as fixed by the inscription on the ...

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...