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CONTENTS: OrganizationThe Deer Creek FightPacksaddle Mountain FightEnlistment and First ScoutFugitive ListLost Valley FightSecond Saline Fight"The Wind Up"Third Saline FightMoved Camp to Las MorasThe Staked Plains FightViewing Out a RoadCaptain Roberts MarriedThe Mason County WarRio Grande CampaignOn the MarchFort Davis ScoutThe Potter ScoutWaiting on the CourtsPegleg Stage RobbingStealing SaddlesCattle StealingMavericksThe Killing of Sam Bass...

Excerpt from On Marine Motors and Motor Launches a Handy Book for Yachtsmen 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, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In...

Excerpt from An Introduction to the Study of Metallurgy The literature of metallurgy is rich, but those who are beginning to study it need guidance to a knowledge of the principles on which the art is rightly practised. It depends, as is well known, on the application of chemistry, physics, and mechanics, but the methods of metallurgists vary greatly from those of chemists, who, however, frequently fail to appreciate the nature of the differe...

Excerpt from Architecture and How to Sketch It: Illustrated by Sketches of Typical Examples The greater qualities of Art are God-given and can be learned from no school or master, but all means of expression and processes are mechanical, and can be im parted much more quickly than some people imagine, if up-to-date methods of teaching are used, and the student has the desire and will give the attention. As in language a limited vocabulary is...

Excerpt from Divinity and Man 1. Deity, sought to ultimate conclusions, becomes comprehensive of, and inseparable from, nature and finite intelligence. 2. Infinite principles, as attributes of Deity, radiate forth from a supermundane source and, coming in contact with materiality, create the manifestations of the natural world. Thus detached from the true or ethereal Spirit, these outer elements of Deity - which include in their composition ...

Excerpt from Demetrius on Style: The Greek Text of Demetrius De Elocutione Edited After the Paris Manuscript, With Introduction, Translation, Facsimiles, Etc Much of the teaching of Isocrates and his predecessors is supposed to be embodied in the treatise on rhetoric (17061711102 66701, not 7617701311115, is the term used by the author himself) known as the Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, commonly (though the evidence is not absolutely conclusive) a...

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Excerpt from Longinus on the Sublime: The Greek Text Edited After the Paris Manuscript With Introduction, Translation, Facsimiles and Appendices It is 60 years since the publication of the last English edition of Longinus on the Sublime. The edition of D. B. H ichie appeared in 18 36, having had many English predecessors, not the least interesting of which was that published more than a century earlier (in I 724) by Z 06/10t Pearce, Fellow of...

Excerpt from Selected Lives From Cornelius Nepos: Edited for the Use of Schools, With Notes and Vocabulary A life of Cicero, thought to have been written after the death of Cicero. N epos was peculiarly fitted to under take this task. His friendship for Cicero and Atticus and his access to their correspondence would have made the work an especially valuable one for us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of r...

Excerpt from Dionysius of Halicarnassus: On Literary Composition, Being the Greek Text of the De Compositione Verborvm, Edited With Introduction, Translation, Notes, Glossary, and Appendices It is a pleasure further to acknowledge the ever ready aid he has received from his personal friends - from Dr. A. S. Way, who has not only contributed the verse-translations throughout the treatise but has given help of unusual range and worth in other d...

Excerpt from Sir William Beechey Sm william Bazaar is one of the many dis tinguished artists of the Early English school whose merits have not been sufficiently recognised, and the object of this book is to show that this neglect is unjustified. It is not claimed that Beechey ranks side by side with Sir Joshua Reynolds, Gainsborough and Romney, but just as all officers in an army cannot be Generals - at the same time, at all events - ao it ma...

Canadian society has changed dramatically since 1960.This work captures the scope and range of these changes through a systematic documentation of seventy-eight social trends. The introduction summarizes and locates the major waves of change. The authors then document each trend in relation to eighteen thematic groups that include age, community, women, labour, management, stratification, social relations, the state, mobilizing institutions, s...

Excerpt from The Book-Hunter in London: Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and CollectingAbout 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 imperfections present in the...

Excerpt from British Universities: Notes and Summaries Contributed to the Welsh University Discussion by Members of the Senate of the University College of North Wales These Notes and Summaries have been prepared, at somewhat short notice, by a few College teachers who, feeling a sincere interest in the future of higher education in Wales, feel also how deeply that future will be influenced, for good or for evil, by the character of the propo...

In August of 1991, a second Dartmouth International Workshop on the corpus callosum was convened to share and discuss the progress that had been made over the decade that had passed following the first workshop. A nucleus of basic and clinical scientists came together to discuss their work and the work of others in a field that has been broadened clinically by the addition of many new centers throughout the world that are now performing corpus...

Excerpt from Looking Within: The Misleading Tendencies of Looking Backward Made Manifest Inhaling the inspiring breath of the new life which invigorates the nation so lately struggling in the toils of a lingering death, and cheered by the resurrection of all industries from the grave in which they were being utterly buried, we hail the dawn of a new era of progress with unspeakable gladness. How it was possible for a people once so full of e...

This volume presents accounts of two 1830s American diplomatic missions to Siam, aimed at securing better trade terms than those obtained during the British Burney mission of 1826.

Concealed" is a mystery thrill ride that takes the reader through the events that enable a commercial pilot to formulate a plan for revenge against the United States. His plot takes advantage of radar limitations over desolate stretches of ocean, combined with other detection constraints that can render an airplane nearly invisible. Those intentions soon capture the interest of terrorist organizations that realize the potential to not only con...

Concealed" is a mystery thrill ride that takes the reader through the events that enable a commercial pilot to formulate a plan for revenge against the United States. His plot takes advantage of radar limitations over desolate stretches of ocean, combined with other detection constraints that can render an airplane nearly invisible. Those intentions soon capture the interest of terrorist organizations that realize the potential to not only con...

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