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Excerpt from The Poets and Nature: Reptiles, Fishes, and InsectsWkerein jean Ingelow is delzglztfully avenged. For lzaving in m y first volume premised tbat I was not dealing wit/z contemporary Poets, I quoted largely from tkat most ckarming Writer, and my feelings may or may not be imagined on receiving, a few days after tbe publication of my book, an invitation to a garden-party, signed jean Inge/ow tidy pleasure in discovering my mistake wa...

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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 The Poets' BirdsNote on the British Poets' general treatment of certain large classes of Birds - Foreign Birds, sea~fowl, Birds of Prey and the prevailing tone of their references to the particular species which appear to be conspicuously unpopular with them, the Crow Family, Owls, Goose, &c., About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book ...

Excerpt from In Garden Orchard and SpinneyA billow of ivy overhangs part of my garden-wall, making a rare shelter against inclement skies for such of the winged insect folk as have overlived the year - a large eyed, melancholy ¿y, its body ringed with yellow and brown, transparent with empti ness, a thing of sad lemurine demeanour and dreamily torpid, a tortoise-shell butter¿y, with wings as tattered as any Crimean colours, but holding here an...

Excerpt from Fishes of Fancy: Their Place in Myth, Fable, Fairy-Tale and Folk-Lore, EtcSo many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may see all creatures, Even all that on the earth are to be found.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 technolo...

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 ...

Excerpt from Under the PunkahHow he would ask, can we claim for man the consequence of perceptions to sensations, and yet deny to beasts that hear, see, feel, smell, and taste, a percipient principle co-existent with their senses? And if in the whole range of the 'animate' world there is this gift of self-defence against extirpation and offence against weakness, why is the 'inanimate world, holding as fierce a struggle for existence as the oth...

Excerpt from Under the SunI AM of Opinion that no one living can be considered a greater authority upon the subject of Noah's Ark than my daughter Edith, for on the occasion of her second' birthday (last Thursday), we gave her a Noah's Ark, and her life ever since has been devoted to original researches into the properties of its various inhabitants. Not only does she bathe and feed each individual of the menagerie every day, but She puts Noah...

Excerpt from Sinners and Saints: A Tour Across the States, and Round Them, With Three Months Among the MormonsPeople under a ban - What the Mormon men think of the Anti Polygamy Bill - And what the Mormon women say of poly gamy - Puzzling confidences - Practical plurality a very dull affair - But theoretically a hedge-hog problem - Matrimonial eccentricities - The fashionable milliner fatal to plurality Absurdity of comparing Moslem polygamy w...

Paperless is a crime novel inspired by the atrocities against children and their families that took place between 1988 and 1996 in the United Kingdom. The national outrage emanating from what became known as the Alder Hey Organ Scandal, resulted in the U.K. Human Tissues Act of 2004. Emotionally charged from the outset and fast-pacedthroughout, the story involves aviation, computer technology, health care fraud and the persistence, in the face...

Sinners and Saints - A tour across the States, and round them, with three months among the Mormons is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1883. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and s...

The poet's beasts is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these ...

A Tour Across the States, and Round Them with Three Months Among the Mormons. First published in 1892.

Sinners and Saints - A tour across the states, and round them, with three months among the Mormons is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1883. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and s...

In My Indian Garden is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes thes...

Noah's Ark, or, Mornings in the Zoo is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1882. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newl...